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PokerStars Average user rating   3.92 / 5

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  • 100% Initial Deposit Up to $600, Plus $1,000 in monthly tournaments! -- Use Initial Deposit Bonus Code: STARS600
  • NUTS: Improved $600 new player bonus!! 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: Generally considered a more difficult room to play in when compared to others.
  • Accepts US Poker players
  • Mac Poker
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Network PokerStars
Number Of Players 130,862 (Sun, 05 Sep 2010, 12:18am EDT)
Multi-Tabling 12+
Resizable Tables Fully Customizable
Minimum Deposit $10
Deposit Minimums Bank Transfer: $10, CLICK2PAY: $10, Diners Club: $10, ELV: $10, ELV: $10, Entropay: $10, INSTADEBIT: $10, Maestro: $10, MasterCard: $10, Moneybookers: $10, NETELLER: $10, paysafecard: $10, Solo: $10, Ukash: $10, Visa: $10, WebMoney: $10, ClickandBuy: $15, eChecks: $25, Cash Transfer: $50, Western Union: $100
Withdrawal Minimums Bank Transfer: $10, CLICK2PAY: $10, ClickandBuy: $10, Entropay: $10, INSTADEBIT: $10, Maestro: $10, Moneybookers: $10, NETELLER: $10, Solo: $10, Visa: $10, WebMoney: $10, Check: $50
No-Limit Ring Stakes $.01 - .02 up to $200 - 400
Limit Ring Stakes $.02 - .04 up to $1000 - $2000
Sit & Go Stakes $1 + $.20 up to $2100 + $90
Player Points Yes
US Players Yes
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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. Many other pros have been invited to join the PokerStars 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! In 2007 the 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. Most recently, in 2009, 113 PokerStars qualifiers cashed in the Main Event. PokerStars is pretty much the king of tournaments, especially satellites to larger events and this track record shows it.

Even if you are not a WSOP contender, PokerStars is the best online network for both tournaments and Sit & Go's. In fact, they have about 600,000 played per week, which is about one every second! They offer both for just about every popular variety of poker played today at a variety of limits, including Hold'em, Omaha, Stud, Razz, 5 Card Draw, 2-7 Triple Draw, and mixed games. Sit & Go's are very popular and run 24/7 with buy-ins from $1 + .20 to $2100 + 90. The most popular games are Turbos, Heads-up, Sunday Million Double Shootout satellites, and $22 180 player. When PokerStars first launched the 180 player, it only ran for part of the day. But players loved it so much that now, it not only runs all day, but has buy-ins ranging from $2 + .20 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 multi-table tournaments, PokerStars is king. 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. Don't forget about their Sunday tournaments either, although it is doubtful that you could. These include the Sunday Million guarantee ($215 buy-in), the Sunday Warmup ($215, $750K guaranteed), and the Sunday Second Chance ($215, $200K guaranteed). These alone are larger than most other sites' Sunday main event tournaments, meaning PokerStars has the largest tournaments anywhere! PokerStars lists a complete schedule for all of their tournaments on their website.

Finally, if you like ring games, offers all their games as ring games with limits from $.01/.02 to $200/400. Because the player base is so large (with 14,000+ active tables), it doesn't matter if you have a $50 bankroll or $50,000 because you will always be able to find a table to suit 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. PokerStars is a great place to polish your skills with hundreds of cash tables in all sorts of games.

All of this is backed up by an amazing FPP that lets players use points to buy bonuses or rewards. Their VIP ranking system, which lets players earn more FPPs based on how much you play, letting you earn points up to five times faster! This, combined with FTR's 100% initial deposit bonus, gives PokerStars one of the best bonus systems around.

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! Since 2002, PokerStars 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 45 events and over $40 million in 2009. 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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Last Updated on 05 September 2010
Poker Room Review SCOOP! by givememyleg on 30 Apr 2010
Interface:  5/5    Action:  5/5    Fish:  5/5    Bonuses:  5/5    Support:  5/5   
SCOOP 2010 starts this weekend!!
Poker Room Review Great Site by RoyalProdigy on 19 Nov 2009
Interface:  5/5    Action:  5/5    Fish:  4/5    Bonuses:  2/5    Support:  4/5   
PokerStars is by far the best internet poker room!!! Some people think this is stupid but you can play for play chips and sell them (google it) and then go from there. Its not hard to win play money expecially if you read the strategy section from flopturnriver.com. I mean it takes time to become a winning poker player, but its possable. I sold a million play chips twice started with 5 bucks each time and both times turned the 5 into a grand and then cashed out. Its a excellent way to build from nothing, they also have freerolls. I could go on and on about why its such a great site to play at. If you love poker you will love this site!!!
Poker Room Review Pokerstars Rocks by Lateraluss on 14 Sep 2009
Interface:  5/5    Action:  5/5    Fish:  5/5    Bonuses:  5/5    Support:  5/5   
I have played on many different sites dating wayyyy back to world live poker if anyone recalls that, and Pokerstars is the best....
 
 

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