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Maria Ho: A rising star in the poker world
Undoubtedly, poker is no longer a game reserved exclusively to men. Indeed, more and more women players who are playing very well this game begin to stand out and become serious opponents to major players. Like the great women poker players the two Vanessa, Selbst and Rousso, Annette Obrestad or Liv Boeree, the course full of pitfalls followed by the American player, Maria Ho deserves to be reported. First, this Californian of 28 years began to play poker for the first time in November 2002. Then she decided to become professional in this game during the summer of 2005.
For the prize list, Maria Ho had an appointment with her first success at the Main Event of the WSOP 2007. She was ranked first player of the tournament with a gain of $ 237,865. Moreover, the young American has until now nine cashes in this series of the world championship circuit and recently, during the current WSOP 2011, this rising star from Taiwan won again by finishing second of the event # 4, a No Limit Hold'em of $ 5,000. In addition, Ho had as other performances two cashes at the WPT, her best rank in the ME of the WSOP is located at the 38th position and it was in 2007. And actually, she is ranked 13th in the women list of "All-time money." In addition, her largest amount pocketed to date is $ 540,020 with a cumulative earnings equal to $ 1,134,400.
Source: Jack SMITH
Thursday, 09 June 2011
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