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Multi-Tabling vs. Improving Your Game
Serious question: How many tables can you play at once and still improve your poker game? If 4 tables makes for a nice hourly rate, but prevents me from improving as much as I could, what should I do? I think I've gotten to the point where my initial learning phase (past year: .5/1->1/2->2/4->a little 3/6) is only sufficient for the 'small stakes' games when I multi-table, and I'd like to improve enough to beat these games handily. Should I eliminate a table or two? The increased aggression from good players, and donk aggression from bad players, makes me believe that I need to pay attention to every hand regardless of whether I'm in it or not (whereas I'm looking at another table when 4-tabling).
Anyone have a suggestion about something I haven't considered? |
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Re: Multi-Tabling vs. Improving Your Game
PAHUD and datamining makes all the difference.
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Re: Multi-Tabling vs. Improving Your Game
Duh, I already have those.
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Re: Multi-Tabling vs. Improving Your Game
i play 6 tables, and drop down to 4 to improve my game. It all depends on how many tables you actually multitable. When you drop 1-2 tables from this you find you have a LOT more time to make decisions.
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Re: Multi-Tabling vs. Improving Your Game
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i play 6 tables, and drop down to 4 to improve my game. It all depends on how many tables you actually multitable. When you drop 1-2 tables from this you find you have a LOT more time to make decisions. [/ QUOTE ] And this really seems to be the key to multi-tabling - having the pre-acquired knowledge to navigate many, many different situations. I don't think you need to really drop tables to get this knowledge. You can get it reading books or discussing on 2+2. Granted you may play 1-2 tables less than normal to work on the time that it takes to make these decisions but - that's more improving your multi-tabling game rather than improving your poker game. I think that poker is like any other activity. Sure, you can learn and improve while participating but, the best players do their learning away from the game and then put their hours of practice into action at gametime. Dropping tables might improve your clicking skills or even decrease the time it takes your eyes to read the HUD and make your decision. But in terms of learning the what's and why's of the game - do it away from the table. |
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Re: Multi-Tabling vs. Improving Your Game
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Dropping tables might improve your clicking skills or even decrease the time it takes your eyes to read the HUD and make your decision. But in terms of learning the what's and why's of the game - do it away from the table. [/ QUOTE ] Right, but after I've done all of this book learning, putting it into practice isn't as easy as 1-2-3. I'm just feeling skeptical right now that my decisions are optimally +EV when I have 10 seconds to make my decisions. |
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Re: Multi-Tabling vs. Improving Your Game
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Right, but after I've done all of this book learning, putting it into practice isn't as easy as 1-2-3. I'm just feeling skeptical right now that my decisions are optimally +EV when I have 10 seconds to make my decisions. [/ QUOTE ] Well just keep plugging away and remember that you're never going to make the right decision every time. Mistakes are part of the game - and sometimes they work out pretty sweet! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] |
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Re: Multi-Tabling vs. Improving Your Game
I play 2 tables max.
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Re: Multi-Tabling vs. Improving Your Game
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The increased aggression from good players, and donk aggression from bad players, makes me believe that I need to pay attention to every hand regardless of whether I'm in it or not (whereas I'm looking at another table when 4-tabling). [/ QUOTE ] So why not make one of your 4 tables your "main" table and pay the most attention to that table out of the 4. Chances are you're already on auto-pilot when you're playing 4-tables and have plenty of other distractions that are already taking away from your game. Remove the other distractions and pick one table of the 4 to really focus on. Watch that game during all the hands - not just the ones you're involved in. |
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Re: Multi-Tabling vs. Improving Your Game
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So why not make one of your 4 tables your "main" table and pay the most attention to that table out of the 4. [/ QUOTE ] Note to self: quit proofreading your posts or crunchy will continue to post your thoughts before you do. |
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