Net poker has blown up over the past couple of years and it is not going away any time. Most of the well-known pros are staying at residence to participate in web poker as a substitute for the casino. On any given evening you can see Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, or Gus Hansen competing in internet poker at Full Tilt. Patrik Antonius who uses the screen name of Luigi66369 is quite dominant in the high stakes cash games online. He will often sit with sixty thousand dollars at the 300/600no limit tables ready for anyone to compete against him. Usually Phil Ivey or some well known web professional will step up and play Antonius heads-up for a bit of cold hard cash. Antonius and Ivey have defeated any competition that has stepped up to them in the last couple of months. Pots that exceed one hundred thousand dollars are a regular occurrence and the pots are only getting largerare not getting any smaller.
John Juanda can usually be found competing in the 50/100 No Limit games with a max buy-in of then thousand dollars. Juanda may be one of the more dependable players at the tables. He frequently appears to be ahead 20 to 30 thousand by the time the game ends. If you enjoy a good show, you can always pop-in and watch Mike "The Mouth" Matusow get up to his regular antics. Mike always talks to the audienceand will regularly inform his competitors how fantastic he is at poker. Mike is known for showing huge $10, 000 bluffs on the river with seven high. Gus Hansen also makes normal appearances on the high limit Omaha tables. Online poker has brought the big game right into your home. No longer do you need to wait for poker events to appear on tv. Each night, there is a huge cash game being played on the web. These guys are gambling houses on every turn of the card. Watching these guys bet will improve your poker skills.