Poker Stars Poker Room Review

PokerStars is the premier online poker site on the Internet, with poker tournaments and over 10,000,000 poker players

Poker Room Information

Name: Poker Stars

Website: www.PokerStars.com

Software Size: 30.5 MB

Players at Peak Time: 100,000+

Currency: US$, Euro

Software: Poker Stars

Country: Isle of Man

Online Poker Room Review PokerStars.com

Why go to Las Vegas when you can play at the best online poker room with the best online poker tables - PokerStars. At PokerStars.com you may play all of the following online poker games through the PokerStars downloadable card room: Texas Holdem, Omaha Poker, Omaha High-Low, Seven Card Stud, Five Card Draw, 2-7 Triple Draw, Seven Card Stud High-Low, Razz, HORSE, Poker Tournaments.

Besides the ring games, at PokerStars there is a wide variety of multi-table poker tournaments in all of the poker games they offer. PokerStars is happy to offer play money pot-limit and no-limit poker on the free poker tables. These are in addition to the standard PokerStars structured-limit play money games.

Like a traditional Las Vegas poker room, if a table that you want to play at is currently full you can request to be put on the waiting list. Only when you're playing online poker, getting on the waiting list for a poker table is as easy as clicking a button. Once a seat becomes available at the poker table, you will automatically be asked if you want to sit down and join that game.

At PokerStars, no matter which table you decide to play at, you will always be playing poker against real online poker players. Your fellow poker players may live down the street or halfway around the world, but they are guaranteed to be playing on their own behalf. That's because, unlike some other online poker rooms, at PokerStars.com you will never be playing against any bots, shills (paid players), computer opponents or against the 'house' in any way.


Pokerstars Poker Tournaments
PokerStars is excited to host the best multi-table online poker tournaments and poker satellites anywhere on the Internet! Poker tournaments are elimination games that are played until one player has all the chips. Prizes are distributed based on the number of entrants.


PokerStars VIP Club
The PokerStars VIP club recognizes you, the dedicated poker player, and rewards you for choosing to play on the site recognized as the industry's best. PokerStars has always provided you with great games and the best tournaments. Now it offers you new rewards with the VIP Club.

You become a PokerStars VIP the moment you start playing for real money on PokerStars. With your first raked hand, you become a BronzeStar VIP. The more you play on PokerStars, the higher your star will rise. Each level adds more exciting and innovative rewards.

Our new VIP Club is an extension of our existing Frequent Player Point program. We've created four new VIP Club month-by-month tiers: BronzeStar, SilverStar, GoldStar, PlatinumStar, and our super-exclusive annual tiers: Supernova and Supernova Elite.

Your VIP Club star level is based on your monthly PokerStars real money play. At the heart of the new program are VIP Player Points (VPP)1. You earn one VPP every time you earn a Frequent Player Point (FPP) playing in a real money ring game or tournament.

Soft Games:

At the lower limits some good value to be had, at the higher limits you will find some of hardest cash games online. A lot of the top pros play in the big games here

Games:

The Free Poker Stars Download software includes poker games like Texas Holdem, Omaha Poker, Omaha High-Low, Seven Card Stud, Five Card Draw, 2-7 Triple Draw, Seven Card Stud High-Low, Razz, HORSE, Poker Tournaments.

Room Limits:

PokerStars Download Software offers a large selection real money poker games, from micro-limits of $0.02/$0.04 up to high stakes games of $100/$200. PokerStars also offers no-limit tables, with games of $0.01/$0.02 blinds and $1.00 buy-ins up to $10/20 blinds, $400 buy-in games.

Sit n Gos:

Plenty of Sit n Gos from $1 to $5000

Tournaments:

24/7 tournaments, some of the best and biggest online. Including the Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker, WCOOP, now in its 4th year

Guaranteed Tournaments:

PokerStars was the first card room to offer a $1 Million Guaranteed no limit hold'em tournament every week. Each Sunday, the event gets better and better. First prize in this event is always more than $100,000.

Satellites for Major Tournaments:

Daily qualifiers for the EPT events and WCOOP events. PokerStars sent 1116 players to the 2005 World Series of Poker, over $11 Million in entries!

Real Money Deposit Options:

Currently, PokerStars offers several ways to make real money deposits into your poker account.

eChecks - (No longer processing deposits and cashouts from US players via eChecks ) Minimum deposit only $25 (available to Canadian players only)

NETeller - (we are no longer processing deposits and cashouts from US players via Neteller ) Deposit in USD, CAD, EUR or GBP, No charge for InstaCash, Minimum deposit only $25

CentralCoin (we are no longer processing deposits and cashouts from US players via CentralCoin )

VISA / VISA Delta / VISA Electron / Gift and Prepaid VISA - Deposit in USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, SEK, NOK, DKK, AUD

MasterCard / Gift and Prepaid MasterCard - Deposit in USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, SEK, NOK, DKK, AUD

ePassporte

Diners Club International

Solo / Maestro / Switch - (available to UK players only)

Cashier's Check / Money Order / Bank Draft - Minimum deposit only $100

Local Bank Wire Transfer - (available to Australian, Austrian, Belgian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Slovenian and UK players only)

ELV - (available to German players only)

Online Bank Transfer (available to Dutch players only - coming soon to Austrian and German players)

Paysafecard (available in Austria, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and UK)

Is My Money Safe?:

All player balances are held in a segregated account with the Royal Bank of Scotland plc and being 2nd biggest online room, it should be safe

Support:

24/7 Poker Stars has one of the best support services, but only through email

Note Taking:

Yes

Statistics:

Average pot, players per flop, hands per hour

Special Features:

Private tables and tournaments can easily be created. World's best heads-up-action and largest online poker tournaments. Poker Stars offers some of the best qualifiers to some great Brick and Mortar Tournaments

Graphics and Software Navigation:

The graphics and software are one of the easiest to use and most pleasant to look at

Poker Room Rake:

PokerStars Poker Room receives compensation for hosting poker games by taking a rake, or a small portion (5% to a maximum of $3) of the pot.

Poker Room RakeBack:

PokerStars Poker Room is not offering Poker Rakeback to its poker players for the moment

Operating Systems:

Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, Win NT 4 Windows 2000, Windows XP