And why don't you mine on Give-me-coins or Simplevert?
Very easy-intuitive mining pools with great hashrate. They pay, of course... verified.
When I mine I always use one of those pools

give-me-coins has a lot of hashrate mining vertcoin.
We better not mine there

P2Pool FTW!
Edit: give-me-coins as 8% of hashrate, simplevert as 22%. Combined, this two pools got 30% of global hashrate. This could harm the coin (51% attack) if they keep getting higher hashrates.
http://www.verters.com/block-analysis