Is there a 'Laffer Curve' in multi-tabling?

[RandomUser]

Imagine if you plotted the number of tables on the horizontal axis and income/hour on the vertical axis.

While the exact shape and inflection point would vary from player to player, I think the general shape would be similar to a Laffer curve which you could use to pick your 'ideal number of tables' to maximize your winnings.

I believe that many players get so caught up in the concept of multi-tabling that they don't realize that they are putting themselves on the right and downward slope of the Laffer curve.

Just because you can play all those extra tables, doesn't mean you are actually increasing your overall hourly profit. There comes a time when adding just one more table, will drop your ROI enough that you actually lower your income.

Just some insomniac musings after playing too many hands of poker tonight.

[schwza]

a really fancy laffer curve would also include the changes in future earnings due to the increased/decreased learning from more or fewer tables (not sure how many tables causes maximum learning).

[Freudian]

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a really fancy laffer curve would also include the changes in future earnings due to the increased/decreased learning from more or fewer tables (not sure how many tables causes maximum learning).

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Without a doubt one, if you focus on it enough. Which most of us don't have the discipline to do. But multitabling itself is a skill, so once you get used to 4-8-tabling, the negative impact will probably lessen over time but the decisions will never be able to be as deep as those of a dedicated one-tabler.

[TruFloridaGator]

Good thoughts, but you need an enourmous sample size with all of the different possibilities played out in a large sample themselves to be anywhere near accurate. Might be a good idea over a long, long period of time if you're willing to bounce around.