PokerStars

Category: PokerRooms

14.04.2011

PokerStars is one of the largest poker rooms of online poker gambling business. It runs lots of different tournaments, games and competitions. It also offers an unique collection and sit-and-gos at all stakes starting up practically continually. The software is exceptional and thanks to it you have a chance to enjoy fast game, a high level of safety and dependability, numerous options and customization. If you need soft game and competition, you will not be sure that will find it here, because players vary from beginners to advanced gamblers, and the opposition can range from super soft at one table to exceptional aggressive just the next table over. Lower limits and tournaments are well-visited by bad weak participants, but there are lots of strong professional players even there, which earn money here, and you should be ready for some good competition with worthy gamblers. Among games that are always on offer there are such popular ones as Texas Hold'em, Omaha and Seven-Card Stud in all versions, H.O.R.S.E., H.O.S.E., 2-7 Triple Draw, Five-Card Draw, Razz, 2-7 Single Draw Lowball, Badugi, 8-Game, Mixed Hold’em and Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo. It is expected, that some games will be added to this list soon. Also PokerStars may be proud of it’s excellent loyalty program that is one of the best ones in online poker industry. Participants who reach the long-awaited Supernova status receive free entry into $1 million tournaments, reckless often player point multipliers and a great number of cash bonuses. Everything about the PokerStars loyalty program is world-class containing the frequent player point shop that is the largest in the online poker business. Well, PokerStars is at a stand of it’s popularity now thanks to that fact that it follows modern tendencies in online poker industry and has it’s own style. It values it’s guests and keeps connections with them and it is always ready to help them to cope with problems with gambling. What about poker room visitors? Statistics as of October 2010 shows 22500 ring-game gamblers and 155000 tournament visitors at the peak time. Bonus Clearing: The bonus is released in $10 increments at a rate of 17 VPP per $1 of bonus. Participants may make up to three deposits in total to claim the full bonus but it is necessary that they are made within 60 days of the first deposit. Players then have six months to earn the full bonus amount. PokerStars offers loyal players a great loyalty program with two types of points gained for real-money gambling: 1) VIP player points (VPPs) 2) Frequent Player Points (FPPs) Your VIP level is always determined by VPPs, so you can't exchange them for cash or prizes. You may use FPPs to purchase merch, electronics, etc. in the shop; they also can be turned into cash or used to play in special points tournaments. You will have an opportunity to receive more FPP and get better perks when your VIP level increases. Silverstar status is available only when you have 750 points and then there is a chance to get to Supernova Elite that is the main goal of all poker players, both advanced and beginners, and it is one of the highest achievements of online poker gambling. 1-3 FPPs are awarded per raked real-money hand depending on total rake; 5 FPPs are awarded for each $1 in tournament fees. PokerStars launched Stellar Rewards since the first of January. They have bonuses and rewards based on your VPP level. At just 750 VPPs players qualify for their first payout of $10. This program suggests an award at the rate of about $1,000 if you make it all the way to Supernova status. PokerStars is the largest poker site of online gambling industry. Without doubts, you will find there anything you like. Thanks to high level of traffic there are games, tournaments, rivals and levels of complicacy at any choice. Buy-ins for majority of events vary between low and medium; the smaller buy-in tournaments are usually popular, well-visited and profitable. If you are a high-stake gambler, we have numerous $500 or more buy-in tournaments for you, where the prize pool can reach up to $1 million mark. The bigger buy-ins tournaments may have some very tough competition, so it is not too easy to win there and to get fantastic prize. But fortunately, the situation concerning the smaller buy-in events is contrary. You may meet here lots of beginners trying to get a large cash prize. This fact makes some of the small guaranteed events more advantageous for advanced gamblers. For instance there are here 45-player and 180-player multi-table sit-and-gos. They start anytime they gather a sufficient number of participants. This commonly happens regularly every few minutes, so you don’t have to wait a long period of time. These are some of the softest tournaments on the Web. Besides all of that, PokerStars invites you to test yourself at the biggest guaranteed tournaments in the online poker business. The world-known PokerStars Sunday Million is among them. "The Million" recently had its $1 million guaranteed prize pool upped to a guaranteed $1.5 million, that attracted more gamblers to take part in the biggest Sunday major on the web. The World Championship of Poker (WCOOP) and Spring Championship of Poker (SCOOP) are also at your disposal now. Each of them has suggested a breathtaking $30 million guarantee in the past with the main events rewarding more than $1 million to first place. Also PokerStars has several satellites for major live and online poker tournaments. The World Series of Poker, the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour, Asia Pacific Poker Tour, Latin America Poker Tour and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure these are only several ones. PokerStars is always expanding its tournament suggestings based on gambler feedback. Some of its newest innovations are the "Double or Nothing" SNGs, in which half the field doubles their money, and multi-day events for special tournaments like the WCOOP Main Event.