PokerStars

[Nazareth]

Anyone play there? Any comments Good Bad or otherwise?

[largeeyes]

Might want to try the poker forum. Down the hall, first door on the right.

[webber286]

In general people seem to like PokerStars. A more competitive level of play compared with a PartyPoker, more on the level of Ultimate Bet.

[Nazareth]

Played it for a Couple of hours last night- Very nice. The Hands seemed very random & none of that 8 straight straights in a row like pokerroom gives. I really like pokerroom's software- better that pokerstar's, but pokerstars isn'r as 'patterned' as pokerroom. Everyone at the table was winning hands unlike pokerroom's where certain seats would win consistantly- I wish pokerstars would adopt software similiar to pokerroom's though.

[KasinoKing]

PokerStars was the first room I ever used - but something turned me off it.
The software was not the best - dunno if it's changed in the last 2-years..?

For absolutely the most fun you can have with your clothes on: True Poker!
(Best software by blinking MILES! )

For loads of non-stop action, with 20,000 + opponents: Empire Poker

These are my current favorites.

[deezamn]

Played it for a Couple of hours last night- Very nice. The Hands seemed very random & none of that 8 straight straights in a row like pokerroom gives. I really like pokerroom's software- better that pokerstar's, but pokerstars isn'r as 'patterned' as pokerroom. Everyone at the table was winning hands unlike pokerroom's where certain seats would win consistantly- I wish pokerstars would adopt software similiar to pokerroom's though.

No offense to you personally, but people like "you" should not be playing poker online if you have feelings like that (ie, there are "lucky" seats, "patterned hands".)

Why would online poker rooms want to kill the golden cash cow they currently have going for them? Online poker is not rigged, fixed, and does not favor certain players over others. The sooner you begin to recognize this, the more you'll enjoy playing online.

[Nazareth]

Don't think so? Go sign up for pokerroom and then sign up for pokerstars- play both for about a week- I'm telling you that I have been testing this at pokerroom- this isn't simply coincidence. I'm not saying it's 100% sure- but my gosh- do like I say then report back here- I think you'll find quite a difference between the two poker places. Big difference in the number of 'straight chasers' between the two places & big difference in the number of times the straights come up on the boards between the two places- those straights I listed a few posts ago were the actual straights that kept comming up- Sign up for pokerroom and see for yourself. If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong- but it looks aweful suspicious to me at pokerroom. I value your opinion, but if you haven't played there then you don't know what I'm talking about. The original poster hasp layed there and agrees- Yes, we could be wrong- But I'm telling you that when I keep careful track of the seats that are winning, and then switch rooms & take that same seat, I start winning- consistantly- it has happened too many times to be coincidence or 'lucky streaks' on my part. The cards just keep falling in my favour when I take careful note & I'm the one that starts beating the flush with J over the 10 of the other persons hand-

Just go observe for awhile & I think you might come to the conclusion that 'maybe' somethign aint right like I have- I'm not saying there are 'lucky seats' I don't beleive in that- I am saying there may be patterns going on there

And I Am enjoying my online experience at pokerstars- Very much

[deezamn]

Don't think so? Go sign up for pokerroom and then sign up for pokerstars- play both for about a week-

Heh...I've played 10s of thousands of hands of hold 'em at pokerroom. And 100's of thousands of hands at other sites. The way I got into gambling at online casinos, was originally from playing poker online.

I like pokerroom and have always done rather well there. The streaks you're seeing are just a result of the # of hands you're seeing/playing an hour. You'll probably get around 30 hands dealt per hour at a casino in a live game of poker. Whereas you'll probably get 80 dealt in exactly the same game online. Since you're seeing more than twice as many hands, "streaks" like that are more than twice as likely to occur.

Glad you're enjoying it, but I found once I got over the sneaking suspicions of "something ain't right...", it's alot easier to enjoy the game, even when your cards are running cold and it seems like you'll never win another hand.

[bpb]

If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong-

You are wrong.

[Mugwump]

Don't think so? Go sign up for pokerroom and then sign up for pokerstars- play both for about a week- I'm telling you that I have been testing this at pokerroom- this isn't simply coincidence.

Naz,

I understand your concern, but you need to understand two things.

1.) The players at pokerstars are tighter than pokerroom, a LOT tighter. When you have a lot of loose players who go too far with their hands, you are going to see many more big hands. When you hit your hand though, you will win a bigger pot.

2.) You see a LOT more hands playing online than you do live. At least twice as many per hour. Because of this, you are going to see more strange events. In addition, the brain naturally tries to make sense out of these events, and detect patterns in them, which is not appropriate for random events.

I like pokerstars and pokerroom. I generally play at pokerstars and UB when I'm tired of getting clobbered by junk hands. I move back to pokerroom and party poker when I'm tired of breaking even or losing due to the rake.

Keep records at pokerstars, and move back to pokerroom for a while after you've played some good players. Check your records afterwards, I'm sure you'll see a big difference. (www.pokercharts.com is good for keeping records, and www.cardplayer.com also has a stats tracking feature, if you want to spend the money www.pokertracker.com has an excellent program to use as well)