After playing at RedStar Poker for a little over a month, I can already make some important conclusions and give a few differences between this poker room and all the others. I will write about cash game and extremely interesting and, not afraid of this word, unique in our time SnG format, as well as a little description of other pluses and features of the room.
Let's start with software and appearance. The design of tables in this room pulls only at the end of the noughties, something reminiscent of the style of FullTilt Poker. For those who like to feel like Victor Bloom, this room is probably suitable, but for players from Pokerk or Pokerdom, it may be a little strange to play at first.
Let's talk a little bit about the rake. At limits from 2 euros to 10 it breaks all records and makes up 6.67% of interest from each pot, but with an acceptable for such limits cap of 10BB. Frankly speaking, it's hard to find a worse rake percentage than this anywhere else, and it's really hard on your pocket. Playing small pots becomes unprofitable. At limits from 20 euros the situation is corrected to the standard 5 percent, but for players of microlimits nobody makes such indulgences - you will have to pay more than in most other rooms.
Rake in SnG in general breaks all records. Putting 2 euros on the line and winning in one of the SnG modes called Double or Nothing, you will receive only 3.44 euros, thus paying a staggering 14 percent rake. Further reasoning is unnecessary.
However, let's not be sad! RedStar also has a lot of good things. Let's start with the rakeback. According to the standard it is 20 percent, that is, less than this figure you simply can not get. Using bonuses after the first deposit, you can achieve rakeback of 30 percent, which is much more pleasant.
After the same deposit (25 euros minimum), entering the code in advance when registering an account and then writing to GipsyTeam support, you can get a 25 euro bonus, which you can immediately play on. To withdraw this money you need to win back 50 euros of rake. It doesn't sound very pleasant, but what is better, to play 50 euros of rake and get only rakeback, or to play 50 euros of rake and get rakeback + 25 euros? The choice, in my opinion, is obvious.
RedStar also has another very nice thing - Wheel of Fortune. And, let me tell you from experience, this thing is called the wheel of the goddess of luck for a reason - the luck is really quite good there. However, it's better to start with how this wheel can be spun, and to do it is simple: for 350 played hands on any cache limit you will be given one ticket for the wheel every day. You will also get one ticket per deposit. These are the easiest ways to get tickets, the rest are bordering on ludomania and would rather take you into debt than bring additional income.
What can you win in these spins? The most useful thing - money. There fall out amounts of 5, 25, 50, 250 dollars. 250, of course, is unlikely to fall out, however, I myself received 5 bucks from this wheel, and the chance of falling out 5 and 25 dollars there is almost the same.
Another prize that will fall out most often is freespins. It doesn't sound like much, however, it's not that bad. First of all, you can win money there, I even managed to hit the jackpot of 500 rubles. Secondly, the money won in spins, do not need to wagering. As soon as you win them - they are yours.
Thus, the wheel will bring you about 50 rubles a day. The amount is not large, but for micro-limit players is very pleasant. All we have to do is to play, although that's what we came here for, isn't it?
In this paragraph, I want to describe the main advantage of RedStar - the fields and select opportunities. I have not met more amateurs on any of the rooms, and their traffic grows closer to the evening in Moscow, which can not but please. What about select, because the lobbies there are anonymous? The Average Pot parameter will help us in this, looking at which it is very easy to make sure that the fans of RedStara are cooler than the fans of the same Pokerk, and this I will now confirm. Avg Pot NL10 on poker is about 1.5 dollars. Even 2 bucks are already rare, and there are many times more tables on Pokerk than in the Red Room I described. It is very easy to find an average RedStar NL10 NL10 pot of 4 euros, and there will be many such tables. At any time of day there will be at least one table with an average bank of €5. On Pokerka, however, no matter how hard I tried, I could not find an average bank above 3 dollars.
Also you can describe the function of preflop keshout. For many players it will be very pleasant, because without unnecessary nerves can take the due 70-80 percent of the bank and do not worry about anything. :)
I want to finish with deposits and withdrawals, and with one of these points is not all so rosy. Deposits here are quite standard - you will not find any commission, money comes within 5 minutes, and a bonus of 25 euros in addition. Isn't it happiness? Problems will start when you try to withdraw your money.
And here we are waiting for several problems. The first one is solvable. Withdrawal blocking is not automatically removed after wagering 50 euros of rake. Here you can either write to the RedStar support, which is not so easy to find, or twice request a withdrawal, because the first one will be rejected with the words "50 sp". Therefore, it will take about 24 hours to remove all bans and withdraw money. Well, it takes almost a week on Pokerke, but not everything is so smooth. Traditionally, RedStar continues to surprise us with its, to put it mildly, biting commissions. About 5-7 percent the room will take from you. It seems not so terrible, but on Pokerka, for example, it can be avoided by simply withdrawing to the cryptocurrency wallet USDC on the network BEP-20, Red Star does not give such an opportunity and it will get its money in any case.
Summing up, we can say that RedStar is an interesting room with a lot of fans and a nice loyalty program, but the disadvantages in the form of rake, design and withdrawal can not help but upset. Nevertheless, everyone decides for himself. I can confidently give RedStar Poker a solid four and recommend it for playing on limits from NL2 to NL20.
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