PokerStars Lures Players with Bonuses, Rewards, Exciting Tournaments

Mike Pritchard

Competition is great for players, as it means more great offers, tournaments and other moves by poker sites to keep up the action at their online tables.

PokerStars—one of the most well-known sites for online poker in the world—offers a New Jersey site full of bells and whistles to keep even hardcore poker players happy.

Here’s a look at some of what PokerStars has brought to New Jersey’s online poker scene.

Introductory Offers

Make your first deposit of $20 or more and you’ll receive a $20 cash bonus plus $10 in tickets to play Spin and Gos, or fast tournaments where you could win up to 1,000 times your buy-in in just minutes.

PokerStars also offers a 100 percent first deposit match up to $600. Like most poker sites, the bonus match is released in small increments as you play. The match is released as cash. Better yet, they’ll keep the match going on your second and third deposits up to $600. PokerStars also gives new players a ticket to their monthly depositor freeroll.

Daily Bigs Tournaments

PokerStars offers up the Daily Bigs schedule as part of its regular tournament schedule. That’s five different daily tournaments with buy-ins from $5 to $50 and prize pool guarantees from $500 to $2,000.

Other Daily Tournaments

Four daily turbo tournaments with prize pool guarantees of $500 to $1,000. Other categories include Change-Up tournaments that offer different games—Omaha Hi/Lo, Omaha and Stud—every day. Like most poker sites, PokerStars also runs big prize pool tournaments on Sundays.

Spin and Go Tournaments

Spin and Gos are fast-paced, 3-Max Hyper-Turbo Sit and Go tournaments, featuring 500-chip starting stacks. Buy-ins range from $1 to $25, and each tournament has a randomly drawn prize pool that will award between two and 1,000 times your buy-in.

Rewards

PokerStars offers the Stars Rewards program with a new take on loyalty points. Earn points on cash and tournament play and work towards collecting special “chests” filled with bonuses tailored to the games you like to play. They can include StarCoins that can be spent at the PokerStars Rewards Store or free tournament tickets.