Pacific 1/2

Piper Tim · #1 09-04-2005, 03:25 PM

Out of curiosity:

The .5/1 at Pacific plays much looser than the .5/1 at Party.

Do you think the 1/2 LHE at Pacific plays more like the .5/1 at Party?

DrunkHamster · #2 09-04-2005, 04:23 PM

I was playing it today, and if anything it's way way softer than Party .5/1.

AKQJ10 · #3 09-04-2005, 04:45 PM

I haven't played it a ton, but when I've watched it the best comparison would be that the $1/2 at Pac plays like the 50c/$1 at Pac. It also plays only a bit tighter than the 25c/50c at Pac, the 5c/10c at Pac, and the $2/4 at Foxwoods.

Pacific's basically its own world as far as looseness goes -- some tables are loose-agressive, most are loose-passive, but either way they're exceptionally loose. Funny what being affiliated with an online casino will do for a poker site.

1337 skills · #4 09-04-2005, 08:48 PM

I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Pacific 1/2.

Hoss1193 · #5 09-07-2005, 12:15 AM

I played at Pacific most of my first year online, from .25/.50 on up to occasional 5/10. As others have said, WAY loose at pretty much all limits...I've always wondered why that is.

The .50/1 is certainly looser than Party .50/1 (which, in turn, is way looser than, say, Pokerstars .50/1).

Only reason I stopped playing there is that I wanted to start multi-tabling...and for some reason you can't do that at Pacific.

I suspect that the looseness and the one-table-only play are not simply coincidental. Many sharp players multi-table at micro-limits...therefore they don't play at Pacific. So, overall, the player pool is just fishier. Plus, if you're just playing one table...not hard to get bored after a run of folding junk hands, and the already-amateurish players starting playing any ace, any paint, offsuit connectors, etc. Even a not-so-good player multitabling is seeing enough hands that it's a lot easier to stay disciplined with starting hand standards.