Launched in September 2001, PokerStars has steadily developed into the web’s largest online poker room with thousands of loyal fans, exciting bonuses and promotions, wide variety of games and concurrent services as well as best customer service ever seen.
PokerStars is extremely proud of the fact that they are home for the WSOP main event winners from 2003 to 2005 and that 20% of 2006 and 2007 World Series of Poker main event won their seats through PokerStars satellite tournaments. Indeed, PokerStars is the right place to enjoy the juiciest Texas Holdem battles, as well as wide variety of other poker games.
PokerStars Games
PokerStars offers wide variety of poker games including Texas Holdem, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 5 Card Draw, 2-7 Ttiple Draw, H.O.S.E. and H.O.R.S.E. That means that they have a great range of poker games and what is more important – you can always find a lot of opponents of all skill levels to play against, regardless of your favorite game. Of course, the major slice of the auditory is represented by Texas Holdem players, but there are plenty of Omaha, Stud and Draw fans as well. At the time of this review there were from 25,000 and up to 75,000 players during peak hours.
PokerStars Software
As a standalone online poker room, PokerStars is the only brand to offer their downloadable poker software. PokerStars software is known as most stable and scalable product in the industry.
PokerStars software offers wide variety of useful features and outstanding eye-friendly interface, which is very important during long Texas Holdem tournaments and tense ring games, when you need to concentrate on screen for hours. Basic options offer a set of table themes, avatars, player notes, hand histories, window focus options, table layout schemes, plenty of tournament and ring game structures, resizable tables and much more. Regardless of such a diversity of features, all options and menus are easy and comprehensive, so you won’t experience any difficulties adjusting your PokerStars software.
Unfortunately PokerStars do not offer an Apple Mac version of their software.
PokerStars Players
As the largest online poker room on web, PokerStars is a home for the biggest poker auditory on web, so you won’t have any trouble finding lots of opponents playing all poker games available at PokerStars. The players range in ability is remarkable too – from World Champions and down to amateurs enjoying play money games.
At the WSOP and other live poker tournaments, the room is represented by the PokerStars team, playing on the behalf of the site. The most famous members of the team are the World Series of Poker champions – Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. All these players won their WSOP seats through PokerStars satellites. They often play at PokerStars helping new players to learn the secrets of the game and publishing Texas Holdem tips and strategy articles.
PokerStars Tournaments
The highlight of the PokerStars tournament schedule is an outstanding weekly Sunday Million, a $1 million guaranteed tournament starting at 4:30PM ET, every Sunday. Sunday Million is $215 to buy-in, or you can win a seat through one of cheaper daily Texas Holdem tournaments running at PokerStars.
Besides of this, poker stars runs satellites to all large live tournaments including World Series of Poker, European Poker Tour, World Poker Tour, World Cup of Poker, World Championship of Online Poker and Aussie Millions.