Mario Ho – Photo Credit: Celebrity Poker Tour
Maria Ho received the Celebrity Poker Tour Game Night I occasion over the March 16-17 weekend contained in the PokerGO Studio at ARIA simply off the Las Vegas Strip.
The poker skilled and commentator topped a gifted and multi-faceted area of rivals on the invite-only occasion. Ho holds greater than $4.5 million in profession tournaments, and she or he was awarded $10,000 together with the gold CPT title belt for the victory.
This marked the third time in a row a girls has received a CPT occasion. Princess Love received the earlier occasion in February, and Qiyu “Nemo” Zhou topped the sector within the inaugural occasion in 2023.
Tommy Unold was the runner-up (he was an alternate however made the deep run), and he scored $5,000. NFL star operating again Austin Ekeler took third on the closing desk, and he was adopted in fourth place by poker influencer and vlogger Brad Owen. And talking of poker vloggers, the poker participant with the biggest following of anybody within the poker business Alexander “Wolgang” Selbt posted a fifth-place end result.
Another trio of influencers rounded out the ultimate three spots, with Trent “BookItWithTrent” Attyah (sixth), Bryce Hall (seventh), and Ethan “Rampage” Yau (eighth).
Even after many of those gamers busted out of the match they caught round to benefit from the open bar and free unfold offered. It made for a enjoyable ambiance that you would be able to see within the many movies posted on the CPT Twitter/X account page that was fed with content material from the skilled social media influencers attending the occasion.
When it got here all the way down to the ultimate three gamers, it was the previous Los Angeles Charger who just lately signed with the Washington Commandeers Ekeler who held the chip lead. Ho took him out after they each held high pair, however her kicker performed. Ho took a 3:1 chip benefit into the heads-up closing in opposition to Unold.
Ho by no means relinquished the lead over the past match, and the ultimate hand noticed her pocket threes enhance to a set over the Q-9 held by Unold.
Many of the invitees, together with Ho, then made their method over to play money video games within the poker site at Resorts World Casino to spherical out a enjoyable night time for all concerned.
