Rousso has been a pro-gambling campaigner and activist. As of September 2021, having not cashed at a tournament since 2017, Rousso still ranks among the top ten women in poker history in terms of all-time money winnings. In 2007, she won over $700,000 with a second-place finish in the main event of the World Championship of Online Poker. She has placed in the money seventeen times at the World Series of Poker. īetween 20, Rousso finished in the money in numerous live poker events and accumulated nearly $3.5 million, but has been less active since, earning just $83,000 in live tournaments between 20. She has earned money as a professional poker player since 2005. Rousso was a member of Team PokerStars from 2006 to 2015, with the online name Lady Maverick, and was a spokesman for from 2009 to 2013. Vanessa Ashley Rousso (born February 5, 1983) is an American professional poker player, attorney, DJ, and television personality. Vanessa Rousso in the World Poker Tour Championship event (2007).
