PokerStars Play Money Poker Game Reviews

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Why rig the game?. I understand the developers want to make money and they should. The philosophy of this app is to give people incredible odds at draws to make the pot and rake bigger and the developers think that when people get all this action and lose play money, they will pay real money to buy play money. I am sure there are some idiots who would do that but anybody who understands pot odds and basic probability theory will not keep this app for long, yet along pay for it. So why are you rigging the game? Why not give true odds and put some commercials and make money from commercials? Please please do not tell me that “I feel the game is rigged because of playing many hands online syndrome”. That may work for your average Joe but will not work on people with advanced degrees in math and probability who can collect statistics about dealt hands.

Pretty good poker, 2 minor issues. Pretty good poker, only two minor issues. I'm not a millennial, so I have patience and prefer a game tempo that's not on the beat (game pace) of speed-metal. For all of you that are metaphorically challenged, Zoom, plays at hypersonic speeds (fast paced), and even the straight play-cash games are quick. But, patience is a dying virtue. Second issue, and the programmers can't control it, many players play under the philosophy of chaos, no manners: All in, after all in, nearly every hand. Smash play, not poker. Please, Play with some class, have some self respect, maybe even, is it too much to ask, a modicum of dignity?

Nothing about this app is legit. This app is highly unethical. If you ever purchase coins, you have to continue purchasing coins or you will never win ever. I’m not gonna go into horror stories about bad beats because I promise you,When I see you will lose hands that aren’t actually possible to lose besides like maybe one time in 1 million. You will lose them every time and I mean every time. If you do not purchase coins, you will not get to play very long I can promise that as well. And I don’t know what in the world they are talking about with challenges and all that. Because there’s not one challenge on the entire app, their leader board doesn’t even work. This is a racket for you to spend money on fake coins that have no value and I understand paying for entertainment but the love of God don’t waste your money here.

Don’t listen to others!. This app is not “rigged” I logged into my account from my computer and was able to use my balance to play some tourneys. The reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 is it’s a little hard to navigate: the tournaments are different than the pc ones, I’m pretty sure there is no chat option, and it is overall just much more difficult to get a feel for than the pc version. One thing I’d love for them to fix is to be able to play music while playing… I never play poker without music. But for the people saying that the app is rigged and want you to just buy play chips that is false; I was able to win my first tourney for .5 mil and took 5th place the game before. Don’t listen to they people that say the odds are off, they just lost their “play money.”

Don’t Listen to Salty Reviews. I’ve played a lot of poker for going on 20 years. There are a lot of reviews lamenting over what people think are swayed odds. It’s not true. I’ve played a couple thousand hands already and I can confidently say the rate of good hands, bad hands, strings of 15-30 bad hands and runs of great hands is very much consistent with what one might expect playing in-person poker. I’ve tried every major hold ‘em app in the App Store. This is hands down the fairest and most pleasant to use. No overbearing ads like WSOP bombards you with, no action forcing, no perceivable scale-balancing. Just poker, straight-up, and that’s what I’ve been looking for. Great job, PokerStars. I can’t wait till you’re legal in NY again.

most interactive poker site but apparent flawed algorithm. It is by far the best interactive poker site. Is it representational of real poker? Not with so many flopped straights and flushes. And how does the program almost always match an ace? And if there is a pair on board how come someone almost always gets trips? Well if you sign up you decide. This new update for the mobile app is the worst one I have ever seen. It is difficult to use. Functions that used to be on a menu at the table are gone. No player list to see who is playing and leading, no way to observe other tables, no way to block chat without leaving game and finding settings. The main page of tournaments is too busy and hard to read. If someone was trying to get people away from play tables this app update will do it.

Not able to purchase play money bundles. I’ve been playing PM Poker Stars for approximately two years. In the last month or two I have been unable to purchase play money bundles at various levels. Currently, I am able to purchase only at one level, getting a message when I attempt to make a purchase that says words to the effect that the purchase attempt was unable to be completed, and that I should try again later. What’s unusual is that I can make the one-level purchase using the same credit card, yet still receiving this aforementioned message for purchases at any other level. I’ve tried changing credit cards and reinstalling the app, but no luck. I’ve even sent my log files to Poker Stars and haven’t received a response other than one time when I was told that the files hadn’t been received. I’ve re-sent the files a couple more times, but still no response. Help!

Not random. This is a fine app and a good way to learn how to play poker. But it is also designed to get you to buy chips. What this means is that there is nothing random about the dealing of the cards. Were you dealt a pair of sixes after a long dry run? There’s a high likelihood that your opponent received a great deal forcing you both to bet big. Sure, that happens in real poker, but nowhere near as consistently as it happens here. If you were dealt an ace, you can usually count on your opponent having been dealt either an ace or a high pair. Did you get the perfect two cards to complete a straight? Over and over again, your opponent received the same two cards. That rarely happens in real poker, but it happens every game in Pokerstars. And once you have gone too long without buying chips you will begin to lose every game. Countless All-In hands will show you with a 96% chance of winning at the turn and then you will lose MOST of those hands.

RIGGED: GOOGLE IT!. Find a game that doesn’t sell chips. This game is set up to make you lose when you start accumulating a big chip bank so you will have to buy more. I’ve wasted a lot of time (and money) learning this. You will get a lot more bad beats than EVER occur in real poker with a physical deck. Go all in every hand for an hour and you’ll see. Ask yourself “why don’t they give bonus chips for bad beats?” Before you think I am a bad player, in real live poker I have placed 10th for the year in a local poker league with over 500 members. I have won $1800 for finishing 5th in a charity poker tournament of over 100 players. I recently won $300 (split $3300) for finishing 11th in a tournament with 154 players. I am almost always at a final table. Joker Stars will probably reply to this review with a bot saying they aren’t rigged. BUT THEY ARE BECAUSE THEY WANT YOUR MONEY!

Not realistic. Though they keep claiming the hands are not “set” the dealing is not random. The site may or may not favor certain players but the dealing is not realistic or random. The game tries to keep multiple people in the hand with many outs, only to be beat on the river. For example, I just played a game, and within 5 hands I had three of a kind twice, once on the flop, the second time after the turn, only to be beat both times with a straight on the river. This is not an anomaly. The game wants to keep you in the hand thinking you can win. It is not random dealing. I repeat. Not random. The algorithms may not favor anyone but it is not realistic dealing.

Game is good but customer service won’t get back to you. I had really enjoyed this game until recently when I purchased chips and got charged but no chips arrived in my account. I had sent emails to customer service who initially asked me for screen shots in which I shared. Email stated that the situation would be resolved soon and to look for an email. Two weeks later and multiple emails asking the status, I haven’t heard a word. At this point it is the principle of the point. Buyer be aware that if you don’t get the chips you paid for that the customer service will leave you hanging. Sad!

INSIDER EXPOSED. I recently spoke with someone who did some contract work for jokerstars. They confirmed that the hands dealt and runouts were pre-scripted and weren’t legitimate, but the jokerstars devs would just laugh and claim it wasn’t cheating because they “weren’t favoring any particular player”. But the insider did confirm that there’s NOTHING random about the hands and runouts. When you’re set up to win, you will win, even if it means you overcoming Powerball type odds 50 times in a row. However if you are a good player, you likely won’t be taking advantage of it because you have to play really bad to get there on the river so the script is complete. And if you are set up to lose, you will continue to find yourself in situations where you have more than 95% equity and lose every single time. End of the day, regardless of if it’s fake money poker or fake money slots, all these devs need to be forced to pay back the millions of dollars they have cheated people out of all these years and they belong in prison.

