I used to like playing online poker with live3dpoker.com software. This is the only software I use now.

Pokerstars is a great site. Biggest poker site in the world. Very professional looking IMO. Many many different games to play and there are people of all skill levels.

200K people on Pokerstars. Great customer support, easy to use, and there are some fish out there. Only problem is on your initial deposit you cannot get more than $50.

For sure PokerStars takes poker very seriously. We´ve´nt used many poker softwares, but PS was our choice, since it offers lotsa tournments, including freerolls with cash payment, and practical interface. The filter window needs some improvements, for it lacks usability, but it´s ok. Unfortunatly the fields are very huge even in paid tournments, and the power of chips are stronger than technic, most of the time... Perhaps because of its popularity, PokerStars are full of not serious players...

This site is amazing. It's very easy to use and see the rooms that you want. The customer service is fantastic. The bonus stuff is done really well. The only problem I find is the players. A lot of players will call with pretty much anything at anytime. I play mostly "heads-up" games, but again for the most part, fish. Other than that one complaint, it's a great site.

PokerStars is the class of online poker. The customer service and security on this site is outstanding. They only have e-mail support but it's pretty fast and more importantly, they have competent people responding unlike a lot of other rooms. They have the most traffic out of any poker room so you should be able to find fish around but they probably do have some of the better playing in the online poker world. The bonuses are great when they are available, it clears pretty fast and you have 6 months to do it. The software too is by far my favourite and they are constantly updating it and making improvements.

Pokerstars or Jokerstars does not let US players cash out. I had a $1800.00 cash out PS said US Postal Service returned undelivered do to wrong POBOX which was correct ( get my mail from all other sites ) but not PS. I have tryed 2 more time with same outcome no payments recieved, but will credit my PS account back that amount. I sure would hate to win a big tourney payoff US PLAYERS SHOULD BEWARE OF POKERSTARS

I feel an update is in order for this site. Why? The interface has come light years since I first started playing here in 2005. You can resize the windows to any size you want. It will also save window size/position/location, so if you are a multi-tabling action junkie you only mess around with getting all the windows just right once. There has also been a major facelift with themes and deck styles. The tables can have many different looks. You'd really have to see that for yourself. Another reason I thought this site needs an update is because the player base has jumped tremendously. I can't possibly say what their average player count is, but logging in around 7p ET, I usually find between 70-80k. I think this site has the best tournament selection of any site I have seen. If you are into tourneys this site is probably what you are looking for. I don't know about their responsiveness to collusion as I tend to play tourneys. However, their response to my questions about a tournament ticket and setting up a private tournament arrived in less than fifteen minutes. There are fish on here, but as most of my experience has been here, it is hard for me to compare. I played cash games on Party Poker for awhile and the play here seems slightly better, on average. Their bonuses are pretty standard.

Good Interface, Many Players for great 24hr. action. Great customer support, yet they are lacking in bonuses and promotions. Also, they have the hardest players and tables on the internet. If you are looking for a good, clean site to improve your game, try pokerstars!

IWANNAWIN:> I wanna win money !! First of all, all people I know play for one of three reasons: 1. to have fun 2. to become the best player around 3. to win money (at least they say so; I doubt all of them really win, and think that at least in some cases it is an excuse for wifes/girlfriends/... to have fun) To have fun and to become the best one, Stars is the best place around, period. When playing "to win money", things are more complicated though. To start with, one needs to learn how to play, and to learn there is no better place than Stars. Even for seasoned players, while playing on Party definitely helps your bottom line, it hurts your ability to play (just as if German soccer team would play only with Togo, Trinidad and alike, they would degrade in a few years at most). So "to win money" the best is probably to keep some kind of balance between Party and Stars (and if you are REALLY good, who knows - maybe next WSOP bracelet is shining for you, not to mention a huuuuuuge pile of money in the middle of the final table :-) ).

