For those lucky few who work hard and have their wits about them the life of a poker pro can be quite an appealing one. They come in many different forms but the one thing they all have in common is they know when to push the chips in and when to make a big fold! When a player reaches the top of his game and strings together a few big tournament wins he’s usually finds himself in company with the best names in poker and the need for a day job is no longer needed as they manage to take down some prizes which are more than most people earn in a year over the course of just a weekend!
There are many household names now that have come from poker, players such as Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, and Phil Ivey. However while these players made their names from playing in live televised events over the years, as the poker boom began and Online, then Mobile Poker took over they too joined the sea of thousands of players to take to the electronic felt where the tournament sizes became larger, and the prizes have become bigger than ever before! Due to the popularity in Online and Mobile Poker the imagine of a poker pro is now changing too. Where once it was a seen as an older and wiser gentlemen who would spend his time in a cash game in Vegas now it can be anyone from anywhere sat behind a screen who has the wits and heart to battle it out with the best of them.
These online poker pros have now started to take over the image as to what a true poker pro is, and while there are a lot of young guys who are taking the limelight such as Tom Dwan and Isildur1, there are people from all walks of life who are now Online Poker professionals, some old some young, some male some female, and each of them with their own unique background. What is great about Online Poker now with respect to Poker Pros is that it has now allowed pros from all over the world to do battle against each other which is fantastic for the fans as they can now sit back on their couch, log in to their favourite site and see some of the best players in the world duke it out for crazy amounts of money.
There has arguably never been a more exciting time in poker for both the fan and the pro! As if this wasn’t enough, poker is perhaps the only sport where the amatuar and the pro are on the same footing. You might not be able to pick up a ball and start kicking it about with Messi or Ronaldo, but if you’ve got the balls you can certainly sit down at the table with Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu if you wish and be seen as an equal! While the world of a Poker Pro is certainly an exciting one, it also offers a great deal of excitement for the casual player too as you get to follow their action, see some of the largest pots in existence be won, and even battle it out with them for your own pleasure if you fancied it!