Great. I love playing poker in bars for gift certificates … sounds lame to some, but poker is about a adrenaline rush, knowing how to play the game and patience. Play money doesn’t change that feeling of going all in. This site offers real players who know how to play the game all the way down to the all in moron who is soon out and is there to donate to your stack. I play tournaments and once you are in the “cash” you are playing against real players who know what there doing … hope to see you out there!

Last hand of tournament. Here is the scenario. Your all in, your leading the hand, then in the flash of 1 second the last card comes out and a pop-up covers the screen “You have busted out” or some phrase like that. There is one button on the pop-up “close” which takes you back to the lobby. I am not claiming I lost unfairly but it would be nice to be able to review your final hand. Some of us use the play money for practice. I realize hand histories might be costly for play money but how about letting us review our bust out hands. It might be nice if you let us stay and watch the table play out too.

Dont take it seriously. Like others have said the software is not random. Im not gonna say its rigged because it doesnt seem to favor any one player. But the way the hands play out over and over again like a pattern will be obvious to anyone who has played real poker, its NOT random. I swear theres a 2 pair curse, I have never lost with 2 pair so many times, I win with 2 pair less than 5% of the time. Ive also noticed the more outs you have the less likely you will win the hand. The software seems to favor the person that has the least chance of winning, 1 or 2 outers. I miss open enders with flush draws and with top pair like hot cakes. I cant tell you how many times Ive flopped top set with a flush draw just to lose to a gut shot. Its a great source to kill time and have some fun, but if you take it seriously and get super competitive it will just leave you in a fit of rage. The software and interface is super clean and user friendly, and the throwables add a fun element to it as well. As far as graphics and interface go, pokerstars is the best app for online poker.

Latest version slow to load. This is a great app. I play a couple of sit and go games every day. Other reviewers complain that they have to buy chips only to loose then to people who play badly but get lucky. A good player can deal with opponents like that. I’ve amassed over 50 million chips and never bought any. Now, I just wish the app did not require a sign on every time. Let me stay logged in until I log out. Developer responds to reviewers so let them know how to improve the app. Bikediver

Home Game love. I appreciate the home game function. Our friends play often. Home games are obviously for people who know each other. So why are we automatically kicked out of the “home game” action when we are taken out of the tournament? We would like to continue to watch the tournament until the end. We aren’t even able to say “good game” after we get taken out. Let us stay in the tournament as an observer so we can watch and still comment. The home game function would also be fun if we could see who not only bought in, but who added on or did rebuys during the tournament. Makes the game more competitive to know these stats or who’s in the standings and who’s not. We try to keep our own stats for tagging rights. Just some suggestions. We really enjoy the home game function.

Good platform but technical problems. The application does not allow people to go all in when a hand is immediately dealt At least not on an apple iPad. I have downloaded the most recent version, but the platform technically does not provide a player any choices, other than fold or check during the first hand being dealt. Further in the game, it allows it, but not at the first hand.. this is a technical problem with the platform. I have witnessed other players go all in immediately on the first hand, but this choice is not allowed for me and probably some other players. Additionally, they will only allow you the help of a virtual assistant. That’s a joke.

Gambling problem message?. I keep getting a message about getting help for my gambling addiction. This is for play money? I have been playing for 7-8 years for fun. Now retired and in a 19 foot travel trailer with Covid 19 running ramped out side, I alternate between big10 football reruns, back episodes of Monk (the detective) re-runs and pokerstars. And I play poker for free, I don’t think I have a gambling problem. Only too much time in the trailer with the wife and cat. Please get rid of ad for help for my “addiction”. Wife is asking if there is an ad for football addiction? Please advise. Sincerely. Delrio 12

Worst of the online play money poker games. So I have played and ground my way up to 14 million in chips without ever spending any money to purchase any chips. Log in today to find only 4 million left and 10 million missing. I contact support and they give me the BS answer that they “accidentally” had given be a billion in chips (I wish!) and they had to go in and take it back. But oh, they gave me a free ticket to go play in the “billion” dollar tournament, so IF I finish high enough I might win some of the chips they stole from me back. I think the scam is if you are someone grinding it out and earning chips without ever paying for them they are eventually going to screw you over and take your winnings, since the goal is to make spend money to buy even play chips so you can play.

Bad Update. I’m not a fan of this newest update. I hate the single chip, read how much it’s worth graphic. I really liked the far more realistic looking multiple chips for bets. This gives a cheap, cheesy look. I don’t like that you can no longer stay and watch a hand play out one you’ve folded. I enjoyed seeing what may have happened had I stayed in the hand. It also helps to gather information on other players and how they play (you know, just like in real life games). Taking that option away really detracts from the game. I don’t like the new sound effects when cards are dealt. Overall, just a pretty substantial step backwards with this update. I feel like I’ve gone from playing on a quality site to a cheap starter site.

Rip off?. Twice in a row I registered for the same million chip buy in tournament and both times as soon as I registered I got kicked out of the app. Every time I tried to login the app crashed. Eventually I got back in and registered again and boom same thing kicked and crashes. When I was able to login the second time I did not register and instead checked the player list and sure enough I was listed as “finished” for 2 buy ins without playing a single hand. The app waited til I blinded out before allowing me to log back in. Now I did not use only free chips here, I purchased a chip pack so the value of the chips that were taken from me is $10. You get a million chips for $4.99 in their store. Not a lot but you can see it can add up fast. Might be an easy fix but there is no feature to contact support in the app so I am just screwed. Use caution if you start using this app. Stick to the free chips so when they start taking them you won’t be out any real money.

Best App, To Practice Poker, But Be Mindful It’s For Play Money!. In my opinion this is the best app to play Poker and practice your game and have fun at the same time. You have to be mindful though not everyone is going to be playing as serious if it was for actual cash now. Seeing that we’re playing with “play money” nobody real let feels the actual pressure you would feel if it was your own cash. You will come across a lot of goof balls who will call a big raise with anything in there hand, also you’ll come across a few idjits who will go all in all the time. For the most part though, this is a great site/app, you have cash games, tournaments, zoom tables, etc... If you’re gonna play poker definitely consider PokerStars your first and only option!

Like all other app...".not very realistic. To many good hands get beat by a better hand. Example: 3 of kind gets beat by straight or straight gets beat by flush. Happens constantly. Can see it happening some but it happens so often it makes it not fun. Getting beat on the river happens constantly also. Last 5 tournaments I went out by losing on the river. It's ridiculous Again sometimes but shouldn't be as often as it does . Going all in with a good hand and then get beat by someone who has something like 9-3 or jack-8 really stinks but it happens pretty often. This app is pretty much like the others I have tried. Guess I will keep searching for one that is realistic

Lol. The absolute BEST layout for tournaments. Has the most real feel to it. I absolutely love the design and gameplay, BUT with that being said it is the biggest scam out there. They want you to buy chips and that’s all it’s about. Not surprising because that’s just the way it is anymore. Every time I grind hard, and build up a nice bankroll, it only gets destroyed by absolutely TERRIBLE suckouts, and hands they set up that you just absolutely can’t fold. You will re-raise pre flop with AK suited and some donkey will call with 7-3 offsuit. The flop will be something like A-3-K and you’ll C-bet raise, get re-raised, go all in and the turn and river will be runner runner 3’s. DO NOT buy fake money play chips from these people. It’s not even practice because you’re learning the game the WRONG way. They reward the terrible players time and time again. This isn’t coming from some paranoid weirdo, I have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours playing Online Poker and gave this app more than enough chances. Just trust me. If I could give this app review a zero I really would. Without a doubt the absolute worst rigged Poker site there is. Can’t wait until an honest Poker site comes out where people can actually develop their skill set and practice. Meanwhile, I’ll keep wasting my time.

