Honestly.. the layout was very easy to get used to, and as everyone else has said, the backspace placement is just meant to be. Same with L-CTRL. I did, however, not get used to the arrowkeys, which honestly was a dealbreaker for me :/ It was very annoying having up and down so close to left and right (in the horizontal direction), 'cause my fingers kept "rubbing" (not the right word, but couldn't come up with anything else) against each other when using for example up and right in quick succession. I believe the arrowcluster is a hit or miss, really.
I've however bought a poker 2, which came in the mail yesterday, and I love it ^_^