Online poker has blown up over the last couple of years and it is not going away any time. Most of the better-known professionals are staying at home to compete in online poker as a substitute for the casino. On any given night you can find Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, or Gus Hansen competing in net poker at Full Tilt. Patrik Antonius who goes by the screen name of Luigi66369 rules the high stakes cash games on the net. He will often sit with $60, 000 at the three hundred/six hundredNL games waiting for other players to compete with him. Usually Phil Ivey or some well known online professional will compete against Antonius heads-up for a bit of money. Antonius and Ivey have defeated any competition that has stepped up to them in the last couple of months. Pots in excess of one hundred thousand dollars are a regular occurrence and the pots are only growing largerare not getting any smaller.
John Juanda can usually be seen competing in the fifty/one hundred No Limit tables with a max buy-in of then thousand dollars. Juanda may be one of the more dependable players at the tables. He consistently appears to be ahead twenty to thirty thousand by the end of the night. If you like a good show, make sure to stop by and watch Mike "The Mouth" Matusow get up to his normal buffoonery. Mike makes sure to talk to the audienceand will regularly tell his opponents how awesome he is at poker. Mike is known for displaying large ten thousand dollar bluffs on the river with seven high. Gus Hansen usually appears regularly on the high limit Omaha tables. Internet poker has brought the big game right into your home. Now you don’t need to wait for poker tournaments to appear on television. Each day, there is a big cash game being played online. These pros are gambling homes on every card. Watching these players play will boost your poker skills.