4/23 Update No Good. Just updated the app and not a fan already. No more auto login with fingerprint when you first open the app. Now every time I go to play free games it always asks me to go to my settings and allow my location to be accessed. Then another pop up comes to verify my choice which can be confusing at first and kept throwing me out of games. After finishing a game when I hit the button to start a new game (from the game that just ended) there is a serious lag before that table opens up and the game has already started. You can no longer see the tables you were just on to see how the rest of the hand plays out and watch other players. All this put together just makes for a terrible playing experience.

Two minor issues.. I like this app, but there are two fixes that would make it more enjoyable. The checkboxes, that are available to let players speed up the game by recording your intended move, change depending on the betting of other players. On more than one occasion I've gone all-in, when a box that said, "check," changed as I was clicking it. If the player before you goes all-in, the checkbox changes to call. The second thing is the sound the app makes if you are the first to bet, fold, or check a new hand. Specifically, if you are the first player after the big blind. The chirp is the same as the one used if you haven't made up your mind and are warned you only have eight seconds to bet or fold. That chirp is annoying. I know I have to play. The alarm isn't necessary, or helpful. The other sounds in this app are fine, so I don't want to just mute my iPad.

Play money poker stars lite. Very poor customer service. The contact us email doesn’t work. I can no longer play in the play money app, since the last update, it doesn’t allow you to go to the tables. It’s almost like they’ve done away with the play money side in search of a more lucrative business from the real money side The help doesn’t work. The “best value” chips bundle button will not work, forcing me to buy a lesser value package (less than half the play money chips for exactly half of the best value price). Support has pointed the finger at my phone, Apple Pay, my banking institution (which I switched over to a second institution, proving that idea to be all wet too, deleted the app and reinstalled it, cleared the web data and cache, among other things, all to no avail.

Worst Poker Game Ever - Don’t bother!. I’ve only been playing about a week. The most that is so irritating is most of the games to choose from have “Re-Entry” in red before you even click on the game. That is not true Poker. So it also shows how many to start the game, as in “6, 8, 9 Max. So pretend you are one of the 6, 8, or 9 players to start. So game goes along and your money is dwindling and a few other players have exited, here comes 2 new players that pop in. Of course they have the full amount to start. And that goes on throughout the game. WHO DO YOU THINK BENEFITS THE MOST? Poker Stars. What poker players really like that set-up? Very few, very very few. Also I have repeatedly tried to send a message to PS, but all I get is “Oops, page not found.” They have no phone number to get help. Anyway, l choose not to play at Poker Stars. You decide for yourself.

Unethical. I’ve been playing PokerStarsNJ for some time now...Although I’ve had some issues with cashing out before nothing like today. I made two deposits today totaling 330$. The site had no problem posting my deposits and then on to playing games. I thought to myself when they recently added sports betting it would be my all I. One shopping home for gambling. Today I tried on no less then 15 occasions to cash out some of my winnings only to be told “ I couldn’t cash out at this time.” Why not I asked ....they didn’t know but they would get right on it....that was 9 hours ago and all my winnings. As I sat on the site trying to gas out I began to play again, as gamblers would do ....obviously just as they had hoped I lost my winnings back... outside of my initial contact with them I have heard NOTHING! I consider not allowing gamblers not to cash out and hope they continue to risk their money as they have no other recourse, CHEATING! I have heard nothing all night to spite repeated emails....in fact when you hit the contact for issues button “you get UNEXPECTED ERROR “and you can’t even leave a message......what is going on here....doesn’t the state of NJ regulate this unethical business practice... Doug Martin

Same rigged software. All about getting people to buy chips.. Unreal frequency of one and two out suckouts on the river tells me everything I need to know about the aptly nicknamed “Jokerstars”. But if you have the four flush and an up and down straight draw after the flop, even with all those outs it never draws out. But that’s supposed to be random and normal. Pretty sure they use bots to manage and manipulate. When they decide they are going to trim your stack because you aren’t buying chips you’ll go through dozens and dozens of pairs of hole cards looking for a playable hand while they blind you off. Then get pocket K’s or A’s after an eternity and watch as a bot goes all in with rags and gets runner runner on the turn and river for a set. All you can do is stop playing for a while and hope their algorithm has forgotten about you. Answer this review Jokerstars. You may have a RNG but you also have a manipulated game.

Unable to Purchase a Lower or the Same Amount of Play Money Chips as Your Previous Purchase. I’ve been playing PokerStars now for almost 2 years now. After dozens and dozens of online purchases for play money chips, all of a sudden I’m unable to purchase the same or a lesser amount of chips than what I normally do. My usual purchase is the $20 deal, and occasionally I will buy the $10 or $3. After 2 years of playing almost weekly they are not allowing me to make a $20 purchase or lower, but when I click on the $50 or $100 bundles, then they allow me to put my card information in to complete the purchase. Attempting to lure me in for bigger purchases than what I am comfortable with is unethical as a company. I am disturbed by this as I always make purchases and am a loyal player for the site. Hopefully I can speak to someone about this, as this issue has been occurring for a couple of weeks now.

New changes. Pokerstars has made so many changes!! We no longer can play the lower tables. Free chips are every four hours. And USA can't play real money. Good luck folks, I'll move on to another site. By the way,try Znyga, it's fun!! unbelievable, this site pays to the higher hand, even if you have the best hand, never fails !!!! It’s computerized , Their people will win!!! Be wear’. This site is out for the money and all your accounts. Be careful! Very low rating, Be careful!!

Welcome to Jokerstars.... I have been playing both live poker, and online poker, for quite some time now. And just so there is no debate in my skill set, I played in the main event last year when I won a ticket through a charitable poker event. So, this is what I know: if you are behind a big stack call on jokerstars, you have a .032% survival rating. Do you see the problem? This is a program defined for a decomposing tournament structure. The reason is because IT IS A COMPUTER GENERATION. It was designed to narrow the field, so that the time involved for the software is minimized through the game play. When this us achieved, RANDOMNESS is NOT a FACTOR. THAT being said, I ONLY use this program to see more hands. NOT how they play out, because the odds are BS. EVEN the auto shuffle device on tables in the WSOP circuit would AGREE...

percentages of making a hand. The site told me the algorithms used are true.... True to what. Real players on their fun money game have to realize this is the furthest from the truth. When2 cards to a flush hit the flop on this site you can almost be certain over 50% of the time the flush will hit. If this site believes that is a true percentage they are insane. They should look at true percentages to make the site feel real and make the players confident they are getting a fair deal. They also use coolers which are nothing more than bots put in place to take you down. Ever notice you build a good stack at a game and then a particular player will take you down when you get a great and and flop with crap that he played to the river and miraculously hits a 3% out on the river to take the hand after calling you huge bets down to the river. That would almost never occur in live money poker. There are so many other unnecessary things. If the site would only be straight, play the proper algorithms and be 100% legit, they still would make a ton of money as the rake is way high and people buy chips with cash that are worthless so that is super profitable as well. One thing the site has is a super layout for players and tables which gives them a step up on every other site for fun money. To the site, Guys if you make the site play real and you remove your coolers/Bots you would do much better than the way you operate.

