Online poker takes an hour to learn and a lifetime to master, so goes the old saying and most long time professional players will adhere to that wisdom and state its truth by admitting that they are still learning new tricks and facts and hard lessons about the game. Thanks to online poker it is far easier than a generation ago to learn the nuances and quirks about the game and to prepare yourself for a potential professional career at poker. With countless outstanding online poker cardrooms springing up on a regular basis the power of choice is with players both new and veteran alike.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who barely escaped his re-election campaign last November based in large part to Las Vegas casinos literally bussing their employees to the polls and forcing them to vote for him, is trying to payback the industry with an internet gambling bill that Las Vegas is pushing for in order to cash in on the ever expanding industry including the online poker market. At first the Democrat of Nevada tried to tie the legislation to the recently passed tax bill.

The final table of the 2010 WSOP, also known as the “November Nine” is set and will resume action on November 6th. Sitting in seat 8 will be Italian Filippo Candio, a 26 year old that is the first ever player from Italy to sit at the WSOP final table. In his short professional poker career Candio has already made over $1 million. Candio will enter professional poker’s biggest and most prestigious event with a chip count of 16.4 million, which is 6th best. Candio is a past winner of the Italian Poker Tour Campionato.