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PokerStars


PokerStars

PokerStars Summary

PokerStars is by far the largest poker site in the world, which is impressive given that it is a completely independent (doesn’t share traffic on a network) poker room . The huge volume of players means that you will find every type of player at almost every level, and will always find a game to hone your poker skills. PokerStars software is often considered the industry standard, allowing players to play a large amount of tables at once as well as being able to make decisions quickly and easily.

PokerStars features avatars so that players can customize their online image by uploading a picture to their profile. PokerStars is the online poker “home” of some of the most recognizable faces in poker including; Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, and Daniel Negreanu to name a few.

PokerStars Traffic

PokerStars has the largest player base in online poker. The volume of players that frequent the site is unbelievable, as even during slow hours, you will often find well over sixty thousand players. In the US evenings, it is quite common to see 25,000 players sitting at the cash tables, and over 150,000 playing in the tournaments offered.

PokerStars Game Selection

With player volume like PokerStars has, it has to feature just about every poker game that there is. PokerStars offers No Limit and Limit Hold Em, and both Omaha and Seven Card Stud in both Hi and Lo versions. You can also play 2-7 triple draw, 5 card draw or Razz, and a variety of mixed games such as H.O.S.E and H.O.R.S.E. PokerStars was one of the first sites to offer micro limit games at the $.01/.02 level and continues to do so, while running games up to the $200/400 limit.

PokerStars Tournaments

PokerStars is the number one site on the Internet for tournament poker. They offer a large volume of free-rolls and micro limit tournaments, as well as a healthy amount of higher buy in tournaments, with several $215 buy in events running on a daily basis. The site also feature a huge volume of Sit N Go’s for every poker game, and those are available in 6 max or full ring and range from a $1 buy in up to a $2,000 buy in. PokerStars offers every kind of tournament you could possibly want from short handed, heads up, shootout, turbo and deep stack tournaments.

PokerStars also runs its famous weekly events every Sunday, offering a $10 buy in to a $100,000 guaranteed tournament as well as the “Sunday Million” which has a $215 buy in and features the largest weekly Online poker tournament prize pool of $1,000,000. Poker Stars also features hundreds of tournaments which run around the clock in which you can win your seat in this elusive tournament.

PokerStars Promotions and Bonuses

PokerStars is constantly offering fantastic promotional events for its players. PokerStars has a Sit N Go reward system that rewards players for finishing in top positions on there very own leader boards. Players can qualify for amazing bonuses and entrys in to some of the largest online poker tournaments. PokerStars “Battle of the Planets” promotion is giving over $3,000,000 worth of prizes away.

PokerStars rewards all players with it’s Frequent Player Points system which awards players points to players based on the amount of rake paid. These “FPP’s” can be redeemed for real money tournament entry’s, or used to purchase official PokerStars merchandise from the fully integrated FPP Store. PokerStars offers players a 100% to $50 sign up bonus, which admittedly is well below the average, but this is very easy to clear and with the Promotions and reload bonuses offered this is a small price to pay for playing at the largest online card room.

PokerStars Customer Support

PokerStars is very easy to use, and players should have very few problems, however if they do, they can contact customer support via email, and their email will be responded to in a timely manner. At this time PokerStars only offers support via email.

PokerStars Deposit And Withdrawal Options

PokerStars features the eCheck deposit method, making it very easy for American and Canadian players to deposit straight from their bank account in a secure online transaction. Other options that players can choose to deposit by are :

  • VISA (Delta, Electron, Gift and Prepaid), MasterCard (Gift and Prepaid),

  • NETeller

  • ClickandBuy

  • MoneyBookers

  • Web Money

  • Diners Club International

  • Pay Safe Card

  • Solo/Maestro/Switch

  • Bank Draft

Players can withdraw money from there PokerStars account using one of the following methods:

  • Solo/Maestro Debit Card

  • Visa, NETeller

  • WebMoney

  • Click And Buy

  • MoneyBookers

  • Check
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