Poker Stars Review
PokerStars.com Poker Room
THE WORLD’s LARGEST POKER SITE
Poker Stars is the biggest poker site in the world with over 14 million players worldwide. There are over 10 billion hands dealt and a tournament starting every second.
Poker Stars is highly regarded as the best poker software of any poker room online today. They have the largest variety of
Poker games and award winning 24/7 support. PokerStars is also home to the world’s largest
online poker tournaments and qualifies more players for the World Series of Poker*, the
Asia Pacific Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour than any other online poker site.
PokerStars offers qualifying satellites for:
• World Series of Poker (WSOP)*
• European Poker Tour (EPT)
• Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT)
• World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP)
• PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA)
• World Cup of Poker (WCP)
PokerStars Real Money
PokerStars offers a large selection of real money poker games, from micro-limits of
$0.02/$0.04 up to high stakes games of $1000/$2000. PokerStars also offers no-limit
tables, with games of $0.01/$0.02 blinds and $1 buy-ins up to $100/200 blinds, $8000
buy-in games.
PokerStars SCOOP - Spring Championship of Online Poker All Stakes!
Whether you play in $1 No Limit Hold’em tournaments or prefer the competition of a $215 Pot Limit Omaha event, we’re bringing you a brand new poker series that will offer all our players the chance to compete. Regardless of what stakes you like to play and which poker discipline you prefer, there is something for everyone. A combined prize pool guarantee of $30 Million also means there is some serious cash to be won.
With 66 tournaments under 22 Events, covering a range of poker disciplines, you will be able to find your ideal poker tournament. Each event will consist of 3 individual tournaments based on different stake levels; one for low-stakes players, one for medium-stakes players, and one for the high-stakes players. Each tournament will have its own guarantee and you can play in as many as you like, with all tournaments within a given event starting simultaneously. Check out the PokerStars website for the schedule »
$1 MILLION TURBO TAKEDOWN
Why not warm up for the Pokerstars SCOOP by taking a shot at the PokerStars Turbo Takedown. With a total prize pool of $1 Million up for grabs every month, the NLHE Turbo Takedown event has a 5,000 FPP entry fee and a guaranteed $100,000 first place prize, with at least one in every three players getting paid! This gives you a great chance to turn those spare FPPs in your account into some serious cash.
If you don’t want to use that many FPPs to enter the tournament, you also have the chance to win your seat at the Turbo Takedown tournament through one of our regular satellites. Starting from as little as 10 FPP, these qualifiers can be found under the Tourney > Satellite tab in your PokerStars lobby.
The $1 Million PokerStars Turbo Takedown takes place on the last Sunday of every month at 14:30 ET.
PokerStars Games
Poker Games Available
PokerStars has a great game variety with the likes of High and High/Low versions of Omaha and Seven-Card Stud. Play gmes like H.O.R.S.E. and Razz and a rarely found no-limit structure. PokerStars was the first online poker room to introduce really low-stakes games, with blinds starting at $0.01/$0.02, and with no rake at all! This concept is worth more for the poker rookies.
PokerStars offers the following poker games:
- Texas Hold'em
- Omaha Poker
- Omaha-8
- Seven Card Stud
- Seven Card Stud High/Low
- Razz
- HORSE
- 5-Card Draw
- 2-7 Triple Draw
PokerStars Competitors
Strengths & weakness
In the past PokerStars players had a reputation of being tough players at the tables, but as there are thousands of new players the skill level has dropped making the game more playable and easier to rake in some decent winngs.
PokerStars Software:
We feel that the PokerStars software is the most stable and practical software of any online poker room. The software copes with very large tournament sizes. Even when there are ove a thousand players it runs quickly and smoothly making the game more enjoyable.
There are numerous statistics provided to keep you informed during your game. The lobby lists various tables with pot sizes, players per flop and hands played per hour.
Other important stats are:
- flops seen by position
- pots won with showdown
- pots won without showdown
Tournaments players can view their current position along with the average chip stack sizes of remaining players.
Special Features
PokerStars offers players many special features including; poker table themes, poker
player images, opponent poker notes, player statistics, hand history, game lobby sorting
options, table re-sizing, table focus choices and internet connection status displays.
It’s also available for Mac users.
PokerStars Poker Promotions & Bonuses
PokerStars Sign Up Bonus
Make your first-ever real money deposit and PokerStars will give you a 100% bonus up to $50. Just use the code ‘Stars50’. To earn this bonus, you will simply need to play on PokerStars and collect the number of Base FPPs equal to 10 times the bonus amount. You have six months after your first deposit to earn all the FPPs you need to cash out your bonus.
PokerStars Sunday Million
PokerStars was the first online poker room to offer a weekly $1,500,000 guaranteed No Limit Hold'em tournament, and it gets better every week. First place prize money is more than $150,000 most weeks, and often even more! With a buy-in of $215, someone walks away with a huge payday every Sunday. PokerStars runs satellites to the Sunday Million all week, giving you the chance to take home the big money for just a few bucks.
How to enter the Pokerstars Sunday Million:
- Download PokerStars free poker software
- Click ‘Tourney’ and ‘Special’ in the PokerStars game lobby
- Register for the next $1,500,000 Guaranteed prize pool event
Other PokerStars Promotions Available
- Battle of the Planets
- Multi-Table Tournament Leader Board
- PokerStars Passport
- PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up
Poker Stars Deposit & Withdrawl Methods
PokerStars has a minimum $10 deposit across all deposit options – unless otherwise stated. You can make a deposit via one of the payment methods:
• Moneybookers
• NETeller
• VISA / VISA Delta / VISA Electron / Gift and Prepaid VISA†
• MasterCard / Gift and Prepaid†
• Diners Club International
• Solo / Maestro
• Cashier’s Check / Money Order / Bank Draft – minimum deposit $100
• Local Bank Transfer
• ELV
• Online Bank (selected countries)
• paysafecard
• eChecks
These are subject to change. Please check PokerStars.com (click on Affiliates) for the latest updates on payment options.
† Availability dependent on policies of issuing bank.
