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Vanessa Rousso fresh of 2nd in the Heads-Up championships

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Vanessa RoussoVanessa Rousso is smoking this year. After recently finishing runner-up to Huck Seed in the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, this PokerStars pro and the latest addition to the GoDaddy.com team will embark on her a series poker workshops, instructing and teaching poker students near her home town of Florida.

The tour will include 7 stops in conjuntion with the Big Slick Boot Camp LLC team.

She will mainly focus on poker strategy, in particular in game theory. Basing her instruction from Sun Tzu’s book Art of War. A book also endorsed by Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Gordon.

When not playing poker, Rousso says teaching is the next best thing. She loves seeing her students gain something new.

For the complete schedule of Vanessa Rousso’s tour check out below:
• Friday, March 20th: Jacksonville Orange Park Kennel Club. Charity tournament to benefit Vanessa’s newly launched anti-poverty foundation “The No Limit No Profit Initiative” as well as several other charities.

• Saturday, March 21st: Jacksonville Orange Park Kennel Club. Vanessa will present a short lecture on game theory and tournament techniques and play an invitation only tournament.

• Monday, March 23rd: Pompano Beach’s Isle Casino “Battle at the Beach” $300,000 guaranteed tournament. Autographs and photo opportunities will be available during the tournament’s scheduled breaks.

• Saturday, March 28th: Palm Beach Kennel Club. Vanessa will give a short lecture on game theory and poker, and play in an invitation-only tournament.

• Sunday, April 5th: Isle Casino in Pompano Beach. Rousso will launch her innovative poker instructional camp: “The Art of Poker — An Intro to Game Theory and Poker.”

• Saturday, April 11th: Jacksonville Orange Park Kennel Club, Vanessa will teach another session of “The Art of Poker — An Intro to Game Theory and Poker.”

• Sunday, April 26th: Palm Beach Kennel Club. Vanessa will close out the Florida tour with a third opportunity for Florida poker players to attend her out-of-the-box boot camp, “The Art of Poker — An Intro to Game Theory and Poker.”

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