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Poker Stars review

Great overall Holdem volume. in particular in tournaments and 1-on-1 games. Tough opposition.

Poker Stars - short info

Poker room name:	Poker Stars
Website:	www.pokerstars.com

Full review

Poker Stars is the number one site for online tournaments and second in cash game traffic. Player peaks reach 3800-4500 cash game players and 16000-20000 tournament players. Poker Stars has a great schedule for multi table tournaments with a huge number of participants and the single table tournaments are also packed.

Tournament buy-ins varies from rake-free $1 multi tables up to $5000+ 100 heads-up matches a la tourney style. Poker Stars is marked by a high level of professionalism, both by management and players. Many pros play on Poker Stars and the general quality of the players are well above average.Their support is great although they can only be emailed.
The game variety on stars is great, besides the many Texas Hold’em games there are also many Omaha and Stud games going. The rake is at average for the industry on full ring games with a 5% max $3 rake on limits $2-$4 and above. Poker Stars has better than most poker rooms on the micro-limits since they are rake-free.

As loyalty bonus Poker Stars has their FPP (frequent player points) system that players may use to buy into special events or exchange for merchandise such as books or clothes.
Poker Stars is also hosting the World Cahampionship of Online Poker (WCOOP), which is the largest event of online poker tournaments in the world.

Banking: Deposit options; VISA, MasterCard, Western Union, CentralCoin, NETeller, cashier’s check and money order. Withdrawal options; Check, NETeller, FirePay and CentralCoin.