PokerStars Review

Special Features
World's largest poker room
New tournament every second
Endorsed by WSOP Champions
Online poker series' (WCOOP/SCOOP)
Custom poker room avatars

Summary
PokerStars is without doubt the King of internet poker rooms, with the most players, the biggest tournaments and the best software. They have a whole stable of pro players, who they sponsor, including Daniel Negreanu and WSOP Main Event Champions – Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, Greg Raymer, Peter Eastgate and Joe Cada. Combine all of this with huge rewards, bonus offers, and the best support; it is no wonder is the best internet poker room.

Software
The PokerStars software is certainly one of the best available, if not the best. It is constantly being updated as more players join PokerStars, and it is also Mac compatible. Players have the ability to upload images to use as their avatars, and have a variety of different tables and backgrounds to choose from. One of the biggest attractions to the software is that players can play at up to 24 cash game tables, and an unlimited amount of tournament tables! No other internet poker site can handle that much per player.

Game Variety
Being the biggest online poker site in the world and with over 200,000 players online at any one time, PokerStars definitely do not disappoint with game variety. They offer everything, including Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, H.O.R.S.E, H.O.S.E, 2-7 Triple Draw, Five-Card Draw, Razz, Single-Draw Lowball, Badugi, and even more! Most games are offered in Limit, No-Limit, and Pot-Limit, as well as a variety of tables including heads-up, six-handed, and nine-handed tables. The limits range from $0.01/$0.02 to $200/$400. Tournaments also range from buy-ins of $0.01 to tens of thousands!

Ring Game Traffic
PokerStars have the most cash game players in the world so you will have a huge choice of tables to choose from. Usually you can find around 20,000 cash game players, with the vast majority playing low-mid stakes. There are a few high stakes games however Full Tilt would be a better option if you are after high stakes cash games.

Tournaments
PokerStars is definitely the best site for online poker tournaments and they have a new one starting every second! This ensures that everyone finds a tournament of their chosen game at various buy-in levels; however the smaller buy-in games are definitely the easiest to cash in. The PokerStars Sunday Million is the biggest guaranteed weekly tournament in online poker, however recently they have increased it to $1.5million guaranteed because usually 8,000 players enter. They also run various online poker series throughout the year called SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker), and their WCOPP series (World Championship of Online Poker). These tournaments are seen as the WSOP standard of online poker and attract the best poker players in the world so expect tough competition!

Soft Competition
There is a huge selection of tables to choose from at PokerStars so players will never be short of fish. The lower stakes cash games and tournaments attract a lot of beginner players, as well as plain poor players. At the high stakes cash games and big buy-in tournaments however competition is very tough and the players are some of the best in the world so tread carefully.

Customer Support
The PokerStars support team is certainly one of the best in online poker. With having such a huge player base their staff are very helpful, however only e-mail support is currently available.

Deposit and Withdrawal Options
Deposit Options = Visa, MasterCard, Neteller, Moneybookers, ClickandBuy, Diners Club International, Solo/Switch/Maestro, WebMoney, check and more. Withdrawal options = Visa, Neteller, WebMoney, ClickandBuy, Moneybookers, bank transfer and checks.