Simple Stars question: what does a Star mean in a players pic?

[BlueBear]

Very simple question. I have seen players with a small white star on the top of border of the players picture (black circle). What does it mean?

I initially thought it meant a "play money" player from pokerstars.net but this particular player is in a cash tournament.

[1p0kerboy]

It means they are playing on the dot net platform that has no real money games.

[BlueBear]

I'm currently playing a $10+1 rebuy, and there's a player called "Holdem_Turk", I don't understand how he can buyin into a cash tournament.

If anybody were to do a search for my Stars name, "BlueBear", you can see this player with the star.

[gfire3245]

Bots.

I don't know.

[BiggieFats]

Some of the freerolls that have cash prizes are available to .net players so that's probably where the player got the cash from.

[Alex Scott]

Since it's not possible to join any real money game from .NET, the only way I can think of is that the player logged into .COM, started playing the tournament, closed .COM, opened .NET, and was taken back to the table automatically.

[MaddyBerg]

Star on Avatar is to help identify transvestites on the site.