Full Tilt vs PokerStars
Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars are in the number #1 and #2 spots in terms of traffic volumes with between 80,000 and 90,000 players online at peak times. While both offer an excellent selection of both cash games and tournaments they differ in many ways, ranging from software interface to bonus and VIP schemes on offer. Neither of these poker sites are US-friendly, instead drawing their player base from Canada, Europe, South Africa and Australasia.
COMPARISON
-Both have a good variety of tournament options, 100K+ players at peak hours in 4,000+ tournaments.
-Both of these poker sites have reputations for the best poker software clients in the industry.
-PokerStars has about 2x the traffic that Full Tilt has, with up to 100K+ players online at peak hours.
-PokerStars is internationally advertised and has a huge celebrity team backing them.
-Full Tilt offers players 27% rakeback through rakeback providers.
-Both sites are more or less comparable in the support department.
SCREENSHOTS
According to Alexa more than 32% of the Full Tilt Poker players come from the United States and more than 26% of the PokerStars players come from United States of America. PokerStars.de is part of online poker sites network of PokerStars and poker rooms aimed at German online poker players.
OTHER REVIEWS
May 17th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I think that they are both definitely great online poker rooms to play, but PokerStars is my top pick. I think that their poker tournaments are much more lucrative and the prize pools are huge. The poker pro chat feature at full tilt poker is an added bonus for them.