PokerStars Review

PokerStars ratings

Where poker players become world champions

Summary

PokerStars, established in 2000, is one of the world largest independent poker sites. They offer all popular poker game variants (HORSE), and you can always find a table that suits your level because of the large amount of traffic, even at off-peak hours.

Poker Client

The PokerStars software is one of the ugliest around, but the feature to customize it makes you instantly forget about that. You can adjust the background by uploading your own images, and you can change the table size of all the poker games. There are also several themes to choose from for the overall appearance.

Just like all other great poker rooms, PokerStars offers features to keep player notes, game statistics and tournament statistics, and very detailed hand history.

Security and Integrity

All communications between the PokerStars client software and their servers is encrypted. Since encryption itself does not guarantee privacy, they also spent a lot of effort designing their security system and policies.

PokerStars is also very clear about cheating in form of collusion, where two or more players signal their holdings to each other. Security personnel will be automatically warned if their detection methods catches any unusual play patterns. A thorough manual investigation will be taken to investigate all players' reports about suspected collusion.

PokerStars Bonuses and Promotions

If you make a first deposit, PokerStars will give you a 100% bonus up to $50 until the end of 2008. Use bonus code First2008 to start earning your extra poker bonus. If you haven't got an account yet, you can also use PokerStars marketing code "pokerforfree.org".

Traffic and Game Variation

As one of the top poker sites in the industry, PokerStars assures you to be able to find traffic at the tables 24/7. They easily reach over 100,000 simultaneous players at peak hours. About 85% of those players are participating in poker tournaments, while the remaining 15% (up to, and over 15,000) are playing at the cash game tables.

The huge guaranteed poker tournaments often draw over 5000 participating players thanks to the tremendous amount of tournament traffic.

PokerStars have the following poker games and poker tournaments available through their secure poker software: Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Razz, 7-Card Stud, 5-Card Draw and HORSE. Of course they offer this wide range of games in all different betting structures (Limit, No-Limit, and Pot Limit).

Support

The response time for the PokerStars award winning support department is quite high, although we regret the fact that they are only reachable by e-mail.

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PokerStars payment methods
Provider Deposit Withdrawal
Bank Draft
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Check
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Diners Club International
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Epassporte
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Mastercard
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Moneybookers
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PaySafeCard
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Visa
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Wire Transfer
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