I agree -
Pacific Poker can get ridiculous. I really don't like the 800 starting chips. It's too small of a stack (I find Doyle's room to be a little too much too). I much prefer 1000 or 1500 starting stacks.
Pacific Poker is essentially a crap shoot in a lot of their freerolls and low buy-in tourneys, because you start with only 800 chips and then blinds increase every couple minutes. If you are catching cards early, then this is an awesome structure because you can build a nice stack early - and these tourneys go really quick with such a fast structure. However, if you are catching some cold cards to start, you are in big trouble, because those blinds come around fast and increase even faster. It's especially bad because the talent level at Pacific is pretty low, so you get a lot of people just going all in, and when you have bad cards you aren't going to be able to see many cheap flops to try and hit some kind of a hand.
The way this post turned out, maybe it should have been in a different thread....but all i was trying to say is that I prefer 1000 or 1500 starting stack and think Doyle's room is a little too slow (better than Pacific though)