Will I get better at multitabling?

I'm a new player, but I quickly moved to playing two tables at once, simply because playing one table was just intolerably boring. With two tables, it's interesting and entertaining to me.

There's no question to me that I'm playing worse this way though. In the last hour I played, I folded JT on the flop, failing to notice there was a Q and a 9 in the flop and I had an open ended straight draw, as I was in a major hand in the other table. A few minutes later, again with action on both tables, I mistakenly thought I had 4 to a flush when I only had 3, and made a stupid call.

I would never make these sort of bonehead mistakes playing only one table. Do most of you find you get used to multitabling and stop making these obvious blunders? How do you deal with it when you have action on two (or more, for those who play lots of tables) hands at once?

When I'm in a hand on one table, and AJ suited comes up on the other, my response is, "oh crap".

[DrunkHamster]

I think you firstly need to be able to play one table almost on autopilot before you can multi. If you have trouble reading the board, I think the answer is to just single table until you are a lot more confident. Then, the extra tables will come naturally.

[Paxosmotic]

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I think you firstly need to be able to play one table almost on autopilot before you can multi. If you have trouble reading the board, I think the answer is to just single table until you are a lot more confident. Then, the extra tables will come naturally.

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This is the key. I think about poker hands in my sleep and autopilot 4 tables at this point. You need to get your game down before looking to add tables.

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I think you firstly need to be able to play one table almost on autopilot before you can multi. If you have trouble reading the board, I think the answer is to just single table until you are a lot more confident. Then, the extra tables will come naturally.

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This is the key. I think about poker hands in my sleep and autopilot 4 tables at this point. You need to get your game down before looking to add tables.

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This sounds like wise advice. Unfortunately, as I previously stated, I find playing one table to be intolerably boring. Probably it's different in a live game, as I find watching poker on television even to be interesting, but I am totally uninterested in watching the other players play during the 80% of hands I won't be in.

It's actually a problem for me in getting reads on opponents as well, since I find it extremely difficult to focus on any hand I'm not in, and I'm barely paying attention to them. Thank god I have pokertracker...

[Paxosmotic]

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This sounds like wise advice. Unfortunately, as I previously stated, I find playing one table to be intolerably boring. Probably it's different in a live game, as I find watching poker on television even to be interesting, but I am totally uninterested in watching the other players play during the 80% of hands I won't be in.

It's actually a problem for me in getting reads on opponents as well, since I find it extremely difficult to focus on any hand I'm not in, and I'm barely paying attention to them. Thank god I have pokertracker...

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Most of my sexual fantasies involve suited connectors and medium pocket pairs at this point. You need to love the game and care as much about a hand you aren't in as a hand you are in. If you click fold on a T3o and go back to watching Gremlins 2 and don't notice that the guy two seats left of you just 3-bet the flop with bottom pair, you're missing out on reads. I think you'll learn as you go along that most people who make a signifigant amount in this game are the people who live and breathe it. If you want to have any long term financial stake in the game you need to work on that attention span.

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This sounds like wise advice. Unfortunately, as I previously stated, I find playing one table to be intolerably boring. Probably it's different in a live game, as I find watching poker on television even to be interesting, but I am totally uninterested in watching the other players play during the 80% of hands I won't be in.

It's actually a problem for me in getting reads on opponents as well, since I find it extremely difficult to focus on any hand I'm not in, and I'm barely paying attention to them. Thank god I have pokertracker...

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Most of my sexual fantasies involve suited connectors and medium pocket pairs at this point. You need to love the game and care as much about a hand you aren't in as a hand you are in. If you click fold on a T3o and go back to watching Gremlins 2 and don't notice that the guy two seats left of you just 3-bet the flop with bottom pair, you're missing out on reads. I think you'll learn as you go along that most people who make a signifigant amount in this game are the people who live and breathe it. If you want to have any long term financial stake in the game you need to work on that attention span.

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[img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Yes, I see your point. But... would you really find it interesting to watch the partypoker beginners' rooms .50/1.00 tables? These people are simply not doing much of interest.

Perhaps my problem in this is that my edge is too large at the rooms I'm in for me to need to focus on the play of the others. I am making 10BB/100 hands, which is not surprising given that there is no rake in the PP beginners rooms, and I practice table selection and try to play at those with 45-55% VP$IP, and use pokertracker and gametime+. How much of an extra edge would I really get by watching these players, considering that they're popping in out of the table every 5 minutes anyway and the whole table will turn over by the time I've been there an hour?

Heh, perhaps this thread should have been posted to the psychology forum instead.

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Most of my sexual fantasies involve suited connectors and medium pocket pairs at this point.

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As long as I'm not the only one.

[Hojglad]

Yes.

just spend a few extra seconds to look at everything and make sure you know what you're doing, that should help you avoid costly errors

[Bradyams]

You said you misread 3 to a flush, and thought you had 4 to a flush. Make sure you are playing with a 4 color deck. It's pretty much essential to use if you are going to multi-table. Especially when you start playing 4+ tables.