Maria Ho is the star that shined brightest on the newest Celebrity Poker Tour occasion held contained in the PokerGO Studio. The poker professional bested a 59-entry discipline within the CPT Championship on the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas to earn $50,000 and her second CPT title of the 12 months. Ho had beforehand taken down the CPT Game Night I again in March. She now holds the excellence of being the tour’s first-ever two-time champion.
The 41-year-old Women In Poker Hall of Fame member has greater than $4.7 million in profession match earnings, placing her nicely forward of many of the discipline on the subject of poker expertise and accomplishments. She was squaring off towards an assortment of celebrities, starting from TV stars to skilled athletes to on-line influencers. Among the ultimate class was Sofie Dossi, a YouTube star and contortionist who made headlines for her grand entrance in an earlier CPT occasion that noticed her arrive at her seat folded up inside a small field. Dossi went on to complete third this time round, incomes $10,000 for her efforts.
Dossi bought all-in with A
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main the Ok
3 of Ho, who has shoved from the small blind. Dossi referred to as off and flopped the nuts after Ok
Q10 rolled off the deck. Dossi was greater than a 96 p.c favourite to win the hand at that time in keeping with Card Player’s poker odds calculator, however extremely didn’t. The flip introduced the Q and the river the Q to provide Ho a working full home and the pot.
Ho held a big 37:1 heads-up chip lead over Brian Quinn of the long-running Impractical Jokers tv sequence. It didn’t lengthy for her to transform that benefit into the title.
Quinn managed a double up, however was quickly all-in once more with 4-2 trailing A-Ok suited to Ho. She flopped kings and nines and held from there to shut out the victory. Quinn walked away with $20,000 because the runner-up.
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Other notables who participated on this occasion included gaming star Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins, former NBA gamers Mario Chalmers and Mike Bibby, CPT champion Princess Love, chess streamer and burgeoning poker participant Alexandra Botez, former MLB star Jose Canseco, and former NFL working again Adrian Peterson. The longtime Minnesota Viking made it right down to the ultimate half dozen gamers earlier than being despatched packing with $3,500 for a sixth-place exhibiting.
The Final Results from the CPT Championship
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