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Paradise Poker: The Nuts and Bolts:
Contact: support@paradisepoker.com
Established: 1999
Texas hold em limits: $.20-$.40 through $40-80

What we like about Paradise Poker:
•  Sit and Go tournaments start with $1000 in chips.
•  Paradise Poker offers fantastic action at small to mid limits
•  The best customer support in the industry.
•  The graphics are smooth and pleasing.

What we don't like about Paradise Poker:
•  Stingy reload policy

Paradise Poker: Online Poker Room Review:
Paradise Poker stands as one of the oldest and most established online poker rooms in the business. It's actually the second online poker room I ever opened an account with, way back in January of 2000. I played at Paradise Poker for about 2 hours, and immediately I was hooked-heck, you could play two tables at once! Traffic seemed to grow at Paradise Poker at an exponential rate all through 2000 and 2001, but seemed to tail off in early 2002; due, I think, to the sudden rise of Party Poker. Today Paradise Poker rates right behind Party Poker in terms of sheer size. There are always multiple games at limits from $.02-$.04 to $40-$80, and plenty of both sit and go and multi table tournament action. The customer support at Paradise Poker is the best in the business, and their software is silky smooth. It's a well run card room with a large and loyal player base, and looks to be around for the long haul.

Paradise Poker would probably still be the undisputed leader in the world of online poker if it weren't for two things. First, Paradise Poker missed the boat on being the first online poker room to allow players to play three games simultaneously. Party Poker was the first to allow that, and as a result lots of the high volume players moved their action to Party in 2002. Second, Paradise Poker didn't forsee the exploding popularity of tournament poker, and were a little late to the game when it came to offering large numbers of multi player tournaments (Paradise Poker has since changed that, so tournament fiends will love this place). And third, I think Paradise Poker got a little fat and lazy after their earlier success. They kept their commitment to customer support, and were always Johnny on the spot with software updates, but they didn't run many publicity campaigns. As a result they had trouble recruiting new players, and by 2002 Paradise Poker had some of the toughest limit hold em games on the 'net. The $5-$10, for instance, used to just be brutal-I've played in midday $30-$60 games that seemed like a fish tank compared to the 2002 Paradise Poker $5-$10.

Thankfully this has all changed. Most of the multi-tabling pros have set up shop at Party, so the pond at Paradise Poker is again fully stocked. In fact, despite what others may tell you I think the lower limit games at Paradise Poker may, as of this writing, be softer than their Party Poker counterparts (I wouldn't have even dreamed of saying that three years ago). The average pot size in the Paradise Poker $3-$6, for instance, has gone from around $30 in 2002 to $40-$50 in 2005, and other limits-even the $20-$40-have seen similar increases. Paradise Poker has a long standing reputation for having tough games, but that's a reputation that's simply no longer based in fact. Should you choose to play at Paradise you'll find the games there easier to beat than those at 80% of competing online card rooms.

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