mult-tabling

[opie 0]

I'm winning pretty consistantly at .25/.50 limit, so I think I'm ready to try multi-tabling. I'm looking for some advice.I tried it a few days ago with 2 tables. It was OK - I broke even. But at one point I had QQ on one table and AQ on another. I raised both. The QQ table flopped rags, and I bet and got raised, so I reraised. The AQ table had flopped a Q to give me top pair. After that I'm not sure what happened! I won both hands, but I may have missed a chance to raise in the confusion.There is one player on my site I've observed who plays 4 tables at once. He's a good player and generally makes money, but lately I've noticed some patterns in his game. He mostly plays by the book - playing only good hands, raising only premium ones, only continuing aggresively after the flop with a solid hand, and folding decent hands to someone who was calling but raised after a scare card appeared (third of a suit or middle card from the flop getting paired). That generally works at this level anyway.My question is what advice do you have for multi-tabling. How do you keep track when you are in multiple big hands at once? Do you get any reads on other players? Do you use a simpler strategy than you would if you were just playing one table? How do you decide what to do when an opponent raises you late when you haven't noticed how he's been playing?Peace,Opie

[DeckMechanic 0]

A lot of the finesse of your game goes out of the window when you multitable. It's nearly impossible to have an idea of how others are playing so it's naturally a good idea to play more simply.I play 4 tables mosy of the time (usually $1-$2 Omaha H/L). Half to increase profit while staying at a lowish limit and half to stop the boredom. I'm guessing that I'm playing at 70% of my ability on each table so my overall profit should still be a fair bit better than playing 100% at one tableI'm not an expert but I think the only way you get good at multitabling is by practise. When I first started 2 tables I got myself in a panic when there were 2 hands on but then it just gets easier. You can then add another. If your screen can handle it, it makes a big difference if you can see the whole of each table.As for what to do when someone raises you and you don't know the style of play, you've just got to play the odds.Multitabling takes a bit of the fun out of poker for me but it's a good if your sole aim is to grind out some cash.

[MrConceit 0]

Yeah a lot of what the other guy said above me.If you multi-table you do have to play a lot more ABC even if not JUST that. You do tend to have to be tighter than your normal preference, unless you're already crazytight. Most people do have to work their way slowly up to 4. Some people are naturals, but I did have to slowly add 1 table at a time. I spent months on just 1, then a long time on 2, and so on up to 4 now.My advice for multitabling: Make SURE you have enough monitor space for all your tables with no overlap. This usually means 1600/1200 if you want to do 3/4 ever. That is unless you have 2 monitors, then you have a lot more leeway. Other big thing is use Playerview or GT+ which give you realtime (just about) stats on players at your tables so even though you can't "watch" them closely, you can see how loose/tight and aggressive they are. You do use a more ABC approach when multitabling as I said above. I went from a rather loose 27 vp$ip to probably 22-23 now. As far as your last question, as I said, Playerview or GT+. Both are addons to tracker and give stats out of your tracker database on people on the table itself.It's obviously possible to do without the live-stats, I did for months of multitabling, but it's SO much easier when I decided to try using Playerview.

[Alcatraz 0]

UB has a mini table view that makes it very easy to stack 4 tables w/ no overlap on a standard size monitor.

[MrConceit 0]

UB has a mini table view that makes it very easy to stack 4 tables w/ no overlap on a standard size monitor.

Very true. Some european site has a kinda built in multitabling thing too. UB and that site make monitor space not an issue, which is nice.

[Briguy 0]

Is it me? :)I mostly play ABC poker when multi-tabling (4 tables), because it still makes a consistant profit. Bluffing is possible on Stars with a scare flop (or with a crap flop that misses everyone), but you must pick good spots. I find the most difficult aspect of multitabling is remembering which tables I've been caught bluffing at and which tables I need to loosen up because of my tight image.You can become very predictable 4-tabling. If you always lead out with trips, or slowplay the nuts, you'll need to change things up occassionally. Throw in the odd check-raise with trips, or lead out with the nuts once in a while (you could even designate 15 minute "change my game" periods).