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If you have excellent poker know-how and an aggressive spirit you may want to try your hand at playing high stakes poker online. At top ranked poker sites on the net, you can play high risk poker sessions anytime you want without going to the time and cost of traveling to a distant land based casino. You’ll notice that all of your best-loved games are playable from holdem to omaha eight-or-better. It is free to join and there are a number of incentives and bonuses offered to players. You can rest assured that your membership is secure and your privacy is guaranteed.

You can also pick the format you like for participating in high stakes poker online. If you just wish to sit down at a regular table for a few hands you can just that. That aside, if you like tournament play you can select from a variety of individual table and multi-table tournaments. The buyin fees to participate in these tournaments are reasonable, and a number of the prizes are extremely large. You can also play high risk poker tournaments in which you can win a seat to even bigger tournaments.

When you participate in high stakes poker on the net you have an opportunity to match your techniques against other good players and improve your skills in the games of your choosing. You will find the games just as exhilarating and entertaining as in a regular casino. In fact, most of the poker millionaires you see winning tournaments on tv started betting on the web. Why not sign up and try it today?

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Literally huge amounts of individuals strive to be the next "big-time thing" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more noteworthy "great guys" of the game. Granted "nice" is associated with their names when you are playing them it is "no more Mr. Nice guy" up until they have removed you out of the game!

Daniel Negreanu

In Two Thousand and Four, his tourney payouts added up to in excess of 4.4 million dollars and he captured two immensely admired awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tournament Player of the Year. In Feb Two Thousand and Six he was named Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. Daniel still has the decency to speak to his fans about how they will be able to improve their own game.

Howard Lederer

Known as "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an educational video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also holding a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life time earnings exceed 2.7 million dollars.

Scotty Nguyen

Scott is one of the most active players in poker and between Two Thousand and Two Thousand and Four he placed in the money in excess of 100 competitions. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker games and also credited with the term "that’s poker baby" when referring to a especially bad defeat. As of 2006, his life time earnings are almost six million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has earned five World Series of Poker titles with 2 of his successes coming in Two Thousand and Three. Has the nickname "Jesus" because of his trademark long hair and beard, that, and along with his ability to toss playing cards quick enough to cut through pickles and bananas. As of 2005 his total poker tourney earnings exceeded 5 million dollars.

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Phil Ivey has been branded as the number one poker contender in the world by most of the top pros. He was born in Riverside, CA and moved to NJ before his first birthday. His grandfather introduced him to penny-ante Five-Card Stud poker. From then on on, Phil was addicted to poker and wanted to learn anything he possibly could about poker. Phil routinely would tell his parents that he was going to be a professional poker player. Phil didn’t let the detrimental comments from others kill his goal of being one of the greatest poker competitors in the world.

Phil began playing intently after acquiring a fake ID by the name of Jerome. He honed his skills at the poker rooms in Atlantic City. The beginning number of years for him were a teaching period and coming away with a win was not a normal thing at the time. Phil became known at the 2000 World Series of Poker where he achieved two final tables and won his 1st World Series of Poker bracelet, in a two dollar, five hundred Pot-Limit Omaha match. At the final table he defeated a number of the well known professionals including "Amarillo Slim" Preston, David "Devilfish" Ulliot, and Phil Hellmuth, Jr.

Phil decided to take his skills to the successive level and moved out west to Las Vegas. He continues to participate in in "The Big Game" at the Bellagio with the greatest players in the world. Phil credits his success to discipline and a continuing passion for the game of poker. He says that he is learning every single day and is quite humble about his success. He knows he makes errors in each game of poker and always strives to get better.

Despite the fact that Ivey has won some big tournaments, he likes winning money games on a regular basis.