I like Live for the experience, Stake Original for quick hands. What I like about live is you can sit out a hand if you go on a win streak and want to play statistics. On originals youll still have to play a hand (can do zero bet though to circumvent this, but just feels more fluent playing Live)
Yeah this can be confusing! I believe Eddie picks a page and assigns it to an assistant. Then an assistant will pick 1 random user from that page. It seems you were not picked, but you may want to verify how this works.
Yeah I see them in the all bets feed every now and then. I heard somewhere that the math on it is like 1 in 33,333 to hit the 1k based on the chance to hit it.
You can run Stake originals with 0.00 bet to try them out, use a strategy you want to try and test it out on empty bets so you can see how often you hit.