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PokerStars Review


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PokerStars Overall

PokerStars is one of the leading brands online and to be honest, a site that offers a package that other sites barely come close to. PokerStars commands respect not only for the 200,000 players that frequent its tables, or the array of celebrity players that play on site - but for the value of tournaments that you get due to the high volume of players.

Off peak, the site has anywhere up to 100,000 players and this makes for great value tournaments. You won't find another site that you can play a $50,0000 Holdem tournament for a $3 buy in for the simple reason that you won't have 7,000 players playing anywhere else.

The software has great features and is very stable with some of the best graphics around. The lobby supports view flop percentages, average pot and hands played per hour and offers excellent statistics, instant hand history and a lot more.

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PokerStars Presentation

The presentation on Pokerstars is first rate. There is attention to detail across the board from an excellently presented lobby with all the mod cons and a huge number of value tournaments and juicy games to get involved in. All the games and tournaments are well laid out in their own tabs and games are very easy to find, the way the structure is set up. All in all, you will not find much better than this.

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PokerStars Software

Pokerstars is amongst the best of any online poker site and is by far the largest. The software supports Limit and no limit Texas Hold'em, Hi and Hi-Lo Omaha (including No-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo games), Seven-Card Stud, 2-7 Triple Draw, 2-7 Single Draw Lowball, H.O.R.S.E., Razz, Five-Card Draw and Badugi.

The software supports a huge number of impressive features. You can personalize your Site Theme which gives you an array of different backgrounds that you can set the table to. You can also upload your photo or a graphic to represent you at the table. There are lots of other cool features such as instant hand replay which replays your last hand played, there is also a buddy feature, you can find a player, take player notes, automatically tile your tables if multi tabling and a lot more.

The lobby has all you would expect with view flop percentages, hands played per hour, categorized games and all the trimmings. The software is extremely stable and is very reactive even at peak hours where there are over 200,000 active players. There is no doubt that not only is pokerstars the largest poker room online, but supports the best and most stable poker software in the industry.

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Bonus Package

All players who sign up through Top15Poker will receive a $50 welcome bonus. To earn this bonus, you will simply need to play on PokerStars and collect the number of Base FPPs equal to 10 times the bonus amount.

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PokerStars Promotions

PokerStars has an array of promotions all of the time running to keep their huge player base happy. Here are some of the current promotions.

100% First-Time Deposit Bonus

Make your first-ever real money deposit and PokerStars will give you a 100% bonus up to $50. To earn this bonus, you will simply need to play on PokerStars and collect the number of Base FPPs equal to 10 times the bonus amount. You have six months after your first deposit to earn all the FPPs you need to cash out your bonus.

Poker Reload Bonuses

PokerStars makes reload bonuses available to our existing players. They publicize these redeposit bonuses via email, on our web site, and in the poker software itself, so playing PokerStars frequently will mean that you don't miss any announcements regarding the redeposit bonuses.

Win an EPT Monte Carlo prize package with the PokerStars Poker Camp

The best way to improve your poker, and take down the big money is to learn from people who have done it themselves. At the latest PokerStars Poker Camp, held in Monte Carlo as part of the finale of the European Poker Tour’s Season 5, you can do just that. Win your seat to the Camp and you’ll get to fine tune your game with the help of Team PokerStars Pro and play in a live qualifier to win a seat for the EPT Grand Final! What’s more, being in Monte Carlo means you’ll also get to enjoy the build-up to Europe’s most exciting poker event.

$1 Million PokerStars Turbo Takedown

Have you been looking for a way to put your Frequent Player Points to good use? Well look no more because it's time to buckle up and put the pedal to the metal with the PokerStars Turbo Takedown. With a total prize pool of $1 Million up for grabs and at least one in every three players getting paid, this is one tourney you truly cannot afford to miss!

Battle of the Planets

Get ready for blast off, because PokerStars new weekly Leader Board promotion is truly out of this world. The Battle of the Planets gives PokerStars Sit & Go players a chance to compete against each other for prizes worth more than $3,000,000 per year. In the Battle of the Planets, PokerStars multi-player Sit & Go tournaments have been separated into eight divisions, all named after planets in our solar system. Everyone can take part in the competition, no matter how high or low stakes they play. Each planet represents a different range of buy-ins, from Mercury ($1-$2.99) to Jupiter ($300+).

Weekly Sunday Million

Every week you can take a seat at the weekly Pokerstars million. That's right, this tournament has a minimum prize pool of $1 Million but is frequently closer to $2 Million. Entry is $215 if buying in direct and qualifiers are available from $5. With a first place well over $100,000 and 10,000 in starting chips, this is one tournament you will want to get involved in.

Loyalty Program

Pokerstars has an excellent loyalty program and offers VIP player points (VPPs) and Frequent Player Points (FPPs). VPPs are used to determine your VIP level and FPP's can be used to play in tournaments, buy goods from their FFP store (which has electronics, books, etc). As you earn more VPP's and climb the ladder, you ear FFP's faster which gets you more freebies. 1-3 FPPs are awarded per raked hand depending on total rake; 5 FPPs are awarded for each $1 in tournament fees - both are earned in live games only, not practice tables.

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PokerStars Traffic / Popularity

PokerStars is the worlds largest online room. At peak hours Pokerstars has up to 30,000 players at their cash tables and up to 190,000 tournament players. The volumes of players is simply staggering and with tournaments starting every second, it takes no time to fill seats (6 seater Sit'N'Go's often fill up within 30 seconds!).

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PokerStars Fishing / Fish Factor

The site has it's element of very good players, if fact amongst the best but with such high volumes of player traffic there are a huge amount of loose and low skilled players to be found. In ring games the competition is pretty tough, comparatively speaking with view flop percentages in the 30's and 40's.

Tournament play has much softer competition. The tournaments attract very high volumes of players, a reason that they can play $100,000 tournaments for a $11 buy in! In these tournaments, building a stack is pretty easy as there are always lots of loose players at the tables. All in all, there is a lot of money to be made searching out the loose players and some even bigger prize pools to be playing for. Well worth a visit.

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