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When playing multi tables, how much of your play is determined by other players? Is the strategy mainly to only play premium hands depending on position?
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I play multi table exactly as I play 1 table. Start out slow - play tighter then normal. You will find that 2 tables rarly come in conflict with each other.
One table will grab your attention more then the other but keep both on your radar. Play only a short session and then relax back to 1 table. you will soon find that 2 tables is easy, then, pop in a 3rd for a tiny bit. |
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I agree with Webster. When you're ready to multi the micros, you should be able to do it without having to deviate from your tight aggressive strategy. I also advocate a gradual buildup. I now comfortably 4- or 5-table but at first 2 seemed hard. Your winrate per table will probably drop a bit because you might miss out on a few reads, but really it should only drop a BIT. If you find yourself making mistakes, drop back down again. Also FWIW, I find that I can handle multi-tabling much better in limit ring games than in NL sit and gos, where the play is faster and reads are more important. Two SnGs at a time is about all I can handle. Good luck!
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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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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. [/ QUOTE ] 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. |
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You want to gather and use as much information about your opponents as you can, but obviously this becomes more difficult as you add tables. One of the heads-up display programs combined with PokerTracker can really help with this.
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My winrate actually went up LOL. Playing tighter on two tables cured a leak!
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My winrate actually went up LOL. Playing tighter on two tables cured a leak! [/ QUOTE ] I only play two tables but I find that with one table I'll get bored and be more tempted to play more questionable starting hands just to play because of the boredom factor. With two tables going, I won't get tempted to do so. |
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I only play two tables but I find that with one table I'll get bored and be more tempted to play more questionable starting hands just to play because of the boredom factor. With two tables going, I won't get tempted to do so. [/ QUOTE ] Not to be too dogmatic, but you might want to work harder to build up the discipline to not play hands despite boredom. I don't fault you for getting bored, or for that matter for playing hands you shouldn't, but multitabling seems like it doesn't really fix the root problem, just hides it. |
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What I will do sometimes to keep from playing bad hands is start up a play money room and mutli one real table and one play money.
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