PokerStars Poker Room

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Games Offered: Texas Hold'em, Omaha Poker, Omaha High-Low, Seven Card Stud, Five Card Draw, 2-7 Triple Draw, Seven Card Stud High-Low, Razz, HORSE, Poker Tournaments.

Rating:  Welcome Bonus: First-time deposit bonus up to $50. Accepting USA players: Yes View Tournament Schedule

This is the largest poker site in the world. It is not part of any network and they created the player base by themselves. The poker room offers enormous cash games and tournaments. PokerStars is for the player who enjoys the usual poker variations.

The game variety is huge. There is a big selection of merchandise, special events, and qualifiers to all major poker tournaments. They are sponsors to the worlds most famous players, like Canadian genius Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, and WSOP main event winners Chris Moneymaker, Joseph Hachem and Greg Raymer.

Great layout, graphics, good functionality, fast play and high reliability - that is what makes PokerStars so great. The enormous player base goes from soft to very aggressive and you the opportunity to play with top players.

The customer support is fast and excellent. Featured games are Limit and no Limit Texas Hold'em, Hi and Lo versions of Omaha and Seven Card Stud. The site offers No Limit Omaha Hi-Lo games, HORSE, 2-7 Triple Draw, Five-Card Draw and Razz.

Micro-limit tables introduced games for as little as 1¢/2¢. With Hold'em and Omaha, there is no rake. The other games at PokerStars vary between No-Limit, Pot-Limit, and Fixed Limit. Also available are full table games, short-handed and heads-up tables.

At PokerStars you can find any game at any hour. As of February 2008 their were 155,000 ring game players at peak hours. With game diversity, software quality, promotions and bonuses, frequently updated software, we can say that PokerStars has a good "feel for poker".