Poker Stars is the world's largest, most famous free online poker site. One of its main advantages is that it accepts players from the USA. You can find here the biggest online poker tournaments and also the famous online series WCOOP and SCOOP.
Scope
Poker Stars is offering massive volume of cash games and tournaments and action at any game and limit around the clock. As the leading service provider, it sets the industry standards, especially in the Sit & Go tournaments, which are available in great variety.
As per recent statistics, at peak hours there are approximately 23 000 ring - game and 157 000 tournament players at Poker Stars. There are a lot of weak fishes, but also thousands of strong players who seek to take advantage of them. For the players with an exotic taste Poker Stars provides with wide variety of games like H.O.R.S.E., H.O.S.E., 2-7 Triple Draw, Five-Card Draw, 8-Game, Mixed Hold’em, Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven-Card Stud in all versions, Razz, 2-7 Single Draw Lowball, Badugi and many others.
Bonuses & Promotions
Poker Stars offers an up to $600 free first-deposit bonus at 100% match for all new players while it is redeemed in $10 increments. To claim the full bonus, players may make up to three deposits within 60 days of the first deposit and have then six months to earn the points.
A generous poker Loyalty Program is introduced, in which the players collect VIP player points, which only determine your VIP level, and Frequent player points, used for shopping in the store. Players achieve VIP Silverstar at only 750 points and can progress all the way to Supernova Elite, which is one of the most desirable achievements in the world of online poker.
Since 2010, a new reward system, the Stellar Rewards, offers cash bonuses based on player's current VIP player points. The amounts vary from $10 (Silverstar) up to $1000 (Supernova Elite). Some of new free exciting promotions at Poker Stars are currently the Million Dollar Challenge, Poker Stars Women, The Big Game and Daniel's Room. And at the ongoing Battle of the Planets Sit&Go Leaderboard Race the playes can share a prize of $3 000 000 per year.
Tournaments
Because of the incredible traffic, you can find just about any kind of tournament here. While there are a lot of professional players at the bigger buy-in tournaments, games with smaller entry costs can prove really profitable mainly due to the fact that thousands of beginners are battling it out, ensuring very high total prizepools for the skilled players. Some of these "easy win" tournaments are the 45-player and 180-player Sit & Go's. Other must-attend events are the Sunday Million (recently upped to a $1,5 Million) and the renowned Spring Championship of Online Poker. Poker Stars is always open to player suggestions and accepts readily new ideas and concepts.
Cash Tables
The higher-limit ring games are significantly tighter and the viewed-flopped percentages at these limits are fairly low. Advantageous is the plenty of tables to choose from, because with so much new players you can always find your adequate level of competition.
On the other hand, Poker Stars itself does not advise its players to take it up to the highest stakes without very serious preparation, since they are populated by some very talented and aggressive players.
Software
The leading technology in the branch, Poker Stars' software is privately developed and is well-known for its stability and adaptability. It also feels great to multi-tablers.
Features :
- mac-compatibility
- stats functions
- easy accessible hand data and history
- separate statistics for all different game types
- advanced multi-tabling with resizable tables supporting up to 24 cash games and unlimited number of tournaments
- editable custom game profiles
- flawless highly customizeable video graphics
- auto-rebuy option for ring games
- wide range of keyboard shortcuts
Support
Poker Stars' email support is highly regarded because of the short answer time, friendly attitude and good working knowledge. Despite that, you will at some point probably miss the live or telephone support that is to be enjoyed at other poker rooms.