Poker hands that should lose some win.. It’s fun and have enjoyed playing all day for the last 2-3 days. I’ve actually played it way to much but I’m looking to find a different one now. I was looking into playing online with real money but I absolutely wouldn’t do it with this company/app. As I’ve played I’ve noticed 4-5 times now that I seem to lose to a worse hand when I’ve been able to see the opponents hand. I thought I just over looked something since it goes fast sometimes but I just had it happen again with one I know for sure I should have won. I had flush vs 3 jacks and somehow lost. I even went to look at the poker hand rankings to see if they used something different than normal but nope even according to the rules inside the app I should have won. Stopped playing earlier today since it seems even with the stronger winning hand you can still lose somehow. I wouldn’t want to have that happen with real money so won’t be using this app anymore. Don’t waste time playing since it’s random anyways unless you just want to waste time

Not very good for new players/caters to people who buy chips. Been playin for about a month now, haven’t bought chips or anything just using the free chips it gives you every 4 hours. The cards are horribly inconsistent and the game doesn’t play out correctly. For instance a guy and me went all in, I had a pair of queens, the other guy had ace high, it did not give me his chips, it said in the chat I had won and when I clicked the replay it told me again that he had went all in and yet I didn’t get his chips. And then the very next hand he goes all in again and gets a flush. Absolutely terrible for learning the game, and absolutely terrible for playing. Would not recommend

Painful interface, otherwise good. If you want a “play money” poker app, AND you want to learn the “poker stars” interface for poker, AND play multiple tables at once, AND you want to practice on full ring /6+ tables, then this is the app you want. But if you don’t want all those things then use something else because this app is really painful, boring, and slow compared to others. It’s so bad, I find that if I don’t take breaks, I get bored and start losing. I’m not talking “tilt” here, I’m talking frustration at how much time each player is allowed to sit there doing nothing when it’s their turn to bet. I’m giving this 3 stars because of these pros: (1) it’s legitimate poker that doesn’t cheapen the experience with lots of free chips, etc., and (2) I’m sure the “boring, slow, and clunky” isn’t a factor if you play several tables at once. I’m not giving 5 stars because they need to (1) add a “fast play” option, (2) improve the general quality of the user interface, and (3) add some social features to make single-table play a bit more interesting.

Always lets bad players win!. I used to love poker stars until they made it where you can’t play with real money anymore. Now I have to play with fake money and it will always let the worst players in history win over and over again. Also no one plays like they would in a real cash game. At least try to make it filter some how to not always let the bingo playing idiots win! I probably am going to quit playing for a while due to that. You’ll go 10 or more hands and not get nothing and the bad players get good hands over and over. You finally get a good hand pre flop and will call one of the bingo players and they’ll end up winning with a pair of 2s. Or you have a pair and go all in and other player have a pair of 2s and call it and they’ll get another pair and win. Makes the really bad players think they are actually good and they are not.

Research. I’m researching the online poker little different than playing live people looking for a place to deposit and play for real money I’ve played a good bit in my life never on the internet I figured out how to read by the way other players bet not having the Beni fit of reading body language i miss that and I know poker stars has the option to make a deposit but I will be careful of who I’m going to trust. I have to agree with the majority I’ve never had so many bad beats flushes etc, it certainly seems as if there are many bots on board I’m losing constantly with hands that will win 85 percent of the time three of a kind full House I mean really if you’ve ever played real poker you know that many bad beats js unrealistic seems when I do win it’s always a split pot. I don’t play with emotions I figure my outs calculate my odds I’m good with numbers and pretty much this defies all odds man so I guess the search for reputable online poker continues on and you made number ten on one the online review sites that I find credible it give the indication one should be careful I know I don’t understand how anyone could play on this fake money site and say yes this is where I wanna place a bet with my real money I feel I can trust this . One born every minute people just don’t do their own research I guess

Changes in free poker. Once you fold your hand you could no longer see what card you were holding which is disappointing and the fact that you can’t tell how much money someone has when they sit out for an extended amount of time. Sometimes people will sit out in entire game and you have no idea how long it will take to get them out. Previously both of these things showed when you were playing the game and they have been taken away. Also, no longer do they respond when you send a comment

Impossible becomes possible. The cards are random but sure seems to benefit worse hands and really bad calls. Also today was the second time I played a tournament and registered for a 5 million tourney. Then the app keeps kicking me off.. when I do get to play, my money is gone but I’m not registered in any tournaments. This has cost countless chips, 10 million alone in 5 million dash, not to mention I get on there to play with friends and family but ends up robbing you and you don’t play. They don’t reimburse you... they expect you to pay more money. Really disappointing that this keeps happening. If I don’t get reimbursed I will have to drop another review and continue to whine til I delete the app. I won’t pay money to this app until everything is squared up. Bad app, bad customer service... really no customer service. If you put money in your account it will get taken from you by horrible beats. I got knocked out by three people all with qj I had aces. They all 3 hit two pair on the flop... seriously.. ridiculous

💔This is the best poker we can get....?. Whats wrong with this app? Let us count the ways... 1️⃣The poker is ridiculously skewed to have you go bust in all in hands. You can use this to your advantage, at times, if you are the higher chip count but not always. Its really no different than all the other big poker apps out there but the point is actual randomness is non-existent. 2️⃣ Since the interface change from wayyy back... you cant see registered players until you register for sit and go and tourneys... you cant pick your seat at any table and it often puts you behind the blind which forces you to wait to play... you cant pick your table at any individual cash games... you cant view any table as an observer... you cant comment during play since it becomes inactive on your turn... you cant fold and watch on zoom games... you cant mute players or block their images any longer... you cant cant cant cant........🤔🤭🥱 3️⃣ If you play minimums (15k refill every 4hrs) your options to play are very limited as new minimums on many games are now 25k. 4️⃣ All that said when it works as intended (which is bad 😅😂🤣) its still the best poker app out there sadly 🥺😢😭.

Boring design, ugly avatars. Guys, you make millions and can’t do a decent design? Seriously? Animation is a primitive school level. Learn from the Chinese. Check PokerMate or PokerKing. Whatever! Any app is better designed than yours! And your avatars - whose idea was to put all these ugly drawn cartoon faces? Picture of my grandma is better than this! Why don’t you give a possibility to upload my own pic? The app shows zero chips when I know for sure there are chips on the account. I had to close the app and re-login to see my chips back. To be honest, I’m extremely disappointed in your designers. It’s sooo 1980s level. Just hurts my eyes. If not 6+ Hold’em I wouldn’t even bother to open the app again. I am quite happy apple suggested this “lite” version. I can’t imagine playing real money on such awfully designed platform.

Better than the WSOP App. My review of “PokerStars Lite” to help others who are trying to find an App to play Texas Hold’em... this is the one to play. I was concerned by it being the “Lite” version, but have learned of no negatives. I was so frustrated while playing the “WSOP” App... the pop-up advertising was constantly intrusive and appeared non-stop, even during critical game play moments. This is not an issue with “PokerStars Lite” I can’t say if the cards dealt are truly random or not... but it does feel like you (and other players) each share in hot/cold streaks. I don’t play the App with real money, so I’m not concerned. For me, it’s been a joy to play against real players while in coronavirus isolation. And if you find yourself playing against a player who goes all-in every time before the flop... just leave and play at a different table (if that’s not your favorite type of player to play against). Again, I highly recommend this App.

