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i mean each to his own ....stars are a very trustworthy/organised operation no doubt there...and as long as your happy with what they give you at the end of the year then alls well and good.

I left stars for ipoker and left ipoker for stars within 3 hours

I play on both, good games run at different times. Much better rb on ipoker, much better player pool/software on stars.

IMO until you reach stakes where you rake a decent amount, you should stick to sites with RB, like iPoker. Reason: check how much RB you can get on Stars now (I would be surprised if this would be 25%). Then compare it to 55-60%. Still plenty of fish there, providing you are familiar with table selection (I hope you are).

Rakeback should be considered as extra bb/100 to a winrate, so if you're being raked 8bb/100 then 60%rb vs 25% rb is like an extra 2.5bb/100.

Player pool softness/volume and software etc should be taken into consideration. Stars almost always has good games so I'd think most people would get in a decent amount more volume (you're not going to log on and see 8 tables full of regs) + have a more enjoyable experience.

@mitch
That's true, but table selection is not a problem till 20NL