Am I the only one not multitabling?

MyMindIsGoing · #1 12-07-2005, 02:58 PM

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Did you grow up playing video games? I think that helps.

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Nope, I never owned a x-box or whatever, only computers, on gaming were not the nr 1 priority.

otis_nixon · #2 12-07-2005, 03:15 PM

If your only going to play one table I recommend quiting and just playing live the games are 10 times easier

MicroBob · #3 12-07-2005, 03:33 PM

I definitely think that a video-game background helps.

For those who are 35 or 40-ish and younger one's childhood might have been partly spent accidentally 'in training' for poker-multi-tabling.

Younger generation on the X-Box or Sega and what-not.
I'm 35 so I played lots of Atari (and the old Activision games....I need to get one of those 'retro' video-game things that they're selling now) and was also popping quarters into machines at the arcade (Ms Pac-Man, Centipede, Frogger, Pole Position, Time-Pilot, Galaga, etc etc).

For those 40 and over who might not have been into video-games I think it looks like it is all moving too quickly (for some).

I know an older guy who says he would try playing online, but he watched somebody playing on just 1 table one time it looked 'really really fast'. He couldn't keep up with it (it looks faster than it really is I think because of 4 or 5 players in a row all clicking on auto-fold or check-call or whatever).
But this is a guy who doesn't really understand much poker to begin with.

Some people who learn that I play 3 or 4 tables at a time think I must be some sort of genius to be able to do that....as if I told them that I can play 20 simultaneous chess-matches blind-folded while memorizing the phone-book and solving a rubik's cube with my feet.

#4 12-07-2005, 03:43 PM

Wait? You can memorize the phone book blindfolded?

Teach me.

#5 12-07-2005, 08:57 PM

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Wait? You can memorize the phone book blindfolded?

Teach me.

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Sure, I'll teach ya. Our English Braille lessons will begin tomorrow.

beset7 · #6 12-07-2005, 09:19 PM

It's taken me a long time to get decent at multi-tabling. I have no idea why since I played a ton of video games and multi-task really well in general.