Player Beware. This isn’t a poker site. The odds are so jacked in favor of calling to river and low odds winning it can’t be called anything but pure lotto. 20% odds will win 80% of the time. Flushes appear so regularly it would break a toilet. That being said, if you really think this approximates real poker you’ve never played real poker. The vast majority of players don’t respect the game, it’s just something to occupy some down time. The game regularly removes lower buy-in games to force a player to buy chips. Right, buy play chips. These are the fools which who you’ll be playing. Don’t be surprised to play bots either. When a low odds bettor wins 90% of the hands you realize it isn’t right math at work. Don’t play thinking you can win, you can’t. Nice graphics though, see, I said something nice.

Why restart just to get sound?. I use almost latest iPad. When I stop playing for few hours, it correctly asks me to relogin and at that time, audio does not work. Occasionally it won’t ask me to relogin but shows zero for my chip count. I have a very strong opinion and feeling that they use robots and favor them by runner runner so that I keep buying play money chips. These robots say random stuff like have fun, can’t call for that much etc., and they chat very fast. When I try to chat, the chat window disappears and forces me to play. Make chat window more user friendly so that I can time little bit and switch to play mode, chat mode automatically based on my turn to play or not....a suggestion.

Setup hands. I have been playing with this site for a while now and initially it was to play home games with friends during quarantine, which worked out really well. The issue arises when you play on your own, I play strictly cash games and the last month it has been the same thing, cooler after cooler hands, not the normal amount, it’s almost statistically impossible for it to happen as much as it does. I constantly find myself in hands that when finished it almost feels like you are being setup. Being one outed 3-4 times in few days time, constant set over set and flush over flush. I am really considering having myself and friends look into another site for our home games because of the frustration level I am at at this point.

Buggy app.. It is fairly decent to play poker online. But it is too buggy. Updates come and go new bugs are introduced. Makes for irritating play experience. The only thing the developers ensure is that the core poker game does well. For starters, they should ensure uniformity of experience across all platforms. The iPad, iPhone, windows all provide completely different features. Chat does not work well. Rebuys do not work well in iPhone. iPad has its own issues and windows as well Anyway it is what it is

Site Great, App Not Great.. I’ll go ahead and start by saying I don’t normally review apps, but I’ve played Pokerstars for a few years now and I have to say it’s the best site I’ve found for one of the activities I love, playing poker (and other casino games) with strangers. However, and it may just be me, but I cannot get this app to keep a solid connection for as much as a full hand as of now on the iPad app. I tried on 3 different internet connections and I live in a city so I don’t think it’s me. It would occasionally be fine for a hand or 2, but became a frustrating challenge when the game would freeze without showing me the next card, and then jump for me to need to act very quickly in order to get a bet out or call before my hand was folded automatically. Not a great experience so far.

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Game is not random. Seems they’re no longer accepting reviews - update: rofl, a month after I remove the negative comments, they finally post it! Final update: deleted

Home Cash games don’t work. Cannot play cash tables in home Games, only tournaments. Have tried on 2 phones and an iPad and none work

5 card draw for iPad please. What I don’t understand is why can’t pokerstars have the 5 card draw on ALL platforms, of course meaning iPad or iPhone not just on the computer? I think it should be added onto iPad and iPhone, can I get an answer why it isn’t, thanks

Split View (still) being removed is a bummer. Review update. Still no return of Split View. It’s an expected standard for high quality apps and PokerStars used to have it. Is there a reason the developers can’t work out how to put back in this basic feature? —- With all the updates I would have hoped that Split View would be enabled again. —- I enjoy playing PokerStars play money and often do so in split screen while browsing or watching a video. I don’t know if removing split screen capability was deliberate or an oversight however I’d love to see it back if possible.

Not happy. Dear pokerstars, by sneakily making the only “working” chips pack $30 you have missed out on 10-15 small purchases in the last 3 months. Stop trying to make people buy more than what they want….. scammers. Fix the bug that you purposely made.

Absolute garbage. Was a pretty good poker game until the update that moves you to a new table every hand. No opportunity to work strategy and pressure. More like bingo than poker. Forget it. Much better poker apps out there

It’s a scam!. Every hand can be a potential 3 of a kind, a flush, straight or full house. In just two months of playing on this app I’ve seen it all - a royal flush and four of a kind Aces. A chip leader bets big on an off suited deuce and five. He hits at least two pairs or a straight. But be careful you may still end up losing to a full house or flush if someone else out bets you.

Don’t pay them. This company will take money through the app store and then fail to give you the pack you purchased, I’ve been waiting over a week now and am sick of talking to bots to resolve it

Thumbs up. I like playing on this site. I wish you could have some satellite tournaments

Such a scam. Wish it was actually genuine with random draws, but playing for any length of time and you see the patterns. 6 4 always beats AA. Or 3 of a kind on the flop you can guarantee a straight will beat you. Absolutely defies the odds, on an ongoing basis. It’s a shame because the graphics and stuff are good. I guess they are wanting people to spend money buying chips but that’s never gonna happen. Not from me, never ever ever 😂

App crashing. The app keeps crashing since the latest update. No longer working on my iPad 9.3.5. Please help!

Love the game but there is no way the cards dealt are random. Just updated the app yesterday 14th of December 2023 now app won’t load on my iPad . I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled yet when you tap on app loads page then instantly goes back to iPad home page

Not working. Even after the second update still not working. Great way to improve the app! NOT!!

No way I’m playing with real money. So rigged

Super fun. I like PokerStars but it glitches too much. It always says that the tournaments start in 1 minute even when they’ve been running for a while. This is my only issue with the app

Need older download link for iOS9. Hi I have been given an older iPad that runs iOS 9.3.5 and would like to load PokerStars on it as I’m having trouble seeing the game on my iPhone. Is there anywhere to get a link to an older version pls..

Help. Unable to set my own preset bet slider options on my iPad there is no option available in the settings tab nor is there a gameplay tab in the settings tab

Rubbish. The new app is for people with sub 80 IQ’s

Great app but. Love the app but since upgrades it freezes a my iPad when I come out of a game since the adds and can't go to another on game

I am 82years young and I find poker. Stars my company and enjoy playing very much. d enjoy playing very much

Letter from hell. Dear Boss, You did well in this platform recently, Hope we all play with that new update you turn on and turn off time2time, and the software quality is an impeccable, pleasure to play here. Yours sincerely Ded_V

Rigged. Didn’t receive a low card for 20 hands, not to mention a two pair every hand a straight every two hands and a flush around every 5 hands (not just for one player). Not to mention every player calls bets which nobody would ever call in real life so you can’t bluff.

Crashing!!!. This app is freezing/crashing only during tournaments, super infuriating!!!

Clean deal….really?. Hadn’t had to buy in for 2 years then suddenly was on the worst run of river losses & other shenanigans I have ever seen. The deal is not clean. Uninstalled.

Not random. I agree , cards are definitely not random, Day one favours sixes, day two you get fours in every flop. Day three seven in every drop. And I agree that 63 off suit will nearly always beat even trips .

Pokerstars great. I enjoy playing pokerstars play money ok but I really enjoyed playing real money however that has been unfairly taken away from Australians

Failure to fix account. After continued messages my account remains unfixed and buggy. I can only purchase lowest chip packages which cost a lot more.

What is going on! 😡. I just sat down to play for 15 minutes and spent 15 minutes ; updating the ap as it wouldn’t work unless I did, trying to log back in..still loading ...still loading. Shut it down open up again.... still loading .... still loading . Then I go to the support page where it says “Sorry, we are under maintenance”. And “don’t panic we’ll be right back. It might be time to find another service to spent my money on.

