I will give my opinions on all of the games/buyins in the next post i make, but i think the main thing that players should be seeking is lowered rake. I dont mean to completely derail the thread, but I was typing up a post and it very quickly became mostly about rake and how much we are paying (especially in cap/shallow) so I felt it was germane to the discussion and needed to be addressed.
The rake is absolutely absurd at midstakes. I am paying 7bb/100 in rake at 1/2 and 4.6bb/100 in rake at 2/4 and im sure there are looser players than I am paying even more. When so many of the games are cap or shallow and the regular games have infinite 30bb shortstacks in them, the result is an unsustainable poker economy.
I think the rake needs to be lowered across the board from .02/.05 all the way up to 5/10.
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/room/rake/
Imagine being a .1/.25 player and paying $2 in rake every time you played a $50 pot. They must be paying like 10-15bb/100 in rake. Thats just insanity. The edges are getting smaller, the stacks are getting shorter and there are so many all ins in PLO that its just not fair to rake that much. The average potsize in PLO is significantly higher than the average potsize in NL at the same stakes, so the midstakes PLO players end up paying WAY more than the midstakes NL players. this is even more true for the lowstakes guys.
I think its fair to have the rake be 3-4bb/100. When you add in fpps or rakeback the overall rake would be between 2-2.5bb/100 which is not that bad. Compare that to about 4.5-5bb/100 for me at 1/2. The result is way more winners and people losing way less money. I think in the long run this would benefit the sites as well as right now they are just leading to people at best breaking even.