Pius Heinz
$8,715,638
Event Player Lists
Top Lists
Top Money WinnersWSOP Millionaires
Women in Poker
Seniors of Poker
Clash of the Titans
ProRank 1
ProRank 2
Home Games
Players Pages
Player ProfilesPoker Greats
Poker Biographies
Popular Profiles
1. Antonio Esfandiari2. Daniel Negreanu
3. Joseph Cheong
4. Phil Ivey
5. Pius Heinz
Full List »
Maria Ho
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 a million dollars in live tournament earnings she is currently ranked 5th in the world among female poker players (according to the GPI). 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. She is widely recognized for being the Last Woman Standing at the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, where she finished 38th out of 6,358 for a payday of $237,865. In fact, with her 27th place finish at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, Maria is the first and only player to hold the titles of Last Woman Standing in both the WSOP and WSOPE Main Events. In 2009, Maria competed on the CBS Emmy award-winning season of The Amazing Race with best friend and fellow WSOP Last Woman Standing, Tiffany Michelle. The two made up the only all-female team of the season. Maria 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. Between 2010-2011 Maria's poker game hit an all time high with an impressive streak of four final tables and two record breaking runs, consisting of a 10th place final table finish at the World Poker Tour’s Bellagio Cup, a final table and 6th place finish at the WSOP South Africa Circuit Event, and a 2nd place finish in the Aussie Millions $10,000 buy-in 8-Game tournament. At the 2011 World Series of Poker Maria played heads-up for a WSOP bracelet in Event #4 and broke records for the largest cash a female had ever had at the WSOP when she earned $540,020 for her second place finish. Her streak of impressive WSOP feats continued in the 2012 World Series of Poker where she was named the most-cashing female of the Series, with six individual tournament cashes. Fluent in Mandarin and raised in a traditional Chinese family, no one ever expected Maria to become a professional poker player, but poker and performing were always in the cards. 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 during college that Maria was introduced to poker and she soon went from cleaning up at friendly house games to playing Limit cash games at the nearby Indian casino. By the time 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. Beyond the poker tables, Maria has been an on-camera host for WSOP.com, a commentator for the live WSOP final-table broadcasts on ESPN 360, a private coach, and a writer for several poker publications - which include authoring a chapter in the book Winning Women of Poker: Secret Strategies Revealed and as a columnist for Bluff Magazine. Maria currently resides just outside of Los Angeles, California. When she’s not traveling on the tournament circuit or for events, she enjoys singing at music gigs throughout Hollywood, devoting her time to charity, and working with her family’s successful real estate firm.
Player Information
Name: Maria Ho
Location: Arcadia, CA, United States
Yearly Statistics: Click Here
Cashes:34
Total Winnings: $1,310,073 (Includes all tournament winnings)
ProRank 1 Position: 1584 [ DETAILS ]
Marital Status: Single
Children: None
Started Playing Poker: November 2002, but professionally from the summer of 2005 and on.
Favorite Poker Game: NL Texas Hold 'Em
Ambition: To make a positive impact for this world and the people in it, to be successful in my own right whether it be through poker or other ventures, and to find genuine happiness in the simple things that make life beautiful.
Hobbies: Singing, dancing, spending time with family and friends, curling up with a good book. I am a full-time knowledge seeker who loves to try new things.
Favorite Movie: Sound of Music, The Shawshank Redemption, Braveheart.
Favorite Music: Hip Hop/ R & B/ Soul
Favorite Place: It is a toss up between Rome and San Francisco.
Poker Players I Respect Most: Daniel Negreanu for his cheerful demeanor at the tables and his humility, Barry Greenstein for his charitible contributions outside of the poker world, Phil Ivey for his composure, and all the grinders who have maintained extreme discipline to achieve longevity in this business.
If I could change anything in the world: I would change the lack of kind acts and respect we give each other on a daily basis.
If I could change anything in the poker world: Although the nature of this business can be cutthroat and revolve around people with a healthy appetite for competition, it is imperative for us as poker players to remember that at the end of the day, it is the strength of our character that defines us, and no amount of money is worth compromising that.
Location: Arcadia, CA, United States
Yearly Statistics: Click HereCashes:34
Total Winnings: $1,310,073 (Includes all tournament winnings)
ProRank 1 Position: 1584 [ DETAILS ]
Marital Status: Single
Children: None
Started Playing Poker: November 2002, but professionally from the summer of 2005 and on.
Favorite Poker Game: NL Texas Hold 'Em
Ambition: To make a positive impact for this world and the people in it, to be successful in my own right whether it be through poker or other ventures, and to find genuine happiness in the simple things that make life beautiful.
Hobbies: Singing, dancing, spending time with family and friends, curling up with a good book. I am a full-time knowledge seeker who loves to try new things.
Favorite Movie: Sound of Music, The Shawshank Redemption, Braveheart.
Favorite Music: Hip Hop/ R & B/ Soul
Favorite Place: It is a toss up between Rome and San Francisco.
Poker Players I Respect Most: Daniel Negreanu for his cheerful demeanor at the tables and his humility, Barry Greenstein for his charitible contributions outside of the poker world, Phil Ivey for his composure, and all the grinders who have maintained extreme discipline to achieve longevity in this business.
If I could change anything in the world: I would change the lack of kind acts and respect we give each other on a daily basis.
If I could change anything in the poker world: Although the nature of this business can be cutthroat and revolve around people with a healthy appetite for competition, it is imperative for us as poker players to remember that at the end of the day, it is the strength of our character that defines us, and no amount of money is worth compromising that.
Maria Ho Poker Results
See an error in your results or profile listed? an email
Yearly Statistics
Country Player Lists
Online Poker
Player Highlight
Martin StaszkoA full-time professional poker player, Martin Staszko became the first Czech player to ever make the final table of the WSOP Main Event and he did as chip leader. With most of his...
Read more...
Blog Coverage
Top Tournaments
California State Poker Championship
World Championship / WPT Event Season...
World Series of Poker Circuit Event
World Championship / WPT Event Season...
World Series of Poker Circuit Event