Only options are Bovada/ARC/Global

Global is soft, but without a pokertracker, I can't analyze my play.
ARC has rakeback/allows tracking, but I've read it's reg filled.
Bovada, I think I can download my hands to look over, but no names/notes on players.

At first, every hand should be a question of how you should play it preflop and post flop. Best way to do this is look through a complete database of all your hands because each decision of whether to call, fold or raise is very important.

However, it might prove difficult to have access to the kind of quality feedback you need for every decision you make, so sometimes we sacrifice having all our questions answered and focus on big money decisions which we think we will make time and time again throughout our poker career.

ACR takes your rake and gives it to winning regs, I personally find that tilting. And by winning regs I mean superregs who are on like 12 tables at once to get that 2500 a week. They really should get rid of the beast. Play on all 3 and see which you win at though.

Not ACR

Chico network

What's global never heard of that site

PokerStars zoom

OP is pretty plainly in the US, in all likelihood.

To answer the question, though:

Global has been soft in my experience but yeah the lack of HUD/tracking support is a huge turn-off to me. I'm willing to play without a HUD, but not being able to track and evaluate my own play sucks.

ACR isn't great for cash games. At least, not until you're ready to trade minimal winrates with other rakeback pros (which, hey, no shade if that's what anybody wants to do).

There are HUDs that work on Bovada/Ignition. I use DriveHUD and I'm very happy with it. Their PLO games have seemed extremely beatable to me up to and including PLO100 (beyond which I haven't ventured cuz bankroll). Don't sweat the anonymous aspect: you can still take somewhat effective notes for reference within one session, and some HUD stats can still give you a workable impression of how someone is playing.

Chico network has seemed pretty soft for PLO, but with way less traffic than Bovada/Ignition in my experience.

Smallish site, been around a few years. They advertise on facebook

excuse me, I don't get the first part of the quote
you mean that PS don't cover US well?

in that case you really have Chico/TigerGaming option and Winning Poker Network (PokerKing afaik)

Not sure if serious, but other than ringfenced in New Jersey for a few years, Stars has been unavailable in the US since the DOJ shut them down in April 2011.

funny
bcz the Stars initiated FTP shutdown in order to obtain monopoly
well then you also have PartyPokerNJ

Bovada ainec.

bovada > acr

Do you guys think Bovada has a bot problem? I really don't know about omaha, but I feel like the Jackpot games definitely do.

My experience with Ignition (exact same pool, AFAIK) is that PLO and JSNGs are both extremely beatable, so I don't care too much about who or what is playing.

+1

i really believe bovada is a much safer option than acr. on acr you also have to be more worried asbout the run of the mill multiaccounters.