Poker Stars is the largest online poker room in the world. You’ll find ongoing action from micro limits to high stakes 24/7. This traffic is also spread out to more games than just Texas Hold’em. Players will find great Omaha, Stud, HORSE and Draw games on PokerStars. All major countries are accepted at PokerStars, including USA residents.
The 2003-2005 WSOP Main Event champions all endorse PokerStars. Both Greg Raymer & Chris Moneymaker were Poker Stars qualifiers when they won the main event. Other big names that play at Poker Stars include: Daniel Negreanu, Vicky Coren, Barry Greenstein, Isabelle Mercier, Gavin Griffin, Chad Brown and many others.
Currently new sign ups receive a $50 Poker Stars bonus on their first deposit of $50 or more. To claim your bonus please visit: www.pokerstars.com
Detailed Poker Stars Review
The player volume is impressive to say the least. During peak hours 22,500+ ring game and 50,000+ tournament players can be found playing real money tables. Last year more than 1,000 players qualified for the $10,000 World Series of poker main event at PokerStars.com or PokerStars.net.
Software: Poker Stars software is one of a kind. Its privately owned and developed by some of the best programmers in the world. The speed of the software and the options available to customize the tables provides an exceptional feel of the game. Multi-tabling more then 5 tables is an absolute breeze with the ability to re-size the tables, which helps to avoid overlapping. Poker Stars offers tables with no-disconnection policy and tables that have disconnection protection. Although, with the level of software you’re playing on, you should rarely, if ever experience a disconnect with PokerStars at fault. PokerStars servers and software has previously handled over 150,000 poker players playing real money and play money simultaneously. No other company prides itself like PokerStars, with being the worlds largest poker room and providing software that puts their competition to shame.
There are countless features to name on the PokerStars software, but here are a few that you will be pleased to use: player to player transfers, easy to use note-taking, supports poker tracker, excellent hand history layout with easy access, statistics that provides an array of data of your play and each tables stats and leader boards built in to the software.
The lobby navigation is superb. PokerStars has been very innovative with their layout and is always implementing new options and features which improves the softwares functionality. Players can view table stats, find a friend, transfers, access cashier and much more from within the lobby. A great feature is the ability to filter tournaments and cash games, which lets you find the game your searching for quickly and not having to browse through hundreds of games. From within the lobby, you have the option of choosing several different languages in which the lobbies text will be presented. The languages available are: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Portuguese, Nederlands, Italiano, Polski, Magyar, Dansk, Svenska, Soumi and Norsk. PokerStars is adding new languages constantly.
The PokerStars cashier screen which is easily accessible from the lobby, allows players to deposit and withdraw painlessly. From the cashier you can view your bonus status and also check your VIP status. There is a link to the FPP store, where you can redeem great prizes with your Frequent Player Points(FPP).
In December 2007, PokerStars released a full download custom built software for Mac Computers. To read a detailed review of the the software please visit Mac PokerStars Review.
Ring Game Traffic: Poker Stars is the world largest online poker room. During peak hours around 22,500 players can be found playing simultaneously at real money table.
Tournament Traffic: During peak times you will find over 50,000 tournament players at real money tournaments.
Game Variety: With the extremely high player volume at Pokerstars you will find all the popular games going. All the Omaha and 7-card-stud variations are available and of course the ever so popular Holdem is there! Poker Stars now offers other games such a deuce to seven triple draw, H.O.R.S.E, H.O.S.E and 5 card-draw. All full ring No Limit Holdem and Omaha games have 9 seats and short handed tables have 6 seats. This applies to all ring games and tournaments. All full ring Limit Holdem and Omaha games features 10 seats and short handed tables have 6 seats.
Sign up Bonus: 100% up to $50 deposit bonus
Promotions: PokerStars runs countless promotions and to list them all would take a whole page. Many of the promotions are also geographically confined. Meaning that only players from certain countries can participate in certain promo’s.
Most popular on going promotions are:
Deposit Bonus and Reloads: 100% up to $50 - This promotion is nearly always available. The reload bonuses is offered several times throughout the year and are a great way to make a few hundred dollars to your bankroll. There are also times when PokerStars will over reload bonus up to $1,000 at a 50% deposit match depending on players VIP status.
Depositors Freeroll: Deposit during a depositors freeroll period and you will be able to enter an exclusive freeroll in which PokerStars gives away free money and PokerStars prizes.
Daily Freerolls: You will see countless freerolls being played throughout a day on PokerStars ranging from $50 to $1,000+.
PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) - Once a year PokerStars runs their version of the World Series of Poker except online. The WCOOP carries a huge guaranteed prize pool, in 2008 it was $30,000,000 guaranteed spread out over 33 events. Players can satellite their way into any event or buy-in directly.
PokerStars Passport: If you play tournaments on PokerStars keep an eye out on the ‘Tournament Leader Board’ (TBL) to see if you’re in the running for the stellar prizes PokerStars provides. The TBL usually gives out over $250,000 a year worth of live tournament packages and cash through the year. For more information about Pokerstars.com leader board please visit our PokerStars Leaderboard page
PokerStars Sunday Million: With a guaranteed prize-pool of $500,000 and a start time of 12:45pm ET. This is by far one of the most popular tournaments to enter online.
WSOP 2009 - It seems like any time of the year before July and after Christmas poker sites start pumping out their World Series of Poker Main Event prize packages. PokerStars is no different, they will send over a thousand of players to the Main Event every year! PokerStars is running satellites for qualifiers 24/7 for as little as 3.00. Players may also use their FPP to qualify for satellites as well. All WSOP PokerStars packages include the 10,000 buy-in, hotel accommodation, spending money and large onuses for players that make the final table.
PokerStars Rakeback: There is absolutely no rakeback provider that offers PokerStars rakeback. Please note that any website that is offering PokerStars rakeback would be a scam. If you’re interested in rakeback please check out our 33% Cake Poker Rakeback offer.
Customer Support: PokerStars has great customer service available through email.
Banking Options: eChecks (Canadian players only), NETeller, InstaCash, Western Union, CentralCoin, VISA (VISA Delta, VISA Electron, Gift and PrePaid VISA - works for USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, SEK, NOK, DKK, AUD), Diners Club International, Solo (Maestro and Switch, only for UK players), Cashier Check (Money order and Bank Draft, Minimum deposit of $100), Local Bank Wire Transfer (Australian, Austrian, Belgian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Slovenian and UK players only), ELV (German’s only) and Paysafecard (Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and UK only).
PokerStars issues their loyal American players with a debit card called TruPay. This card can be used to access PokerStars withdrawals at more than 800,000 ATMs world wide.
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Poker Stars Bonus Details
The Poker Stars bonus is 100% up to $50 free. This bonus
never expires and is released in one lump sum once 500 FPP are earned.
Earning FPP points: 5 FPP’s are awarded for each dollar paid in tournament
entry fees. Below is the info on how to earn FPPs in ring game play.
The first FFP is awarded for playing a raked hand that reaches:
*$0.40 for fixed limit poker games with stakes $1/$2 and lower
*$0.40 for NL/PL poker games with blinds $1/$2 and lower
*$1.00 for all other games
A Second FPP is awarded for playing a raked hand that reaches:
*$2.00 for all 6-max tables (this doesn’t apply for games being played 6- handed
at 10/9/8 player tables - just 6-max tables)
*$3.00 for all other tables
A Third FPP is awarded for playing a hand in which the rake reaches $5.00.
