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Maria Ho |
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Taiwanese |
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Maria Ho was born in Taipei, Taiwan and is a record breaking professional poker player and Celebrity Spokesperson for the WinStar World Casino. With over $1,000,000 in tournament earnings she is currently ranked 5th in the world among female poker players. Maria’s live tournament results include 18 WSOP cashes, 2 World Series of Poker final tables, 3 WPT cashes, an Aussie Millions final table, and a World Poker Tour final table.
In 2009, Maria competed on the CBS Emmy Award winning television show The Amazing Race 15 with fellow poker pro and 2008 Last Woman Standing, Tiffany Michelle. She has also been seen on the third season of American Idol where she made it to "Hollywood Week", as a panelist on Anderson Cooper 360, and for two consecutive seasons, in 2011 and 2012, she was featured as one of the World Poker Tour's "Ones to Watch". In late 2012 it was announced that Maria would join the Heartland Poker Tour's broadcast team for season 9 of their telecast. Fluent in Mandarin and born into a traditional Chinese family, Maria's family moved from Taiwan to the United States when she was four-years-old, eventually settling just outside of Los Angeles in Arcadia, California. It was in college that Maria was introduced to playing poker.
She was drawn to the psychology and competitive spirit of the game and soon went from playing games with college friends, to playing Limit cash games at nearby Indian casinos. When Maria graduated from UCSD in 2005 with a major in Communications and a minor in Law she had gone from playing low limits to high stakes cash games and had grown her poker bankroll to the point that she felt confident to embark on a career as a professional poker player.
