Pacific Poker
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Pacific Poker is widely reputed to have the fishiest opposition on the net, owing to its association with a larger online casino. However, bad software, lack of text hand histories, and slow cashouts tend to send many serious players elsewhere.
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[edit] Ring games
[edit] Limit hold 'em
Everything through $15/30 seems to stay full round the clock.
- $0.05/0.10
- $0.25/0.50 - 7 or 8 to the flop
- $0.50/1 - 4 - 7 to the flop
- $1/2
- $2/4
- $3/6
- $5/10
- $10/20
- $15/30
- $30/60
Pacific also offers 6 max tables for each of these limits; at $10/20 and above they seem as popular or moreso than the standard 10-seat tables.
[edit] No-limit hold 'em
| Designation | Small blind | Large blind | Min buy-in (10 BB) | Max buy-in (100 BB) | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL $10 | 5c | 10c | $1 | $10 | extremely loose-aggressive, follow GSiH, play ultra-tight, size your initial raise to about 20xBB or more, with the intent of getting all-in preflop with a good hand, and you'll do great. |
| NL $25 | 12c | 25c | $2.50 | $25 | rather more loose-passive than the $10 (based on small sample) |
| NL $50 | 25c | 50c | $5 | $50 | |
| NL $100 | 50c | $1 | $10 | $100 | |
| NL $200 | |||||
| NL $400 | |||||
| NL $600 | $3 | $6 | $60 | $600 |
[edit] Pot-limit hold 'em
- PL $10
- PL $50
- PL $100 - sparse
- PL $200 - sparse
[edit] Limit Omaha high
Everything above $3/6 seems quite sparse
- $0.05/0.10
- $0.25/0.50
- $0.50/1 - sporadic
- $1/2
- $2/4
- $3/6
- $5/10
- $10/20
- $15/30
- $30/60
[edit] Omaha hi-lo
These games can take a few minutes to get into; there's usually one $0.25/0.50 or $0.50/1 and one $1/2 or $2/4 going in North American evenings, but they're often full and can entail up to about a 15 minute wait.
- $0.05/0.10
- $0.25/0.50 - 7 or 8 to the flop
- $0.50/1
- $1/2
- $2/4
- $3/6 - only peak times
- $5/10 - pretty full
- $10/20 - sometimes in the North American evening
- $15/30 - not often going
- $30/60 - not often going
[edit] Seven-card stud
As of mid- to late 2005, Pacific stopped offering $0.05/0.10 and $0.25/0.50 stud high and stud 8/b.
Most up to $5/10 -- and at times up to $15/30 -- stay active in the North American evening.
- $0.50/1
- $1/2
- $2/4
- $3/6
- $5/10
- $10/20
- $15/30
[edit] 7-stud hi-lo
As of mid- to late 2005, Pacific stopped offering $0.05/0.10 and $0.25/0.50 stud high and stud 8/b.
- $0.50/1
- $1/2 - NA evening: often either the $1/2 or $2/4 goes
- $2/4
- $3/6
- $5/10 - NA evening: sporadic
- $10/20
- $15/30
[edit] Sit-and-gos
Pacific offers the strangest array of instant tournament configurations known to man, including 2- and 4-table SnGs. Most of the NLHE tournaments fill within 5 minutes round the clock.
| Buy-in | Vigorish | Pctg | NLHE | PLHE | LHE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1 | 50c | 50% | 35 seats | ||
| $2 | 50c | 25% | 10, 20 | ||
| $2.50 | 50c | 20% | 5, 40 | 5 seats | |
| $4 | 50c | 12.5% | 10, 20 | ||
| $5 | 50c | 10% | 10 | 6 | 10 |
| $8 | 80c | 10% | 20 | ||
| $10 | 50c | 5% | Heads-up | Heads-up | |
| $10 | $1 | 10% | 5 seats, 10, 42 | 6 | |
| $20 | $2 | 10% | 5 | ||
| $30 | $3 | 10% | Heads-up, 5, 10, 20 | 6 | 5 |
| $50 | $3 | 6% | Heads-up, 6 | Heads-up | |
| $100 | $5 | 5% | Heads-up | ||
| $100 | $9 | 9% | 5 | ||
| $200 | $15 | 7.5% | 5 | ||
| $500 | $20 | 4% | 10 | ||
| $750 | $30 | 4% | 5 | ||
| $1000 | $50 | 5% | 5 |
Blinds for sit-and-gos
(observed at $4 20-person sit-and-go)
10 minutes per level
| Level | Small | Big blind |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | T10 | T20 |
| 2 | T15 | T30 |
| 3 | T25 | T50 |
| 4 | T50 | T100 |
| 5 | T75 | T100 |
| 6 | T100 | T200 |
| 7 | T150 | T300 |
| 8 | T200 | T400 |
| 9 | T250 | T500 |
[edit] Multi-table tournaments
[edit] Pacific $50K
Pacific used to offer a $100K guaranteed tournament, but apparently they found $50K a more viable level to guarantee.
