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Poker Review: Poker Stars

Published by admin on February 12, 2009

PokerStars Short review

Poker Stars is the world’s largest online poker room. The amount of action that you are going to find at the poker tables is going to be simply insane. No matter what the stake or the type of game you select you will definitely going to find enough players for the perfect game.

As any other large online poker room, most of the players will be concentrated at the Texas Hold’em tables and to be more precise they are going to be situated at the online poker tournaments. Poker Stars is able to offer a wide range of online poker tournaments.

Poker Stars is also packed with some of the world’s best poker professional players. They are the sponsors of: Daniel Negreanu, WSOP Main Event champs Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem and Greg Raymer. You will have the opportunity to find at the online Poker Stars tables these VIPs.

Sign up Bonus

The sign up bonus that you are going to receive from Poker Stars is not going to be something very impressive. Right now Poker Stars is offering to new players a sign up bonus of $50. This is very little compared to all the other online poker rooms out there, but in the same time the conditions imposed in order to clear that bonus are way better so it’s going to take you just a matter of hours before you can actually see the bonus in your online poker bankroll. So it’s better to get only $50 and actually see the money instead of getting $500 and where you will have to play for many months before the bonus is cleared.

Traffic and competition

PokerStars is the largest online poker room in the world. This means that they are currently holding the number one spot when it comes to online poker traffic. The most recent record made by Poker Stars during the last couple of weeks when it comes to traffic is 150,000 players connected at the same time.

This way Poker Stars is way ahead compared to the number 2 and number 3 online poker rooms (Full Tilt Poker and Party Poker). Since Poker Stars has almost 2 times the amount of poker players connected at the tables.

One downside of Poker Stars is the fact that the competition is a lot tougher compared to other small online poker rooms, but in the same time the stakes and the number of online poker tournaments is a lot bigger. The action that can be found at Poker Stars is insane. Almost once every couple of minutes there is a big important online poker tournament waiting for you.

Software and graphics

Get the latest version of Poker Stars software and you will have the opportunity to get one of the widest spread of games offered by an online poker room. Here is a list with all the games: Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Seven-Card Stud in all versions, H.O.R.S.E., H.O.S.E., 2-7 Triple Draw, Five-Card Draw, Razz, 2-7 Single Draw Lowball, Badugi, 8-Game, Mixed Hold’em and Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo. And by the time you are going to read this they are certainly going to add even more games to their collection.

Poker Stars managed to become so popular thanks to a great software. Some of main features of the poker client are: reliability, high level of customization and one of the best multi table action in the world.

Some people are claiming that the graphics of Poker Stars are a little bit too colorful and the sounds are not very useful. Our personal opinion is that the colors are just fine and in case you don’t like the sounds you can always turn them off.

We consider that the Poker Stars software is definitely an industry leader, and it’s the one that comes with all the new features so that all the other online poker rooms can follow.

Customer Support

The customer support at Poker Stars is currently offered only via e-mail. Even if right now most online poker rooms are only going to offer you customer service via more than email (and I mean live chat and phone support), Poker Stars is still able to offer a top notch support. The answers depending on what problem you have are going to come very fast. Sometimes a reply to your e-mail is going to be sent within a few minutes, sometimes an hour.

Payment methods

Since Poker Stars is the most popular online poker room, you will certainly going to find a good amount of payment methods available. Here is a list with all the payment methods that are currently accepted by Poker Stars: eCheck, VISA (Delta, Electron, Gift and Prepaid), MasterCard (Gift and Prepaid), Neteller, Diners Club International, ClickandBuy, Moneybookers, Solo/Maestro/Switch, cashier’s check/money order/bank draft (minimum deposit of $100), local bank transfer, ELV, online bank transfer, Paysafe card, WebMoney.
Thanks to the fact that they do offer a good amount of online payment methods, you will have the opportunity to select the ones that are going to best fit your needs. Usually we are using moneybookers in order to cash out the money from online poker rooms, and in order to make a deposit the best choice is the prepaid cards. These are the fastest and they are also to offer the lowest fees.