Journal of Alta California

A Pot of Gold

Maria Ho is so everywhere at the 50th Annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas that she’s almost impossible to find.

Look up from the Red Bull–inflamed stampede surging through the hallways of the Rio hotel and casino, and the Taiwan-born, Los Angeles–raised Ho’s face smiles down at every turn. The most telling of the vinyl banners on which her image appears isn’t the one with Ho endorsing a ladies-only game to attract more women to the event. Rather, it’s one featuring Ho as a

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