6 Tables killing my win rate?

[JeffO]

I've been playing the party 15/30 games for around 6 months now. For the first 5 months I was multitabling 4 tables and had about 110K hands in my pokertracker with a win rate of 1.7 BB/100. While 1.7 BB/100 isn't anything to brag about, it was a respectable beginning to my 15/30 career and my knowledge of the game was continuing to grow with experience.

So at the beginning of October a bought a new computer with a dual monitor set up. My goal was to double my hands played per month by playing 8 tables without effecting my BB/100. I quickly found out that 8 tables was just too much for me to handle and settled in on 6 tables. For the most part I am comfortable with 6 tables and don't feel its any tougher than 4 tabling. Probably with each additional table that you add you lose a little on your BB/100 or we would all be playing 16 tables.

So for the past month I have been playing 6 tables and have played 36K hands. My win rate for the month is .5 and I'm sick about it. Could the 2 extra tables effect my win rate that much or is 36K hands too small of a sample size? Has anyone else gone through a similar experience and how did you resolve it?

[TimM]

What is your SD/100 for the first 110K hands and the subsequent 36K hands? Using 16BB/100, a player with a 1.7BB/100 should have a 36K hand streak of 0.5BB/100 or worse about 8% of the time. This number goes up if your win rate drops or your SD goes up. For example, if your 6 table win rate is really 1.5BB/100, the chance of a 0.5BB/100 or worse streak in 36K hands goes to about 12%.

[JeffO]

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What is your SD/100 for the first 110K hands and the subsequent 36K hands?

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I am at work right now and don't have access to my pokertracker. Where can I find my SD/100 in pokertraker?

[TimM]

Filter for the time period you want, then go to Session Notes, and More Detail.

[Senor Choppy]

36k isn't enough hands to definitively prove anything one way or another. It could be variance, it could be degradation in play.

We all have bad months.