Review of PokerStars Articles | Gambling

By: Richard Bleuze

PokerStars began offering real money games in December 2001. As the leading tournament online poker room it has produced players who won their way to become the 2003 (Chris Moneymaker) and 2004 (Greg Raymer) World Series of Poker Main Event Champions.

Up to 15,000 cash game players and 100,000 tournament players can be found at the Poker Stars tables during peak periods. This makes PokerStars one of the largest online poker room's for both cash game and tournament poker.

In the past few years, PokerStars , as the number players has grown, the competition has decreased to a level that is about average compared to other rooms as a whole.

PokerStars has had the most stable and functional software of all the online poker rooms. Even with large tournament sizes the software runs quickly and smoothly.

The statistics provided to players are comprehensive. The lobby lists tables with average pot size, players per flop and hands per hour. Statistics offered to seated players include flop seen by position, pots won with showdown and pots won without showdown. In tournaments players can also see their current position and the average chip stack sizes of the players remaining.

PokerStars offers a first deposit bonus of $100 up to $50 and there is an occasional re-load bonus, of usually 20% up to $120.

In addition, players are also able to earn Frequent Player Points by playing real money games that can used to enter tournaments or make purchases in the Frequent Player Points Store. A VIP Club is offered to all players with a variety of membership levels based on the amount of Frequent Player Points earned every month.

Customer support is provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by e-mail only. Responses are received in quickly.  PokerStars has some of the most competent customer support representatives in the business.

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