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Poker Stars.com Review


PokerStars is the home of many recent World Series of Poker Champions, Chris Moneymaker in 2003 (many people claim this is what started the large poker boom), Greg "Fossilman" Raymer in 2004 and Joe Hachem in 2005. They recently have added a lot of new members to their team, including Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu, Humberto Brenes, Victor Ramdin, Bill Chen and more. Poker Stars is known for hosting great multi-table tournaments, and producing great tournament players. In the 2004 World Series of Poker, PokerStars qualified 316 total players for the event and 28 of them finished in the money. PokerStars players walked away with nearly $11 million of the $24 million in total prize money. In 2005 it grew even larger, to 1116 qualifying with 106 in the money earning more than $7 million. 2006 was an unbelievable year for the WSOP main event with the most entrants ever (8,773) with over 1,600 coming from PokerStars alone earning over $10 million! The most recent 2007 main event hosted 6,358 players with 616 coming from Stars. Three players that qualified made the final table earning over $8.8 million combined. PokerStars is pretty much the king of tournaments, especially satellites to larger events and this track record shows it.

Arguably the best and most well known online poker room today, PokerStars has come a long way. PokerStars was one of the originators of online poker and has been around since 2001. From its starting days, PokerStars had always been competing (and usually losing) with the back then dynamite PartyPoker. It was in early 2006 that Stars started to make its move and began implementing a ton of new software changes, brand new tournaments, an amazing FPP system, and break through technology winning over many players. And once PartyPoker closed its services to US customers in November of 2006, Poker Stars' numbers grew to amazing new heights, over 9 million registered users!

PokerStars offers a very wide variety of games, including Hold'em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, Razz, 5 Card Draw, 2-7 Triple Draw, and HOSE/HORSE. This is pretty much every popular variety of poker played today. Of these games, the limits run as low as $.02 - $.04 up to $100 - $200 for no-limit, which is quite the stretch in stakes. Also, it really doesn't matter if you have a $50 bankroll or $50,000 because there are so many players (usually 14,000+ active tables) so you can easily find a table to sit at for your suiting. Although the nosebleed stakes aren't as popular as they are at Full Tilt, there are still always multiple $25 - $50 tables being played. If Hold'em isn't your game, or if you want to learn a new game, Stars can the best place to learn with hundreds of cash tables running for games other than hold'em. Recently PokerStars just added cash heads-up tables which have been very popular. Most of these can have 3-4 people in line on the waiting lists at all limits during peak hours, and this was an awesome addition for the players!

For all tournaments, sit & go and multi-table, PokerStars is king of the online world. In fact, they have 600,000 played per week, which is about one every second! Stars is also one of the few sites that constantly run sit and gos for games other than hold'em. Although they are offered at most sites, they usually never have a large enough player base to get them running. There are too many different types and buyins offered to list them all, but the most popular sit n gos at PokerStars are the turbo's for all buyins (yes even the $5600's usually have a few going), heads up (offer regular, turbo, and no blind increasing), the Sunday Million double shootout satellites, and the ever popular $22 180 player. When these were first released they were only offered during part of the day and the people loved them so much that not only do they run 24/7 now, but the buyins range from $4 + $.40 up to $55 + $5. FTR has compiled a list oof every PokerStars SNG offered. We also go into detail about each one and offer some strategy for how to beat them! To read this and be on your way to winning at Sit & Gos, check out PokerStars Sit And Go Types and Strategy.

As for online multi-table tournaments, PokerStars is should be your home. The variety of tournaments, buyins, guarantees, satellites, games, freerolls, and events are so much higher than any site today it doesn't even compare. They offer a range of buyins from as low as $.10 (yes 10 cents, with $50 guaranteed) up to $10,300, daily and weekly. Their most popular guaranteed tournaments are the $3 rebuy ($30,000 guaranteed), $5 rebuy ($35,000 guaranteed), $10 rebuy ($55,000 guaranteed), $55 freezeout ($50,000 guaranteed), etc. They also offer special tournaments based on the day, for example the Wednesday Hundred Fifty is a $300 + $20 with a guaranteed $150k. PokerStars lists a complete schedule for all of their tournaments on their website. Don't forget about its Sunday tournaments either, although I don't think you could. The Sunday Million ($215 buyin) hasn't always been $1,000,000 guaranteed and I remember when it was only $200,000 guaranteed which was a huge tournament back then. They also added in the Sunday Warmup ($215 buyin, $400k guaranteed) and the Sunday Second Chance ($215 buyin, $200k guaranteed). Just these alone are bigger than most other sites Sunday main event tournaments! PokerStars is pretty much the father of the Sunday tournaments and still has the largest offered anywhere.

Since 2002, PokerStars has been the host to the WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker). It has grown beyound anyone's expectations since it started, from just 9 events and under $1 million in prize pools to 23 events and over $15 million in 2007. This is now the most prestigious online series today, and it is still growing. WCOOP 2008 is now underway, and is even bigger than last year! There is a total of 33 events, with $30 million guaranteed. This is twice as much money as 2007! The main event alone is $10 million guaranteed with a buy-in of $5200, and based on past events the prize pool should surpass this. First place will award over $1,000,000! If you can't afford a direct buy-in, satellites are also running starting as low as $4. Be sure to check out PokerStars for your shot at the prize pool!

PokerStars is a registered legal business located in the Isle of Man, in the British Isles. and is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, and it's random number generator has been audited and approved by two independent organizations, BMM International and Cigital, Inc.

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