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  • Poker Stars Review

    Posted on November 16th, 2009 admin No comments

    There are also a number of satellites available to the various tours PokerStars hosts. The site offers large multi-table tournament satellites as well as the popular Sit N’ Go steps, where players can win their way into events by playing through a series of single table tournaments.

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    As the largest online poker room on web, PokerStars is a home for the biggest poker auditory on web, so you won’t have any trouble finding lots of opponents playing all poker games available at PokerStars. The players range in ability is remarkable too — from World Champions and down to amateurs enjoying play money games.

    PokerStars provides quality 24/7 customer support via e-mail. The support team is very friendly and responsive. Unlike many other sites, PokerStars offers multi-language customer support available in many locations across the world.

    Poker Stars is famous for their exceptional tournaments. Tournaments are starting every second of the day and you are guaranteed to find a tournament that fits your style. Tournament buy-ins range from as low as If you’re looking for variety, you’ve come to the right place. On one hand, Poker Stars lacks Pineapple and other variations of poker. On the other hand, there’s so much more than just crazy mini games that no one plays in general. You can play Texas Hold’em in Limit, No Limit and Pot Limit (including a Turbo mode). If you’re into Omaha or Omaha Hi/Lo, there’s a good variety of tables with active players as well. Even the 7 Card Stud and 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo tables attract some competition. The stakes range from Poker Stars offer a very fast e-mail support with reply times often as fast as within half an hour. There is no live chat and telephone support available..01/It boasts a top notch security team, very strong player friendly software and is more than twice as popular as the most popular network online. Remember that PokerStars is more than twice as popular as the most popular network (iPoker) and PokerStars is not even part of a network itself! PokerStars is the best place to play poker online..02 to 0/0..10 up to the highest stakes. PokerStars is famous for their Sunday Million tournament in which the prize pool is guaranteed to be at least one million dollars. Players can buy-in directly to the Sunday Million tournament or win a seat through freerolls or satellites. PokerStars also offers a lot of great chances for players to win seats to famous live events such as the WSOP and WPT through their daily qualifiers.

    Customer Support at PokerStars is strong but limited. There are a number of email addresses listed on the homepage which operate 24/7 and send back an informative response within 4 hours. And while there is no 24/7 phone service, customers are able to email and request a telephone correspondence (either in Spanish or English.)

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  • PokerStars Porsche

    Posted on October 2nd, 2009 admin No comments

    PokerStars is giving an opportunity to its players to win Porsche Cayman S.

    Entrance into the tournament for the car is free. PokerStars players just need to make a deposit or reload until October 17th and they will be granted a ticket into the freeroll tournament set to give away the Porsche and other cash prizes. There is no minimum deposit set, but players will need to enter bonus code – WINCAR for a reload, NEWCAR for a first time deposit.

    The tournament will take place on October 18th at 13:00, but players will be allowed to get tickets until October 17th, 13:00. Make sure you get yours!

  • Carter Phillips Won EPT Barcelona

    Posted on September 11th, 2009 admin No comments

    Twenty-year-old American poker pro Carter Phillips ended the five day PokerStars EPT Barcelona tournament Wednesday as the champion, besting an original entry field of 478 players to collect the trophy, the kudos and the main prize cheque for Euro 850 000.

    Carter, who came from North Carolina, said: “The feeling is unreal. The whole tournament it felt like any other tournament to me, even when we got heads up. I think once the river hit the deck, all the emotion came in to me at once and I didn’t even know how to react.”

    “It just all hit me at the same time and it’s overwhelming, as you can tell from my reaction,” said Phillips.

  • New PokerStars Bonus

    Posted on August 5th, 2009 admin No comments

    It is a well-known fact that PokerStars is the king in online tournaments, player base size, and name recognition, but one area players felt they fell short was in the deposit Bonus arena. A 100% up to $50 first deposit Bonus just didn’t seem fit for the online behemoth. Now that has all changed.

    PokerStars now offers a 100% up to $600 first deposit Bonus! That’s 12 times as large as the original Bonus! And what about all those players who already made their accounts and first deposits at PokerStars? They haven’t been forgotten. PokerStars is also offering a 50% up to $300 reload Bonus! Players have up to six months to release the bonuses and both bonuses can be claimed by using up to three deposits. All deposits must be made within 60 days of the first eligible deposit for the 100% up to $600 first deposit Bonus, and within 90 days for the 50% up to $300 reload Bonus.

    These are the biggest first deposit and reload bonuses ever to be released by PokerStars. The increased bonuses come just in time to help celebrate the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker, which is set to be the largest online poker series in history. The total guaranteed prize pool is set at $40,000,000! Satellites are already underway, including the WCOOP Extreme Satellites where hundreds of WCOOP seats are up for grabs.

    There has never been a better time than now to make your account at PokerStars.com.

  • PokerStars Passport

    Posted on July 24th, 2009 admin No comments

    PokerStars Passport is event package that gives you the chance to live the life of a globe-trotting poker player, traveling around the world to represent PokerStars at the biggest events where you can play big money poker.

