[talkinghead]

I'm a strict one table man myself for these reasons below, last year i cleared 60K (but i did play 30hrs/wk not 20)

The following was posted on rival forum the other day...

The multiple table player(MTP) believes that more tables at once, means
more hands/hr greater overall win rate, even if the win rate at individual
tables will be slightly reduced.

There are a lot of people who play multiple tables and I don't doubt that
their win rate is indeed higher. I don't myself for the reason that unless
play is concentrated on one table your game isn't going anywhere it's
standing in the same place.

This might be adequate for someone who plays at a certain low limit, happy
with their win rate and have no ambitions to move on to bigger and better
things, playing the best poker they can.

There may be some MTP's that simply don't have a very large concentration
span, they need the action that three or more tables gives them to stay
focused, at a single table they'd simply get bored waiting for hands .
Concentration and patience though, like all things in life needs working
on to get and maintain. MTP's who lack these qualities arn't going to get
themselves out of this hole anytime soon with six tables at once to get
those big pairs more often.

You miss so much not concentrating your play to a single table, especially
in terms of the psychological aspects of the game, MTP's can't get into 27
players head at the same time. When desicions creep up on you you need to
weigh many things into consideration, not just the cards. That's the
sacrifice that MTP's make and for many, they're happy with that, that's
the little they give up to get a bigger overall win rate.

It's these key desicions though that are critical at the higher limits and
you need as much practice making them as possible, more hands per hour
mean more of such desicions will crop up, however, MTP are kidding
themselves if they believe that they are correctly evaluating them as well
as they could.

If you're a MTP think what you want from poker, to be the best player you
can, to play winning poker at high limits/ buy-in tournaments. If so,
think about switching to one table (make sure it's a good one) and maybe
even a slightly higher limit.