Stars or Party ?

[jacknine]

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....

[DVC Calif]

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

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.

[benneh]

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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?

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

[petvan]

Play both seems like the obvious answer here/

[bocablkr]

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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!!

[Oneiros]

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)

[popesc]

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.

[MonkeeMan]

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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).