

Give your business to a different site and PokerStars will either be forced to improve or go out of business. If you want PokerStars to stop making changes that negatively impact their players, you need to stop playing on PokerStars. It's not coincidental that all of the unpopular changes mentioned in point #2 of this list happened after the demise of their two biggest competitors! PokerStars are likely to continue to increase rake and fees and reduce rewards as long as players continue supporting them. Although PokerStars do not have an official monopoly, they do have the lion's share of the online poker market ever since Full Tilt poker and Absolute Poker went out of business as a result of Black Friday. Without competitors, a companies can increase profits with higher prices and lower quality. Competition forces companies to offer high quality products at the lowest possible price.

Nobody should be surprised to learn that monopolies are bad and that competition in the marketplace is good. Please disable Ad-Block on this site if you are unable to see the banner aboveġ. In fact, you can earn significantly more rewards with almost any other online poker site. If maximizing your rewards while minimizing rake & fees is your goal, then the absolute best site is Americas Cardroom (and they have plenty of active tables as well). If the above reasons not to download PokerStars do not concern you, and you wish to download the PokerStars software anyway, you may wish to follow our PokerStars download and installation instructions.


In the section below we will provide detailed reasons for why we do not recommend downloading PokerStars.
