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PokerStars


PokerStars


Average user rating  3.74 / 5
US-friendly poker rooms   US Players Welcome!
Mac-compatible poker rooms   Mac Compatible!

PokerStars Marketing Code

Using the PokerStars Marketing Code

The code should be typed in as shown below when you:
[X] Register a new account   [  ] Make your first deposit

PokerStars How-To Videos

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PokerStars Bonus Code

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PokerStars Highlights

  • 100% Initial Deposit Up to $50, Plus $1,000 in monthly tournaments! -- Use Initial Deposit Bonus Code: Stars50
  • NUTS: The largest online poker room today! Constantly over 100k users connected. The best site for tournament action bar none, offering many multi-table tournaments, Sit & Go's, two table tourneys, satellite tourneys, and more. Has produced the 2003, 2004, and 2005 World Series of Poker Champions. Offers micro-limit stakes for beginners. Great FPP Program. $1,000 free every single month for FTR members!
  • BEATS: Low initial deposit bonus?!? Generally considered a more difficult room to play in when compared to others.
  • Accepts US players
  • Mac friendly software


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PokerStars Info

Network PokerStars
Number Of Players 143,264 (Thu, 02 Jul 2009, 10:18pm EDT)
Multi-Tabling 12+
Resizable Tables Fully Customizable
Minimum Deposit $10
Deposit Minimums Bank Transfer: $10, ClickandBuy: $10, Diners Club: $10, ELV: $10, Maestro: $10, MasterCard: $10, NETELLER: $10, paysafecard: $10, Solo: $10, Visa: $10, WebMoney: $10, eChecks: $25, Cash Transfer: $50, Western Union: $100
Withdrawal Minimums Bank Transfer: $10, ClickandBuy: $10, Maestro: $10, NETELLER: $10, Solo: $10, Visa: $10, WebMoney: $10, Check: $50
No-Limit Ring Stakes $.01 - .02 up to $100 - $200
Limit Ring Stakes $.02 - .04 up to $1000 - $2000
Sit & Go Stakes $1 + $.20 up to $2100 + $90
Player Points Yes

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In order to be invited to our Exclusive PokerStars Events, make sure you sign up for FTR's Events Mail. By signing up you will receive e-mail reminders for all of FTR's Exclusive Events along with special freerolls and tournaments. You must have a valid forum account to add your name to the list.


PokerStars Room Review


Poker Stars.com Overview



is the home of many recent World Series of Poker Champions, Chris Moneymaker in 2003 (many people claim this is what started the large poker boom), Greg "Fossilman" Raymer in 2004 and Joe Hachem in 2005. They recently have added a lot of new members to their team, including Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu, Humberto Brenes, Victor Ramdin, Bill Chen and more.

PokerStars is known for hosting great multi-table tournaments, and producing great tournament players. In the 2004 World Series of Poker, PokerStars qualified 316 total players for the event and 28 of them finished in the money. PokerStars players walked away with nearly $11 million of the $24 million in total prize money. In 2005 it grew even larger, to 1116 qualifying with 106 in the money earning more than $7 million. While 2006 was an unbelievable year for the WSOP main event with the most entrants ever (8,773), over 1600 came from PokerStars alone, earning over $10 million! The most recent 2007 main event hosted 6,358 players with 616 coming out of PokerStars. Three of their qualifying players made the final table, earning over $8.8 million combined. PokerStars is pretty much the king of tournaments, especially satellites to larger events and this track record shows it.

Arguably the best and most well known online poker room today, PokerStars, has come a long way. Stars was one of the originators of online poker and has been around since 2001. From its starting days, PokerStars had always been competing (and usually losing) with the (back then) dynamite PartyPoker. It was in early 2006 that Stars started to make its move, implementing a ton of new software changes, brand new tournaments, an amazing FPP system, and breakthrough technology that began winning over many players. And once PartyPoker closed its cash services to US customers in November of 2006, PokerStars' numbers grew to amazing new heights, over 9 million registered users!

offers a very wide variety of games, including Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, Razz, 5 Card Draw, 2-7 Triple Draw, and HOSE/HORSE. This is pretty much every popular variety of poker played today. Of these games, the limits run from as low as $.02 - $.04 up to $100 - $200 for no-limit, which is quite a stretch in stakes. Also, it really doesn't matter if you have a $50 bankroll or $50,000 because there are so many players (usually 14,000+ active tables) that you can easily find a table to sit at which suits you. Although the nosebleed stakes aren't as popular as they are at Full Tilt, there are still always multiple $25 - $50 tables being played. If Hold'em isn't your game, or if you want to learn a new variety, PokerStars can be the best place to polish your skills with hundreds of cash tables running for games besides Hold'em. Recently, PokerStars just added cash heads-up tables that have become very popular. Most of these can have 3-4 people in line on waiting lists at all limits during peak hours, and this was an awesome addition for real players!

