Poker Stars

PokerStars is the most popular and the busiest poker room today. It is market leader in terms of player traffic in tournaments as well as cash games. PokerStars took over as market leader in 2006. when after the UIEGA came into effect in the United States, many online poker rooms banned American players.

There are thousands of new players who join the site every day. Its tournament schedule is very impressive with regular huge guaranteed prize tournaments and many Sit'N'Gos at high stakes.

PokerStars offers a $600 sign-up bonus after making your first deposit.

The PokerStars software is one of the best on the market in terms of functionality and playability. The graphics are also ok.

Because of the huge number of players, the opposition ranges from very easy to serious high stakes pros. There is a lot of opportunity to play against international poker stars on PokerStars.

All in all, PokerStars is a great site and they offer a generious VIP system for loyal players.

PokerStars sent the would be world champion to the WSOP several times, Chris Moneymaker in 2003, Greg Raymer in 2004, Joseph Hachem in 2005 and there are 6 PokerStars players out of the nine finalists of the 2008 Main Event. They run many satellites every year to the WSOP as well as other big tournaments like EPT, LAPT and APPT.