Playing with play money chips at a play money table is a great way to develop your poker skills.
PokerStars hosts the biggest online poker events anywhere! It's home to the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) and much more. It's also where you'll find the biggest weekly online poker tournaments, like the Sunday Million, where you can play for a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool! . POKERSTARS LITE IS A FREE-TO-PLAY MOBILE APP. POKERSTARS REAL MONEY MOBILE APPS ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE PLAY. PokerStars LITE is the online poker app that allows you to play poker games.
You can start playing free online poker, and practicing in a poker club, as soon as you have set up your PokerStars account. The play money tables are located under the “Play Money” tab in the PokerStars lobby. Once you are there you will see a wide variety of game choices and formats to choose from. Pick a game to try out, sit down at a table, and start enjoying poker straight-away, you’ll find it’s a lot of fun!
As a beginner you won’t be expected to start winning right away so don’t worry of you lose your play money chips during those early games. At PokerStars you can top up your play money chips for free every few hours so you’ll always be able to continue playing and enjoying the game.
One important thing to remember about play money tables is that some players can play very recklessly because no real money is at stake. Don’t get discouraged or intimidated by this and instead focus on playing the best game you can with the skills and knowledge you have learned so far.
Many of the strategy considerations we teach at PokerStars School may not be as effective at a play money table. Therefore, if you have been reading our articles and already have a fairly good grasp of how to play, you will probably benefit more from playing at the PokerStars micro-stakes real money tables.
Play money tables are however ideal for absolute beginners to get familiar with the mechanics of poker: when to act, how to bet, call or fold, etc.
Best of luck at the tables!
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When it comes to film franchises, third installments typically fall short of the heights reached by the first two parts. That was somewhat the case for the third Pennsyl-MANIA event on PokerStars PA that finished Monday night.
The third go-round of the $200 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament sported a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool, the largest in the site’s history. While the event once again attracted a huge turnout, it wasn’t quite enough to avoid an overlay of just over $70,000.
Even so, Pennsyl-MANIA Part 3 — or “P3nnsyl-MANIA” — ranks as the second-largest tournament in Pennsylvania online poker’s short history.
Like previous Pennsyl-MANIAs, the two-day tournament allowed up to five re-entries. There were a total of 1,421 unique players who re-entered 888 times during the 4.5-hour late registration period.
Ultimately the 2,309 entries were about 380 shy of what was needed to avoid the overlay.
The top 377 finishers divided the $500,000 prize pool. Among those taking part of it was PokerStars Ambassador Jennifer Shahade who finished 37th.
After leading for all of a short heads-up battle, “PokerAnomoly” won the last all-in with king-queen versus the pocket sevens of “bigpapa272” to win the title and first prize of $74,147.85.
The first Pennsyl-MANIA back in May still ranks as the largest ever on PokerStars PA. That one drew 2,774 entries to create a $515,964 prize pool.
Thanks to a heads-up deal, winner “D-Low1527” earned just over $70K for finishing first in the inaugural Pennsyl-MANIA. Thus the prize “PokerAnomoly” won last night is the largest earned in any of the three Pennsyl-MANIAs.
For the first time, PokerStars PA added a side event to the Pennsyl-MANIA festivities, a $1,000 NLHE High Roller.
The High Roller featured a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and had no problems exceeding that total.
The 93 total entries (70 uniques) pushed the prize pool up to $88,350. In the end “superdonkeydave” needed a little over six-and-a-half hours to win all the chips and a $21,243.68 first prize.
As has been the case since its November 2019 launch, PokerStars PA remains the only online poker site operating in the Keystone State. Both WSOP.com and partypoker appear poised to open online poker rooms in the state in 2021.
Since launching, PokerStars PA has averaged just under $2.9 million in revenue each month. Traffic-wise, the site peaked in April with more than $5.2 million in revenue amid casino closures and other measures taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the last three months, PokerStars PA revenue has held steady at right around $2.4 million per month.
Per orders from the state government, retail casinos are closed once again in Pennsylvania until Jan. 4. Meanwhile PA online casinos are thriving overall, hitting almost $60 million in total revenue to set a new record in November.
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