Gambling Floor: Ballroom Dancer and Kerosene Trader

gambling floor: After a swashbuckling start as a kerosene trader, he ended up as Macau's richest person, a lavish spender and debonair ballroom dancer, according to CTV. A family statement said he died peacefully in his sleep, but did not give a cause of death. Considered the father of modern gambling in China, Ho's long and eventful life tracked the ebb and flow of southern China's fortunes. Tall, handsome and of mixed Chinese and European heritage, Ho fathered 17 children with four women, an extended family that engaged in high-profile squabbles over his legacy during his later years. But he said he avoided the gambling floor. Ho had stakes in businesses running everything from the ferries and helicopters connecting Hong Kong and Macao to department stores, hotels, Macao's airport and its horse-racing tracks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.