How many games do you play at once?

[MicroBob]

the mind is capable of far more than we usually give it credit for.
i think i could do the 10-15 games at once thing if i had the super-computer minority-report style.

but, i don't.
on my 17" monitor on my laptop i can play 6 tables at once but it's kind of hectic because of all the overlap and i don't do it very often.
put 3 tables in 2 columns with a little space showing on each.

i can fairly easily play 4 without too much difficulty, and a couple of those may be short-handed if i have found a special-fishyness situation.
i might also add a $1 or $3 NL tourney in there as a 5th table where i don't have to think so much because i'm pretty much playing group 1-2 hands only except the blinds.

sometimes i'll play a 10+1 SNG on party which will only lend to playing 2 other ring-games (maybe 1 of them short-handed) because the 10+1 requires a bit more concentration and will get down to 6 players or less fairly quickly.

i admit that the multiple-limit scene isn't quite so exciting. but i am not averse to mixing in some SNG's....or the occasional multi...depending on my mood.


i DO enjoy it btw...especially when i am winning.
some people's brains are just wired to get enjoyment out of this type of thing.....most of my friends would rather kill themselves before playing poker on auto-pilot for hours on end.
but i don't understand how people can sit in a casino and play a slot-machine for hours on end (although some might argue that poker-online is very similar....only with +ev).
and some people don't understand how i can sit and enjoy a baseball doubleheader on tv (live or on tv) when it takes 5-6 hours to finish.
lets face it....people are different.
i cant and dont play some of those point-of-view type of shoot-the-enemy type of video-games on sony-playstation simply because they bore me.

i enjoy poker....and multiple-table online-poker....and i enjoy making roughly the same amount of money as i do at my 'regular' job.
and i can get this WITHOUT a 30+ minute commute each way.....i can watch the basketball game on TV or some Clint Eastwood movie re-run.....not have to deal with condescending/rude bosses...etc. allthewhile playing a game i enjoy.
what's not to love??

i still get those spam e-mails where they say something long the lines of 'wouldnt you love to make extra money just sitting at home on your computer (or stuffing envelopes, or whatever)??' and i always thing 'ummmm, already do!!'



George Koltanowski was able to play 10-20 blind-fold games of chess simultaneously....and he could do this well past 70-80 years of age (he passed away a couple years ago at 90 or so i believe).
there have been other chess grandmasters who have been able to simultaneously play multiple games against top competition (blindfolded or not).

i have some other stuff about some guys playing 4 blind-fold chess games and 2 bridge games at the same time....or 90 blindfold games of checkers/draughts simultaneously.

i know this is only peripherally related but i someone may be as interested in that ridiculous trivia as i am.

[ThePinkBunny]

Well, I've never tried playing fifteen tables, but considering I'll read forums while playing six or seven, where some of the tables are partially overlapping, and still browse the internet sometimes. I believe fifteen would be close to doable, if none of the tables overlapped.

[ThePinkBunny]

Actually my play isn't robotic. I do take in quite a few factors. The outcome of certain hands with some players and how they played it, does affect my future play against them.

And there's so much I based my decisions with, that it would take me forever to program a bot to do it, even if I knew how.

[ThePinkBunny]

it varies between 1-2 and 3-6 for most of them. Sometimes I'll play one of the tables as high as 20-40.

[ThePinkBunny]

I believe I am able to play a solid game on that many tables because of the practice I've had playing online. I started back when Planet Poker was the only game in town.

But I agree it is certainly not an optimal game at each table. I'll sometimes muck a hand I believe is slightly profitable if there's too much going on at the other tables.

[astroglide]

i started with deltapoker [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Legend27]

I have fun playing 6 tables at once but playing 9+ feels too much like work. If I'm playing less than 5 tables then I get bored and watch a movie or tv.

[RainDog]

Am I the only one that thinks this is a joke. 15 tables? Most sites let you play 3 tables at a time, some only 1. Where all are you playing? Party, Empire, Intertops, Paradise, Stars...ok it's possible, but that is alot of clutter. It is insane trying to find a new table when one dries up just playing 4 or 5 tables which is my norm. 15 is Hard to believe. But then if you do it and are successful...congrads. I'm jealous. I can't comfortably play 6 tables for more than an hour. 4 tables...maybe 5 I can play 4 hours before burn out which makes a nice 8 hours a day with an hour or two break. Also, I only play just short of full screen (Which leaves enough room to offset the tiles so no wrong buttons are hit). I tried increasing the resolution so 4 can fit on the screen, but squinting at all those tiny images is horrible on the eyes.

[Norm]

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squinting at all those tiny images is horrible on the eyes.

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I've changed all the cards so that the number and suit take up the full card. Has anyone else made useful modifications to make viewing easier? Please describe.

[astroglide]

i do not believe that playing 15 is possible without signifigant slowdown/timeouts/misplays. i could see 10 as being an upper limit for just about anyone while actually being able to slow all of the games down.