It is a good time to be named Billy Kopp. If you were Billy Kopp you would be wearing a dazzling smile and giving yourself a congratulatory pat on the back for being named recently to the highly formidable online poker team Team UB. This team, representing UltimateBet.com, is one of the top forces among fans of online casinos and poker rooms. Kopp joins the lineup of hugely successful professional players such as Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth.

Most fans of online casinos would give their left pinky toe in order to be in his position and he does not take this incredible success and level of recognition that he has recently attained for granted. He performed remarkably well in the most recent World Series of Poker held in the heart of Las Vegas. As a student from the University of Kentucky, he has managed to rake in more than $2.6 million over the course of only a few brief years. He has been around the scene at both online casino poker sites and at some highly competitive and visible land-based casino gambling events.

Many people who follow the casino business can now recognize his face and/or his name. That pretty much means that a player has officially “arrived” and this recent membership to the Ultimate Bet team is just one more testament to his highly respected skill in the game of poker. He is known for his loose and somewhat aggressive style of playing that he uses to intimidate his opponents from time to time. He even managed to get the best of Peter Eastgate who took home the top prize in the World Series of Poker back in 2009.

It takes a lot of skill and finesse to garner enough positive attention to earn a spot on one of the top online casino’s teams. And that is exactly what an online casino player named Billy Kopp is in possession of that helped to set him apart from his competitors to earn an impressive spot on the UltimateBet.com’s formidable Team UB. This collection of professional players would strike fear and shame into thei eharts of the average casino poker gambler, but Billy Kopp is up to the challenge. This means that he will be playing alongside the likes of professional poker players, and, let’s face it, legends, Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke.

What has happened for Billy Kopp is the dream of most any fan of poker and online casinos. It would seem almost too good to be true but since Kopp wowed the crowd in his performance at the most recent World Series of Poker held in the heart of Las Vegas, he has been on a roll. Kopp was able to finish in the 12th spot at that competition. When you think about the fact that the best of the best poker players from all over the world were joined there to go for the glory, coming out among the top 12 contenders when all is said and done is a truly remarkable feat.

Obviously, he garnered a lot of attention for how well he was able to do. He does not take any of this positive recognition for granted and is extremely pleased and excited to be a part of the poker team magic at UltimateBet.com. He was so close to earning a spot in the main event which is scheduled to take place later on this fall, but it just didn’t happen this time. It did, however, leave a fierce fire in his belly that he will try to direct in an effective way when the World Series of Poker 2010 rolls around next summer.