Poker Stars
Every poker player that plays online has heard of Poker Stars. Poker Stars originally started to get noticed back in 2003 when Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer won the World Series of Poker events. In 2005 another player by the name of Joseph Hachem joined up with them to increase their exposure further. Since 2007 Poker Stars has become the largest online poker room there is. It has by far the most players and tables than any other site. However we’re going to focus this review on the top few things that Poker Stars really capitalizes on.
Besides the over hyped publicity Poker Stars is actually a very professional site to play on. One of the biggest reasons that players are attracted to Poker Stars is because of its tournaments. This is probably Poker Stars’ biggest feature. Many players agree that they have the best room for tournaments above all of the other rooms.
Poker Stars offers many satellite tournaments that lead not only to live tournaments, but that lead to their own guaranteed events as well. Every Sunday Poker Stars offers a $1,000,000 guaranteed event. They also have several double shootouts every day. These double shootouts lead into a cheap seat for the Sunday million guaranteed. Besides the big weekly events there are tournaments to be found every day. Anywhere from a $10 buy-in to a $50 buy-in can be found attracting 1,000 plus players. For many players that’s a small investment to win a good amount of money. The structure to their tournaments is also top of the line. They give players a decent amount of starting chips and allow a good amount of time between blind increases. This gives a little bit of an edge over other poker rooms for players that have skill versus players getting lucky. For players that are looking for a top of the line tournament poker room this is it. Poker Stars is by far the best. With the amount of traffic they have no tournament is ever empty and all of the tournaments offer good payouts even for the micro buy-in events.
Poker Stars publicizes their software to be the best online poker software there is. I would defiantly agree with that having played there multiple times myself. It may not have the best graphics but overall it is a great package and the best out there. Poker Stars allows for players to add their own images for an avatar. This cool little feature is not found in many poker rooms. Recently Poker Stars went through a huge software update that improved not only the looks of it but the functions as well. Players can resize any of the Poker Stars table windows or even tile them to whatever size is desired. Also there are several new themes for players to change. They have several themes like marine, stars, saloon, and renaissance. Each theme comes with its own imagery and colors. If you don’t like the image you can even upload your own.
Finally their software offers one of the best and easiest to use hand history feature. It allows players to see all hole cards that were in showdowns, even if they were mucked. Overall Poker Stars is the best at its tournaments, player traffic, and software. This is one poker room that is highly recommended to all players.