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• Established: 2000
• Location: Isle of Man
• Network: Poker Stars
• Email: support@pokerstars.com
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PokerStars is the world's biggest online poker room, boasting huge action for all skill levels and stakes. It has the biggest guarantees in the world, as well as a 24/7 schedule that leaves little room for improvement, which makes it a great place for tournaments. The points program is impressive; not to mention the well designed and speedy software that can be relied upon. Poker Stars sponsors some of the world's most recognised poker players, such as Daniel Negranu and champions of the WSOP Main event (Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker and Joe Hachem). These players can often be found on the tables, giving users the opportunity to rail, play or chat with them.

PokerStars Full Review

Pokerstars is a world-famous room that provides massive volume in tournaments and cash games at practically every level. It is also the biggest online poker room in the world and offers many different variations. This means that it caters for many types of players, including those who prefer to compete in the less mainstream variations of poker.

This site also provides very good promotions and an impressive loyalty program, which gives users access to a huge choice of merchandise, events and qualifiers to major poker tournaments. Pokerstars sponsors some of the world's most recognised poker players, such as Daniel Negranu and champions of the WSOP Main event (Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker and Joe Hachem).

The software that Pokerstars provides is well designed and reliable. The usability, graphics and layout are of a pleasingly high standard, and the speed of play is nice and fast. Users are also given plenty of opportunities for personalisation, such as the ability to upload images to use as avatars along with other graphics and audio options.

Opponents can be very aggressive or very soft, thanks to the huge number of players. This gives users the opportunity to hone their skills with the best players. Any queries that players may have are answered quickly and concisely, which makes the customer support of pokerstars of a higher quality than most.

Poker Stars offers the following games:

• Texas Hold'em (limit and no limit)
• Seven Card Stud (high and low)
• Omaha (high, low, no limit)
• H.O.R.S.E
• H.O.S.E
• Five-Card Draw
• 2-7 Triple Draw
• Razz

There are also micro-limit tables, an idea invented by poker stars when they introduced games such as Hold-em and Omaha Hi to be available for a few cents. There is no rake for these tables.

Generally speaking the games vary between No-limit, Pot-Limit and Fixed Limit. A variety of tables are provided, including full-table, short-handed and heads up tables. As the Pokerstars' player base encompasses a huge number of players from different locations around the world, the room is active 24/7.

There are a large number of tournaments and freerolls that PokerStars offers to players. Not only is the traffic volume to these events the most impressive in the business, but the values offered are also very reasonable. During peak periods the number of players attending tournaments can reach 22,500, and the number of players in ring-games can reach 155,000 (according to March 2008 statistics).

In conclusion, poker stars provides an excellent service that allows players to really interact with the games. The quality of the software, huge player base and diversity all adds to the fun, and dedicated PokerStars members can enjoy extra bonuses and great promotions. The software is well maintained; with regular updates that help to keep the software reliable and stable. The result of this is that players almost never have to suffer from downtime.

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