I dont understand !! I wanna win money !! Let me start this out with i am about to join poker stars for only the mtt action cause of what i have read about pokerstars! But what i dont get is how all these ppl are talking about how pokerstars is so great because all the players are better?? Huh? Say whaaat? Why would i ever play at a site with better players (ring games)? I want the fishiest players sitting at my table! I wanna sit at the tables with a real high average pot size! I have played about 5 different sites now and always seem to find myself back at party poker hands down the most profitable place online IMO!!! Reading all the posts in this review is reminding me of all the debate on moving up in levels because u cant be the fish at the smaller levels. IMO If you cant beat the smaller tables where more fish swiw you arent good enough to play better at the higher levels!!! Now im not saying one cant move up levels and be more sucessful because that happens all the time BUT!! What i am saying is that i think to be where i wanna be at in playing poker is to be able to beat all levels because your play is that adaptable!! SO in closing back to my question why play agianst better players? To learn? Sorry id rather get paid in process of becoming a more skilled player!!

I don't know if people care, but many of these reviews mention the # of players online, and how Party has the most. Recently I have seen as many as 80,000 on Pokerstars, usually during evening hours it is more like 60,000. There may be more fish on Pokerstars nowadays than when a lot of these reviews were first written! 9-player $5 SNG's usually have 2 or 3 strong players and 2 or 3 complete idiots.

Tournament action is amazing... HUGE variety of SnG action as well as an amazing selection of scheduled tournaments from freerolls to beat the champ headhunter bonuses. Ring games I have found to be full of good players. Micro games are great for beginners (.01/.02 NL was great place to learn ins and outs) although I find in these rooms the fish hang out (there seems to be no other place they are found in great numbers)

This is by far the best site out there. Hands down. No questions asked. period. Anyone serious about the game of poker plays here, and it is a true joy to sit down and play a great game of poker the way it should be played. After all of the countless sites i've played at I can finally play a game of poker where 3 people are not all in on the first hand, or there is a raise EVERY cycle, or consistently raising 15 times the big blind. Now some may say this is a disadvantage and that you want to play against fish. Well I strongly disagree. Poker is a beautiful game and if you want it played right, play here.

For solid players, this is the best site out there tournament action is a must if you play here.

This is my favorite site.

Poker Stars is the site that really changed my game around. I had played on Party Poker originally and lost some money playing some fishy rookie poker, pretty much matching the style of play of the majority of people there I played with. Pacific Poker was similar but I had read a couple of books by then and my game had definitely improved, but I would get frustrated by the extremely loose aggressive play of a few people and start playing bad poker matching bad plays with more bad plays. Finally I found Poker Stars and my game improved immensely. Players are much more predictable, definitely better but this forced me to improve my game to match. This is when I finally started making money on the Sit-n-Go's, probably about $1000 in the last few months. Not a lot but at least my account is going in the up direction while my game improves as well. NL Hold-em Tourney's are my favorite and this definitely the best place for small and large tournaments of any kind. Once you become a shark perhaps you can then go and prey on the fish on Party Poker, but if you are fairly new and truly looking to improve your game, I highly recommend Poker Stars. They don't have the initial sign-up bonus that other sites do, however the do regular "player appreciation" and other types of redeposit bonuses. Best site out there in my opinion.

For 6 months, I have been a player at PokerStars. I am now used to the folks who go All in with garbage the first few hands and think they are unbeatable. Of course... someone will get them. Then there are the sitters... (mostly in the play money games) These folks sit out during the whole game and suddenly come to life at the final table with a puny stack and are gone just as fast. Since these 2 things are predictable, one can develop a strategy. Take those 2 things away and you get a superb software, GREAT poker players thet will challenge you to the end, incredible customer support and with the Frequent player points you can enter tournements worth a lot of money.

I have played them all and keep coming back to stars for the better action. The tounry are the best, and the ring games are profitable for good players.. The fish factor goes away at around 1/2 NL and 3/6 limit. 2/4 NL and 5/10 limit games are very well played. The tounry stats on PS are not matched anywhere. You always know your position and all other sats. And if you want good support, no question PS is the best.. You can have answers back in min, not hours. Good Luck all..

the ones who make it a crap site stay in on 7 4 offsuit they go to river on every hand so yes you can make money but the other morons who stay at any level and go to river kill any leading good hands the ones who call an obvious Flush on flop and continue to river runner runner to get a boat ! I lost AK - flop AK2 turn A river 2 to a 22 but that player had REASON to bet and I call that a Good hand the network goes down for 1 or more players so disconnects suck!

