Ever asked yourself where to find the most secure poker room?

galamann — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:12:17 +0000

As a hobby poker player I really like to play online poker. When you want to choose an online poker room as your main platform what are the most important criteria that you would consider? Well, I think for me the most important bullet point is security. That’s why I prefer PokerStars. They have a very strict policy against any kind of fraud. You might ask whether this shouldn’t be standard for all poker rooms. Yes it should be but it isn’t. Let’s have a look at a very recent example: Ultimate Bet. This poker platform was the favorite poker room for bots. What is a bot? A bot is a piece of software that plays poker completely automatically. And it does it quite good. Not good enough to play at the high limits but well enough to beat the small stake limits up to NL5 and maybe NL10.

For years Ultimate Bet didn’t care about these bots, actually UB made a lot of money from the rake these bots produced. Just recently UB decided to change their point of view and started to take serious measurements against the bots. Now ask yourself the question do you really trust a poker room that did nothing against such a threat for years?

PokerStars is quite the opposite. They analyze the behavior of the players very accurately in order to detect poker bots or collusion. And they act without mercy and that is how it should be done!

Another advantage of PokerStars is the big number of players that is online around the clock. You will always find a table to play. The bad news is that the skill of your opponents at PokerStars is quite high. You really have to look very hard for the fishes. But you should see this as a bonus for you since you can really improve your game against good players.

If you don’t play at PokerStars yet, there is another good reason why you should give them a chance now: the biggest deposit bonus ever in the history of Stars. They used to have a very lame $50 sign up bonus. Now first depositors get a massive 100% up to $600 bonus. If you want an even better pokerstars bonus have a look at http://www.pokerstars-bonuscode.com

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Ever asked yourself where to find the most secure poker room?