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Multi-table Play Tips
and Tricks |
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One of the greatest
benefits of playing
online poker is that you
are able to play as many
tables as you want to at
the same time. This
allows you to get in
significantly more hands
per hour than was ever
possible before,
increasing your overall
hourly win rate. It is
important, however, that
you find a good balance
between the number of
tables you play and your
ability to play well at
those tables. Each extra
table you play requires
a certain amount of
attention and that
degrades your overall
decision making
capability.
Multi-tabling is a
powerful resource, but
requires careful use to
attain optimal results. |
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Any time you are
dividing your focus
between multiple tables,
you profitability at
each table is going to
suffer. With
multi-tabling the key is
to find a balance
between the number of
tables you can play and
your overall hourly win
rate. Consider this
situation: you are
currently playing one
table of $.50/1 NL
Hold’em 6-max and
winning at a rate of
10bb/100. This means you
are making $10/100 hands
and probably playing
about 100 hands an hour
at 6 max so you are
making $10/hr. If you
can add another table,
but this causes your win
rate to drop to 7bb/100
since you are not able
to pay as close
attention, you are now
playing 200 hands per
hour and your overall
win rate is 14bb/hr or
$14/hr which is a 40%
increase over playing
just one table at a
time. |
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At some point in time
adding another table
will actually hurt your
hourly win rate. If you
go from six tables at
5bb/100 to eight tables
at 2bb/100 you are
dropping from 30bb/hr to
16bb/hr and should step
back to six tables. Of
course you want to put
in enough time with a
given number of tables
to get a statistically
significant sample size.
Generally you want to
have logged at least
50,000 and more ideally
100,000 hands under a
set of circumstances to
get an accurate win
rate. Your comfort level
is also important. |
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You should take into
account the amount of
fatigue that playing
many tables at a time
can induce. If you are
able to play eight
tables at a time but
only for an hour, you’re
only going to be getting
800 hands in (if playing
short handed). If you
are able to play four
tables at a time for
five hours before you
get mentally exhausted
you will be getting in
2,000 hands and not get
burned out on poker as
fast. |
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One tool that makes
multi-tabling much
easier is a Heads-Up
Display, or HUD for
short. A HUD displays
vital statistics on your
opponents directly on
the poker table. This
allows you to quickly
analyze their style of
play and adapt
accordingly. With all
this extra information
available to you, you
will be able to make
better decisions in less
time. If you are making
better, faster decisions
this gives you more
available time to make
decisions at other
tables improving your
quality of play and your
win rate. |
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Another tool that can be
extremely helpful is a
table manager. Table
managers keep your
tables organized on your
screen so that they are
in an easy to navigate
layout without having
any tables hidden
beneath another. They
are customizable so that
you can choose exactly
where you want tables to
go. Some are even able
to open new tables
themselves and perform
such operations as
buying in and
automatically posting
blinds. |
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Multi-tabling can be a
huge benefit to you as
an online poker player.
It takes a lot of trial
and error to find
exactly what system
works best for you, but
the highly hourly win
rate is worth it.
Experiment with playing
multiple tables and try
different helper
programs. In the end
your bankroll will thank
you! |
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