Poker Stars Detailed Room Review

Detailed Room Review For Poker Stars – The Number One Online Internet Poker Site!

by The Poker Dog

Poker Stars holds the number one spot for online poker sites – and by a significant margin. The recent record of 150,000 simultaneous players makes them twice the size of their nearest rivals (Full Tilt and Party Poker). The offering that Poker Stars have is simply amazing – there is little likelihood of anyone catching up with them any time soon! This is a must have site for anyone even remotely serious about their online poker!

While the Poker Stars sign-up bonus is a little lower than other sites this is made up for by the most generous VIP Club online. The software looks great and runs fast too – unlike many sites this is very ‘light’ on your computers resources. The best feature of all is the selection of poker games, including cash games, tournaments and sit n goes.

Poker Stars Detailed Room Review – Bonuses And Promotions

The Poker Stars sign-up bonus is 100% to $50 (you can use PokerStars Marketing Code FIRST2008 for this), it is small but will clear in no time at all with just 10 ‘points’ required for each dollar in bonus cash and up to 3 points earned per hand! This is small compared to most sites but more than made up for by the ‘VIP Club’.

You gain VIP levels by collecting points for tournament fees and raked hands, the levels go from bronze, silver etc right up to ‘Supernova Elite’. The benefits increase as the levels do and include weekly freerolls with prizes including $20k, $50k and $100k as well as satellite qualifiers to offline events as well as online tournaments such as the Sunday Million. The points accrue fast and can be used to purchase anything from books, electronics and even an Aston Martin from the online store. This club keeps many players very loyal to Poker Stars, and with benefits like these it is easy to see why!

Poker Stars Detailed Room Review – Cash Game Selection

The largest cash game selection anywhere online and offering far more than just the ever popular no-limit Holdem tables. Stakes range from just cents right up to buy-ins of $1000’s and there is always a good selection of tables to choose from at all levels. The mid to high buy-in tables attract a lot of ‘online pro’s’ and can be quite tough, however the lower games $2 / $4 and below are the home of many recreational players.

Omaha (all variations), Stud, Razz, 5-Card Draw, 2-7 Triple Draw, HORSE and HOSE cash games are all available and will usually have a good selection of tables running.

Poker Stars Detailed Room Review – Tournament Selection

The trouble with reviewing the online poker tournaments at Poker Stars is that this section could easily be 3 pages long! Just as well that this poker site give you a handy ‘tournament filter’ in the lobby to select the games you prefer.

Poker Star’s best known tournament is the ‘Sunday Million’ this is a $200+$15 buy-in weekly event that attracts huge fields and often has prize pools in the $1.5 million range. Satellites to this are available throughout the week – in fact a large proportion of the field enter this way in any given week.

There are many smaller buy-in tournaments to suit all game preferences and buy-in levels, the schedule is packed with re-buys. turbos and tournaments with guaranteed prize pools.

Once a year Poker Stars run the WCOOP – an online championship of big buy-in tournaments. You can satellite into this event or into many of the offline events in both the US and beyond (Stars sponsor the EPT and Asian Poker events too).

Impossible to do the tournament schedule justice in one short review, put it this way, if you enjoy online poker tournaments and do not yet play at Poker Stars then you are missing out on the very best tournaments anywhere online.

Poker Stars Detailed Room Review – Sit N Go Selection

The SNGs at Poker Stars are covered in detail in a separate detailed article here at Sit And Go Planet – Check out our Guide To Poker Stars Sit N Goes.

Needless to say the number one poker site has the largest (and busiest) selection of SNGs anywhere…

Poker Stars Detailed Room Review – Poker Software Overview

The software client is unique and super-smooth running. The lobby is simple to get around with filters available to fine tune the cash games or tournaments on display. The tables are fully resizable and have the option (which most players use) to upload your own picture or icon for display at the tables.

Poker Stars Detailed Room Review – Easy Deposit Methods

A little limited in the number of deposit options – however the size of the player base at Poker Stars shows that depositing is a simple and straightforward process. Options for deposits at Pokerstars include ePassporte, Neteller, Visa, eChecks, Moneybookers, Cash Transfer and UseMyBank.

Poker Stars Detailed Room Review – Summary / Final Thoughts

The number one online internet poker site and for a good reason – the game selection, software and VIP club combine to make this a must have site for anyone who takes their online poker seriously. Find out for your self today why Poker Stars are rated as the number one!

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