Question on 8-Tabling

[adam61]

I'm toying with the idea of buying 2 new Dell 2001fp monitors so I can 8-table. Couple questions mainly are is it worth giving up about 1 months poker income for the ability to make more later? If I'm relatively bored 4-tabling (meaning I browse the internet, watch TV, talk on the phone, daydream) while playing, will 8-tabling seriously effect my ROI. And lastly is there a better way to 8-table or is dropping $1,000 on monitors the only real way? And For REAL lastly, what's a good secondary SNG site to have with empire for 8-tabling.

[Degen]

i never made any money 8 tabling till i got them and i tried all kindsa weird setups

i spent 2k for the comp and two monitors and it was the best investment i've ever made

also consider just buying one at first...

[Hornacek]

For Degen (or others who would know):

My 2001FP should have arrived today. I've set up RB with EuroBet, so I can hopefully 8-table with Empire and EuroBet. However:

a) I now have the 2001FP and my crappy 17' LCD that has overlap. Should I really consider buying another 2001FP? The overlap hasn't bothered me for the past 2 years... keep in mind if I bought another 2001FP, I would probably have 3 monitors for my CPU... I'd prob put the 2001FPs on the side, sandwiching the smaller monitor...

b) I'm assuming there's no problem playing Euro and Empire at the same time. I have friends (irl) who 8 table, and always complain about Euro and its interface. Does anyone else feel this way? What are your gripes about Euro?

c) Following up with b), it seems like most people 8-table with Empire and Euro. Why are InterTops and MultiPoker so seldomly used? Are they bad as well? (I've never had any problems with Empire).


Thanks!

Hornacek.

[Degen]

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Should I really consider buying another 2001FP?

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Try it out like that. I have a friend who 10 tables cash games on his laptop and a crt w/ overlap and he does fine. UMTerp here does it all on one screen too...sez he does fine. I just couldn't do it. I say just try it with that one and your CRT and buy another one with profit later if you like.

Once you get it tho, you're gonna want another one, trust me [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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there's no problem playing Euro and Empire at the same time


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correct


I've only used empire and party, dunno about others

[Hornacek]

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I've only used empire and party, dunno about others

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Why are you using Party? I thought there was no RB set up for it? Isn't that just -EV?

[Nicholasp27]

there is rb for party
just not 'officially'

[Degen]

just got my second empire account setup, i wasn't getting rakeback on 4 tables for awhile...yes, v v v -EV


party is good for MTT's tho...

[Slim Pickens]

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a) I now have the 2001FP and my crappy 17' LCD that has overlap. Should I really consider buying another 2001FP? The overlap hasn't bothered me for the past 2 years... keep in mind if I bought another 2001FP, I would probably have 3 monitors for my CPU... I'd prob put the 2001FPs on the side, sandwiching the smaller monitor...

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I've had some problems 8-tabling with one 2001FP and one 14" laptop screen. I think maybe brightness might be the issue, but it's also strange visually to have 4 "good" tables and 4 "bad" tables. I'm planning on buying a whole new setup with a second 2001FP if I'm ever going to 8-table above the 33's. As for sandwiching the small between the two big, wouldn't this just lead to a lot of extra mouse movement and next swivelling? There's also the problem of tracking the pointer across screens of different resolution. Sometimes it gets "stuck" when you do that.

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b) I'm assuming there's no problem playing Euro and Empire at the same time. I have friends (irl) who 8 table, and always complain about Euro and its interface. Does anyone else feel this way? What are your gripes about Euro?

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Euro lobby sucks, but not too much more than Empire. Moving money is hard and sometimes you don't get tournament summaries. I use a pokermod skin so all my tables look the same.

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c) Following up with b), it seems like most people 8-table with Empire and Euro. Why are InterTops and MultiPoker so seldomly used? Are they bad as well? (I've never had any problems with Empire).

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I think Empire and Eurobet offer the best combination of sucking the least and decent rakeback. That's why I picked them.

[Hendricks433]

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I use a pokermod skin so all my tables look the same.

[/ QUOTE ] I have a poker mod to get rid of the seats and stuff but is there a better one than chip mod? or can I use the green felt on on there and just move all the files in Party's folder and move it to empire or euro's folder? Sorry to hijack

[Slim Pickens]

I just unzipped this file into my EmpirePoker\Images\ and CoralEurobetPoker\Images\ folders.