Poker players are categorized in several types such as poker professionals, poker experts, poker newbie’s, etc.
Knowing some poker professionals will help you learn how to play poker well and probably make some winnings along the way.
While poker will need some ounce of luck to be profitable, poker strategies, following poker rules and playing in the right poker table can be quite a challenge sometimes but is definitely possible.
Likewise, because to be profitable in playing poker, you have to shell out your own money, in this case, you have to be ready for some cold hard cash to play poker. Of course, if you are playing poker leisurely, you can just go to online poker websites and take advantage of free rolls, free poker game downloads but if you want to make a profit while you play poker, you have to be ready with some funding.
Setting up wagering money will help you avoid mixing your household expenses with your poker playing money. This will avoid problems when you want to enjoy poker gaming.
Likewise, if you want to, you may extend your poker gaming dollars by taking advantage of poker bonuses provided online.
When you have already mastered the game and have been winning quite consistently, you may elevate your poker gaming to playing on poker tournaments. You might also want to look for poker websites with poker professionals in the pool. You may learn a thing or two in playing poker with poker professionals.
To know some of the poker professionals you can learn from, here is a list of some poker professional and some background about them.
You may want to know who they are and what they are before being poker professionals. You may learn that they are no different than you are and thus, in the future, you may be one of them as well.
• Chris Moneymaker
Chris Moneymaker is an accountant by profession. However, his name was a sudden hit when he won the 2003 World Poker Tour No Limit Hold’em Championship after gaining access from an online satellite tournament.
• Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari is a professional magician. He won the 2004 World Series of Poker championship Bracelet and is likewise recognized as the youngest poker player to win more than a million dollar tournament prize.
• Barry Greenstein
Barry Greenstein is one of the most exciting poker players in the world. He is a talented mathematics student. What is more exciting about him is that while he has won millions of dollars in poker, he has donated all of his winning to a charity institution for suffering children.
• Christer Bjorin
Chris Bjorin is a low profile Swedish professional poker player who is a regular of World Series of Poker. He has won two WSOP bracelets so far.
• Phil Hellmuth
Phil Hellmuth is known as the poker brat. He has bad temper but his skill in poker made him win about ten World Series of Poker bracelets and millions of dollars.
• Martin de Knijff
Martin de Knijff is a professional sports bettor and high stakes poker player. He started playing poker at the age of 15 and has placed in several World Series of Poker Main Events. He placed 2nd in the No Limit Hold’em event in the 2004 World Series of Poker.
• Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly is an award winning actress. She won the Ladies Event in the 2005 World Series of Poker with $158,000 and the WSOP bracelet.
There are literally hundreds more professional poker players and most of them play poker regularly. Most of these poker professionals are like you, started from being a novice but determination and love for the game kept them going.
Here is a short list of some other poker professionals you may bump into in a brick and mortar casino or play with in an online poker table:
• Anders Henriksson
• Christer Johansson
• Dan Harrington
• Daniel Alaei
• Daniel Negreanu
• David Sklansky
• Doyle Brunson
• Erik Friberg
• Erik Sagstrom
• Greg Raymer
• Gus Hansen
• Ingemar Backman
• Jamie Gold
• Jennifer Harman
• John Juanda
• Johnny Chan
• Joseph Hachem
• Ken Lannaard
• Mats Iremark
• Michael Mizrachi
• Mike Caro
• Mike Matusow
• Phil Ivey
• Phil Laak
• San Farha
• Steward Reuben
• Ted Forrest
• Tom McEvoy
• Tomas Brolin
• William Thorson
Do you want to be a poker professional? Playing regularly and practicing online will help you master the game. Likewise, playing in online satellite tournaments may provide you access to live poker tournament, which is neat. Remember Christ Moneymaker?