Pokerstars has a big advantage over Party Poker/Empire Poker and most other poker rooms, and I haven't seen it mentioned in any reviews. At Pokerstars you start a tournament with 1500 chips, vs. 1000 for Party Poker. As a result, skill is more likely to be rewarded because you have to play a long time before you worry about being blinded out. On Party Poker, if you lost a few hundred chips, you're short stacked and the blinds creep up very quickly. In my opinion, the starting chips alone make Pokerstars tournaments far superier to Party Poker.

Pokerstars is the classiest online pokerroom you'll find: it's a virtual Bellagio. The table appearance and cards are aesthetically nice. The personalized logos can be blocked, to keep a clean look, or kept visible depending upon your choice. The software has never once been a problem for me. The action on this site is perfect. There are tons of SnGs, tons of daily & weekly monster tourneys and satellites, and the ring games are always busy. Personally, I steer clear of the ring games because I feel there is a significant amount of collusion, which is further benefited by the fact that there's only 9 players at a N/L table. The low/mid stake SnG's are soft and fun. I have never had a problem, but I've heard that the customer support is very strong. The strength of play on this site is a bit exaggerated; there are lots of terrible tourney players, but at least 3 of the final 4 players in a SnG will be good. Pokerstars has recently started 20% deposit bonuses again, which is a nice feature for an established site with no need to give handouts. The fact that you can accumulate points by playing in tourneys and not just ring games makes the bonus worthwhile.

I love this site and that is all there is to say. Other big site advertise with annoying ads like Popups but all you ever see of PS advertising is the odd banner here and there. The software can be used very easily and there are a lot of fish. Theres nothing wrong with this site is is Perfect!!!

I decided to try PS based on word of mouth from several friends. I had been playing on Pacific Poker and was going ballistic over all the software problems. I have quickly come to love PS. The card shuffler seems to be more normal, which drowns the fish. The software doesn't disconnect, so monster pots I win per hour allow me to make a larger profit. There's not much to gripe about really. Yeah, the graphics are lame and the bonuses aren't as good as other sites. But, I can make money easily and that's all that counts.

Poker Stars is by far the most comfortable and best looking site. There are no cheesy characters seated in chairs or pic of empty chairs. (What's the point of chairs on-line?) You upload your own pic, and can block annotying pics of others (or their kids). Interface is excellent. The only connection problems I have had were due to my own connection, not their servers. Like I said, the asthetics are superior to all other sites. There is also an option to show bet amounts for those who complain about having to mouse-over the chips. Poker Stars is designed to look like an on-line poker room, not some cheesy immitation of a smokey live game. Very user -friendly indeed. ACTION - The action is great. Contrary to reports of 10,000-15,000 players, it is actually not unusual to have 30,000 on-line at once. Tech Support - Every question or problem I have ever had has been immediately dealt with and responded to. I was even able to pull-out of a tourney I satellited to and sign up for a Round 2 at a later date. FISH - If Poker Stars had the fish the other sites do it would be heaven. But then it wouldn't be Poker Stars. Don't play here if you are new or looking for easy money! This is the big leagues of on-line poker. You play here (yes to make money) but also to sharpen your skills against the best talent possible. There are fish here, but not as many, and players are infinitely more sophisticated than at other sites. Poker Stars is a tough site to win at, but its players are viciously loyal. I guess it's just more fun to play against real competition. Bonuses - Poker Stars used to offer no bonuses. Now they do occassionally. Not the best site for bonuses, but they don't need to be. It's a site like no other. Best site for real competition/Worst site for fishing. And now a note to you Poker Stars regulars. There are some new rules on avatars: 1. No more sunsets and blue tree-lines. Go on-line, download an image, and use that. Everyone and their dog uses the images that came on their new computer. It's not cool. 2. Pictures of one eye are played out (yes, even if it is a red or glowing green eye!) 3. Quit using pictures of your kids! It's annoying, not cute and there are plenty of pervs on-line - You don't want pics of your children floating around. 4. Guys, for your own protection, quit using pictures of you and your girlfriend. She may think it's special, and you may think it makes you look like a stud, but what really happens is we immediately identify you as an insecure chump with an ego that can be expolited. It's an embarrasing tell. Lose it. 5. Finally, we know you are not Tom McEvoy or Chris Moneymaker when you are playing in $1+.20 tourneys and free-rolls. (Not to mention, we all know their real screen names.) Stop using their pics. It's not intimidating, you just look stupid.