[edit] Other regular tournaments
This information may be out of date. Please feel free to edit it aggressively to make it more current.
(Some may not be regular - please delete date of observation once we know they're regular)
All times Eastern Daylight (UTC-4, in other words add four hours for UTC).
| Tournament name | Day/time | Buyin | Vigorish | Game | Levels (min) | Typical enrollment | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500 Freeroll | Sunday 15:30 | free | free | NLHE | 2000 limit | Payouts: $25, $20, $15, $10, 5th-90th: $5. | |
| $1000 Gtd | Sun and Tues 17:45; M, W, F 18:30 (Th, Sat: ???) | $1 | none | NLHE | 5 | Around 1000 | |
| Fast $150 Gtd | Daily 20:15 | $1 | 50c | NLHE | 5 |
- Fast $150 Gtd- Daily 20:15 - $1 + 50c buyin - 5 min levels
- Broadway Special- Daily 14:15 - $2 + 50c buyin
- $___ Guaranteed- Daily 04:00 - $2.50 + 25c buyin, 10 min levels
Amount guaranteed appears to vary, possibly by day of week - $840 on Sunday (Saturday night), $570 on Monday (Sunday night), $580 on Tuesday, $500 on Wednesday, others unknown. (All observed starting July 10)
- $___ Guaranteed- Note: Limit HE - Daily 09:00 - $2.50 + 25c buyin
- Fast $250 Gtd- Sunday 00:31 (observed July 9) $2.50 + 50c buyin, 5 min levels
- Fast $250 Gtd- Note: PLHE - Daily 16:15 - $2.50 + 50c buyin, 5 min levels
- Barn Burner - Sunday 11:30 - $3 + 60c, 8 min levels
- $888 Gtd- Note: PLHE - Daily 19:15 - $4 + 50c buyin, 8 min levels - with 340 first pays $340, 2nd pays $204, 40th pays $6.80
- $700 Guaranteed- Monday 23:15 - $5 + 50c buyin - 5 min levels
- Fast $2,000 Guaranteed- Tuesday 17:01 - $5 + 50c buyin - 5 min levels
- $3,000 Guaranteed- Wednesday 00:01 - $5 + 50c buyin - 5 min levels
[edit] General payout structure
The number of places paid is varied so that roughly 10% of the tournament finishes in the money, although the percentage of the field in the money obviously decreases somewhere above a field of 600.
Payouts:
| Place | 5 paid | 20 paid | 30 paid | 40 paid | 50 paid | 60 paid | 70 paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total entries | <50? | 100-199? | 200-299? | 300-399? | 400-499? | 500-? | ?-? (838, 1083) |
| 1st | 40% | 30% | 28% | 25% | 25% | 23% | 22% |
| 2nd | 24% | 20% | 18% | 15% | 15% | 14% | 12% |
| 3rd | 16% | 10% | 10% | 9% | 8% | 7% | 7% |
| 4th | 12% | 7.5% | 7.5% | 7.5% | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| 5th | 8% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
| 6th | 5% | 5% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 4% | |
| 7th | 4% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 3% | |
| 8th | 3% | 3% | 3% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | |
| 9th | 2.5% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% | |
| 10th | 2% | 1.5% | 1.5% | 1.5% | 1.5% | 1.5% | |
| 11th - 20th | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | |
| 21st - 30th | 0.5% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | ||
| 31st - 40th | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 41st - 50th | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.5% | ||||
| 51st - 60th | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||||
| 61st - 70th | 0.3% |
[edit] Rake structure
See Pacific's site.
[edit] Cashouts
These are notoriously slow; a week's wait is not at all uncommon.
[edit] Discussion threads
- Opinions on optimal strategy at Pacific Poker? (RGP)
- Pacific Poker Article and Question (RGP) - speculating on how they attract so many awful players
- More Pacific Poker payout problems
- Pacific SnG gone crazy, Pacific bug census
[edit] Other external links
- From Zero To $10,000 on Pacific Poker - an enterprising hopeful blogs his journey.
