Vanessa Rousso was born February 5th, 1983 in White Plains, New York and has dual citizenship of the United States and France. She is a law student at the University of Miami and is a professional live and online poker player that is sponsored by PokerStars. Vanessa currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States and can be seen playing high limit cash games at the major casinos and on Pokerstars.com.
She has had several major cashes that include a World Championship of Online Poker Main Event where she finished second, but then the first place winner was disqualified so Vanessa ended up winning $700,782.50. Another major cash includes a first place finish at the Borgata Poker Open WPT Event that earned her $285,450. As of 2008, she has a total live career winnings of $914,648 and this number does not include her online winnings.