Throwing objects at players is not Poker!. I love playing the game and Poker Stars have designed a great game. But I find the addition of throwing horse shoes, sending rockets etc has ruined the game. I feel it has encouraged violence because not only do players throw things they also get vocally violent. Women are playing this game and I as one of those women find the throwing of objects very offensive! Come on programmers you are better than that! Please can we at least have something nice we can hit our opponents with?

Fix this. App keeps crashing since last update. Please fix it

Hmmm. Not sure what ever happened to you guys at Poker Stars but the site wouldn’t be 10% of what it was 10 years ago. I’ve heard of move with the times but you guys have gone no where but backwards. Thought it necessary for an honest review as opposed to your own ones. They’re easy to read than a golden book. Bout time P.S spent some time at The House if Mirrors and had a good long hard look at yourselves. Would it be fair to ask what your membership numbers are today as opposed to 2013?? I’m sure we can all stats look good but it’s again the honest answer I seek

Worst update. Not sure what you did to in the latest update but I can’t get into games I used to play the whole app has changed and can’t find anything .....when you do find it and open it there is nothing there

I’m a fan!. I have benn playing poker for years on various sites and PokerStars imho offers the best format and tabling likeness. I play real games and use PokerStars to practice. Good job guys, can’t wait for you to come back to Oz.

Badbeater101. There is no way I would play this with real money. There’s no way that it’s totally random, I regularly get dealt the same hands consecutively and quite often 3 times and my record is 4. I see consistently that people who shove especially with weak hands consistently win and I’m only guessing but would have to be 80% in favour of the aggressor. This software has so many flaws in that regard I too don’t understand how you can claim that it is.

Hard to believe it’s really random. Whilst I have enjoyed playing, i must refute the PokerStars claim about true random dealing. I have had three diamond flushes in a row; the exact (and i mean exact) same hole cards up to four times consecutively and watched a thousand players call legitimate all-ins while holding 5 J off-suit (or similar) and out draw everyone almost every time. Sure that can happen in real-life, but not 10 times in a 20 minute sit and go. Sorry guys, but i am not close to convinced, and can’t really imagine anyone truly believes your claim. What i cannot fathom is the reason you would do it...? Sincerely, Jon

Crashes on opening. Attempts to open and just crashes...every..single..time.

Thank you. Great game thank you

App has lost so much functionality. Can no longer find specific tables, can no longer search friends up. The app is completely useless to play with friends. Why were all these functionalities stripped??

Just Started. Very easy to follow.

Too many updates. It seems every week or two there’s an update. The last update shows the wrong flag from the country the player is from.

Great App, But…. Bring back “fold and watch” for Zoom games!!

Fun game. After work tired just play this game and felt really excited

Laughable.. This will never see the light of day. Way to many shocking beats by rubbish hands. Because....i refuse to pay real money to play this fake game. They will try to say this isnt the case. It is. Its a computer program.

Not happy. I expected more from a well known poker game like poker stars but no, crashes constantly and have to log back in all the time each time having to log back in there are far better poker games than this and to be honest it seems badly rigged to me zynga is bad for that and I thought u guys would be ok but no your just as bad

Buying chips. After my first purchase of tokens, I wanted to make a second purchase which was debited from my account but never worked. They don't want to refund me if they credit the tokens to my account. I have to make do with Apple but I'll leave you to imagine the complications involved in getting a refund. The first transfer was done instantly and then they say it takes 4 working days. Worse app for poker ever. Go to the concurrents it’s really better

4 days to transfer chips. Purchase some chips Money gone from card immediately 4 days to transfer chips BS need more be said?

Mr. Since the recent update, we can't log in from our IPad - Disappointing

BIG YES ON THE NEW UPDATE. I stopped playing PokerStars Lite after the outdated and poor designed layout, which didn’t look good on my iPhone X. Now after spending a long time on other poker apps, I finally see that there has been a decent update which I love. The new layout on the felt is great and easy to use - and looks great on my phone. This will now be my main poker app...again! Suggestions I have for this update are: - Having profiles for users which show useful stats like hands played, fold/raise/call frequency, win ratio, etc. - Having some sort of rank system (eg. Clubs or something) - Better challenges - A card hand rank meter

Hopeless. Always crashes. Slow and takes your money

Volume. Volume doesn’t work some times

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App shuts you Down from time to time. Numerous emails and I talked to reps what happens is this a few times a week I go to play on POKERSTARS PA App from the App Store and I buy into Tournament’s and or cash Games and The Table only shows A-Quarter of the Screen and it won’t let you Bet Call or fold Even when Logging out and Turning Phone Off iT still Does it when Logging on while I asked for my money back no response also What about all the times IT does this and lost OPPORTUNITIES To win like AA Or KK just folding and eating away with the Blinds spent a few Hundred but now only spots betting is safe well Fox runs that. Anyway Just warning you it’s not software it’s there SERVER

Not enough variety. I am an admin for a rotating series of home games on PS. You would think that the roster of draw, flop and board poker games found on the desktop client would be available on the mobile app. They aren’t. Glad that the mobile app supports our home games, but it does not support draw poker. The lack of that type of game hurts our attendance whenever we schedule draw tourneys and mixed game tourneys where draw poker is a feature. Regarding this app, “Lite” is truly light. Stars, you can do better than this.

Poor support. I have been with Poker Stars Lite forever. Since I live in Florida I cannot play with real money, but have been able to buy chips tp play with. Now I cannot buy chips. There is no answer when I contact support. Poker stars adds chips after so many hours and I was building up to play in a tournament and the chips disappeared. Can someone please explain!!!!

Dropping. I play PokerStars on my home computer, my laptop, my smartphone and iPad. In the last few months every time I play on my phone and iPad I get dropped in the middle of hand. It happens multiple times a session and happens at home and at various hotel locations so it’s not the internet connection. Honestly if I had not built up a lot of chips over the last few years I would delete the app from all my devices.

Please respond. I was playing on my old computer but it doesn’t work any more. I want to download my account to my IPad but not too sure which one to select. I had been playing since we could play w real money and I noticed you have a selection that says real money. Is it okay to play w real money if you live in California? I love this web site

Software So Bad it can’t even........ i’ve been using the software for about a month and a half and it can’t simply sort the games you wanna play in Tournaments by a price range!! It offers entry fees at the top, with the sliders you set a range; and it just pops up anything it WANTS!! the developers are so inept that they can’t even make this work properly on an iPad which is probably got the largest footprint of any single device. they’re not making it work kind of says a lot about it the software.

The PokerStars Play Money is Rigged. This app for play money is actually a scam. It’s rigged and unfair. I don’t know if other players can see your hand, but you always strangely lose after having in a real poker game what should almost certainly be a winner at showdown. The “Random” card generator is definitely rigged and somehow other players are being you with pocket AA or KK even AK suited with other garbage hands. It’s definitely a waste of time to play with this app, as you will certainly always be beaten out somehow and someway. Even using perfect poker strategy, you’ll always lose. Waste of time, scam app!

Besides being rigged so the worst players win.... the game makes you pick your desired seat before each game, instead of allowing you to choose your preferred seat just once in Preferences. The game layout is made for lefties. All the controls are on the bottom left, forcing a righty to cover the dialogue box and, if your hand hovers over the controls, you’ll soon find yourself accidentally calling some donks crazy all in bet. Controls placement should be in Preferences or, simpler still, allow a player to drag them on the screen wherever they feel most comfortable.

Joker Stars. DO NOT BUY COINS ON THIS APP!!! If you do you become a target and you will get nothing but bad beat after bad beat. They don’t even try to hide it. They just screw you over again and again. Play on another app if you want to buy coins. This could be the best app but they have this HUGE flaw.

