The recent explosion of online poker has seen poker companies listing on the stock exchange and everybody trying to get a piece of the action. There are now hundreds of poker sites on the web to choose from but at the end of the day they all offer exactly the same thing – the chance to gamble some of our hard earned money against faceless opponents, sitting miles away in some other part of the globe. In our underwear if we so wish.

The adrenalin rush of sweating it out on the turn of a card with a small fortune at stake is now reachable without having to leave the house.