Paradise Poker Software

Paradise Poker has recently merged with the Boss Media Network and as a result has received a much needed improvement in their software. Having been one of the earliest sites, Paradise Poker was in need of a complete makeover of it's software. This has been accomplished at Boss.

The table layout and colors are blue felt with leather trimmed tables. Players are represented by circular placards sitting upon chairs on a sandy beach. These graphics are pleasant to the eyes, which is a necessity if you play long sessions of poker or partake in long multi-table tournaments. Player stack-sizes are well displayed. There are number of buttons available for bringing up your individual stats, buying chips, chat, settings and live help. The cardbacks are standard red. The player notes function is easy to understand and use and have a auto-wrap text feature. Players may also utilize the 4-color deck function.

Paradise Poker's main menu screen is easy to navigate. Cash game players are given Average Pot size, Players seeing the Flop percentages as well as hands per hour, making choices for table selection easier.

Tournaments and SnGs have many filters for finding the format that is right for each player. Players will find that the tabs in the tournament screens are filterable so tournament and table selection are quite easy to utilize.

Paradise Poker's software, like all of the Boss media is very good, crisp and responsive with no noticeable lags or hangups. Overall, I would suggest that anyone who can gain access to Paradise Poker do so. The playing experience is that good.

Paradise Poker Traffic

Paradise Poker has moved over to the Boss Media Network and has added their players and expereince to this ever-widening poker platform. Player base averages in the 6-8,000 player range during the week and increases slightly to around 10,000 players on the weekend. Paradise Poker no longer caters to American players, so it's base is predominantly European.

Paradise Poker Games

Paradise Poker offers a wide variety of games, fitting most everyone's play-style and limit. Games here tend to be somewhat soft at the lower limits, and progress the higher the limit. Stakes at ring games are available in $, £ and €. Buy-in in tournaments and SnGs are in $. For the purpose of this review, $ will be used to represent all currencies.

Paradise Poker offers Fixed Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit Holdem. Fixed limit HE has limits starting at $0.10/$0.20 and progressing to their $500/$1,000 tables, with most of the traffic at $2/$4 and below. They also offer NL10 through NL5000, with decent traffic at the NL200 and below. PL10 through PL2000 is offered, but most traffic is at the lower end of the spectrum. Omaha is offered in both it's High-only and High/Lo variants. Stakes run from $0.50/$1 to $50/$100 in limit, but is usually relegated to a few games of $0.50/$1. Pot Limit, however, runs from PL50 to PL10,000 with most traffic in the PL50 range. Both 7-Crad and 5-Card Stud are offered in Fixed Limit with stakes as high as $30/$60, but most traffic is on 7-Card Stud tables with stakes of $1/$2 and below. 5 Card Draw is available in regular and 7-Ace version of limit and PL. All table of 5 Card Draw are 5 handed with stakes in FL running from $0.25/$0.50 to $20/$40 and buy-ins at Pot Limit running from PL50 to PL400. Fixed Limit sees better traffic than PL, with players regularly playing as high as $5/$10.

Paradise Poker offers a fair share of guaranteed prizepool tournaments, rebuy and add-ons, turbos, qualifiers, and Player's Club Freerolls in NL and PL varieties.

Although Paradise runs all forms of SnGs [FL, NL, PL, 5-max, and HU], they do not run Multi-table SnGs at this time.

Player used to the old Paradise software will also see that Pineapple is no longer spread due to the confine of the Boss Media software,

Paradise Poker Promotions

ITH players who sign up an account at Sportingbet, the online sportsbook, and transfer a minimum of $5 from the Sporting Bet to Paradise Poker will receive an initial flat bonus of $100 in their Paradise accounts. Players need to participate in 20 contributed/raked hands of $0.25 or more for each $1 in bonus. Players have 180 days to satisfy their release requirements before the bonus expires.

Sunday $100,000 Guarantee

Paradise Poker hosts a weekly Sunday $100,000 Guarantee tournament at 7:00PM GMT. Direct buy-in for this tournament is $100+$9, Players start with 2500 chips and blinds increase every 12 minutes before the first break, then every 15 minutes over the next two hours, then to 20 minute levels for the next two hours, and culminating with 30 minute blind levels to finish out the tournament. Players can satellite intot his tournament for as low as $5+$0.50.

Paradise PokerLadder

This month sees the launch of the brand-new Paradise Poker 'PokerLadder' with $100,000 worth of prizes to be won for the best cash game players. In August Paradise is giving away 90 cash prizes every single day as well as weekly bumper cash prizes and 3x $8,500 packages to the Amsterdam Masters Classic for the monthly winners of each ladder.

From 5c to $2,000, each cash table level qualifies against one of three ladders: Low, Medium and High. So whether you're a low-rider, medium-staker or high-roller there's 1000's of $ worth of prizes for the best cash players in Paradise with the exclusive PokerLadder.

What Can I Win?
There are weekly and monthly cash prizes dependent on the cash tables and PokerLadder you play. To Celebrate the launch of PokerLadder, throughout the month of August we will also be offering daily cash prizes.

DAILY: $1,200 to be won every day
90x daily prizes for Top 25 players in each ladder plus random prizes for 100th, 200th, 300th, 400th, and 500th place. So even if you're not in the Top 25 each day you can still win cash prizes.

WEEKLY: $9,625 to be won every week
Every week the PokerLadder pays out bumper cash prizes to the top 10 players in each ladder PLUS random cash prizes for 100th, 200th, 300th, 400th, 500th, 600th, 700th, 800th, 900th and 1000th place.

