multitabling is killing the game

[joker1976]

It seems that the only one that makes tons of money out of multitabling is the house. When every good player plays four to eight tables simultaneously, the game gets tougher, fish only lose so much, it's hard to squeeze out 4x more money from the fish, but the house collects 4x more rake.

[cowpie]

What, you've never met any fish who plays 8 tables simultaneously?

[Daliman]

well, not usually for long...

[joker1976]

good player plays for hourly rate, fish plays their bankroll, it's not important how many table they play, they stops playing when they are broke. An average fish will not donate 4x more of what they can afford because of multitabling. As well, good player is more likely to multitable than fish.

[wjmooner]

Win win for everyone. Each individual fish only donates from their one game, and with the sharks multitabling the win rate of the fish actually goes up on his one table. While the win rate of the sharks goes down on each table, the hourly earn increases.

Looks great to me.

C

[stupidsucker]

If you are a non multitabler then you should LOVE it. All the people playing 4-8 tables ata time are weakenning their game, while yours remains the same.

[TakeMeToTheRiver]

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If you are a non multitabler then you should LOVE it. All the people playing 4-8 tables ata time are weakenning their game, while yours remains the same.

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BINGO! I do not doubt that the multitabling player is increasing his hourly rate, but he is certainly decreasing his per table rate. If you play one (or two) tables, you are in a better position to know the fish at the table and to trap the multitabler...

Just remember that the multitabler is playing a very tight game early. He is only entering hands with premium cards and if the flop looks good for a premium hand and the MT represents a big hand, he probably has it.

[Solitare]

Multitabling has been occuring for many, many months (probably as long as online poker has existed) and I haven't seen any signs that the games are suffering.

[joker1976]

50% is the usual ROI a year ago at $50 SnGs partypoker, at $100 SnG it's not that hard to achieve over 40%, are you getting 50% ROI now playing four tables?