Hi
Newbie player (outside US) looking for advice regarding online microstakes. Ive started played on PP and appreciate not playing against HUDded opponents but hate not having my HH available for offline review (PP gives me a range of stats on MyGame, so its better than nothing). Should I just embrace the HUD and play on pokerstars? I'll have my HHs for review and I think this will improve my game. Just wondering if the micro tables are tougher on PS. Tried run it once but no action at all when I want to play.
Thanks!

PP was a tight site when it had the session HUD (or the MTTs had a full HUD) but the micro games might be looser or at least the PLO micro games were; just had to figure out how to play the nut overfull from the flop in a way it loses the least money but it seemed beatable overall.

Don't know about NLH there but it is up to insanely nitty at Stars' zoom, including the .es (where they even went to a kind of strike when the tables were made 5-max as it is worse nittings and PS made them back 6-max), so the regular tables make more sense if one wants to learn while with PLO it is the opposite at least at the two lowest micros. The MTTs were very tight at micros at PP while the PS.es was the best.

In theory, less multi-tabling players mean more weak players per table on average but how good are you playing w/o a HUD? It took me a long time and I am playing w/o a hud at stars zoom, though I might use one at the regular tables and will at tourneys.

If the nits like the no HUD sites, I am not sure but I have seen some very tight games in non-HUD tables and they can hide better there rather than have a label on their foreheads.

If you're trying to get good you should be playing on sites which allow for hand history tracking.

You have no business aggressively bum hunting at micros. Face all-comers and consider tougher tables a cheap/low exposure education.

I think the actual answer to this question is that yes, sites without HUDs are softer. The high volume grinders need a HUD and will avoid these sites. That makes the games softer on average.

I do think you should consider playing some on a site with a HUD too so that you can learn how to do it and see your own stats and add some study opportunities outside of the game.