Maria Ho Wins Celebrity Poker Tour 2024 Championship

No stranger to poker play in the PokerGO Studio, Maria Ho won the Celebrity Poker Tour 2024 Championship on Wednesday in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ho topped the 62-entrant field, which included celebrities, comedians, professional athletes, models, actors, internet personalities, and content creators, to win the $50,000 first-place prize. 

In March of this year, Ho won her first Celebrity Poker Tour title when she won CPT: Game Night for $10,000 after defeating Tommy Unold heads-up at a table that also included Austin Ekeler, Brad Owen, Wolfgang, Trent Attyah, Bryce Hall, and Ethan Yau. With this win the Celebrity Poker Tour 2024 Championship, she becomes the first player to win two CPT titles.

For the concluding event of the 2024 Celebrity Poker Tour season, the field was trimmed to 62 players, but the prize pool doubled to $100,000, with $50,000 set aside for the winner. Throughout the PokerGO Studio, there were seven poker tables in action, and players included NBA players Mario Chalmers and Mike Bibby, NFL players Adrian Peterson, Kenyan Drake, Prince Amukamara, Patrick Peterson, and Hayes Pullard, NHL player Deryk Engelland, UFC fighters Aljamain Sterling, Jorge Masvidal, and Mackenzie Dern, and social media stars Tana Mongeau, Bryce Hall, Princess Love, and Ashley Nocera. Previous winners were also in attendance, such as defending champion Vegas Matt, Princess Love, and Qiyu "Nemo" Zhou, along with poker players Maria Ho, Ethan "Rampage" Yau, and Alexander "Wolfgang" Seibt.

Each player participating in the Celebrity Poker Tour 2024 Championship possessed a second-chance chip, which gave them a 100,000-chip rebuy or add-on. Once all the second chance chips were cashed and the first break had concluded, NFL rubbing back Adrian Peterson was among the chip leaders and seated at the feature table alongside Savannah Chrisley, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, Kylie "Sketch" Cox, and Impractical Jokers stars Joe Gatto and Brian Quinn.

Once play progressed to the money bubble, it would be Princess Love falling short in 10th place when her king-queen could outdraw the ace-nine of Maria Ho who would take a huge chip lead to the final table of nine. Hila Klein was the first to fall when her pocket jacks were outdrawn by CJ So Cool's king-deuce suited. Bryce Hall was then at-risk with ace-five suited against the queen-ten suited of Sofie Dossi. A queen on the turn was enough to end Hall's run in eighth place. Lena Ayad followed Hall out the door in seventh place, while Peterson exited next.

Pullard lost a race with pocket fours against Ho's ace-king before CJ So Cool's ace-deuce couldn't hold against the king-queen suited of Dossi. Down to three, Dossi found herself all-in with ace-jack suited against the king-three of Ho. Dossi flopped Broadway, but Ho went runner-runner full house to eliminate Dossi and enter heads-up play against Quinn with a chip lead of 12,075,000 to Quinn's 325,000. Quinn managed one double, and after committing with four-deuce, he would run into the ace-king suited of Ho who flopped two pair and improved to a full house to eliminate Quinn and be crowned the Celebrity Poker Tour 2024 Championship winner, receiving $50,000 in prize money and adding to her CPT: Game Night title.

Celebrity Poker Tour 2024 Championship Results

The Celebrity Poker Tour Invitational 2024 Championship was livestreamed on PokerGO and the PokerGO YouTube channel. If you'd like to relive the excitement of this star-studded event and Ho's second CPT victory, you can do so on the PokerGO YouTube channel.

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