i recommend suprnova, im really happy with them

I have tried at least 5 different XMR pools over the last week and I have to agree - (so far at least) Suprnova seem to be really great.
I had a problem with Claymore's new ssl connection causing Suprnova to ban my IP address. I emailed
admin@suprnova.cc about it and got a reply withing 15 minutes. They had a bug on their side (and admitted it to me which is unusual and I find admirable) which they fixed and so I was back up on the ssl connection at Suprnova approximately 25 minutes after first realizing I had a problem.
They have lots of stats and information and they seem to be doing decent real-time quoting of connected worker's hash-rates. Many other pools have really slow stats or they seem to underquote your hash-rate. If anything Suprnova seem to think I have higher hash rate than I expected.
Anyway - my experience with Suprnova so far has been very positive and I recommend them.

If you are one of the ones who really want to be able to mine to an exchange - dude.... just get a mymonero.com account, mine to it and take that extra 2 minutes a day to send from it to poloniex or wherever.