Just thought I'd chip in, for those interested in playing at Crown.
I don't play at Crown much at all any more, but 1/3 to 5/5 should definitely be beatable for any decent player. If you wanna make decent money, 5/5 is where you should be at, especially now with the deeper buyin ($700).
The 5/5 game (formerly 2/5) isn't the gold mine it used to be, now with a lot of solid grinders and nitty oldies, a bunch of whom used to play 5/10 and 10/20. But there's still plenty of value and randoms, so it's still very profitable. It's the game which kickstarted/sustained many a Melbourne player's rolls over the last 5 or 6 years, and it still can.
5/10 and 10/20 games have died over the last 2.5 years or so. They used to be f**king amazing. A 5/10/20 game started getting up again this year twice a week, but only because a reg arranged with Crown to have it running on those days, at a specific time, with a starting table of pre-confirmed players. This game doesn't run anymore, and 5/10 will rarely ever get up in the near future outside tourney periods. The biggest game will be 5/5 most days of the week.
5/5/10 PLO games will randomly get up every now and then, and so does 1/2 PLO. Bigger PLO games get up during tourney periods, and these games are where all the action and money is - and the only reason I haven't packed and left Melbourne completely