Poker Stars Reviews

Poker Stars opened for play money beta testing September 12th 2001 and began offering real money games in December 2001. Poker Stars is the second largest online poker site. It hosts many multi-table tournaments, which has rocketed its popularity among online poker players. The competition used to be considered fairly stiff at Poker Stars, but it is now about average among all the online poker sites.

Great game variety and the best poker tournaments you will find. Large guarantee events, freerolls, and satellites to the biggest online and offline tournaments are just the skimming the top of Star’s tourney offerings. A huge population means that you will be able to find games at any limit whether you are a high roller or you play for penny stakes. Stars is also known for the best turbo table structure in the industry.

Pay outs are paid very promptly usually within 24 hours and like most large online poker sites Poker Stars accept all the major forms of payments and withdraws. Unfortunately Poker Stars does not give any player bonus which does help to keep the fish away and the obvious bonus hunters. But does supply us with a unique (FPP) Frequent player points program. These are automatically accumiuated and are redeemable for cash tournament entries or are able to be used within the FPP store in exchange for cool Poker Stars goods such as hats, caps, jackets and poker chip sets.

Promotions and Bonus Information

Additional deposits after the first, must be made within 60 days of the first deposit, to get the 100% match on them.The bonus is released in increments and clears at a rate of per 17 VPP. Players have 6 months to clear the bonus dollars, so a very good time frame.

Poker Traffic

Despite Americans being welcome, quite many players at the site are based in Europe, and there is good poker action at European evening time. Peak hours typically occur around 2 PM, PT. At peak hours, the number of real money players in ring games often crosses the 20,000 mark (Feb, 2008).

Tournaments

PokerStars software provides hours and hours of fast game play in the safest way possible online. With thousands of players online at any time, you will not only find some fierce competition, but you never know who you could end up playing against as many poker pros are online at any time.

Software

Online Poker software. Once you click on a table name you can see the names of the players at the table, where they are from and how many chips they have.

Limited stats are provided at the table through the stats tab, but further information can be found via the hand histories tab. A useful link, not found at other poker rooms, is a link for all the hand histories played during you current session. Furthermore, if you are a stats junkie, Poker Starts is compatible with the major poker stats software such as Poker Tracker.

Poker Stars is proud to have a conscientious and dedicated service team 24/7. The support team is ready to answer your e-mails 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Simply e-mail and you will receive a prompt respond. More Poker stars review click here.