MULTI-TABLING TIPS

1 - Playing multiple tables at different stakes. I don’t advise doing this for most people. When you multi-table you are making more decisions with less information exponentially for every table that you add. So you want to keep it as simple as possible. When you add different stakes to the mix, you have to think about betting and calculating different amounts on different tables. That’s just one more thing that can add confusion to your play. And the whole reason to play multi-tables is to add to your profit margin by increasing your hands per hr. Confusion by making too many decisions at once defeats the whole purpose of what you are trying to accomplish. Missteps cost you money and time.

2 - Anyone that has ever multi-tabled has accidentally done this because the screens kept popping up faster than you could keep up: folded a great hand because you ran out of time. As for running out of time you only have one option and that is to gain more time. One way to accomplish having the necessary time when you need it is to constantly scroll through all your tables and make easy decisions and then move on to the next. Don’t just sit and wait for the screens to pop up for you. If you see a premium starting hand quickly check your other tables, see if there are some decisions that you can make right then, and hopefully free up some time for you to concentrate on the big hand. Another reason you are running out of time is that you are quite likely playing too many tables at once. Back down one table and see how that works out.

3 – Another issue that has plagued multi-tablers is accidentally hitting the wrong button and either folding a monster or going allin with nothing. This problem hits you right in the pockets by missing out on potential profits or wasting profits. Another ill effect of this issue is a lowered positive mental state, which can lower confidence and possibly can induce tilt. The best way to alleviate this issue is to reconfigure the way your tables appear on the screen. You can raise your resolution, thus making your tables smaller, and move them to different areas of the screen. For the guys that like their tables bigger on the screen and don’t want to raise the resolution, they can just stagger their tables so that the buttons do not line up with buttons on the other tables. The trick here is to make sure that one table’s buttons don’t overlap another table’s buttons at all. You wouldn’t want to accidentally place your bet button over an adjacent table’s fold button for instance. I know I am starting a pattern here, but once again, you might have too many tables running at once.

4 - Multi-tabling SnG’s (Sit and Go). This creates a whole new problem for time conservation. The farther you make it into the tournament, as more players drop out, the more hands you play in the same amount of time. If you get down to the final three on a few different tables, you are truly pressed for time. And obviously if you are Heads-up on more than one table your decisions will be coming exceedingly quick. So to alleviate this problem a nice trick for the multi-table SnG player is to stagger the times that you enter a game. Wait a few rounds and then throw your name on the sign-up list. It is truly up to the discretion of the player and their abilities.

5 - The biggest thing about multi-tabling is finding out just how many tables you can concentrate on and still play profitable poker. If you are multi-tabling and you start finding your decisions are being overly rushed and it is affecting your game or ability to make normal moves and plays, you need to drop one table. You will likely find that you can actually make more profits with fewer hands per hour in most cases. You really just need to find that happy median. And don’t let your ego get in the way; you are there to make money, not see how many things you can juggle at once.