This is Maria Ho. She's 33-years-old and is considered as one of the best female poker players in the world. She's already raked in $2.6 million in earnings and one of her many talents is the ability to tell when someone is lying.

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She gets it because she's been lied to a lot.

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She puts that strong intuition to use in the game.

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Born in Taiwan, her family emigrated to the U.S.when she was 5-years-old.

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She's got a degree in communication studies, and though she intended to be a lawyer, she decided to choose to be a professional poker player.

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She initially played it for recreation.

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But soon her skills started to tell her she was pretty damn good at it.

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Her biggest prize was in 2011 when she brought home $540,000 for being the runner-up.

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She does admit, that playing poker professionaly is very tough.

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Also, it doesn't help that she's quite the looker!

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