hmm... depends on how much you've mined. got ~1k each of both last shifts by throwing my aux 6x750 rig some couple hours every other now and then over the last few days... however, multipools are just a nice convenient thing. you might make better deals when you cherry pick coins and trade them yourself to buy a bag of balls...or you let the pool do the job...
that previous shift was a little long so I as well became cautious but remember... holidays

btw. one has to witness the moment when those bucks go staking, what a drop

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after that very moment it all so clear why they're called
I'm referring to the 8,680 total BALLS paid out for the entire pool, in the shift history - not just mine.
Shift ending Sun Dec 21 was only 2 days, found 1/4 as many blocks and paid out 20,792 BALLS
6 days is the longest shift the pool has ever had, and paid out pretty miserably compared to other 1 or 2 day shifts. I am guessing we are mining the wrong coin - mining BTC would have paid out way, way better