Pokerstars

This site advertises itself as the largest poker site in the world and there is no denying that. A wide range of games make it a must for the seasoned professional or the complete novice.

Client Install

3 simple steps and a wide variety of languages makes this process extremely user friendly
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Number of Players

The largest poker room around it can have anywhere from 100,000-300,00 at any given time.
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Game Selection

Any card game anytime. The novice can try his hand at any game for small stakes until he finds his particular niche.

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Customer Service

As yet there is no online customer support and you can only email them directly.  E-mail response times are generally between 2-4 hours. Also if you have the web open on another site and select the customer service web service it will do this automatically on the page you have opened !

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Deposits & Withdrawls
Any of the below mentioned methods can be used for deposits. Unforunately for the Irish users there is no laser option.

Withdrawls will be credited back to any and all of the following methods that you have used to make deposits, in the following order:

1. Maestro and Solo (only UK and Northern Ireland)
2. NETeller
3. Moneybookers, ClickandBuy and Click2Pay

Pokestars no longer credit cashouts back to MasterCard accounts.

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Gameplay&General Feel

Outstanding. With a regular newsfeed on the lobby and various filter features this really is a poker players nirvana.  The beginner might feel a little overwhelmed with the sheer volume of features and events, but simply take your time and you’ll find what you’re looking for.

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Flagship Events

The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is run here on the 1st-2nd week in September. With over $40 million in prizes and 45 events this is the biggest event in online poker.

Sunday in on-line poker is a serious day of action and Pokerstars doesn’t disappoint with a whopping $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool for their main event and $750K for the warmup tourney.

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Freerolls

A mind boggling array of events for a wide variety of games. However due to shere volume of people who enter these games there is often a large amount of people who are siting out in a tournament. On one hand this is excellent as there are less active players to beat, but in reality this leads to frustration as timeouts are experienced due to this.

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Features

In Pokerstarts you can at any stage search for your favourite poker professional and find him\her gambling at any of the 1000s of open tables. There is a interesting option of visualising what actually happend with any specific hand which is excellent when working out where it all went wrong !

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Overall

Biggest doesn’t always mean best, but pokerstars offer an excellent service and an incredible selection of games which means it is a must for the on-line poker player.

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