How to get play money at PokerStars for free?

Professional players are ironic about poker with play money. You can't make real money, so it's not interesting. However, free play attracts many players. And by abstract "many players" we mean 2102 of them at the cash tables. That's how many players were at the tables on Friday morning at the time of this writing. Today, we'll tell and show you how to get free playmoney on PokerStars.

Instructions on how to get free chips on PS

A new user receives 35,000 play money when he opens an account at PokerStars. This is enough to play on low limits, and if they run out, PS allows you to top up by 15,000 chips every 4 hours. This pause limits opponents who like to go all-in in every hand. Otherwise, they would spoil the experience for more adequate pokerists.
To get new conditional chips, you must:
1. Log in to PokerStars with your username and password.
2. In the top right corner of the lobby, click on the "Cashier" button.

3. In the new window click on "Collect". About the green button "Buy Chips" we told in a separate article.

4. A pop-up message will delight you with the addition of playmoney.

Here press "OK".

All - the money is received, the next portion will be available in 4 hours.

What free play modes are available at PokerStars?

With the fact, how to get play money for free in PokerStars figured out, let's move on to what you can play. The short answer - all the same as the real money. PS have done an excellent job and the client on playmoney does not limit poker fans in any way.

At high limit tables, the stack figure may be too long

Here are the disciplines available:

Cash game. The most traffic is at the no-limit Texas Hold'em tables. Limits start at 50/100 and end at 25,000,000/50,000,000. The journey from the lowest to the highest stakes is not inferior to Frodo Beggins' march from Lord of the Rings. Short tables are the most popular - the game is played at 265 tables, full tables are not empty either - 80 active. In addition to them - 42 tables Heads Up. Play for chips is available and in other types of poker, such as PLO, PLO Hi / Lo, Stud and RAZZ. The Zoom has 200 connections at the 50/100 and 250/500 tables.

MTT. The tab is not as popular as its counterpart in the real-money client, but there are 150-200 players in tournaments even in the morning. There is a tournament here with a prize pool of a billion. Among the formats there are progressive knockout, zoom, regular freezeout and satellites. In addition to Hold'em, there are Omaha tournaments.

Sit&Go. It's hard to decide which format is most popular here: there are HU, SH, Fifty50, and multi-table tournaments. Fast SNGs dominate in terms of blind levels: turbo and superturbo.

Spin&Go. You can play fast three-person tournaments not only in NL Holdem, but also in PLO. The hold'em tab has 7 limits, and the maximum prize is 250 billions chips. Traffic is hard to gauge, but it took less than two seconds from the time you sign up for a trial tournament to the start of the tournament.

Short deck poker and the experimental "Tempest" format are also available to play.

The advantage of playing Tempest on play money - robbery rake size does not upset

At the tables for conditional chips poker programs are allowed. There are no differences from playing for real money. There are restrictions on multitabling in free play, but they are less severe: up to 6 cash tables are allowed.

How to play better and win more at PokerStars?

Regardless of whether you play for free for fun or as preparation for real poker for money, there is a way to do it more successfully. It's all about poker software. PokerStars allows you to use a lot of software. Two in particular stand out:

1. StarsCaption. Auxiliary software for multi-tabling.

StarsCaption recently became a monopolist in the ancillary software market due to the closure of StarsHelper

It takes care of many routine functions: arranging tables on your screen, setting bets on the basis of saved profiles, blocking pop-ups. Not to mention the translation of stacks into big blinds and built-in HUD with information about players' positions and the course of the hand. In the play money game the program is free on all limits with no time limit. It's also free at real money tables up to NL10. As well as in tournaments for $3. You can download it in the archive from PokerEnergy.

2. Hand2Note. Software for gathering information about hands played; based on the saved hands, displays statistics in real time in the HUD. Statistics helps to make profitable decisions and find leaks in the game of opponents.

An innovative tracker, and for free - a great deal!

Another benefit of the poker tracker is that it makes it easy to analyze the hands played, find mistakes and correct them. The advantage of H2N over its competitors is that since September 3, 2019, the basic version of the tracker is free with no time limit. You can download it from the official Hand2Note website.

You get bonus points for buying programs in our shop, which will allow you to save in the future. And we give you a 10% discount when you subscribe for the first time to any version of H2N. For the latest discounts and current offers, check out our PokerEnergy Telegram Channel. Sign up and save your money.