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Vanessa Ashley Rousso (born February 5, 1983) is an American professional poker player.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Student Spotlights 2005 ) 〕 Born in White Plains, New York, Rousso holds dual citizenship with the United States and France.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vanessa Rousso: Team Pokestars Pro & Go Daddy Girl )〕 Rousso was a member of Team PokerStars from 2006 to 2015, with the online name Lady Maverick. She is a spokesperson for GoDaddy.com. She has earned money as a professional poker player since 2005,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vanessa Rousso )〕 and has become one of the game's sex symbols. , Rousso has finished in the money in numerous live poker events and accumulated over $3,500,000 in career earnings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HendonMob Tournament Results )〕 She has placed in the money seventeen times at the World Series of Poker.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vanessa Rousso )〕 In 2007, she won over $700,000 with a second-place finish in the main event of the World Championship of Online Poker. She ranks among the top five women in poker history in terms of all-time money winnings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Women's All Time Money List: Top 100 )〕 Rousso has been a pro-gambling campaigner and activist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vanessa Rousso – Poker Player Profile )〕 She has appeared on several reality television shows including ''Big Brother''. ==Background== Her parents are Marc Rousso and Cynthia Bradley of Hobe Sound, Florida.〔 Rousso began talking and reading at early ages says her mother, Cynthia Ferrara.〔 Born in New York, she moved with her family to France at the age of 3. She lived in Paris, in her father's homeland until she was 10, when she moved briefly to Upstate New York.〔 After her parents divorced in 1992, her mother moved Vanessa to Florida to be near her maternal grandparents. Rousso attended Wellington Landings Middle School.〔 The oldest of three athletic girls,〔 Rousso was active on the high school swimming, lacrosse and debating teams. She also played softball and basketball for fun.〔 In debating, Rousso excelled in national debating tournaments in policy debating.〔 Her mother is a guidance counselor at Jupiter Community High School.〔 In 2001, Rousso graduated as valedictorian of her high school in Wellington, Florida. She maintained a 4.0 GPA at Wellington High School while participating in the National Honor Society, and French Honor Society. She founded the Environmental Club and served as its president. She was also active as a violinist, varsity swimmer, and volunteer for Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. Rousso has two younger sisters: Tiffany, a psychology master's student at Florida Atlantic University and Leticia, a pre-med student at University of Florida. In college, she was on the Dean's list. After studying some game theory, she became proficient with the Rubik's Cube and then chess. However, because she considers both to be fairly objective static games, she began to prefer poker, which incorporated human psychology that allows for inferior hands to win.〔 She graduated early from Duke University after two and a half years with a major in economics and a minor in political science in December 2003.〔 Her collegiate duration of two and a half years was the shortest time to graduate in the history of Duke.〔 Rousso began law school in 2004 and was the inaugural recipient of the Chaplin Scholarship from the University of Miami. During Law School at the University of Miami School of Law, she served on the editorial board of the ''University of Miami Law Review''.〔 〕 A poker player since the age of five, Rousso began serious poker tournament play during her summer break from law school.〔 Rousso was in the top 5% of her law school class,〔 but she did not finish law school.〔 Now, excluding online winnings, she ranks among the top five women in poker history in terms of all-time money winnings.〔 She currently resides part-time in Las Vegas, Nevada and part-time in Hobe Sound, Florida.〔 Her nickname was given to her by a relative when she sold shares of herself to enter a $25,000 buy-in event in a manner reminiscent of the eponymous hero of the 1994 Western movie Maverick.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vanessa Rousso」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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