Poker Stars Review

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Western Union & Echeck

PokerStars.com does accept Western Union deposits.  We have devised a step by step guide on how to use Western Union for poker deposits.  The hottest thing out right now is echecks, which Pokerstars has.  They are US accepted, deposited immediately and free!

Poker Stars Bonus

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Poker Stars Freerolls

You need to accumulate Frequent Player Points in order to participate in the freerolls.  For the sake of this review we played in a freeroll.  It was structured very well.  The total prize pool was a little over $500.  There were only 36 entrants which was a nice surprise.  The player points at Poker Stars took quite awhile to accumulate because you need 900 to participate in the freerolls with a decent pot size.  Overall getting points doesn’t take that much time but accumulating around 1,000 does take some time.  It is worth saving your points for the better freerolls.

Best Attributes of Poker Stars

Watching and interacting with the pros on the website is their best feature.  They have mostly World Series of Poker pros on the tables.  Most of the pros are what I call celebrity pros.

Worst Attribute of Pokerstars

At first deposit options were limited but now they have tons of deposit options so I can't say much bad about Poker Stars.

Poker Stars Bad Beat Factor

From our experience the players at the lower level games were pretty tight so the bad beat factor wasn’t god awful like at some poker rooms.  Low stake games will always bring bad beats because of worse players.  The bigger games at Poker Stars were good games with a low bad beat factor.

Stake Levels

They have games for all sorts of players.  There were plenty of micro games and a good amount of mid staked games.  The big stakes were not there.  The largest cash games they had were the $10/20 NL games and the $100/200 Limit tables.

What's Unique at PokerStars?

Having the ability to play with World Series of Poker champions is a neat concept for Poker Stars players.  When you can find them they are usually playing upper staked games but sometimes will play mid staked games to give amateurs a chance to play with them.  It’s good interaction and fun to chat with the Champs.