Why play at Stars???

[EStreet20]

Hey guys, I've been comsidering downloading stars/UB etc for a while, mainly for reloads but my question for people who play primarily at these sites is WHY? All I hear about them (especially Stars) is how mich tougher/tighter the games are than Party/skins so can someone explain to me what makes these sites worth playing? Thanks
Good luck,
Matt

[Schwartzy61]

Software...

Customer Service...

Rake...

[EStreet20]

Thanks, I didn't know their rake structure was lower. Still think I'll stick to my party skin account with rakeback but that is good to know.
Take care,
Matt

[bdk3clash]

They also have shorthanded limit games smaller than $5/10 but bigger than $1/2. Party doesn't.

[lehighguy]

Thier rake is lower? Explain. I thought they were all 5% up to $3.

[KSOT]

How does a skin work? Does it show the same tables or different ones?

I started playing on UB before I knew about rakeback so I'm stuck without it for the moment. If I could legitimately switch over to a UB skin with rakeback I'd love to.

[Shoe]

I agree the games (in general) are better at party, but Stars also has a ton of players, and you should not have a problem finding good tables there either.

[David04]

Also, Stars has a great tournament structure(as does UB), and is far better than Party when it comes to SNG's and MTT's. So if you plan on playing any tournaments, that is something to consider.

[Schwartzy61]

Well I play at the micro limits and it is different so I should have clarified:

at .25/.50 to 1/2 PS takes .25 for every $5 in the pot while PP takes 0.50 at $5 and 0.75 at $12. But it seemed like that extra 0.25 got raked as soon as the pot reached $7.50.

They look even at Small/Medium/High Stakes:

PokerStars Rake Structure

Party Poker Rake Structure

The other two still apply however...

[bobbyi]

Skins show the same tables, but there are no skins of UB, so switching to another one is not an option.