    You can use the passport to travel to Barcelona, Moscow, Monte Carlo, Sydney, Macau and many more. Or how about taking a trip to Paradise Island in The Bahamas for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure? Up to you. Hotel accommodation and money for expenses is included for every event you decide to go to.

    You can win a PokerStars Passport by scoring big on the Yearly Tournament Leader Board or by taking part in the Annual PokerStars Passport promotion.

  • No More Poker In Russia

    Posted on July 22nd, 2009 admin No comments

    Poker players in Russia are in mourning after their government removed the “sport” designation from the game.

    The move means that most poker clubs in Russia will have to close and leaves the status of the European Poker Tour stop in Moscow in question. Poker, and gaming halls offering any form of poker, are now under the designation of gambling.

    “We have made a change in the Russian list of sports, approved by the order of the Russian Physical Training and Sport Committee on January 1, 2004. We have stricken poker off the list,” said Vitaly Mutko, Russian Youth, Sport and Tourism Minister.

    The Russian Gambling Bill, signed in November 2006, forced the closure of gaming halls that did not meet certain regulations including square footage and financial liquidity. Those restrictions make it unlikely that any of the poker clubs which have popped up in Russia’s poker boom of the last 18 months will be able to survive.

    “We are in mourning,” said Dmitry Lesnoi, founder of the Russian Federation of Sport Poker, the group largely responsible for the government’s original decision. It was Lesnoi’s work that paved the way for the creation of the PokerStars-backed Russian Poker Tour and the upcoming EPT event.

    The EPT event in Moscow is planned to begin August 17 and run through August 23. The removal of poker as a sport will also make it more difficult for international players to acquire the necessary visas to travel to Russia to play in the event.

    Russians have seen an increased presence at the top of international events over the past two years beginning with Alex Kravchenko’s final table appearance at the 2007 World Series of Poker. In 2008 Ivan Demidov made the final table of both WSOP Main Events in Las Vegas and London and just weeks ago Vitaly Lunkin won a bracelet in the $40,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament.

  • No Record For Full Tilt Poker

    Posted on July 21st, 2009 admin No comments

    Full Tilt Poker tried to set a new record for the largest online tournament this weekend. Unfortunately, its attempts were unsuccessful. Nevertheless, it managed to rack up 50,000 players, 15,000 short of PokerStars record of 65,000.

    Why PokerStars managed to attract so many players? PokerStars offered a very similar tournament for a fraction of the cost, not to mention it clearly has a larger player pool than Full Tilt Poker. Also, Full Tilt Poker put a cap on their tournament at 50,000. Now if you are trying to break records, why would you put a cap?

    On any note, online poker players really are the one breaking records here. Lucky winners are walking away with giant prizes. Full Tilt Poker tournament had a prize pool of $500K, while PokerStars tournament offered up a total prize pool of $130K. The winner of the Full Tilt Poker “The Record Breaker” tournament will walk away with $45,000.00, risking only $5.00.

    This will only be a beginning to the battle of the who can create the larger tournament, as speculations see Full Tilt Poker trying this once again, but with a much smaller buy-in. The great thing about these type of battles, the online players are the ones benefiting the most.

  • Eastgate vs. Demidov Rematch

    Posted on June 24th, 2009 admin No comments

    Team PokerStars Pro Peter Eastgate is to take on his 2008 opponent and fellow team member Ivan Demidov in a unique heads-up charity tournament held online at PokerStars.

    When the two first clashed last November, there was over $9 million in prize money at stake. The match took well over 15 hours, the longest Main Event heads-up match in WSOP history.

    Now, only days before the 2009 Main Event kicks off, the two will face-off against each other again, but this time they’ll be slugging it out for charity.

    The match takes place on PokerStars, June 26 at 18:00 ET, and will replicate the exact same circumstances under which the two pros played in 2008. Eastgate, from Odense in Denmark, will start with 80,300,000 in chips, while Demidov from Moscow, Russia will start with 56,600,000. The blinds will be set at 120,000 / 240,000, with a 30,000 running ante.

  • Poker Sites Traffic Increase Despite Fund Seizure

    Posted on June 23rd, 2009 admin No comments

    Tactics chosen by the Southern District of NY Attorney’s office seems to produce the reverse effect of what was intended.

    Latest reports indicate that PartyPoker traffic is up 15% and 12% in the weeks following the seizure of around $34 million of player’s funds. Most interesting fact is that majority of affected poker rooms that cater to US players have seen a boost in traffic. PokerStars is the only exception with traffic down 5% since the seizure.

  • Online Poker eChecks Problem Resolved?

    Posted on June 16th, 2009 admin No comments

    Some posts in forums (2+2, pocketfives, pokerforums) claim that players were able to deposit with echecks on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker sites. It is still not clear if cash-outs will go through as it may take a while before players try to risk cashing-out through echecks to verify.

    Even through it is still not clear whether the problem is fully solved, it seems that everything is getting back to normal in the world of online poker.

    Some reports also claimed Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars have started reimbursing their players who were affected by this situation.