PokerPlanets opened in beta on 29 April 2025 as a standalone room on its own proprietary software, licensed in Curaçao. Its founding player base came from PokerStars Sochi: when that Russian-facing client wound down, players were offered transferred accounts here, which gave PokerPlanets a ready-made pool of recreational CIS and Eastern European players from day one.
The room is built for that crowd. Cash games run short-handed only — 4- to 6-max, no full ring — with antes, straddles and Bomb Pots, from $0.01/$0.02 up to $10/$20 in No-Limit Hold'em, PLO and PLO5. There's a fast-fold format (Teleport), three-handed Spins at $0.50, $3 and $10 with multipliers up to x12,000, and a knockout-heavy tournament schedule anchored by the $215 Jupiter Cup ($25,000 guaranteed) and the $109 Saturn Cup. HUDs and tracking software don't work on the platform.
It is still a small room. Early tournaments overlaid regularly and cash traffic is thin outside CIS peak hours, which is the honest trade-off: a soft pool with nobody tracking you, but not one you can grind around the clock. Clients exist for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android (downloaded directly, not from Google Play), plus a browser version, and multi-tabling is supported.