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Vanessa Rousso to play in Isle poker "Battle at the Beach" events
Vanessa Rousso, the 2001 Wellington High valedictorian who was featured in a two-page advertorial spread in Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition, will be playing Monday in the Battle at the Beach at the Isle Casino and Racing.
Rousso will do a meet-and-greet at 11 a.m. Monday, then play Monday afternoon in the $900 tournament. There are two "first days" of that tournament, on Sunday and Monday.
Rousso is in town to promote her series of "Big Slick" boot camps, which I'll write more about March 27 in Showtime.
The quick details: The boot camp covers Rousso game theory (she's a math whiz) and costs $399. She's doing a short promotional freebie Saturday at the Palm Beach Kennel Club, then starts the instruction April 5 at the Isle, April 11 at the Jacksonville Orange Park Kennel Club and April 26 at the Palm Beach Kennel Club.
Meanwhile, the Battle at the Beach highlight begins Thursday, a heads-up tournament that I wrote about in Friday's Showtime section.
Rousso, interestingly, finished second in the recent heads-up tournament filmed by NBC.
Events: $900 Deep-stack event with opening days Sunday and Monday; finals on Tuesday; $550 one-day event on Wednesday; $900 Florida Heads-Up Championship, with opening days Thursday and March 27; finals March 28-29.
Call 954-972-2000.
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, early training for his...
Comments
Where is the journalistic integrity? Russo did not MAKE it into the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition, one of her sponsors PAID for a full page advertisement in the magazine. Russo hasn't won a single tourney worth anything, she is all hype and a pretty face (no substance as a poker player). She talks so much while in a hand that she tends to give away her cards. For the kind if financial backing she has, her poker resume is extremely limited.
Posted by: cutman | March 23, 2009 10:26 AM
You have a point about my word choice in SI. I'm fixing.
As for poker, ask Doyle, Ivey, Wasicka and Negraneu.
Posted by: Nick Sortal | March 23, 2009 1:54 PM
She is a good player and I bet she would destroy your game...
Posted by: Nick | March 24, 2009 10:54 AM
Sl is extremely selective with their ads and Vanessa's ad was hand picked by them. She ahs also beaten some of the best players in the world and has raked in over 1.5 mil before the age of 30. That is impressive!
Posted by: Eva Schiess | March 25, 2009 1:56 PM