I'm wondering if my main focus should be hyper sngs or cash games..these have 1500chips and 2 minute blinds..is there enough edge for a studying player to stick to them you think?
As my experience goes, there definitely IS edge in these hypers.
I played them for a month or two across many sites (before they all got banned in my country) and there definitely IS edge if you have the proper BRM and you have good studying materials.
As far as the edge goes, your main source of edge will be that your opponents will not understand ICM and will do bubble mistakes. Most of them have no concept of this and are extremely tight. You will need to put a lot of hours into ICMizer simulations or HRC simulations. I recommend ICMizer as its easier to use.
But number one thing you have to consider is RAKE
I did a small research into this early 2019 and I found out that when we account for rakeback, the best place to play is
partypoker by far. Then its Stars.es and stars.eu - there might be lower rake someplace esle than stars, but the traffic will be REALLY poor. Traffic on Party is not THAT great but you can get 2-3 tables of 11€ hypers running at a time. Other sites have just very poor traffic to even consider playing higher volume there. I have an excel chart somewhere with these rake structures so if you want that just send me a PM and I will email it to you.
EDIT:
Be prepared to face absolutely nasty variance. You can go on breakeven stretches in hundreds of these tournaments. You can go on massive downswings. I cant stress this often enough, you need AT LEAST 300 buy ins for this format. You can easily go 20-30 games without cashing just beacuse of variance and it can ruin your confidence. I dont recommend this format at all if you struggle with tilt issues. I stopped playing these partially because of this. The variance was just too high and the money I could lose in a session /even though I didnt need it for my life/ were huge when I though about it. I could easily loose 200 dollars in a few hours in a downswing and then win it all back double the other day, but the mental pressure was insane.
GL