09-11-2001, 12:08 PM
Poker Stars, the newest online cardroom, opens today for play money. Poker Stars is inviting players to help them test their software during their Beta testing period, at the end of which there will be a $5000 freeroll tournament for players who have accumulated "Frequent Player Points". Players acquire FPPs by playing in their play-money games, reporting bugs and offering software suggestions, playing in freeroll tournaments and so forth.
Freeroll No Limit Hold'em tournaments will be held tonight, Wednesday and Thursday at 9:00 pm Eastern. A limit Omaha Hi-Lo freeroll is also scheduled for Thursday.
Poker Stars has some unique features like statistics tracking, player images, a place to keep notes on opponents' play, and the tournament lobby where players' chip counts are tracked is very good. Also, the software does a good job of handling bet sizes for NL/PL games (there is big-bet Hold'em and Omaha available for play money).
Try it out at www.pokerstars.com (http://www.pokerstars.com); the link to Poker Stars is also a featured advertiser on the 2+2 website (see frame at left).
Note: I have had the opportunity to act as a pre-beta consultant for Poker Stars over the last 11 months of its development.
Freeroll No Limit Hold'em tournaments will be held tonight, Wednesday and Thursday at 9:00 pm Eastern. A limit Omaha Hi-Lo freeroll is also scheduled for Thursday.
Poker Stars has some unique features like statistics tracking, player images, a place to keep notes on opponents' play, and the tournament lobby where players' chip counts are tracked is very good. Also, the software does a good job of handling bet sizes for NL/PL games (there is big-bet Hold'em and Omaha available for play money).
Try it out at www.pokerstars.com (http://www.pokerstars.com); the link to Poker Stars is also a featured advertiser on the 2+2 website (see frame at left).
Note: I have had the opportunity to act as a pre-beta consultant for Poker Stars over the last 11 months of its development.