New to Poker Stars and/or Poker Stars' Private Tourneys?

If you are new to private tourneys on Poker Stars (PS), or just new to PS in general, here are some tips:

• To find a particular tourney, you can click on Requests\Find a Tournament and then type in the Tournament ID.  The lobby for that tournament will open up.
• You can also find private tourneys by clicking on the Tourney button, then underneath the Tourney button you’ll find the Private button to the far right of the various tourney groupings.  Scroll down to the start time and find the name of the tourney (I’ll always start the name off with “GPN”)
• If you follow the steps above and can’t find the tourney listed in the private tourney section, it could be that your game filter is blocking the tourney from being viewed (for example, if your filter was set to only show tourneys under $5, then you won’t be able to see our private tourney in the list).  The filter button is just below, to the left of the tourney listing box.
• I was asked whether or not players could collude with each other by, for example, calling each other up on the phone to tell each other their hole cards.  In general (outside our private game setting), yes this is something that you could encounter while playing online…but you really would only be exposed to something like that, if at all, in a 1 or 2 table sit-n-go.  In large multi-table tourneys, the likely hood of 2 or more people playing together at the same table is rare.  If you are ever playing and you see something that doesn’t seem right, it is best to take a note on each player and if it were to happen again, then email PS about it…they can research each player’s playing history and determine if they are colluding.  Now…as for our game…I trust that everyone will play honestly and will not call each other up to discuss hole cards/strategy while the hand is in progress, and will not speculate about other player’s hands in the chat box while the hand is in progress…basically, will follow the same sort of ethical and etiquette rules that we follow when playing live.