Poker Stars
Poker Stars is the number one, most played at online poker room in the world. Remaining in the US market when Party Poker left has taken Poker Stars from the biggest tournament site, to the all around giant that it is now.
The software that Poker Stars uses is unmatched. It seems that other sites put a strain on your computer that they do not. I can never remember having my computer freeze due to Poker Stars. Other good poker rooms, such as Full Tilt, and Bodog, have good set-ups, but can overload your computer if you play on more than one site, or run other programs while playing.
Poker Stars has a very comprehensive and easy to understand frequent player program. If you are a high action player the rewards can get huge. You can use your points to enter tournaments, buy products, and even cash them out at times. They also have special events, like free rolls, for the various VIP levels.
The non-stop tournament schedule means you can play virtually anything you want 24/7. With such a large player base, there is action in many games, not just Texas holdem. The same applies to the ring games. Anything, anytime, tournaments, sng’s or ring games, are available.
With so many players, you can find players at any price range you would like. They have micro tables, all the way to high stakes games.
Poker Stars does not have customer service over the phone. However, their e-mail customer service is excellent. You always get a prompt response. Almost all problems are resolved fairly quickly with the e-mail support.
Poker Stars has the biggest weekly tournament online. This is the Sunday Million. The entry is $215, and they hold satellites all week long. It now carries a $1,500,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Sundays are so big that you also have, the Sunday Warm Up ($215 buy in $750,000 guarantee), the Sunday Second Chance ($215 buy in $300,000 guarantee), and the $530 buy in $500,000 guarantee events. If that’s not enough, on Sunday you can finish the day off with the $200 re buy $200,000 guarantee. That’s every Sunday, wow!
At peak playing hours, Poker Stars traffic swell to incredible numbers. You will have over 150,000 tournament players in action. In the cash games there will be well over 20,000 playing. Although there are a lot of good players, overall there are many inexperience players as well. If you find the right games to play in, you can do very well for yourself.
Poker stars offers multi table playing to the max. You can play up to at least 24 tables at once. That is if you can keep up, lol.
Unlike most sites, when play drops off dramatically during off peak hours, the sheer size, and global diversity of the players, keeps the site plenty active. This gives you the choice of playing pretty much whenever you want. Poker Stars is the giant, and they act like it in many ways that players like.
