| Poker Stars is the largest poker room in the world with more than 100,000 players online at peak hours. Players from all over the world, including the United States gather at Poker Stars to play poker and compete in amazing tournaments for huge prizes. |
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Bonus: |
100% up to $600 |
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Established: |
2000 |
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Isle of Man |
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Poker Stars |
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Website: |
www.pokerstars.com |
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Summary Poker Stars first started as a play money poker room to test the software in September 2001 and by December same year become a real money poker room. Several online players started their poker career qualifying through Poker Stars satellites at World Series of Poker (WSOP) and winning important prizes. For example Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer went to WSOP through Poker Stars and become Main Event Champions in 2004 and 2005.
At the Poker Stars higher stakes tables you can find several famous poker players like Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem, Vanessa Russo, Bertrand Grospellier, Greg Raymer and many more.
Poker Stars is the biggest online poker room in the world having the largest number of players, in December 2007, entered the Guinness World Record books having the most players simultaneously playing online: 151,758. |
| Players range from beginners and soft players to experienced and very aggressive. The action runs 24 hour per day both on ring tables and tournaments. Poker Stars is licensed and registered in the Isle of Man, in the British Isles. |
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| Promotions and bonuses
Poker Stars is offering a bonus of 100% up to $600 for the first deposit. The bonus can be claimed in smaller increments during the first three deposits. After you make your deposit you start earning the bonus by playing on Poker Stars and collecting the number of VPPs equal to 17 times the bonus amount in maximum six months after your first deposit. The bonus will be released in $10 increments directly into your account as you clear the needed VPPs (for every $10 increment you need 170 VPPs).
Occasionally, Poker Stars offers reload bonuses to existing players, usually a 50% bonus up to maximum $300. To earn the reload bonus you need to earn 25 VPPs for every $1 of bonus within the next six months. Poker Stars also has a rewards program, every real money player receiving VIP Player Points (VPPs) for every cash game played. VPPs determine your VIP Club level. Based on the VIP level you will then receive Frequent Player Points (FPPs) that can be used to enter tournaments, purchase items from the VIP store, or exchange to cash. |
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| Game client
The Poker Stars software is available in 25 languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Japanese. Recently Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Bulgarian, Czech, Romanian, Slovenian and Ukrainian where added.
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| You have two themes to choose from for the lobby graphics: Poker Stars Classic and Poker Stars Black, but for the table theme you have over 15 themes to choose and enjoy while playing including: Shiny, Marine, Stars, Saloon, Renaissance, Techno, Azure and Hyper-Simple.
Poker Stars gives you the option to select a personalized image to represent you in the poker room, to write notes on your poker opponents and view statistics accumulated during your current session right at the table. Poker Stars has the most stable software on the internet and has the best multi-table software features that enable you to play an unlimited number of ring games and tournaments simultaneously. |
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| Cash Games Besides the three major poker games, Texas Holdem, Omaha and 7 card Stud, at Poker Stars you can also play 5 Card Draw, 2-7 Triple Draw, 2-7 Single Draw, HORSE, Badugi and more mixed games.
The lowest stakes available for ring tables are $0.01/$0.02 for No Limit Texas Holdem and Pot limit Omaha Hi/Lo while the highest stakes on real money with constant action are $200/$400 at Fixed Limit Holdem and $25/$50 No Limit Holdem. As you can see Poker Stars offers ring tables for every type of bankrolls starting with low ones and going up to huge ones |
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| Tournaments There are all kinds of tournaments for most types of games scheduled around the clock. Sit & Go, Multi-Table Tournaments, Satellites, Rebuy Tournaments, Deep Stacks, Turbo and Guaranteed Tournaments are just the most common tournaments available on Poker Stars lobby. Poker Stars offers the largest online tournaments with the biggest prize pools. Regular guaranteed tournaments on Poker Stars range from $1,000 with $1.10 buy-in up to $1,500,000 with $215 buy-in. For the bigger guaranteed tournaments there are many stage and satellites tournaments to qualify trough with low buy-ins. Every Sunday Poker Stars hold two major tournaments: Sunday Warm-up $750,000 guaranteed No-Limit Holdem and Sunday Million $1,500,000 guaranteed No Limit Holdem tournament both with $215 buy-ins but with many ways to qualify for as little as $3. Poker Stars also hosts a large number of World Series of Poker qualifying tournaments starting with very low buy-ins. |
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| More Info Poker Stars is currently running major live poker events like World Cup of Poker, World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), European Poker Tour (EPT), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) and Czech-Slovak Poker Tour (CSPT). Team Poker Stars Pro, including four WSOP Champions and tens of famous professional poker players, is one of the best poker teams in the world. The best part is that you can actually find them at the Poker Stars tables and if you have the courage you can play with them. |
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