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Maria Ho was born on 6 March, 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese-American poker player and television host/commentator. Discover Maria Ho's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 41 years old?

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Age 41 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 6 March 1983
Birthday 6 March
Birthplace Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality Taiwan

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1934

The following month she made the 6-handed TV final table of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event, taking 3rd place for $344,960.

1983

Maria Ho (born March 6, 1983, in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American poker player and television host/commentator.

One of the top-ranked female poker players in the world and a Women in Poker Hall of Fame inductee, she has won more than $5,000,000 in live tournaments.

2005

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 decided to become a professional poker player.

2007

Ho's first major tournament success came at the 2007 World Series of Poker, where she was the last woman remaining in the Main Event field, placing 38th out of 6,358 players and earning a $237,865 payday.

2008

In 2008, she traveled to Hong Kong to play in the World Mahjong Tour, going head to head with Chinese and Taiwanese celebrities and professional Mahjong players.

2010

For two consecutive years, she participated in the World Team Poker Invitational as a member of Team China, helping her team win in 2010.

2011

In 2011, she was the No. 2 ranked female player in the world.

She is a Global Poker Award winner for Broadcaster of the Year and the only player to be the World Series of Poker Main Event (US and Europe) "Last Woman Standing” four times; her highest finish was 38th out of 6,458 players in 2011.

Her 27th-place "Last Woman Standing" finish at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event and a 6th-place final-table finish at the 2017 WSOP Europe Main Event make Ho the only player to hold the WSOP Main Event Last Woman Standing title four times over (between the US and Europe Main Event).

At the 2011 World Series of Poker, Ho achieved the best finish by a woman during the entire 57-event series with her 2nd place in Event #4: $5000 No-Limit Hold'Em, for a payday of $540,020.

It was the closest Ho has come to winning a World Series of Poker gold bracelet.

2012

At the 2012 World Series of Poker, Ho was the Most-Cashing Female of the series, with six individual tournament cashes.

Early in her career, the World Poker Tour named Maria in their WPT "Ones to Watch", during seasons 9 and 10, and from 2012-2014 she received three consecutive nominations from the Bluff Reader's Choice Awards, for "Favorite Female Poker Player".

Ho has received invitations to play in various types of games all over the world.

2013

Ho's commentary career began in 2013 when she joined the Heartland Poker Tour season 9 broadcast team as a co-host and strategic commentator.

She was the first woman to be hired by a poker television broadcast as the resident strategic commentator,

Ho has since commentated for CBS Sports The Final Table, ESPN's coverage of the World Series of Poker, and Amazon eSports Mobile Masters Invitational series.

2014

In 2014, she finished 77th of 6,683 players.

At the 2014 WSOP, she earned eight cashes.

As of 2023, Maria is ranked 3rd on the WSOP Women’s All-Time Money List.

2016

She has remained on the Top 20 Women's Yearly Leaderboard since 2016.

Ho's live tournament poker record includes 80 World Series of Poker cashes, eight WSOP final tables (including WSOPC and WSOPE final tables), 14 World Poker Tour cashes, four WPT final tables, one WPT title, and numerous additional final tables on the professional poker circuit.

In 2016, Ho was named one of 12 Team Managers (for Team LA Sunsets) in the inaugural season of the Global Poker League, drafting Emmy-winning actor Aaron Paul as one of her Wild Card picks, and coaching her team to the championship match.

She has won four PokerGO No-Limit Hold Em Sit-N-Go Invitationals:

2018

She has been an in-house commentator for PokerGO since it started in 2018, regularly contributing to live broadcasts including the US Poker Open, Super High Roller Bowl, and Poker Masters.

In 2018, Ho was inducted into the Women In Poker Hall of Fame, the first year she was eligible.

2019

She has been seen on many primetime television shows, making it to "Hollywood Week" on season 3 of American Idol, competing on the fifteenth season of The Amazing Race, and appearing as a celebrity guest on Deal or No Deal in January 2019.

Fluent in Mandarin and born into a traditional Taiwanese family, Maria grew up just outside Los Angeles in Arcadia, California, after her family moved from Taiwan to the United States when she was four-years-old.

Maria's older sister is media personality and psychologist Judy Ho, who hosted the CBS syndicated talk show Face The Truth.

Ho started playing poker in college.

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.

In March 2019, for a second year in a row, she final-tabled the LA Poker Classic $25,000 High Roller tournament; her victory earned her second-highest live tournament score of $276,690.

In 2019, Ho won the Global Poker Award for Broadcaster of the Year, then co-hosted the ceremonies the following year.

She has also written for several print publications, and wrote a chapter in the book Winning Women of Poker: Secret Strategies Revealed.

In 2019 and 2020, she received nominations for a Global Poker Award as Broadcaster of the Year, taking home the award in 2019.