Stars or Party ?
 

I normally play cashgames on Paradise, but recently been making some descent money in their multi table tourneys and would like to play more of those. Unfortunately, paradise doesn´t offer that many great tournaments, so I´m looking to switch to either partypoker or pokerstars.

Which would you recommend, and why?

PS: wasn´t too sure if this should go in this forum or the Internet forum but since it´s an MTT question....

Re: Stars or Party ?
 

Here's the basics:

Party Poker

10 player tables
T1000 starting chips
Blinds start off at 10/15 with level increases every 15 minutes. No Antes.
Saturday tournament:$200k Guaranteed Prize Pool ($200+15 buy-in)
Sunday tournament:$500k Guaranteed Prize Pool ($200+15 buy-in) **
Monthly Tournament: $750k Guaranteed Prize Pool ($350+28 buy-in) **
Every Six Weeks: $1 Million Guaranteed Prize Pool ($600+40 buy-in)
No support to speak of....no assist on deals (no chopping).
**Note: Pays 400 places instead of standard of 220 (based upon typical player field.)


PokerStars

9 player tables
T1500 starting chips
Blind start off at 10/20 with level increases every 15 minutes. Antes begin at level 7 (100/200)
Sunday tournament:$500k Guaranteed Prize Pool ($200+15 buy-in)
Many, many satellites to WSOP, WPT, EPT, and Stars' own WCOOP.
Monthly Tournament: $700k Guaranteed Prize Pool ($500+30 buy-in)
Hosts (support) available 24/7 to assist with problems and deals (chopping).

Generally more fish on Party but that sometimes means more suckouts as well. (Although Stars is sometimes known as "RiverStars" for the Bad Beats being dealt on 5th street.) Stars also seems to have more players from different countries (UK, Netherlands, Costa Rica, etc), whereas Party seems mostly US.

Why not play on both an decide for yourself?

HTH, Steve

Re: Stars or Party ?
 

I'm pretty sure party has more variety for the MTT's. That's where I've played for about 2 years now and I'm happy with what they offer.

Re: Stars or Party ?
 

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I'm pretty sure party has more variety for the MTT's. That's where I've played for about 2 years now and I'm happy with what they offer.

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..really? I don't see as nearly many non-hold em MTTs on party as there are on stars, and not nearly as many satellites. What exactly do you mean by variety?

Re: Stars or Party ?
 

He might mean speed tournaments, shootouts and freerolls. I'm not exactly sure what they have on Stars, so I could be wrong.

Re: Stars or Party ?
 

Play both seems like the obvious answer here/

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I'm pretty sure party has more variety for the MTT's. That's where I've played for about 2 years now and I'm happy with what they offer.

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You must be joking!! When it comes to MTT's there is no comparison - Pokerstars is by far the best both in number of tournaments and variety. The have the most complete schedule there is. For Ring action Party is by far the best but not tournaments!!

What about UB and Pokerroom?
 

I've played Party and stars, but wasn't crazy about offerings of either. hard to recall all the specifics, but as I recall, higher tournament fees, little or no heads up tournaments, don't recall shorthanded sit n go's at all, if they did offer maybe the fee seemed high... UB and pokerroom are both good in these respects at least, though maybe less other tournament types (they offer a fair mix, but they're underutilized, and they don't for instance offer as low stakes omaha and seven stud as I'd like to play for cash games)

Re: Stars or Party ?
 

Another minor point.

Pokerstars lets you work off deposit bonuses (boni?) by playing tournaments. At the rate of 5FPP per $1 tournament fee. A bonus is released at a rate of $1 per 5FPP.

So if you are working off a deposit bonus, it is like you are playing tournaments without a fee on Pokerstars.

Re: Stars or Party ?
 

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(Although Stars is sometimes known as "RiverStars" for the Bad Beats being dealt on 5th street.)

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Yeah, this stuff doesn't happen on other sites. Stars is notorious for having rigged river cards (that's why I play there).

Re: Stars or Party ?
 

its similar in my mind to the choice in cash games. i like stars software and tourny structure but party has the softest games on the net.
no reason to pick when you can play both though.
matty

Re: What about UB and Pokerroom?
 

>little or no heads up tournaments, don't recall shorthanded sit n go's at all, if they did offer maybe the fee seemed high...

When did you play on Stars last time? They have more heads-up tourneys than anyone and fees are lower not higher.

Re: Stars or Party ?
 

I've been playing MTTs on both for over a year and find the PP interface much easier to follow than PS.

Re: What about UB and Pokerroom?
 

I think I player PP more recently than Stars, I played stars last probably 1-1.5 years ago. Maybe i'll have to check out again... though I think I'm about to join a rake rebate type program (I won't mention which of course, recently saw a note about that) that will probably limit my selection, so it may depend on whether and how that works out. I'm a little dubious about it though as they claim their players are prop players for the online card rooms they handle, so while the rakeback's around 100%, it seems like it may be too good. We'll see.

Re: Stars or Party ?
 

Flame the guy's who are calling PS RiverStars, not the guy who's just trying to be helpful.

-SR