Internet poker has blown up over the last number of years and it is not disappearing anytime soon. Most of the well-known professionals are staying at residence to participate in web poker rather than at the casino. On any given evening you can find Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, or Gus Hansen playing net poker at Full Tilt. Patrik Antonius who uses the screen name of Luigi66369 rules the high stakes money games online. He will often sit with $60, 000 at the three hundred/six hundredNL games waiting for a person to compete with him. Usually Phil Ivey or some better known internet professional will compete against Antonius one on one for some cold hard cash. 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 biggerare not getting any smaller.

John Juanda can usually be found participating in the fifty/one hundred No Limit tables with a maximum buy-in of $10, 000. Juanda might just be one of the more consistent players at the tables. He consistently appears to be ahead twenty to thirty thousand by the time the game ends. If you enjoy a good show, make sure to stop by and observe Mike "The Mouth" Matusow up to his normal buffoonery. Mike makes sure to talk to fansand will regularly inform his opponents how awesome he is at poker. Mike is known for displaying large $10, 000 bluffs on the river holding seven high. Gus Hansen also makes frequent appearances on the higher limit Omaha games. Web poker has brought the great game right onto your computer. Now you do not need to wait for poker tournaments to appear on tv. Every day, there is a big cash game being played on the web. These guys are betting houses on every turn of the card. Watching these players play will improve your poker skills.