Issues with site. No one will respond back to you. Several times while I was winning on slots, site started having issues. The latest was while I was playing and winning, a message popped up stating they can verify my location in Michigan. My phone and my PC is up to date and everything is on. I consistently email them and I get zero response from their none existing support team. The chat doesn’t even work! Seem a little odd but I guess my next step is the Michigan gaming board and file a complaint. I even sent poker stars a screen shot and still no response. I feel like I’m being ripped off!

This is theft on a cyber level and is so obvious a kid could see it!!!. This app is the biggest joke ive ever used. Every hand is part of a program set for you to lose and to cause you to buy more chips. Do not use this app and do not buy chips. Someone should file charges against the makers of this app because you can easily spot the bots that are going to win the hands when they are betting with nothing then end up winning at the River card. This is theft and God is going to judge the makers of this app one day for stealing and the people responsible will pay with their souls.

Latest version slow to load. This is a great app. I play a couple of sit and go games every day. Other reviewers complain that they have to buy chips only to loose then to people who play badly but get lucky. A good player can deal with opponents like that. I’ve amassed over 50 million chips and never bought any. Now, I just wish the app did not require a sign on every time. Let me stay logged in until I log out. Developer responds to reviewers so let them know how to improve the app. Bikediver

Unable to purchase play chips. This is an ongoing problem for over a year. Error pop up when clicking “buy chips” says “sorry try later”. You’re supposed to go to “help” then “contact us” but the contact us button doesn’t do squat, so you can never contact anyone. Last time this happened, support said they locked it for some stupid inapplicable reason. It’s never been fixed since then. Every button for play chips has been locked if I have already used that button, leaving only the $50 & $100 buttons available for purchase. iPad.

Stay away. This is the worst poker app ever the amount of times you get burned on the river is insane they favor the person down in the hand I understand bad beats but it’s probably a every game thing. And all there little spin games you always about 95 percent of the time get the smallest prize mgm at least gives you the bigger prize almost every time if you are going to use this app only play with the free chips don’t use your own money this is a fair warning

Best poker software out there. I didn’t start playing poker till just before the DOJ shut online games down several years ago. I have tried many different companies. PokerStars stands out in both their mobile and desktop software. You can be a hobbyist or get serious about the game. The software enables you to catalog players according to their skill level, or their hands of choice. It’s up to you.

Buggy app.. It is fairly decent to play poker online. But it is too buggy. Updates come and go new bugs are introduced. Makes for irritating play experience. The only thing the developers ensure is that the core poker game does well. For starters, they should ensure uniformity of experience across all platforms. The iPad, iPhone, windows all provide completely different features. Chat does not work well. Rebuys do not work well in iPhone. iPad has its own issues and windows as well Anyway it is what it is

Best free play poker around. This is by far the best “play money” poker app (even compared to websites too) that you can play. Large variety of games and it’s a lot more like real poker than the other apps where people will shove with trash because they can. Always lots of people on so there’s basically no wait times for sit and go’s and such. Great for practice or fun!

Not real money poker. They should clarify you can’t win real money on this version of the app. It’s incredibly frustrating that you can buy virtual chips, but they’re worthless. Might as well just go to the real money version of the app and buy real money chips. P.S. - There’s 4 PokerStar apps on the iOS AppStore, which one is the right one? With that being said, if you’re looking to play with fake money just for the heck of it, the app works well

Very unrealistic.. I ran into many scenarios that were unrealistic. The game took me out a poker experience. The cards that would come out in every hand seemed very unrealistic. It is very unlikely that people would make amazing hands on every deal. I do not enjoy online poker apps that create unrealistic scenarios. On top of that I ran into many glitches. I was kicked from many games and couldn’t join back into them. A lot of very unlikely situations will happen in this app. I recommend against playing on this app.

Good Tournaments, Awful Buy-In Games. The tournament structures are good, the action seems fair, and so far I’ve had fun playing in tournaments (inclusive of the sit & go options). The so-called cash games are awful. I make no observations on the randomness of cards being dealt. I will only say that my experience is that if you’re ahead on the flop you’ll likely to be behind by the river. Bottom line: if you like playing in tournament and sit & go structures, this is a good app. However, if you prefer the buy-in format, I would advise you look elsewhere.

Freezing. I found out the freezing is caused by slow internet. When mine starts freezing I unplug my modem and plug it back in and no more freezing for awhile. After awhile it slows down again and I repeat the above. How can you say this app is play money and then fill it with cash games! False advertising!

PokerStars lite. Be warned people, PokerStars is a ripoff. Apple is also a ripoff. The best value play money chips package button quit working. Stars support is a freakin joke. After no resolve, I finally used the lesser value button to make the in-app purchase of play money chips. Eventually, those buttons have quit working, funds were withdrawn from my banking institution, but I received zero play money chips. This happened twice. Apple refused to refund my money. PokerStars says they can’t give me the play money chips because they were purchased through the app. How’s that for a runaround ripoff!

Signal. Only wifi used on phone. Every few minutes kicks me out no signal, says no signal, with 3 of 4 bars wifi still showing. This normally digs into phone data and cellular data…alot. You have been my favorite for 14 years. Rating 5 star because developer responded so fast!

Shady. Seems awfully shady when someone writes an honest review about their experience w trying to cash out their winnings and waiting several hours to get it resolved after contacting them but still no resolution as the player decided to continue playing and lost all the winnings. Finally a response (here, no personal contact) states that IF THEY REWRITE THEIR REVIEW, they can maybe get free chips to try and play other games! SAVE YOUR MONEY AND RUN FAR FROM HERE!!! I’ll be spending mine elsewhere; Thankyou to people who give honest reviews and shame on developers who don’t take responsibility - NO STARS from me

Privacy?. The new update lost some features I liked - fold and watch. It’s also very clunky, I have to login every time I open it instead of it happening automatically. But what’s with the location (and all the other) tracking! I’m not changing my settings. Stop harassing me so you can track me and exploit my data. I’ll play somewhere else. And now all the harassing to buy fake chips? Seriously? Screw off.

System algorithm problems. I have to say the algorithm is off to many river wins for the losing hand. Instead of a 3% or 7% chance at a win it’s more like the have a 73% or 87%. Seems like the more you win the higher the losing hands chances are of winning which in turn makes you spend more money.

Not real poker, find another site. I’ve studied the probabilities and odds of poker for more than a decade and know that on this site they do not apply. Even if you play only the top 5% of starting hands, and flop a set or top two pair, you’re going to loose by the River to some junk hand that would never even be playing in real poker. I’ve concluded it’s a ripoff designed to take your chips and causes you to develop poor poker habits. I’d love the site if it were random cards but it’s rigged.

N. Pretty good not perfect. I play a lot for free, never bought chips. I've managed to increase from playing very low level games to 100,000 and occasional 500,000 games. I do seem to run in streaks where I double my total chips to lose half my chips. I assume that is the game, but occasionally wonder if the computer is involved.

Hands down the best Poker app according to my needs. I love this app for the reasons that it has a SUPER WIDE VARIETY of different variants in poker, it has community, draw and stup poker variants. It’s user friendly and it has 6+ Holden, limit and no limit Omaha, No limit Holden, Heads up Holdem, Razz, 7 Card stud, 5 card draw, badugi and more. So to me, this app is my 1st go to for Poker. Customer service needs more work but other than that, 98% rating.

