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Re: Beginner multi table question

Thanks for all the great advice everyone! I've been playing two tables and doing quite well. My play has actually gotten better and my winrate has definitely improved, whether I play one table or multiple tables. I'm working on three tables by just watching the third one right now....got to get a monitor with higher res so I can do away with the overlap.

Re: Beginner multi table question

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Re: Beginner multi table question

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Thanks for all the great advice everyone! I've been playing two tables and doing quite well. My play has actually gotten better and my winrate has definitely improved, whether I play one table or multiple tables. I'm working on three tables by just watching the third one right now....got to get a monitor with higher res so I can do away with the overlap.

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Before you get excited about multi-tabling, realize that you cannot play enough hands in six days for any change in winrate to be signifigant statistically.

In fact, you'll probably only hit a signifigant number of hands for determing winrate in a reasonable amount of time by multi-tabling.

I was eager to jump up to multi-tabling, once I got the basics down, and added table after table. Eventually, I was playing eight tables with:

-Only statistical reads.
-No note taking.
-Compounded mistakes due to frequency.
-No table selection.

Realize that with each table you add, you'll be doing more of what I describe above and less:

-Reading players' hands.
-Taking notes.
-Taking the time to find good tables.
-Avoiding mistakes with careful consideration.

Not that there's inherently anything wrong with multi-tabling, but for a beginner it forms some bad habits that are incredibly tough to break, and are plain bad at higher limits.