Ending a few years’ span in which no prominent poker player was a part of any of television’s most-watched reality shows, Vanessa Rousso (pictured) announced on Tuesday that she will be taking part in the upcoming season of the CBS program “Big Brother.”

In a simple Tweet to her followers apparently written by someone else, Rousso stated, “Excited to announce that Vanessa will be on CBS’ ‘Big Brother’ this summer, make sure to tune into CBS on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays to watch!”

The 17th season of the long-running program will premiere at 8:00pm Eastern Time on June 24 when 14 “houseguests” will convene in Southern California for the program. If Rousso’s plans work out, she would be crowned the champion of the season as the “last person standing” on September 23.

For those who are unaware of what the show entails, “Big Brother” is a reality series imported from the Netherlands that features a group of contestants in what is often referred to as a “social experiment.” The contestants are put into a specially-designed home that is thoroughly wired with cameras and microphones to record every bit of activity that occurs on the grounds.

The contestants are then completely cut off from any contact with the outside world – no phones, televisions, computers, or other forms of media – and must coexist and, to an extent, cooperate with each other. There are various competitions, both mental and physical, that the contestants take part in, but the hook of the show is that, one by one, contestants are expelled from the house until only one is left, with that contestant winning $500,000.

A poker dealer from Los Angeles, Da’Vonne Rogers, will also be one of the contestants. Professional wrestler Austin Matelson, known as “Judas Devlin” when he’s in the squared circle with World Wrestling Entertainment, has also been chosen to be a part of the cast. The other 11 contestants stretch across the United States with professions as diverse as a supermarket cashier, a personal trainer, a dentist, and a digital media consultant.

Rousso is the latest in a long line of poker pros to step to the small screen and the world of reality television. Allegedly, poker pro Anna Khait is scheduled to be a part of the 32nd season of “Survivor,” but that isn’t expected to air until 2016. Khait follows in the footsteps of other poker pros such as Jean-Robert Bellande, Jim Rice, and Garrett Adelstein.

Arguably the most successful poker players who have appeared on a reality show are Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle (pictured). The duo appeared as a team on the 15th season of “The Amazing Race” in 2009, traveling the world with the competition. After fighting their way through the first six legs of that season’s competition, the twosome were forced to quit on the seventh leg.

Rousso has been one of the most recognizable faces on the tournament circuit for several years, but recently she has been on a bit of a rough streak. Rousso cashed in the Colossus at this year’s World Series of Poker, but that was only her second cash of the calendar year.

Tremendously affected by the death of her former husband Chad Brown in 2014, Rousso only found the cashout cage once at WSOP Asia/Pacific and, in 2013, she only compiled three tournament cashes. Her lifetime earnings of $3,530,832 do put her in the top 250 players in poker history and top 150 in the United States.

Here’s wishing good luck to Vanessa during her run in the “Big Brother” house. While the program may draw her away from Las Vegas during the WSOP, the $500,000 at the end of the her travails may be well worth the time spent.

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