Vanessa Rousso Poker News

2010-01-11 08:28:30

2010 PCA: Vanessa Rousso takes down Ladies Event

PokerStars has been busy promoting ladies events in recent months. First there was the success at EPT London, then it turned its attentions towards the PCA. With a big build up, the $1,000 two-day event here attracted an impressive 91 entries. And, when it was all done and dusted, Team PokerStars ...more

2009-06-24 10:17:23

WSOP Event #45: PokerStars' Rousso on a tear

After being all-in for her last 30,000 or so not too long ago, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso has gone on a monumental tear-up around her $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em table - and shot above 300,000! It all happened in four quick hands just before the dinner break, which will have made the ...more

2009-06-24 06:07:44

WSOP Event #45: Two ladies, one pair of queens

Vanessa Rousso sits silently in the small blind. Wearing dark glasses, she doesn't move a muscle. It's folded around to her and she counts out 7,200 and pushes them out to the middle in place of her 1,200 blind. It amounts to a 4,800 raise of Kathy Liebert's big blind. Unlike the Team PokerStars ...more

2009-06-16 04:07:58

WSOP Event #31: Vanessa Rousso shooting for HORSE final table

We're into the final day of the WSOP $1,500 HORSE event - and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso is still going strong with 23 runners left. She has 131,000 chips, nestled half-way through the pack chasing chip leader Fabrice Soulier with 351,000. Rousso is enoying a fanstastic year, and this is ...more

2009-06-15 10:43:47

WSOP Event #31: Rousso galloping in HORSE

While we wait for the final two matches in the $10,000 World Heads-up Championship to begin, which sees Team PokerStars Pro John Duthie take on Nathan Doudney, we had a quick peek at day two of the $1,500 HORSE. There we found Vanessa Rousso near the top of the leaderboard on 59,000. With just 96 of ...more

2009-05-30 03:02:31

WSOP Event #2: Raymer, Veldhuis riding high - Rousso cashes

Team PokerStars Pro Greg Raymer is in familiar territory. The Fossilman is very much at home in the Rio as his WSOP record testifies: the world championship in 2004 and an amazing run one year later that so nearly saw him reach the final table again. And there's been other significant WSOP cashes ...more

2009-05-29 02:10:58

WSOP Event #2: Rousso chasing more high-roller success

The last level was not a good one for Team PokerStars Pro. Ivan Demidov went, then Gavin Griffin, followed by Joe Hachem and finally Dennis Phillips. Thank goodness, then, for Vanessa Rousso who is ducking and diving to keep her stack healthy. Only a few weeks ago in Monte Carlo, I reported on her ...more

2009-05-03 04:59:59

EPT €25K High Roller: Vanessa Rousso wins €720,000 in Monte Carlo

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso already had more than $1.3 million in tournament winnings when she arrived in Monte Carlo. She hardly needed to prove her ability to the poker world, but if there's one thing that cements a place among the game's great and the good, then winning a High Roller event ...more

2009-03-10 10:16:59

Rousso makes history at NBC Heads Up Championship

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso has just done something no other person has done before. Rousso went to the NBC Heads Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas and faced, without question, the toughest path to the finals as any player ever. After beating the likes of Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, and ...more

2009-03-10 08:42:45

Negreanu, ElkY, Rousso fight for NBC heads up title

By Sunday's end, a member of Team PokerStars Pro could very well be the NBC Heads Up Poker Champion. Daniel Negreanu, ElkY, and Vanessa Rousso have all made it to today's quarter finals. While all three have a shot at the title, only one of them can make it to the finals. The first match will put ...more

She’s one of the most successful poker players of her generation, and now you can keep up to date with all the latest Vanessa Rousso news and tournament results at her official website. With dual citizenship between the US and France, Vanessa is a global phenomenon with millions of dollars in tournament earnings at the biggest events around the world and online at PokerStars - including the European Poker Tour (EPT), the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) and the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). She is also a member of Team PokerStars Pro - PokerStars renowned team of champions, legends and upcoming pros.

After cutting her teeth with a string of big-money cashes at major events, Vanessa’s biggest live cash so far came when she won the High Roller event at the 2009 EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final. It was a victory worth a massive $749,467, and cemented Vanessa’s status as a true master of the game. Vanessa has also won big online. She’s a regular in all of PokerStars major events, including the Sunday Million, and finished as runner-up in the Main Event of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) in 2007, cashing for a huge payday of $700,782. Vanessa also studies Game Theory, which she believes helps her poker game, and attended Duke University.