PokerStars is the most famous and largest poker room in the world. Now it is a monopolist of modern online poker. In Russia, the legal room operates under the PokerStars Sochi brand. It is founded by Isaiah Scheinberg and his brother.
At the end of the last century, when the first poker rooms began to appear, they developed their own version of software for playing poker on the Internet. On September 11, 2001, the PokerStars website was launched with conditional chips, and in December of the same year, the ability to play for real money was added.
In 2006, the United States adopted the UIGEA Act, which banned citizens of the country from playing online. Then the largest room at that time, partypoker, was forced to leave this market, and PokerStars was able to take over the leadership in the industry. In 2014, PokerStars was purchased by Amaya.
In 2017, it was renamed The Stars Group. It is the last years in the history of the room that are associated with major changes in it. The main one was the introduction of the new Stars Rewards loyalty system.