All these apps are the same. These apps are all the same. If you don’t pay them a dollar they’ll give you the short end of the stick. They can quote whatever numbers they want about how it’s fair, and it might be mathematically correct. But winning a small pot and then losing a monster, that that anyone who plays cards would call, is not fair. I try to make these amazing players that make gutsy calls try to talk and they don’t say a word. Maybe because they can’t?No difference in any of these apps. If you want to play cards, grab some friends and shuffle up and deal. Don't bother with any of these apps.

Somethings very wrong. Website is not working now. Can log in but cannot play many of the games. Buy in is also messed up. The pop up for responsible gaming is annoying and difficult to close. It acts like a virus. Please get rid of this pop up. I don’t need to be reminded if responsible gaming EVERY time I log in. It’s play money.

Won’t reload if you don’t sign off. I have to remember to log off when I shut it down. Otherwise it won’t start up completely. It just hangs therein limbo. Then I have to delete the app, reload it on my iPad, and login all over again. It’s a pain. Otherwise, a good poker site.

Cant get into account. Screw this app ever since the update, it keeps telling me my password is incorrect when I know it’s not because I have it written down. Also it had worked a hundred times before. So I go to reset my password, and it sends me an e-mail which I open immediately. I then click the link to reset the password and it tells me the link has expired. I’ve tried for over a week now, with getting a new link after new link to reset the password and it’s the same thing. And yes I know it expires in one hour but, the link expires for me in 0.2 seconds. So I give up, also PokerStars has the worst support.

Newest update a failure. What did you do? This update is awful. I have to buy in to a category and then the app puts me on any table, regardless of how many players. I no longer can pick my table. You can no longer see who is playing. I wanted to change tables, When I bought in to the category again, I got put right back at the table I just left. ABSURD. The menu is so NOT user friendly. Please change it back.

Top shelf poker. Been playing this site since Fulltilt got slammed for tax evasion and their accounts all locked down, people lost too much. This site is way better due to the random shuffle. It’s seldom you run nonstop with stellar hands every time which makes this sites game, more honest. I know ironic statement for the Poker game! Love it here!

Challenging and fun!. Although I only use play money while enjoying the wide variety of games, the administration always responds to my inquiries courteously and in a timely fashion. The website works nicely and quickly addresses minor glitches. . . . I love playing zoom which helps to keep my mind sharp while providing exciting and challenging entertainment. My play money bank is well over 3 million!

Disappointed!. I use to like this app. Bought chips more times than I probably should have. At least until now. I tried to purchase some chips on Feb 2nd and normally the chips are there by the time I get through all their stuff. But no chips this time. Contacted support and they said I need to wait 4 business days. No reason why. Especially since I never had any issues before. After 4 days they tell me to file a claim with Apple. I’ve written support three times asking what’s going on and evidently they feel I don’t need a response. Save your money and find another poker app.

Took my $150 I paid and never got my throwables. I bought $150 worth of free chips….I was supposed to have the throwables to use and I have messaged multiple times with a response if we are working on it. You were not working on it when it took my money immediately. That is like bait and switch when you take my money snd never provide what I paid for. We already lost the throwables we paid for before so if you cannot figure it out give us our money back.

Bad algorithms and daily update requirements. Firstly the algorithms they use are not even close to random. I lost to a straight flush twice in January and I only play once a week. I also won with multiple 4 of a kinds in the same time period. I play live cards enough to know this should not happen. Also they constantly require you to update the app and they are huge updates like twice a week sometimes. How could such a simple app require 100mb updates every week? Nothing worse than logging in to play a scheduled game with friends and having to miss the first ten hands cuz you’re updating the app.

Sunday billion. I had won a ticket to the event this past Sunday and was in 4th place in chips with under 100 players left when I got frozen out of the tournament. When I finally got back in, I was under 200 thousand in chips and finished 20th. I was on a good run when frozen out and felt like I could have won it. Can someone please explain what happened?

Should be called Bingostars. The app looks good and plays well, deals seem random enough, however a large enough minority of players that use this app like to play all in bingo on every hand (regardless of the stakes) so much so that they end up sucking the enjoyment out of playing. I’ve tried many times to find a table where players aren’t crazed lunatics and rarely do. It’s a 5 star app that the players have whittled down to 2 in my experience.

App problems. After updating the app I am unable to open the app I have been playing this game for years and I have been very satisfied with all aspects of the game until now and I hope that you will be able to fix the problem so that I can continue to play

Poker simulation. Not a true representation of the game!. If you want to play online poker somewhere with a truly random deal, instead of a mockery of the game set up to let everyone win from time to time, look elsewhere. I’ve never seen so many junk, short stack all-ins, win repeatedly with miraculous bad beats. It’s sad because it could be a great place to play poker. Instead, it’s a frustrating simulation programmed to pay off the worst players on the planet, and to make the greedy developers more money. I would never play for real money with these dishonest sleaze balls.

I wish it was for real. I really enjoy PokerStars LITE. Simple and to the point. I’ve played on other apps, but they were obnoxiously flashy. My only complaint is that I can’t play for real stakes in my state. I’m able to play on Bovada for real cash, but I would prefer being able to play with a US company. I have to jump through some currency hoops (bitcoin) to play with Bovada.

Be aware this is not fair. When I joined first i was winning all the time. Now I can’t win anything, the people hit their magic card on the river all the time. It’s just like other games, want to get you to buy chips. I know you will respond with our game has been certified for fair play but that is bogus. Hope this prevents other people from joining or at least be aware. People will get wise eventually. Play for fun but just know they have it set up to where you will have to pay or make it hard on you without. It’s an app with no ads, how do they make money?

Why???. Why would anyone use REAL MONEY on a computer program?? You not only trust the website to cash you out when you want, but you also trust a COMPUTER PROGRAM to be fair! And as they say in computer programming, “Garbage in, garbage out”. I have accumulated 358,000,000 play chips playing Poker Stars Lite, never once buying a single chip. But I would NEVER use real money on ANY website. How can anyone trust the programming??? Real money in casinos (poker tables only, no machines) and play money on Poker Stars.

“Government issued photo ID”. If you want a play-money poker game, look elsewhere. Despite barely playing this game, my account was frozen with no reason given. I contacted the email address in the notice and finally received a response after 9 days with precious little additional information: “Your account has been suspended as part of an internal review. “In order to reopen it we require that you please provide a copy of your Driver's License, Passport or other Government issued photo ID. You may scan or take a clear digital picture of the document and attach it to your next reply. “Thank you for the cooperation.” No reason given for the suspension along with an absurd request for government-issued ID to play a free, play money game. I lost my progress, but the game itself is rather plain in comparison to the other poker apps out there anyway, I suppose.

Decent when works. Ridiculous that regular hold’em tournaments do not even show up after recent update…told by site it was because lower level tour its were removed…really? Put them back in, there were hundreds of players…those hinky games are for the ultra bored, leave them alone too…not interested in re-buys or add-ons…bring back the regular hold’em tournaments please!

This Site Has A Lot Of Immature People On It. There are a lot immature people on this site that don’t know the first thing about how to play live poker. If they did, they wouldn’t be hounding you to act in less than 5 seconds. I don’t talk on these message boards, but some of these players are just ridiculous jerks. On top of that, I just want to play on here for fun; I play for money at legit places. And I think I am going to just disengage my account as I’m sick of the stupidity. They should have a website for legit adults to play on and then another one for kids 25 and younger to play on that have no life or social skill sets.

Better than WSOP. I use to think that the WSOP app was the best but this is far better except for visuals which I understand is currently in a beta phase so that should become a non issue. I love all the options and tournaments and different levels of play available that truly make this stand out from the rest.