Do you ever expect poker face to look that good? Meet Maria Ho, the gorgeous beauty who is also one of the smartest women.
The 33-year-old is is considered one of the best female poker player in
the world. She has raked in $2.6 million in poker earnings and is the
first woman to ever serve as a strategic commentator for a poker TV
broadcast.
Ho was born in Taiwan and emigrated with her family to the United States when she was around 5 years old.
And what makes her so good at poker? It's because she has been lied to many, many times.
She said:
“Honestly, it’s being lied to a lot. This is not meant for people to
feel bad for me, or offended — I’ve just been lied to a lot, whether
it’s through my relationships or whatever.
"I’ve always had really strong intuition from a young age. Whenever I felt something was off about someone I could sense it.
“That’s why I don’t like playing against women. Honestly, women are
good liars. I cannot tell when a woman is bluffing, almost never.
"When a guy is bluffing, it’s almost always I just have to look at
him and get him to look at me and then there’s just a lot of things that
go into why I can tell.”
Even though she lived in the US, Ho said that she had "a really traditional Chinese upbringing".
"We ate Chinese food and I went to Chinese school after regular
school to learn how to read and write in Mandarin. It was also learning
Chinese folk dances and things like that," she shared with NextShark.
Ho shares that she got into poker by playing recreationally:
She said:
“In college my parents didn’t want me to get a job and they were very
much like, ‘We want you to just study,’ so I actually had an allowance
from my parents in college and I used that to play poker.”
She started going to casinos even as a newbie and was willing to put down cash and lose it. However, she soon got good.
Her parents valued higher education and were disappointed when she
chose a career as a professional poker player -- especially when her
sister has a PhD.
Source: Lollipop
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