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In college, she was on the [[Dean's list]].<ref name=SN>{{cite web|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:PBPB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0FA98C1C07A2D4E7&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB579A3BDA420|title=School Notes|access-date=May 5, 2009|date=April 16, 2003|work=[[Palm Beach Post]]}}</ref> 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.<ref name=NLSAACILFASAPRLHBKTAWV/> 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.<ref name=TLMMItM/><ref name=SlspittfR>{{cite web|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:MBDB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=111389103B931D28&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB579A3BDA420|title=Shuffling law school, poker is tough turn for Rousso|access-date=May 5, 2009|date=April 25, 2006|work=[[Baltimore Sun]]|author=Ordine, Bill}}</ref> Her collegiate duration of two and a half years was the shortest time to graduate in the history of Duke.<ref name=TLMMItM/>
Rousso began law school in 2004 and was the inaugural recipient of the Chaplin Scholarship from the [[University of Miami School of Law]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.law.miami.edu/alumni/pdf/deansnotes/052004.pdf|title=Admitted Students Attend Scholarship Weekend| access-date=May 9, 2009|date=May 2004|work=University of Miami School of Law Dean's Notes|publisher=[[University of Miami School of Law]]|volume=V|issue=1|page=6}}</ref> During school she served on the editorial board of the ''University of Miami Law Review''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.miami.edu/studentorg/miami_law_review/past_boards/editorial_staff_05_06.php?op=6 |title=2005-2006 Executive Board |access-date=May 9, 2009 |year=2007 |publisher=[[University of Miami School of Law]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825192237/http://www.law.miami.edu/studentorg/miami_law_review/past_boards/editorial_staff_05_06.php?op=6 |archive-date=August 25, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://currentstudents.law.miami.edu/law-review/editorial_staff_05_06.html|title=2003-2004 Executive Board|access-date=May 9, 2009|year=2007|publisher=University of Miami Law Review|archive-date=June 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616201626/http://currentstudents.law.miami.edu/law-review/editorial_staff_05_06.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2018 she enrolled in order to finish her law[[Juris Doctor]] degree, which she completed that same year. Soon after graduating she passed the Florida Bar Exam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/VanessaRousso/status/1076108182924214273|title=🦄Vanessa Rousso (@VanessaRousso) {{!}} Twitter|website=[[twitter.com]]|language=en|access-date=August 6, 2019|date=December 21, 2018}}</ref>
 
A poker player since the age of five, Rousso began serious [[poker tournament]] play during her summer break from law school.<ref name=SS2/> Rousso did not initially finish law school, dropping out to pursue her burgeoning poker career instead.<ref name=PF>{{cite web|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:PBPB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=129BFDEFCB2B2568&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB579A3BDA420|title=Poker Face|access-date=July 30, 2009|date=July 23, 2009|work=[[Palm Beach Post]]|author=Stoda, Greg}}</ref> However, she returned to school in the fall of 2017, and graduated [[magna cum laude]] in the Spring of 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BisytjaAEmy/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/BisytjaAEmy |archive-date=December 24, 2021 |url-access=limited|title=Login • Instagram}}{{cbignore}}</ref>