Poker Stars is one of if not the leading online poker room to date. They have received numerous awards from Casinomeister, Online Gambling Magazine and is recognized by Bluff Magazine for their outstanding software and tournaments. Some of the main attractions to this room include; millions in guaranteed tournaments available weekly, wide selection of mixed games, multiple languages and currencies for players to choose from. Since the recent upgrade Poker Stars has become Mac compatible.
Currently the Poker Stars bonus offers all new players a 100% match up to $50 using bonus code PAWSUB465. This is the only cash bonus you will find for Poker Stars since it is site wide. We are also able to provide you with extra benefits such as exclusive freerolls. These are provided monthly to qualifying players and can consist of either large prize pools or a satellite to win your seat to a major poker tournament. You can read our page about Poker Stars freerolls for more information on dates and times. Once you sign up make sure to subscribe to our RSS feed for details on upcoming events. You can also view our Pokerstars bonus page to find outhow to claim the standard offer and clearance rate.
The competition in this room is incredible in every sense of the word. Considering the room can easily attract over 20,000 real money players you will find a diverse group of skilled players. Truth be told, the micro games are not as loose as most rooms but they are still filled with beginners. As you progress in stakes so will the competition you face with each new level.
Something that has made Poker Stars a huge hit is the variations of games they offer. The room supports your typical variations such as Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi Lo, 5 Card Draw, 2-7 Triple Lowball, HORSE, and Razz so it’s clear why they have been able to generate the players they have. To add to this you will always be able to find a game running in any of the above mentioned varieties. The tables offer full 9 player, shorthanded, heads up all within their respective limits. Poker Stars takes a 5% rake from each pot and supports the no flop no drop rule. This means that you will never pay into the rake if no flop was seen. The maximum rake ever taken from a pot is $3 even if the pot is over $200.
This is one area the room never lacks in. To start, they offer more qualifiers and satellites to live events including their own “Featured Promotions” than any other room online. These games can be entered for as little as a few dollars and to top this they host a weekly million dollar guaranteed. This tournament easily exceeds the million dollar mark and provides an incredible payday. All of the tournaments are supported in the same variations as the ring games, so if you’re a razz player or prefer HORSE you will find plenty of opportunities to play your choice of game. Tournaments spread between freezeouts, re-buys, guaranteed, double stack to name a few and buyins are as low as $1 and can climb as high as a couple thousand. You can read this page for more information about any of the promotions or tournament Poker Stars has to offer.
Sit and Go players will never have to wait for a game to start since there is enough traffic that a regular single table SNG will fill just about as quickly as you register. These are offered in all available game variations and as a benefit you can choose between 9 player single tables, 6 player single tables, multi table Sit and Go with up to 180 players, heads up, and shoot outs. Again these are all available in various buyins with high limit Sit and Go games available.
Poker Stars has won multiple awards for the platform they have produced for players. As a fact this room literally set the bar when it comes to poker software and was the first room to introduce multi tabling features among other options we now consider to be standard. A few key items that the room offers is full custom options for tables and avatars. Both of these can be graphics that you upload onto the site. Multi-tabling is available for up to (number) tables at once. Players can use the resize tool, cascading tiles or full view ode to make multi-tabling as seamless as possible and no interruptions to your game. Speed is always top priority and very rarely will the site lag. Statistics are offered in the lobby with the standard average pot size, hands per hour, viewed flop percentage along with great stats within the tables. You can request your hand history in the lobby menu and Poker Stars will than send you an email with the last 100 hands you played or a set amount of tournament statistics. You will also be able to use 3rd party data mining software such as Poker Tracker if you are in need of something a little more advances than what they currently offer.
If you need assistance from support you can email them directly at support@pokerstars.com. This is the only available method the room currently supports. That being said they have done a bang on job when it comes to response time. Considering the amount of players online in both real and play money which can exceed 150,000 in total, they are an incredible team. Anytime I have had to contact them I have received a reply that is within a good timeframe and the reps were efficient at handling my issue.
Deposit Methods; VISA (Delta, Electron, Gift and Prepaid), MasterCard (Gift and Prepaid), NETeller, FirePay, eChecks, CentralCoin, Diners Club International, ePassporte, Solo/Maestro/Switch, cashier’s check/money order/bank draft (minimum deposit of $100).