A few years ago I was playing zoom and loved it, but I was stuck at 5NL - 10NL, constantly moving up and down. Eventually I started playing regular tables and managed to get out of the micro stakes quite fast. Now I have a friend who started playing poker recently and I'm coaching him a little. He wants to play zoom and as much as I like zoom myself, I'm afraid he might experience the same as I did. So I wonder if any players or coaches have any more info on this. Have you been stuck at zoom or maybe have students who can't seem to move up? Maybe I was just experiencing ridiculous variance (about 300k hands at 5nl and 10nl combined) and playing zoom isn't necessarily a bad idea.