Paradise Trip Report

I write this while playing my favorite game at Paradise, an $11 tournament.

I trash talk about the joint all the time and I’m sure a few must wonder

why I play there. It’s simple. They continue to offer 10% buy-in bonuses

and I continue to take them up on them. Some I bust out, others I cash

out a little and bust out. This last one has paid pretty well and I’m still in

action with several hundred of freeroll bucks in hand and a small playing

bankroll in trust. Level IV now, must pay attention....


Back, 3rd place in hand. My only beatable game here at Paradise seems to

the small tournaments. I’ve played the ring games and at 1/2 and a buck

the action is an order of magnitude worse than any local live 4-8 game. I

just don’t understand how anyone would find it satisfactory. I played just

a little 2-4 and could not believe how tight it was. I’ve seen much better

action in daytime 40-80 live games. How anyone can find these games

beatable for much is beyond me. I would be easier with a partner or two

but even then it’d be slim pickins. I play my minimum 100 hands to

secure the 10% bonus and then play tournaments.


Here’s the real report. There are still too many suited hands getting dealt.

I did a formal survey and the net was 29% suited starters vs the expected

23.5%. To me this is not news. I’ve checked this 4 times and 3 of the 4

results were just like the last. I’ve applied correct testing and analysis and

won’t debate that side of it since I don’t give a shit if you believe me. I

really don’t. I’m interested in the strategy changes that are required to play

single table tournament hold-em in this environment. At the $11 level I

feel reasonably free of collusive cheating but this is an odd twist. It would

logically follow that if Paradise were pooping up the suited starters many

other issues would also be on the table for discussion. Sticking to just

what i know for sure a tight, top pair kind of player like myself should be

a lot more cautious of 2 and 3 of a suit on board. It also puts a lot of

junk cards into play 2s, 3s, 4s that are suited to a Q or J, hands the pigeons

just can’t fold at gunpoint. AA gets a 3 3 9 flop and is much more in

jeopardy than in a normal game. I’m sure there’s a bunch more. Post it here.


If you’re looking to reproduce my experiment simply play $11 tournaments

and record every starter dealt to you. A few hundred is a good starting sample. Level IV again, gotta go.

you are a hippocreeite. you are a traitor that admits to being an accomplice to the money laundering defense contractors who filter their money to terrorist organizations through biased dealing on corrupt internet poker sites.


The CIA has a dossier on you, and it is quite possible in my opinion that you are actually an operative for Paradise Poker trying to deflect attention from your association with the Bush administration and various terrorist cells operating behind a curtain of deceipt and deception somewhere in the jungles of Central America. I expect you are resident of Australia or the US. You are mentally ill.

The information is mostly correct, though. You are getting better. Demand a login now, and we'll know that you are the real me.

>>I play my minimum 100 hands to secure the 10% bonus and then play tournaments. <<


FYI, I contacted PP support and they said that playing 100 tournament hands also counts towards the 100 hand requirement. So you can do what I was doing which was avoiding their ring games entirely.


I had more horrendous bad beats there than in all of my other experience combined (not a lot admittedly). It was just remarkable, unbelievable, incredible, mind boggling to see all the hands I crashed and burned with. So I stopped playing the ring games there.

And the most frequent was 74s, at 134/37086... obviously crooked to pump up the rake...


zooey

32s. Connectors baby . . .