[Al_Capone_Junior]

My personal feelings are that I can't stand party's for all the reasons you seem to like them. I prefer to take my time and increase my chances of winning. The luck factor is clearly much higher in party's than stars'. I view that as "con." I would tend to think that hourly rate wouldn't change much because you'd win or place more often due to the smaller luck factor.

Stars often has pretty decent ring games, especially the stud and stud-8 because the antes (below 5-10) are smaller than party, thus you can play tighter. There are plenty of magoos to go around tho, even tho there are usually more of them at party games. The play is clearly better at stars, but that don't make it "good."

For SNGs I feel the slightly better play makes them a bit more winnable because you lower the luck factor and can steal more / make plays more often. At party they'll call you every friggin time.

al