PokerStars works as a “standalone” client. Use this guide to start playing online yourself or point your friends to it to help them get online and start playing. Here’s a quick step-by-step guide to getting an account, using PokerStars to help increase your knowledge of poker, and setting up a private poker club in PokerStars Home Games. Once you do, PokerStars is also a great place to get together with friends to play online. On PokerStars, you can start out playing for play money, learning the rules and strategy without any cost whatsoever.

In fact, playing online is a great way to start playing poker. Indeed, whereas it was on the periphery at first, online poker now rivals “live” in-person poker as a favorite way to play for most.

Since first being introduced in the late 1990s, online poker has become a preferred form of poker for many. As much as we like playing in casinos and poker rooms and in other public locations, the private poker game among friends is how millions primarily enjoy the game.

For much of poker’s history, the “home game” has been the most popular way to play poker.

Free multiplayer poker with friends