Wow... this thread has been a train wreck from the start.

Here... let me help you guys out.

A) OP doesn't know maths. plain and simple there... I think he means if you have 3 cards, shove them into three other pools as apposed to all three in Deepbit. We'll get to this more in a moment.

B) My invalid @ slush's pool today. (7081   2011-08-01 15:49:18   0:10:59   335449   0.03038722    -    invalid) *shrug* Oh well, if I really want to, I have some nvidia cards to fold on to make up the difference.

C) Deepbit getting anywhere close to %50 of the bitcoin hashrate is bad for the entire network. Period. (see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_computing_power.)

D) Deepbit charges 3% fees, so you get the lowest possible payout from that pool, cause of the chunk of change they take from you.

I've been in slush's pool since I started mining. Seems fine to me, even the latest DDoS was easily worked around... changing address was simple. No, they're the best pool, and in fact i'm looking at some 0% fee pools myself. Unfortunately, of the three largest, and nothing against the operator of Deepbit but, that pool is the one I LEAST want to be in.