My Poker Stars Review

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These are my opinions and I may be flat out incorrect on some things, so please let me know if there are ways around some of my gripes. PLEASE COMMENT!

So, I finally downloaded Stars, I deposited 50, taking the 100% bonus which I should release fairly quickly, along with a $222 after from Sparx so I am working with a ~300 bankroll. So what do I do what that? $0.05/$0.10 NL of course!

I started out by going through all of Stars options and customizing everything to my liking, automuck/automuck, Stars Dark/Simple layout, no animation, single click tables, etc etc I was impressed with the options...

I went to sit down and I just went for all 12 tables at once. I figured 12 tabling might be a tad overwhelming on software Ive never used, but its nickel dime, come on, lol.

So... I think the easiest way to convey my review is Likes and Dislikes... This would be compared to Full Tilt.


Likes:

- Some cool new options in the main lobby, I particularly like the abundance of layouts and view customizations.

- Software seems very stable and low on resources. This is obviously huge for me. I ran 12 tables with no PokerTracker and the software ran seamlessly, as it should.

- Additional time to act on hands. Am I crazy here? I was playing regular speed tables but I felt like I never timed out playing 12 tables and I had all day to act. Does anyone know the exact time allowed per decision as compared to FT?

- More table options (Fast, Not Fast, No allin (wtf that is?) lots of cool stuff I have not explored yet)

- Cool little custom player logos. Need I say more?

Dislikes:

- FOLD button appears when I can CHECK. Ok I like that this feature is possible. But when I am trying to run 12 tables don't give me a FOLD button, let me click it, and then ask me if I really wanted to fold. Of course I DONT want to fold, WTF would I want to fold when I can check? I wish there was an option to make the FOLD button not appear in these situations.

- No POT button. I rarely POT postflop, but I like the option of at least being able to POT when I want to. Sometimes, I am about to time out, I wanna make a BIG bet or RAISE but only got 0.1123 seconds left and I gotta click somethin! Slider works fine and typing is good but POT or HALF POT would be nice.

- Silence the dealers. Will my setting save for this? I want the dealers to never text my chat window, ever. I had to change every single one of my 12 tables to silent dealer. I have only played one session but maybe the setting will save now?

- Preferred seat. When does my preferred seat take affect, do I have to wait a hand or something?

- Minor: Tiling tables with multi-monitor. When I tile my tables, they tile across both monitors. I do not like this. Tables should tile across one display only. However this is minor because I only have to create a layout once and save it. The "tile" function is useless to me but the ease of custom layouts nullifies the blow.

Software Winner: Full Tilt Poker


I kept these opinions all software related. I have chose not to mention the level of play yet for a few reasons, the biggest one being I feel level of play is very close to stable across all major sites. I also of course would refuse to comment saying "one runs more real" than the other because I think all opinions such as those are just ridiculous. I did get set over set on my first PS session though against a nickel dime donk, so I am convinced it is rigged as I have not been set over set on Tilt yet this month. (sarcasm)