1. Massive variety of games, in both tournament and cash format
2. Regular high-stakes MTTs, including the legendary Sunday Million
3.Efficient and helpful support staff, who help to make an excellent room even better
Software
9.5/10
Game Traffic
9.9/10
Game Variety
9.7/10
Support
9.6/10
Bonuses
7.2/10
Soft Games
6.0/10
Sign up Bonus
100%
Max allowed
$50
Note: use BONUS CODE: First2007 to qualify for the current offer.
Lobby
Cash Game
Software
Pokerstars are renound for there solid software and this copes very well with their huge numbers of registered players. The graphics are nice but not astounding, and the feel of play is just about right, swift and to the point. Your own graphics can be loaded which is a nice touch too, but only once so make sure to get it right first time, this helps alot with recognising your foes or friends of course, as does the note system on stars, which allows you to keep detailed notes on other players. Multi tabling is available and screens can now be dragged down (or up) to the size that you want, to allow up to 4 tables on a standard screen and of course many more on larger screens. This is a very useful feature, both for multi tabling and for us, the occasional full screen tourny -)
Volume and Variety
Size: large. Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hi and Hi-Lo and 7 Card Stud Hi and Hi-Lo and much more are all available...you will find the game you are looking for on pokerstars, whether that be a million dollar tourny or a small stakes cash game. Another nice aspect is the fact they are in league with so many of big worldwide live tournys, you will find satellites to your favourite live events running reguarly, no wonder they can boast the last 3 world champions being groomed on their software. The level of play is quite high, as one would imagine, but this does vary very much so throughout the games, mainly due to the huge numbers, make sure to explore and find the right game for you.
Support / Ease of withdrawal
Being one of the bigger sites, pokerstars offers easy and swift withdrawl and has a very good customer service team, 24 hours phone and email support is available. Pokerstars know that customer service is instrumental in keeping players happy and have focused alot of effort into making this a reality, they have always been very helpful and prompt. A big thumbs up in this department.
Bonuses and Promotion
Pokerstars currently offer a 100% sign up bonus up to $50 for first time depositors, use code First2007 to qualify. You have 6 months to play out the bonus collecting fpps (frequent player points, which in reality is more than enough for a very infrequent player) Pokerstars also offer a very attractive points system, where loyal players get a mass of different freebies, from a hat from the shop to a heads up game with one of the pros for a $1000. However one must be very loyal to the software to actually recieve the more lucrative benefits, such as the aston martin vanquish. Use your FPP's wisely to gain entrance in to all manner of tournaments, from the sunday millions to practically every major event held around the world, WSOP, WPT etc etc.
Flip Thoughts-overall rating
Pokerstars is one of the 'must play' sites for us. They simply have too much variety to be missed. The software, the support and the forever running stream of tournaments, big and small, makes pokerstars a winner...check it out for yourself and let us know what you think! They created the last three world champs and playing there its easy to see why!