Hey guys, I've been reading a lot about people multitabling at 3/6 at making somewhere around $50 per hour. I think that this is a pretty feasable statistic, but I was wondering if you think that it is possible to still evolve as a player and play 3-4 hands at one time. Personally, I've only briefly tried multitabling, and I've found it to be incredibly hard to make the correct decision on every hand that I'm playing. To those who do play: Do you believe you are getting better while you are multitabling?

Also I wonder if this multitabling is starting to become detrimental to the "art" of poker. Rather than rely on situations where feel becomes part of poker, it seems that multitabling would have to rely on purely statistics(pot odds and such)? What do you guys think about this?

You're thinking about it too much.

How long have you been playing exactly? Are you just trying to multitable to emulate those statistics? NL or Limit?

I don't know too much about your background, so I can't assume anything, but it sounds like you're just thinking too much.

I've only been playing for two years, starting out with just $33 in bonuses, playing 2.50 tourneys and i've worked up to a bank roll for 50NL, but someitmes i'll play 100NL. My limit skills are pathetic as of right now, but i'm working on them and learning the other games as well. Since the two years I've been playing, I really have taken up the game with a passion. I don't have the time or the bankroll to play as much as I want to, but I'm doing my best to work my way up. I probably am thinking about it too much, but i was just wondering what everyone else thought

I never 1-table online. I don't have the patience for it. The only exception is when I get deep in an MTT. Couple things to keep in mind. The more tables you play, the more your winrate goes down. Also, I think you're probably right that your growth as a player can be inhibited by playing too many tables at once. The trick is to find a comfortable number.

I was right. You're having to think too much about it.

Keep working on the game seriously.

Start building yourself up gradually. Don't just start off playing 1 table and decide you're going to multitable 3-4 tables successfully.

Get the fundamentals of LHE and even NLHE (If you plan on Multitabling NLHE) down. Read through both those sections of Super/System2. Read Sklansky's stuff.

Once you get the fundamentals down, you'll be able to play multiple tables without having to fully think through every decision, because most of it will stem from the fundamentals, which will then come as second nature.

Pokertracker too. And frequent strat forums when you run into hands you think you played bad, or hands you're just curious about how everyone else would play it.

If your comfortable I don't see any reason not to multi table. Your basically losing money if your not doing so. I'm always playing 4, sometimes 5 tables. No less. I think it helps my game because I can play more patiently. If I play 1 or 2 tables I find myself playing questionable hands from early position because it's the best I've seen in a while, which obviously isn't a smart idea.

I would assume it does hamper my growth a bit because I often find myself auto piloting, but when I am paying attention the more hands gives more expericence which can't be bad.

get yourself a monitor that allows you to play with no overlap, Limit it much easier to multitable than no limit.

Something to think about.