Well, I entered a tourney for a laugh. The blinds were already 150 within 35 mins. I had total crap for 50 mins. then hit KK and some muppet called me and hit a fluke straight.

It's not the losing. It's the hands per hour and the blinds. After playing at party, I can't believe anyone with a choice plays at pkr. It's so slow it's rediculous - I was so bored I started reading the paper, and this is a MTT!. Everyone dicking around trying to pretend they do or don't have something by taking as long as they can.

The blinds give you no chance if you don't get cards early on. By the time you make a move it's pretty much all or nothing as the blinds are so high.

After my umpteenth time bored playing at pkr I withdrew everything. I'm not sure I can be arsed to play the pkr point freerolls tbh. $1k freeroll for 2500 points? and how often? I can play a $2k gtd for $6 every single day on PP.

Really, I truly believe PKR is a bit of a rip off. I get twice the money at least on GTD games at Party. I get loads of choices of games and tournies. I really can't think of a reason to play at PKR. If you like the graphics, great, but if you start to take your poker seriously then it's a pain in the arse.

Anywhay, I'll still be here :-) Having a blast at PP and opening an account on carbon later today.

I'm not joining the legions of "it's fixed" or "I lost", I've simply had enough of PKR:

Idiots playing everything
Idiots laughing when they river you
Idiots telling you how to play when their fishy play wins a hand
Not enough starting chips
Blinds too fast for the pace of players
Sloooooow games
Crap prize tournies (twice the price of PP tournies for the same prizes)
Not enough tournies/variety
No player notes
No final table deal making
$20 freerolls - LOL
Slow updating main screen - so getting a sng can be a nightmare
Hardly anyone playing $10 sng
Crap PKR point games, and no where near enough of them

I think you might have gathered, I have had enough lol :-P

On a higher note - I broke the quadruple barrier on my bankroll at PP today and tried my 1st $20 sng. Came 4th. the last 3 guys murdered me - but not a bad start!

p.s. I in no way endorse PP which I know Nation hates lol - it's just one example of competition. Lets' see how it goes at Carbon now (time to milk signup bonuses!)