<P> Vanessa Ashley Rousso (born February 5, 1983) is an American professional poker player . Born in White Plains, New York, Rousso holds dual citizenship with the United States and France . Rousso was a member of Team PokerStars from 2006 to 2015, with the online name Lady Maverick, and was a spokesperson for GoDaddy.com from 2009 to 2013 . She has earned money as a professional poker player since 2005, and has become one of the game's sex symbols . </P> <P> Between 2005 and 2011, 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 2012 and 2017 . She has placed in the money seventeen times at the World Series of Poker . In 2007, she won over $700,000 with a second - place finish in the main event of the World Championship of Online Poker . As of October 2017, Rousso ranks among the top ten women in poker history in terms of all - time money winnings . </P> <P> Rousso has been a pro-gambling campaigner and activist . She has appeared on television in several cash or charity poker competition, and finished in third place as a contestant on the 2015 season of Big Brother . </P> <P> 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 three . 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 high school teacher and contestant on the eighteenth season of Big Brother and Leticia, an optometrist . </P>

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