Do you really win more multi tabling?

[kinboshi]

One benefit I find when playing 3 tables (my 'optimum' level recently), is that I am less likely to be side-tracked by this and other forums (yes, Tikay - there are others out there too!); or by the TV, replying to emails, etc.

If I'm playing 3 cash tables, I find it extremely useful to multi-table, as I can find a good profitable table, and if the other tables aren't as good I can close them and look for others whilst still bringing in a profit on the good table(s) I'm playing on.  Also, if the players that make these profitable tables leave and the whole balance of the table changes, then I've usually found another decent table and I don't feel I have to hang around too long on a table that has 'dried up'.

 

[TightPaulFolds]

I play 2-3 tables at once online, HU and SnG sometimes a MTT on top. I play much better when playing more than one because I seem to suffer from 'action boredom', if I'm at one MTT for example there are only so many hands you can fold before you want to make a move out of boredom. I would have to say that most money I make in SnGs does not come from good reads or outplaying good players or bullying all the time, but from outlasting what are overall very poor players. I play 6 seater SnG with slow blind ramps and if some unfortunate disconnects at the start you often find them coming about 3rd. People almost always put too much weight into 'Attack' over 'survive'.
The only problem comes in MTTs late stages when reads and moves are more important, you're costing yourself hundreds there if you can't dedicate your focus. Noting individual differences in opponents can make all the difference.
So, this being so, I find playing 4x SnG and letting fish give you their chips for a while is best for me.
Live multitabling, I find this much more difficult but good for overall stamina...Current record is 12, but I did break my toe that time.

[tantrum]

Live multitabling, I find this much more difficult but good for overall stamina...Current record is 12, but I did break my toe that time.

lol

[The Baron]

The answer is simple, Sark. Anyone would play better if concentrating on ONE table at a time.

But SOME can win more by playing slightly worse but on multi-tables & thus winning, in pure monetary terms, more cash. But eventually something called the law of diminishing returns kicks in. It comes in at different stages for different peoole, but it probably optimises at between 1 & 2 tables. Many will disagree, that's called ego, or when claiming how many tables they can efficeintly play, "who's got the biggest dick". Same as those who say "I drink 10 pints last night, some ejit will always say they drunk 12.

Spot on.

It's different strokes for different folks (and different games) IMO though. The LDMR may well optimise between 1 & 2 tables for some but equally may be between 3 & 4 for others. Especially with cash games. Even more so with say limit cash games.

The reverse of this is also possible. A skilled multi tabler can easily get bored, frustrated, impatient, etc, by not playing enough for their attention span. The LDMU also comes into play here.

In some cases it is clearly ego with multi tabling but in others it could just be good common sense to multi table more than 1 or 2 at once.

I dont think estimating where the LDMR optimises is really possible unless it's over a huge sample.

[Sark79]

I will stick with my one $0.25/0.50 NL table for now  . Perhaps in the future I may add another

[tantrum]

Sark, one thing I would like to tell you---- as an old grandma--- take your time and do your own way:)

[thetank]

My Grandma told me to play as many table as I could

Regards

JJ

[tantrum]

but you are tank not sark:)

[Eck]

She taught me to suck eggs

[thetank]

In that post, I was JJ

[Sark79]

lol,  tank has a much larger brain than me  . He can play 4 tables and take part in blonde forum quizzes(sp?) at the same time like a few weeks back. I bet he can eat toast as well while doing both these things.  Dale can do all this while playing 12 though, so his brain capacity may be higher still, however he didn't do the quiz as far as I can remember.  It is a draw

[tantrum]

In that post, I was JJ

 

Hey it is late and I am old ----- give me a break

[JungleCat03]

I play poker partly as a mental workout, and I really like to sometimes have 4 different tables on the go with different forms of poker. When I do it it will usually  consist of PL omaha.8 mtt, PL om/8 cash, limit om.8 cash, and NL HE MTT, sometimes with stts and other variations in there.

I find this gives me a really good mental workout, is frenetically enjoyable and helps to push back the degeneration of my brain caused by alcohol. It ups my hourly wn rate when I'm on the ball and helps my brain for when I'm playing fewer tables by forcing me to assess situations quicker, giving me more breathing space. When I'm really on my game, I'll run the four tables, whilst playing pro evolution soccer, cooking my dinner and making prank calls to a mate, using the arnold schwarzenegger (sic. as a parrot everytime i try and spell that) soundboard.

(http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/07/arnoldsm.html. I don't condone misuse of this, but if you do any good ones, make sure u record them for posterity)


People who play 20 tables are quite clearly insane but it is the kind of insanity I aspire to.

[TightPaulFolds]

I play poker partly as a mental workout, and I really like to sometimes have 4 different tables on the go with different forms of poker. When I do it it will usually  consist of PL omaha.8 mtt, PL om/8 cash, limit om.8 cash, and NL HE MTT, sometimes with stts and other variations in there.

I find this gives me a really good mental workout, is frenetically enjoyable and helps to push back the degeneration of my brain caused by alcohol. It ups my hourly wn rate when I'm on the ball and helps my brain for when I'm playing fewer tables by forcing me to assess situations quicker, giving me more breathing space. When I'm really on my game, I'll run the four tables, whilst playing pro evolution soccer, cooking my dinner and making prank calls to a mate, using the arnold schwarzenegger (sic. as a parrot everytime i try and spell that) soundboard.

(http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/07/arnoldsm.html. I don't condone misuse of this, but if you do any good ones, make sure u record them for posterity)


People who play 20 tables are quite clearly insane but it is the kind of insanity I aspire to.

One game of OH does my head in at the moment
The soundboards/prank calls are priceless. Current favourites are the 'Shaggy' call to Fortnum & Mason, and the 'double prank call' where they get the chinese takeaway to repeat back their order, while hooking them up to another chinese takeaway. I'll try dig them up. Oh, and try 'Kerpal: your daughter shoot my dog'.

[TightPaulFolds]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7cZiTYsMMY

Nothing to do with multitabling, sorry for going OT

Oh yeah, and this (gets me in tears) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj2oXMdZ4sk

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/takeaway.html