Starting to 8 table: its BANANAS

[Voltron87]

Ok so I'm starting up 8 tabling. Right now until I get another monitor I'm doing it on one 19" monitor.

I made the jump from 1-4 tabling fairly quickly, and find 4 tabling easy. 8 tables is harder. I thought about doing 6 tables... no I'll just do 8. I moved down to the 11s to try my first batches, just to kind of get used to how everything would work. Everything was fine for the first two levels. Then when the blinds got to 25 50 and 50 100 on all my tables and was less than 10 handed... it got nuts. I was also playing extremely tight in the first two levels, I saw 5 or 6 flops. 2 AA, 1 KK, 1 QQ, 1 AJ, and a couple of BB crap hands. bb hands are the devil. they screw everything up. It's annoying when you click check fold and it it unraised and you have to see a flop with q3 and it keeps popping up.

Anyways it did get pretty hectic. I was pretty much fine except when I had to play on the flop, that got interesting because I had to wait for other people to see what they were doing, which generally screwed up the timing.

By the time it got to 100 200 and 150 300 when I still had 7 tables up is where I really had trouble. I felt I was starting to miss steal opportunities here, not really looking at all the stacks enough. And whenever I remembered the stacks in my head, they all changed and people played big pots (wtf is their problem). That got annoying, just when you figure out this person is going to be folding, this person is committed... etc. This is the tough bit for me, not missing those steal opportunities.

This was playing one set of 8. I can't even imagine starting new ones up in the middle. Being on the same level generally was a big help. To 8 table and start new ones up I'm gonna need that other monitor. Oh well, this post is long and kind of boring. Any advice for going to 8 tables?