I first got into poker after watching "The Big Game" on Channel 4, which was sponsored by Pokerstars.net. I had gotten to know some of the big names such as Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier and Elky and all of these guys had the pokerstars badge on them, especially once Full Tilt went under. So naturally, I went to pokerstars as my first site. Positives: - Awesome software, the best out there. - Great customer support - It can be awesome to check the nosebleed stake tables and see huge names like "isildur1", "supernova9" and "biatchpeople" who you can rail. - Widest range of games, stakes out there. - The place to be if you wanna be an SnG pro. - Huge tournaments such as the WCOOP and the weekly Sunday Million that could instantly propel you to glory from nowhere. Negatives: - Low rakeback - Comparatively, this is the site where the games are the hardest at each stake. - Tournament fields are huge, so variance is larger and you may have to play for 12hours before busting on the bubble, this is brutal. Overall, to start out this is probably not the site to use. However, there's always that corner of people's minds that will be dreaming about sitting at those nosebleed stake tables one day. A great site, I hope I will be playing on there some day in the future.

As other reviewers have said... What more can I say? Pokerstars is the world's largest poker room and as a consequence of this they have the most money to put into software development, promotions and all that kind of thing! If you play poker on an iPad, iPhone or Android device, Pokerstars is probably going to be your best bet. They also have the largest tournaments (by far), largest player pool and biggest variety of games. All of this combined with probably the best possible support one could come to expect from a gaming company. What more can I say?

What can I say... it's PokerStars. Beautiful, responsive, highly customizable software, amazing traffic, really good support and they even have a sweet VIP scheme (as long as you're really serious grinder). It's really hard not to recommend this juggernaut but if you can't get fast Supernova status I'd look for a better deal money-wise (perhaps one of the ipoker or Microgaming skins),

Obviously software wise, Pokerstars is the best on the market for me. Super quick, user friendly and jam packed with every game under the sun you could ever need. Personally though, I do prefer to save Pokerstars for the odd MTT and grind on a smaller site with a smaller field like BetVictor. Has to be 5 stars though! :D