Other software being garbage doesn’t relieve Stars of the obligation to have their software not be garbage. Two wrongs, etc. The Stars client has many hallmarks of lowest-bidder software and just plain bad coding. If their client is built that way, their backend is probably also built that way. It is 100% reasonable to be concerned about vulnerabilities in real-money gambling software when you have evidence that the software is not being thoughtfully designed and implemented.


Hell, $5 cash is better than I’ve done, and I’ve opened numerous black [edit: This is a lie, they are diamond.] chests. I may also only be on the diamond chests. The chests are black, but with a sparkly lid and bottom. Is that diamond? Either way, I’ve gotten a few casino bonuses, which I will never use, $3 cash, and some free spins. I’ve taken +/- $46 out of the free spins.

Edit: OK, I am definitely on diamond chests, still. Stars just popped up an ad for their rewards program, and I can see the next one is black.

Wow, maybe the Stars gods heard me. Just got a diamond chest and it had 5,000 coin ($50 value) and $200 cash.

Here's hoping you're next in line for a high value chest, SpaceAce.

Of course, but I guess we just have different definitions of garbage software. I wouldn't label what I currently am seeing as garbage. It has a few issues, but overall, I'm satisfied.

Also, more good news! BetMGM poker is coming soon!

https://pokerfuse.com/news/law-and-r...n-later-month/

I always preferred Merge's Software to any of them. A distance second would have been tilt's. Never was a fan of the PS Software. Have logged in a bit this week when geolocation permitted it and I do not like their lobby set up. It's* what I have to play with - the only thing legal in my state (PA), but I don't think being the only cat-house in town is an open ticket to be as ratty as you want.

I signed up a week on PS and have been enjoying myself. Up about $18.00 over 3500 hands playing NL2. This is the most poker I've played in like 15ish years.

Thinking once I hit 5k hands probably on Sunday as I'm busy today and tomorrow I'll head over to NL5. I have been doing pretty well, I got kind of tilted last night and was calling some stuff I shouldn't have after the bad beats. Was in for about $18 4 tabling but ended the night only down $1.50

Any idea if they are going to add Zoom or full ring in the micro stakes tables?

Ahh, I should have considered that could be your issue and told you how to make those folders visible. Glad you got it sorted.



Not sure about zoom, but I assume they need a bigger player pool to support it. Anyone know if Stars in PA has zoom? I definitely hope that they add FR to the micros as that is what I played the majority of my NLH hands on pre-UIGEA and what I prefer when playing PLO now.


Does a stars rep monitor that official stars software improvement thread? Maybe we can ask in there?

Wow. I run bad. I have opened a bunch of these diamond chests, and $3 cash and ten free spins are the best rewards I’ve seen. Is there a place you can see the chests you’ve opened and the rewards you’ve received?

Thanks for throwing some good juju on me. I should pop a few more chests this weekend. We’ll see if it worked.

So in regards to these chests is there any reason to hold on to them for better rewards? I don't quite understand it. I'm on like the blue colored #3 (playing NL2 I haven't gotten very far :P )

I'd take ACR over this Stars software all day. If they had 2k max players most of their issues would never happen. Stars is also a **** company now, but hey, legal online poker is legal online poker. After competition comes I hope Stars burns, they deserve it.

I will say, I think most of my issues may have been from geo location and wi-fi. (I'm right on the line) I hold Stars to a much higher standard than basically any other site, they've been the best for going on 20 years software wise.

Got to $800 and 65 points before crashing and burning to $0 haha!

Wouldn’t it be European roulette with the single 0? American Roulette has 0 and 00.

I’m thinking about depositing the $600 and just doing $1 spins on black for 10 hours.

I've played American sites since BF happened and this is the softest field I've seen (not a huge sample, but MTTs and midstakes NL cash) since before BF happened... That's saying something when you consider how soft Global, ACR, and Bovada are.

Had no problem playing for days on my desktop with WiFi enabled. Recently I’m getting the can not confirm location message, I get the same message on my phone when on or off WiFi. I’ve requested a callback and emails about the issue for days but support seems not existent. Very disappointed with the lack of support considering that I remember stars support being top notch back in the day.

american gives 1 point/$6 wagered, euro is $12.

Limping is the hottest move in every format and stake, from what I've observed.

Min 3bet has to be a close 2nd or maybe 1st.

yeah it blows my mind that they used to run a site 100x the size of this beautifully and this software is worse than bovada rn. like what is odawa tribe even paying for? euros ripping off native americans smh history repeats itself

not sure what you guys are on about the stars.mi software. I have been playing ignition, wpn and cake real money, and stars.com play money, for HM3 work since uigea and stars.mi is as good as or better than ignition or wpn imo. It is basically the same as stars.com that everyone else was using before and after uigea.


edit: party/betmgm should be live before the end of the month if you hate stars

How many tables? Everything (except revolution back in the day) works on a few for the most part. I've continued having issues today, not as bad, but 0 issues on other sites all day. Nevada and NJ had the same issues close to the border and it seems that may be the case here.

Overall, it's just clunky software once you have a lot of tables, imo. I had to go in and turn most everything off animation wise and I have a solid computer. Once I got to 16 tables earlier it was pretty slow.

OK, multi-tabling I can't speak to as I rarely have to, or would, play more than a few tables at a time for my work and my off-work micro stakes splashing. There are a handful of programs out there that might make multi-tabling easier but I have never used them for the way I play and won't name any of them since one of them I would have to mention is under our company's umbrella.

Stars with their new Aurora graphics engine enabled is notoriously bad and resource intensive for mass tabling. There are/were ways to disable Aurora or roll back to previous stars clients but I am not sure if they still work in general or with Stars.MI.


edit: Check the Stars Software Improvement Thread for ways to disable Aurora. If you can't disable it try the 'Carbon' or 'Hypersimple' themes to see if might help improve performance.


It doesn't appear to be able to be completely disabled but there are some settings for Aurora:

The pop ups when you do get reconnected also are pretty ridiculous. Like every single table gets 2 and the lobby gets 2 or 3 lol.

Ah, I see. I'll have to rethink if I want to grind the bonus on roulette.

Just broke on me HU in $200 joike

Edit: 3 mins later we get back in. Went all in, got called, no cards deal out and nothing happens but PT4 catches I win. Wait a bit and then have to close and reopen. Mission completed though .

The poker/deposit bonus is completely different from the casino bonus. Their casino bonus is if you bet 1$ in the casino, they give you a 50$ bonus to play around with in the casino and you have to clear 100 points and American roulette gives you 6$=1point.....some slots are 10-12=1point!