A lot of action and great tournament play, but unfortunately there are not many fish. I play .50/1 NL and it is much harder to make money consistently compared to Party Poker. There are far less bad beats, but because the play at high levels is SO strong many very skilled players can make more money by playing lower limits. I only play Party skins now for ring games and keep some money at Stars for the occasional MTT.

you all are idoits if u think this game is rigged.."oh i see lots of 4 of a kind ect ect" thats because u see alot of hands....and for seems like u get beat on the river? ITS POKER!!! Yes this game is hard to make money..but if you are a skilled player with some luck you can easyily go in there one day with 3 bucks and come out with 100k+ in a couple of days(asuming u enter satellite to a 500k game and win both of em) This site is always great for learning poker..its easy to just rip apart my friends when we play now..there is getting less and less "Fish" everything else rocks

I came here to play tournaments and they have the best tournaments by far with a reasonable amount of fish at the $5 SNG SNG

"well great game but seems to work win few hands lose few hands to be fair on the river makes me laugh all time as u can almost say what cards come out but overall good gaming wouldnt risk real cash lol too many sitters and hands seem to well obvious.just moaning lol" I have been playing in pokerstars for about 8 months now, and i think that this person's review should be totally and completely disregarded...think about it...he didn't play for real money! He's playing with tables full of people playing WAY too loose because there's nothing to lose. This person's thinking skills are about as flawed as his grammar skills. The only thing I don't like about pokerstars however, is that a lot of the games are very hard. There aren't many fish on this site.

I've been playing Poker Stars exclusively for the past 6 months. I personally love the interface, very professional, and I love that you can have your own personal avatar. Brings personality to the tables, and helps get some conversation going. I started playing ring games, but I would not advise this for anyone. Collusion is a big part of ring games in online poker. Stick to the SNG's if you want to get experience and make money. Once I switched to SNG's I've been making money ever since. There are alot of above average players in the $5 SNG's, so you really need to hone some skill and stay disciplined to keep your head above water. My only complaint is the lack of bonuses. But look at it this way. It's by far the best site, with the best players, they obviously don't need bonuses. And anyone who calls it "RiverStars" comes from the Phil Helmuth Bitter School of Bad Beats. It happens to everyone, no matter where you play.

Guys, please stop this nonsense about rigged sites. The only (proven) way sites stole player's money is much simpler than making biased shuffle - PokerSpot was the most prominent example. I'm 100% sure that _none_ of the big rooms is intentionally rigged; as for Stars' - I had doubts about them at some point (after a bad beat streak obviously) and asked them to send me the whole history of my play there; when I've got it, I made all kinds of statistical analysis with it (and I have a degree in maths) - and came up with nothing beyond statistical expectations. So until somebody will provide a mathematical proof (rather than emotional "he got one-outer, it should NEVER happen, at least not to me") - I won't even consider such a possibility. Face it, guys - bad beats is an integral part of poker. And those who cannot deal with it, just should not play poker, ever - there are other ways to have fun in life.

I started playing Poker Stars after having a very successful three months of low-limit playing in a brick and mortar casino in Florida. I grew suspicious of this site after I saw what I considered an inordinate amount of spectacular hands like 4-of-a-kind almost every time I played. Indeed, two nights ago I recieved two 4-of-a-kind fives within a half hour of each other. At a tourny last night, I witnessed a royal flush---followed on the very next hand by a four-of-a-kind and 15 minutes later my Ace high flush was beaten by a straight flush. Today I played for one hour at a low limit table and witnessed a four of a kind, and once again, my ace high flush was beaten by a straight flush. When I played nearly every day for three months in Florida, I witnessed a grand total of one straight flush and seven fours-of-a-kind. I just can't believe all the fantastic hands I see on Poker stars are random. I left Party Poker for the very same reasons although I did not see anything as dramatic as I did last night at Poker Stars.

It just works and is easy to get on and easy to find your way around the site. Room names are strange and take some getting use to. Customer service is quick and clear. Players are generally nice and fast, not too many that are idiots are last long. Games are fast paced and varied players. Great place to get experience and to meet all types of competition. Tried several of the others and just felt at home here.

