Online Gambling - Poker Stars

PokerStars is the largest online poker cardroom in the world. PokerStars’ satellite tournaments produced the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker. 1983 champion Tom McEvoy, 2005 champion Joe Hachem, 2009 champion Joe Cada and 2010 champion Jonathan Duhamel and others also represent the site and are also regular players. PokerStars is the headline sponsor of the European Poker Tour (EPT), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), Australia & New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT), United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT), Italian Poker Tour (IPT), Czech-Slovak Poker Tour (CSPT), and North American Poker Tour (NAPT). PokerStars also sponsors the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), a stop on the European, Latin American and North American Poker Tours. In 2005, eGaming Review named PokerStars.com the “Best Poker Operator of the Year”. PokerStars offers a downloadable poker client for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems, offering the same features to users of each client. The Windows client has been reported to work at Linux operating systems using Wine emulator.

PokerStars offers ten varieties of poker games: Texas hold ‘em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo (8 or Better), Stud, Stud Hi/Lo (8 or Better), Razz, Five-card draw, Deuce to Seven Triple Draw, Deuce to Seven Single Draw and Badugi. HORSE, HOSE, Mixed Hold’em, Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo, Triple Stud and 8-Game, “mixed games” that rotate through several of the above, are also offered. Players can participate in real money games ranging from $.01/$.02 up to $1,000/$2,000. The home of the World Championship of Online Poker, the largest online poker tournament series in the world, PokerStars has over 20,000 players playing real money ring games daily, plus thousands more playing real money tournaments or free-play games. During peak operating times, this often adds up to over 300,000 players online simultaneously. PokerStars.com’s play money players mix with those logging in from PokerStars.net, a free play-only site without real money games. In October 2008, PokerStars launched PokerStars.it, exclusively for Italian players, which will offer real money tournaments in Euro currency in addition to the usual play money games. PokerStars now offers some ring games and tournaments on its main PokerStars.com site in euro. In March 2010, the site began allowing users to keep their real-money accounts in British pounds and Canadian dollars as well as U.S. dollars and euro.

The site’s flagship weekly event is the Sunday Million, a weekly tournament with a guaranteed $1 million prize pool with a buy-in of $215 and is the biggest weekly online poker tournament in the world. On March 7, 2011, The 5th Anniversary Sunday Million broke records, with 59,128 players creating a total prize pool of $11,825,600.