Net poker has blown up over the past number of years and it’s not going away any time. Many of the better-known professionals are staying at home to participate in online poker rather than at the casino. On most nights you can see Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, or Gus Hansen playing web poker at Full Tilt. Patrik Antonius who goes by the screen name of Luigi66369 is quite dominant in the high stakes cash games online. He will often sit with $60, 000 at the three hundred/six hundredno limit tables waiting for someone to compete with him. Normally Phil Ivey or some better known internet pro will step up and compete against 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 past months. Pots in excess of one hundred thousand dollars are a normal occurrence and they are only getting biggerare not getting any smaller.
John Juanda can likewise be seen playing the fifty/one hundred NL tables with a max buy-in of then thousand dollars. Juanda might be one of the more consistent players at the tables. He frequently seems to be up 20 to 30 thousand by the time the game ends. If you like a good show, you can always pop-in and watch Mike "The Mouth" Matusow get up to his normal antics. Mike always talks to fansand will often inform his competitors how great he is at poker. Mike is recognized for showing huge $10, 000 bluffs on the river holding seven high. Gus Hansen also makes regular appearances on the higher limit Omaha games. Internet poker has brought the big game right into your home. No longer do you need to wait for poker shows to appear on tv. Every evening, there is a big cash game being played on the net. These players are betting buildings on every turn of the card. Watching these guys play will improve your play.
