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Old 06-16-2005, 03:10 PM
Lloyd Lloyd is offline
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Default Re: just opened a stars account

One method of judging the quickness of a structure is by estimating the number of hands you can play before being blinded out if you just post and fold. Here are my calculations:

Party Poker Super: 120
Party Poker Weekend: 140
Party Poker $100: 100
Poker Stars Wednesday $150: 99
Poker Stars Weekend: 99
Paradise $100: 99

The structure of Paradise and PokerStars is pretty much identical both in terms of blinds/antes, starting chips, and level time. The key factor for Party is that the blind levels are 20 minutes versus 15 minutes and the amount of the blinds start off much smaller. This makes their weekday tournaments with 1000 chips (versus 1500 at PokerStars or Paradise) even slower than the other sites, and their weekend tourneys with 1500 chips much slower.
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