PokerStars

PokerStars.com is the No.1 online Poker Room according to Pokerscout.com.

What makes PokerStars.com so attractive for poker players?

Well, there are several reasons:

• best tournament offers online
• best online cash game traffic
• attractive $600 First Deposit Bonus
• good VIP Loyalty system
• good occasional promotions
• open for the US market
• good marketing  (e.g. hiring WSOP stars like Chris Moneymaker)

About Panama and Pokerstars:

On 11/22/09 the panamenian player Jose "papadelpoker" De La Guardia won the Pokerstars Sunday million tournament with a hefty first place prize of $252,633.86.
see the full report here:
Player from Panama wins Pokerstars Sunday Million

But let's examine their offer in detail:

Best Tournament offers

Here I just need to mention the PokerStars.com Sunday Million tournament. Every week on average 7.000 players compete for a guaranteed prize pool of $1,500,000.
The tournament takes place every Sunday at 16:30 (ET) with a buy-in of $215. First place prize money is $160,000 most weeks and often even more.

 

Best Online Cash Game Traffic

When you checkout Pokerscout.com, you will see that there are at peak times over 50.000 cash game players online at PokerStars.com . That's more than double what the next competitor can offer or about 50% of the total market. This is of course a huge lead of PokerStars.com and as a result you will find there huge traffic for almost all games.
Just an example from Fixed Limit Holdem Poker games:

In the moment where I write this text, PokerStars.com has 958 active and 615 full Fixed Limit Holdem tables running with a total of 6371 players.
At the same time Full Tilt Poker ( the No. 2 room) for example has 145 active and 134 full tables with 957 players running.
I guess you see the huge difference.

 

$600 First Deposit Bonus

PokerStars.com offers new players an attractive 100% $600 First Deposit Bonus. This means that when you deposit $600 as a new player there, they match your deposit with another $600 in your bonus account. Once you’ve made your deposit(s), you earn the bonus by playing on PokerStars and collecting the number of VPPs equal to 17 times the bonus amount. The bonus is released in $10 increments, each released into your account as you clear the needed VPPs (170 VPPs for every $10 increment). You have six months after your first deposit to earn all the VPPs needed to release your bonus.

Important:

Make your first-ever real money deposit using the bonus code ‘STARS600’, and PokerStars.com will give you a 100% bonus up to $600. You can make up to three qualifying deposits in 90 days (up to a total of $600)

 

VIP Loyalty System

New: VIP Stellar Rewards

All VIP Club members can take advantage of our new VIP Stellar Rewards program. We’re starting out by offering $10 to all players who reach 750 VPPs this year. The rewards just add up from there, with $50 rewards starting at 5,000 yearly VPPs and $100 rewards starting when players reach 50,000 VPPs. The final VIP Stellar Reward at 90,000 VPPs brings the total up to $1,000 cash for each player. To claim your share, just reach the required number of VPPs and purchase the appropriate VIP Stellar Reward from the PokerStars VIP Store for just 1 FPP.

¹GoldStar VIP Club satellites to be announced

² PlatinumStar VIP Club satellites to be announced

³ SilverStar VIP Club members can enter multi-table, 130 FPP buy-in satellites that award one entry into the $100,000 monthly event for every 1,300 FPPs in the prize pool.

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Last Updated on Friday, 26 March 2010 19:50