Question on 8-Tabling

[MegaBet]

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Am I the only player that 8 tables on ONE monitor??? A 1600x1200 laptop or sometimes desktop, 109's in sets. Does not leave room for me to be distracted by the internet and everything is in my FOV at once. I have this rhythmic clockwise clicking of every tablethat keeps them all in the front momentarily.

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my old roomate 8 tabled 109s on a laptop monitor. it was 1920x1200 tho, so was a tad easier than 1600x1200. most people dont because its worth 400 bucks to just add a screen and see everything easier. holla

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Didn't AllInLuckBot(x) post a picture here of his setup on his laptop? That was crazy!

[MegaBet]

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As someone that switched from a very nice 21" CRT to a 2001fp I thought I'd chip in with my thoughts. I LOVE my 2001fp. If you are serious about poker and make a steady stream of money at it, I wouldn't hesitate at all to recommend buying 1 or 2. I've got 2 now, and have never regretted the purchase for a second.

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I use a 2001fp with my laptop to 8-table, slight overlap on my 17" laptop. Qucik question for you. Do you need a special adaptor to use 2x2001fp's? Or can you just link the 2 monitors together via the USB ports?

Thanks.

[chisness]

mega, you can't do 2 monitors + laptop on a laptop without a special external video card (i'm not sure how that works and i know they're VERY expensive (>$1000))

you CAN (on some laptops with 2 ports) have 2 external monitors and have the laptop monitor turned off (which is kinda dumb)

with a desktop, almost all video cards will support 2 monitors -- special ones are needed if you want more than 2

[MegaBet]

Thanks. I was pretty sure that was the case, but just needed confirmation seeing as this topic arose.

[Freudian]

The biggest advantage to 8-tabling is that you can choose to a) play more tables/day or b) play less hours each day.

Both are good options. I use a mix of them currently.

[chisness]

mega, it's actually funny that you bring this up

dell had told me that i could in fact do 3 monitors with a laptop + 2 more, but only with their best video card only available on the gaming system

it turned out, however, that the system was not capable of this (and was the same as my prior inspiron 9300) -- this pissed me off pretty bad and even worse when support claimed they had no record of me calling in to ask about it and that i should've done my research, then refused to pay for return shipping even when i offered an online chat support transcript (they eventually did, but their support is just retardedly awful)

[chisness]

definitely, less hours per day is absolutely huge for me since i'm in school

[J-Lo]

most laptop vid cards WON'T suppport 2 xternal monitors... so you have to buy an xternal vid card that goes into some slot in laptop... very xpensive... cheaper to get a normal PC--- also, what could work is a laptop "station" where u put laptop in it, and it acts like s desktop w/ everytihing attaced to "station"..

[chisness]

beware of advertisements that say they support 2 external monitors, cause some do but then only the 2 external ones, not 3

[ebaudry]

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Degen, please oh please send me that same info (how to 2-acct. on empire). I can't deal with losing any more RB. I feel like a moron.

Thanks,
Eric