Thinking About Giving Up on Paradise

I’ve had an account on Paradise for about a year now and with the recent announcement of the change of ownership I’ve been thinking about moving on. I like Paradise. I have a strange attraction to it. Probably because that’s where I first got started playing online.

It’s not just the change in ownership though. I’m getting tired of trying to find a game. I play either $3/$6 or $5/$10 and Paradise can usually only spread 3 or so full tables of each. Of course, I still don’t understand how they have eight 5 max tables going at the limit I want to play and can only spread 2 full tables (as I write this they have three $5/$10 full tables available and eleven 5 max). There’s absolutely no such thing as table selection if you want to multi-table. You have to play at the only available tables and chances are 1/3 of each table is also playing on your other 2 tables.

I’ve got accounts at Party and Empire (same thing) where I usually just bonus-whore $100 here or there. I could switch fulltime to one or the other. I’m also somewhat excited about the recent change to the Party/Empire software that allows PokerTracker to read hand histories right from your hard drive rather than having to request them every 100 hands. That’s a real bonus in terms of getting real time stats on opponents.

Any thoughts from the gallery? Anybody have any good excuse I should stay at Paradise?