I've been a regular (daily) player on this site for two months now, and manage to make a little cash on the micro-limit tables here. At the .02/.04 tables the wild gamblers are abundant and tend to get in pissing contests with each other. Any tables above .02/.04 get tighter and tighter the higher up you go. Most players here are tourney players, and they possess decent holdem skills. When they need $5. to play in a tourney they swim down to the aquarium and try (some desperately) to make it quick.....it shows. The only reason I keep a bankroll here is because it is a great place to get a warm-up before I go to the easier sites. Pokerstars players will keep you on your toes. If you can make it here, you should have no trouble elsewhere...

since it offers the "big" tables of Omaha High/Low games. Starting from 2000 chips, I have 5 mil now just in a matter of a month. Lot of fun.

EXCELLENT site... doesn't get any better!! Favored hands actually win when expected...a far cry from the other sites... And WOW ..what a surprise... it actually takes skill to win on Pokerstars... Who would ever have thought?

I am also torn. I feel there are much better players on this site. As a result, it does seem harder to make the cash. I have however had , what seems to be, way too many "caught it on the River" loses. Does anyone have any feelings either way about computer generated opponents on this site? I heard a rumor about that kind of thing,, does it really happen?

PokerStars, the worst on-line casino I know of. Don't ever listen to the ones who applauses PokerStars in this forum. Most of what they say are not true. Card shufflings are not natural random, but are probably fixed. Certain players, to me, maynot be real players. I mean real "human". Tournements not quite many as others claim. Connection is often slow. And the one thing I still don't get it is it takes instanly to tranfer fund from Neteller to PokerStars, but takes 48 hours to transfer back if you want to cash out. One thing I like here is PokerStars offers fast games as well as "no-all-in games". Besides, tournments for private groups available. I never come back here again. The rating stars are default, I don't rate.

WOW!! That is all I can say about Poker Stars, it is amazing! I have improved my poker game so much since I started playing on Poker Stars, I don't think it is a coincidence that the last two WSOP Champions (Raymer and Moneymaker) came from Poker Stars. I would recommend this over any other poker site although it is a little harder to make money, but that is because the competition is better!

Been playing at Stars for over a year and just can't make consistent money here at NL ring games. The play here is too tough, however it has made me a better player. I can tear up other sites with the play that I've learned here at the micros. There is always an ample supply of games and tourneys at the levels I play. The interface is great and the lobby has all the useful info. I've only ever witnessed 1 server crash. Support has been great whenever I've contacted them, very helpful. No initial bonus and very rare reload bonuses. To summarize: great software, great tourneys, professonal players.

Great for tourneys, support, and ease of money transactions, but absolutely nothing else. I play all my ring games at Party and make about 1000 bucks a month, but I can't consistenly gain a profit on ring games at Stars. There are always plenty of SNGs and MTTs at every buy-in so I play all my tourneys there.

If are looking for true to life poker games and the video poker juiced action you'll find at Party Poker and it's associated skins, this is the place for you. Don't be lured by bonuses, VIP points and gimmicks, you're better off trading all that for honest games. No wonder the pros play there.

I started off playing tigergaming poker, and poker stars just added a whole new element to online poker and its just awesome

Not many fish, the ones you met don't stay fish long or go broke

After trying all major ones, I'm currently playing exclusively Stars.

Stars wins hands down in 2 categories - improving player skills (well, for those who don't beleive it - remember where last 2 WSOP champions came from), and having fun from playing the game. Action is very good, interface is good, support is one of the best, current 1B bonuses are exceptionally good. Not that much fish though (well, you can't get everything in one place).

I have played on Poker Stars for about 8-9 months now. I am fully satisfied with the web site and software, but as some may contest it is difficult to find the fish sometimes. Tourneys is most definently where the money is to be made. $25 and up on sit&go will get the dummies out (that will call a raise with K 8 os), But is just right if your a solid player. I usually place every time and normally win a few hundred dollars a week. Happy Hunting. Remember, stay out of ring games here and focus on tourneys only, If money is what your after.

I have just switched from another online poker room. The reason for the switch is the numerous tournaments they have. I am trying to stay out of ring games and play tournaments solely. I think the site has a lot to offer. It is very professional in its lobby. However, I do not like their actual poker rooms. By this I