Multitabling
It's been a long time since my last post, but I guess I just haven't felt writing. Plus I've been busy with school stuff, which is priority #1 at this point. Then my free time goes towards actually playing poker, then to blogging about poker.
After my tourney win about a month ago I didn't play for a couple of weeks. After that I decided to attack cash games from an entirely new angle -- multitabling like a muthafucker. I've heard for a long time about people being able to play 6, 8, 10, 12 or even more tables at a time and I wanted to see how proficient I could become at this sort of thing. Obviously I was going to move down from my regular games while trying this, so I went ahead and put $1000 into my full tilt account. The plan was to play as many tables as I reasonable could starting at $50NL full ring, then move up when I had 20 buyins for the next level. For the first time I am also using PAHUD for no limit. I had always used it for limit and I didn't think it would be very useful for no limit. I decided to use it for multitabling since it's quite difficult to get a strong sense of how loose/tight people are when you have so many tables going and can't really give much attention to any individual player.
I played 8 tables the entire 10,000 hands (24 hours at the tables) it took me to get my "bankroll" to $2K. I then moved up to $100NL and decided to get full tilt to increase my table limit to 12 because I was getting a little bored only playing 8. I have tried to play 12 tables, but it really starts to get too hectic having more than 11 going at once. Yes, 11 is the magic number of the number of tables I can play at once. Not 10, not 12, 11.
I have played about 15,000 hands at $100NL and I am less than 1 stack short of moving up to $200NL. I am playing well in these games and making pretty sick hourly wage with them (you can do the math yourself if you want to know the rate). Let me just put it this way -- at $100NL I am making about $8.50 an hour in rakeback alone (none of which, by the way, has hit my account yet). I am pretty pumped about this new way of playing. Playing this many tables keeps me playing "patient", tight, and aggressive. I've always been pretty good about discipline in poker, but never like this. I can't really get out of line because I have too much else going on.
Also it is nice because I can play for about 2 hours a night (pretty much all I have time for) and log about 1000 hands. This lets me continue to feel like I am getting a lot of experience while not really playing that much. I plan to play a lot more in February and beyond, but not much this month due to a major hurdle coming up for school.
One more thing: I've heard of scripts that do various menial tasks like table organization/opening and betting the pot with a simple button click. These could help me add a couple more tables, but probably not too much more. At a certain point it just becomes too difficult to remember the action, study anything about your opponents, and not have like 4 hands at once going. I may look into these in the coming weeks/months, but for now playing 10-11 tables is suiting me fine.
If anything drastically changes in my results I will post it, but other than that don't expect another update for a couple more weeks.
After my tourney win about a month ago I didn't play for a couple of weeks. After that I decided to attack cash games from an entirely new angle -- multitabling like a muthafucker. I've heard for a long time about people being able to play 6, 8, 10, 12 or even more tables at a time and I wanted to see how proficient I could become at this sort of thing. Obviously I was going to move down from my regular games while trying this, so I went ahead and put $1000 into my full tilt account. The plan was to play as many tables as I reasonable could starting at $50NL full ring, then move up when I had 20 buyins for the next level. For the first time I am also using PAHUD for no limit. I had always used it for limit and I didn't think it would be very useful for no limit. I decided to use it for multitabling since it's quite difficult to get a strong sense of how loose/tight people are when you have so many tables going and can't really give much attention to any individual player.
I played 8 tables the entire 10,000 hands (24 hours at the tables) it took me to get my "bankroll" to $2K. I then moved up to $100NL and decided to get full tilt to increase my table limit to 12 because I was getting a little bored only playing 8. I have tried to play 12 tables, but it really starts to get too hectic having more than 11 going at once. Yes, 11 is the magic number of the number of tables I can play at once. Not 10, not 12, 11.
I have played about 15,000 hands at $100NL and I am less than 1 stack short of moving up to $200NL. I am playing well in these games and making pretty sick hourly wage with them (you can do the math yourself if you want to know the rate). Let me just put it this way -- at $100NL I am making about $8.50 an hour in rakeback alone (none of which, by the way, has hit my account yet). I am pretty pumped about this new way of playing. Playing this many tables keeps me playing "patient", tight, and aggressive. I've always been pretty good about discipline in poker, but never like this. I can't really get out of line because I have too much else going on.
Also it is nice because I can play for about 2 hours a night (pretty much all I have time for) and log about 1000 hands. This lets me continue to feel like I am getting a lot of experience while not really playing that much. I plan to play a lot more in February and beyond, but not much this month due to a major hurdle coming up for school.
One more thing: I've heard of scripts that do various menial tasks like table organization/opening and betting the pot with a simple button click. These could help me add a couple more tables, but probably not too much more. At a certain point it just becomes too difficult to remember the action, study anything about your opponents, and not have like 4 hands at once going. I may look into these in the coming weeks/months, but for now playing 10-11 tables is suiting me fine.
If anything drastically changes in my results I will post it, but other than that don't expect another update for a couple more weeks.
posted by the_real_zano at 2:21 AM
1 Comments:
yes, but how much did you lose?? jk jk
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