For all tournaments, Sit & Go and multi-table, PokerStars is king of the online world. In fact, they have 600,000 played per week, which is about one every second! PokerStars is also one of the few sites that constantly run Sit & Goes for games other than Hold'em. Although they are offered at many sites, most usually never have a large enough player base to get them running. There are too many different types and buy-ins offered to list them all, but the most popular Sit & Goes at PokerStars are the Turbos for all buy-ins (yes, even the $5600's usually have a few going), Heads-up (offer Regular, Turbo, and no blind increasing), the Sunday Million double shootout satellites, and the ever popular $22 180 player. When these were first launched they were only offered during part of the day. However, players loved them so much that not only do they run 24/7 now, but the buy-ins range from $4 + $.40 up to $55 + $5. FTR has compiled a list of every PokerStars SNG offered. We also go into detail about each one and offer some strategy for how to beat them! To read them and be on your way to winning at Sit & Gos, check out PokerStars Sit And Go Types and Strategy.

As for online multi-table tournaments, PokerStars should be your home. The variety of tournaments, buy-ins, guarantees, satellites, games, freerolls, and events are so much larger than any site today that they are beyond comparison. They offer a range of buy-ins from as low as $.10 (yes, 10 cents, with $50 guaranteed) up to $10,300 both daily and weekly. Their most popular guaranteed tournaments are the $3 rebuy ($30,000 guaranteed), $5 rebuy ($35,000 guaranteed), $10 rebuy ($55,000 guaranteed), $55 freezeout ($50,000 guaranteed), etc. They also offer special tournaments based on the day, for example the Wednesday Hundred Fifty is a $300 + $20 with a guaranteed $150k. PokerStars lists a complete schedule for all of their tournaments on their website. Don't forget about their Sunday tournaments either, although it is doubtful that you could. The Sunday Million ($215 buy-in) hasn't always been $1,000,000 guaranteed, having grown from its early beginnings as a mere $200,000 guaranteed (which was a huge tournament back then). They’ve also added in the Sunday Warmup ($215 buy-in, $400k guaranteed) and the Sunday Second Chance ($215 buy-in, $200k guaranteed). Just these alone are bigger than most other sites' Sunday main event tournaments! PokerStars is pretty much the father of the Sunday tournaments and still offers the largest ones anywhere.

Since 2002, has been the host of the WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker). It has grown beyond anyone's expectations since it started, from just 9 events and under $1 million in prize pools to 23 events and over $15 million in 2007. This is the most prestigious online series today, and it is still growing. WCOOP 2008 proved to be the largest yet! There were a total of 33 events, with $30 million guaranteed. That is twice as much money as 2007! The main event alone was a $10 million guaranteed with a buy-in of $5200. First place awarded over $1,000,000! If you can't afford direct buy-ins to the WCOOP, or any of PokerStars' tournaments, satellites are almost always running. Be sure to check out PokerStars for your shot at the next WCOOP!

PokerStars is a registered legal business located in the Isle of Man, in the British Isles and is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Their random number generator has been audited and approved by two independent organizations, BMM International and Cigital, Inc.

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PokerStars User Reviews

Overall Rating:  Average user rating   3.74 / 5


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Poker Room Review pokerstars by ChroNus on 17 Jun 2009
Interface:  5/5    Action:  5/5    Fish:  5/5    Bonuses:  5/5    Support:  5/5   
i am lovin it
Poker Room Review Easy and complete by Steve_Jones on 28 May 2009
Interface:  5/5    Action:  4/5    Fish:  4/5    Bonuses:  4/5    Support:  4/5   
Great place to play poker! Good for starters with their micro buy-in sits n go´s and tourneys.
Poker Room Review I like it!! by santaurus on 14 May 2009
Interface:  4/5    Action:  4/5    Fish:  4/5    Bonuses:  3/5    Support:  5/5   
It's an easy site to use if you want to learn different games, and play some free hands before you put in your money. because of the many freerolls, you often find yourself in the middle of a folding frentsy. people who sign up but never actually play for real. This is one of the sites I trust with my money because winnings can easily be transferred to my personal account. Many fish but when your playing for real money and the higher stakes than you can play by the rules.