Maria Ho

Who is Maria Ho?

Maria Ho is a professional poker player and TV personality, born March 6, 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan. With over 1.6 million dollars in tournament earnings she is currently ranked the 3rd female poker player in the world by the Global Poker Index and is the celebrity spokesperson for the WinStar World Casino.

Over her career, Maria has amassed live tournament results which include 30 WSOP cashes, 2 World Series of Poker final tables, 4 WPT cashes, a World Poker Tour final table and 4 additional final tables on the professional poker circuit.

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 2013, Maria joined the broadcast team for season 9 of the Heartland Poker Tour, as a co-host and the final table strategic commentator.