With its opening in September 12th 2001 it began real money games in December 2001. Since then it is a leading poker room with leads of traffic daily with targeted players. One wonderful thing is that it is compatible with both Macintosh (Mac) and Microsoft Windows as well. Poker Star offers various multi table and single table tournaments. The tournaments are called Sit- n –Go’s which is played at a table having, not more that ten players. The allotment of table is simple. When a player registers he is assigned a seat of the table and as soon as all the seats are filled up the game starts.
It offers games like, Texas hold’em, Omaha, 7-card stud and 5-card stud. It attracts a lot of traffic with over 8000 real players at any specific time. This is huge for any poker site.
One important thing to be mentioned is that, it does not offer any sign – up bonuses. But 25 pounds are credit for five hours real money play every month. One more important thing is that you can play at a particular table only for 2 hours and not more than that. Tournaments at Poker Star are available 24 hours a day and 365 days an year. The best part about Poker Star is that it has practice games. In practice games a lot of techniques are taught without betting for real money.
The poker software used in Poker Star is pretty old since Poker Star is an old network. But, update is done regularly. This software is definitely a competition to some top best software available in the world of poker. The graphics sometime look tiresome and consistency is not that great when compared to the best soft wares. The unique feature in this software is that it allows the games to customize into themes with graphical colors all over so that user may have his own taste fit into the table and the room.
Poker Stars offers 24/7 live support through FAQ and e-mail. It also offers excellent sign up bonuses for newly registered members. Poker Stars is relatively not the best for people who are very much interested in traffic rather than variety of games, since its traffic is relatively low when compared to some top Poker sites online. But what matters is that, though traffic disappointed them, the variety of games provides a great option. |