Poker players join Amazing Race cast

It looks like Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho will be running around the globe on the Amazing Race reality show. This appears to be somewhat of a trend for poker players to appear on reality shows. If you recall Jean Robert-Belland was on Survivor last year. Anyhow, everyone was kind of wondering what happened to the two young ladies in this years WSOP until word got out that they were going to appear on a TV show together.

I am completely indifferent on this one. Neither Tiffany Michelle or Maria Ho are established tournament poker players in my opinion and are still very much learning the game. That is not to say that they are not competitive or have not done well but one run in the Main Event does not constitute this kind of showcase and the exposure could work against them if they are not savvy. The bottom line is that both of them are out of their element although Tiffany has done a few things on TV as a hostess.

For me I just do not want to see another Annie Duke like appearance on the show. Annie came off really bad on the Apprentice despite making it to the decision day. Hopefully these young ladies can represent themselves a little better than that.