Was are the best and worst run sites for tournaments?

[betgo]

My picks:
Best: 1. Stars 2. Paradise
Worst: 1. Pacific 2. Party

In what sense?

[AtticusFinch]

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My picks:
Best: 1. Stars 2. Paradise
Worst: 1. Pacific 2. Party

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Stars is easily the best. Full Tilt is not bad. UB is OK as well. Haven't tried paradise... perhaps I should

Party's software BLOOOOOOOOOOOWS. But, they have the most fish. Thus the conundrum.

[Yuv]

I've only played in two, so I can make this very informative list :

Good : stars
Bad : pacific

[KneeCo]

What's good about Paradise (I've never played there).


I think Party is pretty bad but far from the worst software out there. I played a tournament on VIP Poker earlier this week and *that* was some bad software. Horrible hand histories, no notes as best as I can tell, but worst of all is that when you go all-in the cards don't flip over and the board fill out. Instead, the player who still has chips gets an option at every street if he wants to check or bet into a sidepot he is playing entirely by himself. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[ansky451]

My thoughts:

Ultimate would be the best, if they didn't have the bet pot button, and a shitty interface. The hands run the fastest, they have the best structure, and they have a good selection for the most part.

Partypoker isn't as bad as people say. It is still better than Pacific, and their supers have 15 minute levels which is really good.

Pacific is just a joke.

Paradise sucks IMO. They have slightly worse structure than stars on their normal tournaments, and the server is soooooo slow. You get in so many less hands on paradise, than on party or stars.

Stars is sort of considered the best site for tournaments, and I really don't think their better than UB for the tournaments themselves, but with the better interface and larger fields they make up for it. The structure is slightly better these days now that they have 800/1600, but there are still some problems. Nothing compares to the 100+ buy in structures on UB. 2500, 5/10, 15 minute levels, and LOTS of extra levels, that other sites don't have. Nothing like starting with 250 bbs...

[Roman]

thanks for the info, I really want to check out UB right now. The bet pot [censored] will confuse me but I love deep stacks.

you can't beat UB's tournaments. 2500 starting chips. There's like 5 levels before the blinds even get to 50/100. with 15 minute levels each

It's become apparent to me that sites like party move them to just shut them down as quickly as possible. UB seems to be more for the skill of players.

[KneeCo]

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if they didn't have the bet pot button

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I can see why such a button would be mostly useless, but why is it such a huge draw back?

[ansky451]

Their supers have 20 minutes i meant, not 15.