''There's lots of 'long-term' skill involved in playing poker,'' Schrijvers says.
He liked the game for the thrill of the gamble but also for what he saw as poker's depth and complexity. strong>What Internet surfer hasn‘t spent time deleting those flashy, irritating pop-up ads for online casinos % 'Win! Poker! Casino! Free!' But if you did enter an Internet casino to gamble at a virtual poker table, there's a good chance you'd eventually end up losing money to an Internet poker player named Demokritos, which is the online nom de poker of 22-year-old Remco Schrijvers, an Applied Physics student who also happens to be one of the best Internet poker players in the (cyber) world, and certainly one of the best-paid TU students, having earned tens of thousands of dollars at online poker tables%which isn't bad for a part-time job he does from the comfort of his own bedroom.Like many young guys, Schrijvers began playing poker with friends while in high school, for ''fun''.