Tournament poker has exploded in popularity over the past 10 years because of the impressive prize money, charismatic professional poker players, celebrities and the introduction of online poker rooms.

If you’re sitting at a poker table anticipating the showdown and the player across from you touches his sunglasses, smirks, and chirps, “Pass the sugar,” chances are you’ve lost the hand. Professional poker player Joe Hachem burst onto the scene only a few short years ago, taking the top poker tournaments by storm and charming the world with his enthusiastic catch phrase, “Pass the sugar!”

Phil currently lives in Palo Alto, California, with his wife Kathy and two sons, Phillip III and Nicholas. With ambitions to be the greatest poker player to ever play the game, Phil Hellmuth may not have far to go with having eleven World Series wins currently under his belt.

Omaha is quickly catching up to Texas Hold’em in popularity. Next to Texas Hold’em Omaha is the most played poker game worldwide. While Hold’em is still the top contender for poker game choice, Omaha is quickly gaining momentum.

There are a lot of different variations of Texas Holdem. Along with the different variations come a lot of different strategies and even some different rules.

You could say that Annie Duke is a poker Diva.  In 1994 she won $70,000 in the first World Series of Poker she ever played in. She proved that in her first go that she could hang with the big dogs and had the makings of a great poker player. Fourteen years later, Annie Duke is still hanging with the big dogs in the poker world.

Poker is a game that takes a very long time to turn out the way it is meant to turn out. When you read or hear about poker percentages, poker odds, probabilities, good hands, bad hands, luck, skill and everything else that goes into poker; this is all analyzed based upon a long period of time.

He is called ‘The Professor’ by his poker peers and Howard Lederer happily lives up to his name.  Anyone who visits Full Tilt Poker can read the numerous poker articles he has written and can easily see how he has earned this particular nickname.

Stud Poker is one of the least popular, but most interesting poker games that you could find yourself playing. Just like any other poker game it starts with two simple things—Stud poker strategy and Stud poker rules.