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This site is dedicated to helping you, the reader, become a better poker player, and while this post doesn’t do it directly, I want to give you my opinion and a little added information on PokerStars.First of all, I will address my post title - PokerStars does have new themes, and just as important, resizable tables. There are ten new themes and two new card decks, so there is plenty of mixing and matching that you can do. The themes are named as follows: No images theme, shiny theme, marine theme, stars theme, hyper-simple theme, saloon theme, and the renaissance theme, which comes in teal, green, red, and purple. I’ve grouped all of them into a single screen shot, with their labels in the chat window. The images come courtesy of the poker stars software, but there is a site that addresses the new changes, and can be found here. The resizable tables are great as well - you can make them as small or as big as you want. You lose a little bit of quality when you make them bigger, but not enough to make a difference. A little bit more can be learned from Stars’ page addressing the resizing.

I wanted to let you know about this update because I think that you should really consider PokerStars when you decide that you want to delve into online poker. The team at PokerStars is always trying to make their customers happy, as is every other site, but I think the difference with Stars is they act on their promises and they focus on the right changes. I loved the 180 person $20 SNG idea, the deep stack tournament idea, and now the themes. They really do a good job of catering to everyone in some way, shape or form.

As a new online player, you most likely want to focus on becoming better. If you have problems with customer service, your deposits and cashouts, or the overall quality of the site in general, whether you like it or not, you will be distracted, and that can hamper your necessary positive attitude towards the game of poker. I’ll be honest, I don’t think that PokerStars has the best blind structure for my type of play; I believe that award goes to UltimateBet. I don’t think that the tournaments that PokerStars runs are all that great because they all have 1000+ people in them. I can overlook these things, however, because of the multitude of positives they have working for them. They have the best selection of everything, and I’ve never had any problems with them.

To close this post out, I give you one challenge: if you are thinking about starting/continuing/branching out on internet poker, give Stars a try - they’re legit, and they’re constantly getting better.