3. Poker Stars Reviews

[internet]

The best multi-table tournament site on the web. For my detailed review: http://www.internettexasholdem.com/poker-site-reviews/reviews/poker-stars-reviews/

They do not offer new member deposit bonuses but they do offer deposit bonuses to current members from time to time.

To Join: http://www.pokerstars.com/?source=internettexasholdem.com

[Denise]

Beautiful software, wonderful tools, and you can use your own picture.

So far, in my opinion, it's the classiest and most well done online poker room. The games are fairly tight, with strong players, but hopefully they will bring in some more traffic when they advertise with WPT this year.


D

[LuckyLiam]

Great site from a presentation perspective. However, the games are fairly tight – even at the lower limits. Tremendous for tournaments, although I can’t say if these are good or not as I’m not big on tourneys.

As Denise says, this site can only get better as more and more players come online. One to monitor. I feel the score a site gets has got to be mainly related to its potential for profit so I award a 6 here.

[ThePaladin]

I like PokerStars for the tournaments. I also like that they have high stakes limit holdem (200/400) with play money. I found this can be a pretty good place to practice a bit as the stakes are high enough ppl come close to treating it as real $. I've noticed lately that at the $2/$4 limit I like to play there don't seem to be that many tables going at a time making it a little more challenging to find a good game than when I first started playing at PokerStars.

[BigSwings]

Play is overall pretty tight but patience pays off, not a place to go in and burn 30 minutes because you need more time to get cards...

Tournaments are great, the structure is perfect in the 2-table Sit & Go. Real easy games up to 10$ a bit tougher at 30$ and really tight at 50$ and up.

My absolute favourite site because of the splendid software and fast games.

BigSwings

[ladybug]

I recently joined because this is where the forum tournament will be. I gave it a "9", although it was close between 8 and 9. The software here is the best, and I love their tournaments. The ring games are tight, and much harder to beat that at other sites, so I don't play them much.

One thing that I don't like is that all the tournaments are listed together. For example, under SNG's (or multitable tournaments), there are omaha, hold'em (both limit and NL) and stud tournaments all in the same list. So you have to be careful that you select the right game. Once, when I thought I had registered for a 18-player holdem tournament, it was really omaha hi/lo (which I don't know how to play). I didn't realize it until it started (and I was dealt 4 cards instead of 2.) So I just sat out the whole thing, and lost my $5 + $.50 entry fee. So that's just something to be aware of.

Also, a holdem freeroll might give you free entry to a omaha tournament, which is useless if you don't play omaha. But they do have multitable NL holdem tournaments with buyins of just $1-$3, where you have a chance to win some money without risking much.

Tina

[CSharpMin]

I've logged a good number of hours at the 2/4 and 3/6 ring games chasing that set of chips. Those games are among the toughest I've found. Small enough site to keep track of your opponents in poker tracker. From the data I've seen, there are good players aplenty there.

[legaleagle97]

[robrobrob]

I tried playing some tournaments on stars this weekend, but finding a $30 or $50 limit sit and go is nigh unto impossible.

rob

[cybrarian]

[Thurmaniac]

This is a very nice site. I like the bright and breezy interface, even though some of the sound effects are a bit "Mickey Mouse". Plus, you can represent yourself with your own picture, what a shame other sites don't do this.

The ring games are kind of tough, and they seem to prefer short-handed games and No-Limit to sensible ring games. However, the Sit'N'Go tourneys are the most playable I've seen on the net, and like London buses there's one along every few seconds.

[the alex]

I play on this site three or four times a week and I love it.

The software is great. The lobby gives you a ton of information before joining a table. The support isn't live but it is 24 hrs. and very fast.

The players are players. It's tight but you can still get action.

They cash out fast and the server has 1 or 2 problems a month at the most which is amazing.

I give it a 10

[Piscivorous]

I canvased 3 sites recently with money from my out-of-internet poker bankroll...$100 each. Put $100 into my existing Paradise account, $100 into UltimateBet and $100 here at Pokerstars. Both Paradise and UB gave me deposit bonuses, but PokerStars did not. Is this common?

[halashton]

Yes, Stars only offers reload bonuses every few months.

[Tanya Peck]

I had to rate it a 1.

It's one of two sites that literally crashes my system. I tried working with their technical support to no avail.

I downloaded it, I deposited money, I played one hand..crashed. I rebooted, clicked on a room, crashed. I rebooted, clicked on a room, got my cards, clicked on call (or whatever), crashed. Over and over again.

Technical just couldn't seem to help me or give me an answer, although they tried.

Oh, and the other site that does this to my computer? PokerChamps.com