Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
PokerStars averages over 25,000 players
PokerStars averages over 25,000 players playing real money cash games daily.[19] Zoom Poker[edit]PokerStars launched a beta of Zoom Poker in March 2012, with an official launch in May 2012. Zoom Poker is a fast fold ring game poker format where opponents change after every hand. The aim of Zoom poker is to offer players more hands of poker than in a regular ring game.[20] In January 2013 PokerStars rolled out Zoom Poker Tournaments due to popular demand for the fast fold variant [21]
Online tournaments[edit]
Online tournaments[edit] The site's flagship weekly event is the Sunday Million, a weekly tournament with a guaranteed $1 million prize pool and a $215 buy-in. The Sunday Million is the biggest weekly online poker tournament in the world. On March 7, 2011, The 5th Anniversary Sunday Million broke records, with 59,128 players creating a total prize pool of $11,825,600.[22] World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) has been running since 2002 and is regarded[by whom?] as the online equivalent of the World Series of Poker. The WCOOP tournament series is the largest online poker series in the world and pays out the largest prizes in online poker.