Facts
Red Star Poker was established in 2005 in Cura?ao and is licensed by the authorities of the Netherlands Antilles to provide online gambling. In 2006, the poker room joined the well-known poker network Cake, which allowed it to increase repeatedly its popularity and to attract the attention of many new players.
Cake Company is constantly expanding its ranks by professional players, so Doyle Brunson and Mike Caro can be met at tables with high limits on Red Star Poker.
Various promotions are held throughout the year on Red Star Poker, and a loyalty program works for regular players, who receive from the poker room various cash prizes, gifts, tournament tickets, and can spend earned points in the VIP-shop for various exclusive products.
Bonuses
Red Star Poker offers new players a solid first deposit bonus of 250%, reaching $1,500.
Currently the poker room gives you a 100% bonus for re-deposit in the amount of not more than $500, which is accrued to the player's account within fifteen minutes, and the individual, who replenished the account, receives five gold chips of the poker room.
New players can take part in freerolls that are held constantly free of charge.
The following freerolls are held daily:
- $25 Good Morning Freeroll
- $50 Freeroll
- $25 Omaha Freeroll
- $50 Turbo Freeroll
- $25 Late Night Freeroll
Mondays to Thursdays 150 Gold Chip Freeroll Tournament is held with a prize pool of 150 gold chips.
Fridays and Saturdays $250 Weekend Freeroll Tournament is held with a prize pool of $250.
On Sunday the 500 Gold Chip Freeroll Tournament with a prize pool of 500 gold chips is held.
Players who have earned one gold chip can purchase tickets to the following tournaments for it:
- $100 Gold Chip Freeroll (daily).
- $600 Gold Chip Freeroll (Sundays).
Promotion
Red Star Poker holds for its players a large number of different promotions.
The promotion Rake Race is held monthly. Players should play in certain tournaments to take part in it, and the more is the rake taken from the player, the greater is the amount he gets into his account. The minimum fee is $3, and the maximum is $2 000 Total money prize exceeds $27,000.
The promotion Gold Rush includes a series of twenty tournaments with prize pools ranging from $25 to $2 000. Apart from it 15 tickets to $100K GTD Tournament with a prize pool of $100,000 and 30 tickets to the $70k GTD SNG Tournament with a prize pool of $70,000 are drawn.
The promotion Gold Card is held for players at the cash tables, every player can win a gold card as a sort of lottery, and the winner is determined by a random number generator.
The promotion Festival of Gold Cards is held quite often, you can read about it on Casinoz, and its total prize pool comprises $100,000.
Red Star Poker holds also many satellites to popular live tournaments: English Poker Open, WSOOP, Merit Summer Slam, and many others.
Games available
Red Star Poker offers the most popular varieties of poker:
Texas Hold'em Poker (unlimited and with fixed limit)
Omaha
Omaha Hi Low Poker
Games in an online casino.
Software features
Red Star Poker software offers players to take advantage of all sorts of user-friendly features.
History of Transactions functions allows you to monitor the receipt and withdrawal of funds.
Protection from Disconnection function gives players up to 5 minutes to reconnect and continue playing.
Every player can check his game statistics on Red Star Poker; analyze it that can prevent him in the future from making mistakes.
Search of Hands function allows you to find quickly a certain hand for viewing and analysis.
Players can play at several tables simultaneously.
Tournaments
Red Star Poker offers players a wide variety of tournaments, freerolls, satellites, SNG tournaments and Multi-Table tournaments.
The following tournaments are held daily:
- $36 NL Hold'em - Turbo with $3 buy-in;
- $20 NL Hold'em Bounty with $2$buy-in
- $50 Deepstack with $5$buy-in
- $20 NL Hold'em - Heads-up Shootout with $2 buy-in;
- $900 Guaranteed Turbo - R&A with $3.3 buy-in and other similar tournaments.
The following tournaments are held regularly:
- $5,000 Guaranteed with $44 buy-in;
- $1,500 Guaranteed Bounty with $11 buy-in;
- $2,500 Guaranteed - R&A with $11 buy-in;
- $3,000 Guaranteed Bounty with $30 buy-in;
- $2,000 Guaranteed - R&A with $6 buy-in;
- $450 Guaranteed Bounty with $4 buy-in and so on.
Rakeback
Red Star Poker takes the standard rake of 5%, but numerous promotions, such as Rake Race, Gold Chips, Gold Cards allow players to return a part of the retention money.
Add/withdraw funds
Red Star Poker offers several ways to add and withdraw funds: Visa, MasterCard, WebMoney, Moneta.ru, Moneybookers, NETELLER, and QIWI.
Support
Red Star Poker provides comprehensive technical support to their players via e-mail or through [email protected] or via online chat.
Cons and pros
+ Technical support via e-mail
+ A lot of different promotions
+ A lot of tables in cash games with different limits
+ A lot of different tournaments
- A limited number of poker games.