MONTHLY: 3x $8,500 packages to the Amsterdam Masters Classic
At the end of each month, the top 30 players in each ladder qualify for an exclusive invite-only Freeroll. The winner of each ladder will win an $8,500 package to represent Team Paradise at the Amsterdam Masters Classic.

Refer-a-Friend

Simply tell your friends about Paradise and ask them to join. When your friend opens a new Account they simply need to enter your user id or email address (using your registered email address at Paradise) in the sign-up page. When your friend makes his first deposit (min $50), Paradise will automatically add $50 to your friend's bonus account and $50 to your bonus account. No sign-up codes needed.

Stability

ParadisePoker is a recognized leader in online poker. Their reputation for providing the best action, the best software, the highest levels of support and the safest site is second to none. ParadisePoker is one of the first online poker rooms with a history going back to 1999.
ParadisePoker has recently joined forces with Sportingbet plc, a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange (Ticker Symbol: SBT.L), to form the world’s leading online betting company. With over two million customers worldwide Paradise Poker is proud to offer greater transparency and accountability, as well as more safety and security for their customers. Paradise has segregated reserve accounts that hold at minimum 100% of all player balances so you are guaranteed to receive your winnings.

Security

ParadisePoker considers security to be their number one priority. Your personal data is protected by their SSLv3/TLSv1 encryption algorithm, the same as that used by all major banks. Your poker play is protected by everything from their sophisticated collusion detection methods to their random number generation and card shuffling techniques, offering the highest levels of security available. Paradise Poker's security methods and procedures are reviewed and updated regularly to maintain their status as the premium poker room.

Paradise Poker Customer Service

Paradise Poker has very good customer service with player access to email, toll-free telephone and 24 hour live chat. Customer Service is friendly and knowledgeable and answers to questions are legible and easy to understand. Players also have access to a large FAQ database that can answer most questions for the player. Deposits and cashouts, especially through Neteller and FirePay are extremely fast, while other banking methods follow the industry norm for type.

Poker Tracker Compatibility

Poker Track no longer supports Paradise, as they have moved onto a new platform [Boss Media] which is not compatible with Poker Tracker. Should this information change in the future, ITH will update this information.

Ability to Multitable

Boss Media has undergone an update where they state that players may now play on up to 100 tables simultaneously.

Multiple Accounts per Household

Paradise Poker limits players to one account per person, family, household address, e-mail address, credit card number, and environments where computers are shared (university, fraternity, school, public library, workplace, etc). Players may, however, have accounts in up to 4 Boss Media sites

Reload Bonus Frequency

Paradise Poker infrequently runs reloads at a rate of 4 or 5 times a year. This is well behind the industry norm for the upper echelon, large online poker sites, like Paradise Poker. The reloads at Paradise Poker are usually generically targeted - one reload fits all.

Tournaments with Overlays

A tournament overlay is the result of guaranteed prize money that is not offset by the participant's buy-ins. As such, all freerolls always offer an overlay.

Paradise Poker offers many guaranteed prizepool tournaments rarely offers overlays. Those with big buy-ins generally have enough players to guarantee no overlays, and the smaller buy-in tournaments tend to be rebuy formats. This nearly always ensures that tournaments at Paradise Poker do not carry overlays except, of course, freeroll and FPP tournaments.

Maximum Amount of Bonus

First Deposit Bonus has a maximum of $100.

Bonuses Cleared During Tournaments

Players receive 4 FPPs per $1 in SnG and tournament fees paid. This equates to a 20% rakeback for those players wishing to clear their bonuses through tournament/SnG play.

Time Allowed to Clear Bonus

Players have 180 days from the day of their initial deposit to clear the Paradise Poker bonus.

Withdrawal Restrictions

Withdrawals can be made prior to clearing the bonuses at Paradise Poker, but t ITH suggest waiting 48 hours prior to withdrawing after a deposit.

Bonus as a %age of Deposit

100%

Are Bonuses Stackable?

Bonuses are stackable at Paradise Poker. Any additional bonuses are added to your current bonus amount on the cashier page.

Bonus to Table or Cleared?

Paradise Poker's bonuses are cleared incrementally in $5 installments.

Can Bonuses be Chased on 1+ Skin?

Players are allowed accounts at up to four [4] Boss Media skins at any one time.

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Paradise Poker has undergone some major changes in the first half of 2007. Having migrated to the Boss Media platform from their sole-proprietary network, Paradise Poker has merged with the players and tables as such Boss stalwarts as Celeb Poker and Fortune Poker, lending more strength to an already strong network. Although I have never played at a Boss Media site, I very much like their software and attention to detail. They run many fine tournaments, bonuses and promotions and adding this to the already strong player base and management of Paradise Poker will see a quite successful partnership. Paradise' bonus looks familiar on the surface, but a number of changes have occurred since the migration. First, Paradise has gone to a contributed/rake system, from a straight rake system. Second, the bonus now releases in $5 increments rather than $10 increments. Good thing, as Paradise has changed form a decent 10x bonus into a poor 20x contributed rake bonus. Third, Paradise Poker's never expiring bonuses now carry 180 expiration terms. Finally, and on a positive note, Paradise Poker has increased it's SnG/MTT fee rakeback from 10% to 20% vis-a-vis bonus clearance. Overall, despite a great move to a great poker network, the bonus at Paradise Poker has deteriorated substantially.

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Paradise Poker is not currently on the Free Gift Offer program. Should this condition change in the future, ITH will update this information.

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