The World of Online Poker Players

Have you ever stopped to think about who plays poker online? After all, you can’t see their faces and you don’t know anything about them or what they do, so who are these other people and why are they playing poker online?

Online poker players are comprised of a whole variety of people from around the globe but for the most part they can be placed into three groups—professional online poker players, recreational poker players and beginning poker players.

There are a handful of professional online poker players. These players make their living playing poker online for money. They spend their full workday sitting at their computers playing poker games (sometimes several games at a time!) and they actually make a pretty good living from this. Professional players are incredibly skilled and are very serious about the game of poker.

Recreational poker players play in their spare time, as a hobby, because they enjoy the game of poker. These people play for money or for free, just for fun. They are comprised of anyone from your neighbor to your orthodontist to your child’s kindergarten teacher.

Poker beginners also play online. They use the Internet as a learning tool to familiarize themselves with the game of poker so that they can build strategies to use against their friends on “poker night” or when they hit the live casinos. As you can see, online poker players are comprised of several groups but all share a love for the game of poker.