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Internet Poker – Where Do The Pros Compete

Net poker has exploded over the last couple of years and it is not disappearing anytime soon. Many of the better-known pros are staying at residence to play online poker rather than at the casino. On most nights you can find Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, or Gus Hansen participating in web poker at Full Tilt. Patrik Antonius who uses the user name of Luigi66369 rules the large stakes cash games on the internet. He will regularly sit with sixty thousand dollars at the three hundred/six hundredno limit tables waiting for other players to compete with him. Normally Phil Ivey or some better known web professional will step up and compete with Antonius heads-up for some money. Antonius and Ivey have annihilated any challengers that have stepped up to them in the past months. Pots that exceed one hundred thousand dollars are a frequent occurrence and the pots are only getting largerare not getting any smaller.

John Juanda can usually be seen playing the 50/100 NL tables with a max buy-in of $10, 000. Juanda might just be one of the more consistent individuals at the tables. He consistently seems to be ahead 20 to 30 thousand by the end of the night. If you enjoy drama, you can always pop-in and observe Mike "The Mouth" Matusow up to his regular buffoonery. Mike makes sure to talk to the audienceand will often inform his opponents how fantastic he is at poker. Mike is known for showing massive ten thousand dollar bluffs on the river with seven high. Gus Hansen usually appears regularly on the higher limit Omaha tables. Web poker has brought the great game right into your home. Now you don’t need to wait for poker events to appear on television. Each night, there is a big money game being played on the net. These pros are wagering homes on every turn of the card. Watch these guys wager and you will improve your poker skills.