Last season, we saw the Asian American brother-and-sister team Victor and Tammy Jih win The Amazing Race. Now, CBS is currently taping the next season and there are rumors that professional poker player Maria Ho is a contestant, based on a reported sightings at LAX:
“A forum poster at RealityFanForum.com may have done that already having recently snapped photos of contestants as the race began and one of those photos clearly showed Maria Ho. Her partner on the race is rumored to be Tiffany Michelle whose recent decision to preclude herself from the World Series of Poker Main Event however put her at the top of the list of the suspects.”
Interesting factoid: it looks like The Amazing Race was trying to recruit more photogenic and famous professional poker player Evelyn Ng, but was disqualified after producers learned that she was Canadian, which is against the rules for qualification.
It looks like this season will be a “celebrity” edition of the reality show - other rumored contestants include Miss America 2004 Erica Dunlap and her husband Brian Kleinschmidt, and Harlem Globetrotters Nate “Big Easy” Lofton and Herbert “Flight Time” Lang.
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2 Comments to “Professional Poker Player Maria Ho Rumored to be on the Next Season of The Amazing Race”
facebook-6713373 wrote:
When's Scotty Nguyen gonna jump on this? I'm yearning for his half naked body lifting heavy logs while rambling about 'babies' in a heavy Vietnamese accent. xD
Posted on 29-Jul-09 at 4:09 pm | Permalink
8Asians.com » Poker Player Maria Ho Almost Gets Eliminated on The Amazing Race wrote:
[...] Earlier this summer, it was rumored that Taiwanese American Maria Ho and her teammate Tiffany Michelle were going to be contestants on this season of The Amazing Race when a fan spotted her at LAX. This past Sunday, the rumor was confirmed as the premiere episode of the show aired. As professional poker players, Maria and Tiffany wanted to try to hide their true identities as successful professional poker players, so Maria and Tiffany told others that they worked as counselors for a non-profit counseling troubled youths. Well, that rouse didn’t last too long when the two asked someone in line for help at the airport in Tokyo, and that person recognized their true identities and another team overheard who they really were. I had my doubts from the very beginning that the two were going to be able to keep up the cover for the entire competition. [...]
Posted on 30-Sep-09 at 10:34 pm | Permalink
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