does cpu mining still work ?
  Not really and only with slushes crap shoot ... did i hit it lucky
does pool hoping work .. hell yes especially if you have a slow gpu
  After a certain time you just keep submitting shares to keep what you got
  going elsewhere at least you get something  for the hrs your spending ...esp if they hit every couple hrs
  slow miners get more pay on the short haul  after 2-3hrs they are just trying to keeping up

If you don't like MY OPINIONS   TOUGH
that's the way I see it

If you got a super rig .. may be you can ignore the screw job bs others are saying
for the little guy every share makes a big difference ...1 of 100 vs 1 of 1000 lost
most gpus are mining so fast you never see whats going on