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Multi-tabling, ROIs and hourly rates

theginger45

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February 17, 2012 - 6:32 am

I've been grinding turbo 180s and MTTs for a while now and the number of tables I play has fluctuated a lot. On my current PC I can play up to 30-32 tables without everything starting to lag, but at that point I'm usually really struggling to spend more than a second or two on any decision, so I feel like I'm missing a lot of spots. However, playing that many tables has allowed me to get in an extra 40-50 games in a day, which over a month would equate to around an extra 1k games.

My question is whether there's a way to really work out your ROI and hourly to the extent that it's possible to know whether you're playing the right amount of tables? I have a suspicion that optimal tables for me is somewhere between 18 and 24, but I feel like if I went for the lower end of that I'd be cutting a few hundred games off my monthly volume which could hurt me. What's more beneficial in the long run, putting in the hours and volume in order to conquer the swings, or maximising your ROI and improving your game? I think I have a little bit of an obsession with volume, which might be the result of running bad for a few months. Perhaps cutting down to around 20 would be beneficial if I can still get in 200 games/day.

Funnnuraba

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February 17, 2012 - 8:02 am

Depends on what your priorities are.

If your goal is to improve your game and move on to higher stakes I would strongly suggest cutting down on the tables and also take 1 or 2 days a week to analyse your game. Playing fewer tables will not only strongly increase your winrate, but will also allow you make better decisions and LEARN from them, which is necessary if you want to become a better winning player and move on to higher stakes.

If on the other hand you are so adept at multi-tabling and you do not miss spots you can certainly increase your hourly rate by playing many tables, but you are paying the price in lowering your ROI and missingthe chance to improve. If you are missing spots you should definitely play fewer tables!.

running0uts

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February 17, 2012 - 9:00 am

If you are talking purely about overall income then you can work it out. Calculate your average profit per hour when 30 tabling and compare it to average profit per hour when 20 tabling. Whichever number is higher is more profitable for you. The difficulty in doing this is having a big enough sample size at each to make the result meaningful. In an ideal world you would have thousands of tournaments played at varying levels of multitabling, where your skill level was the same for each period. In reality this is very unlikely and so you are going to have to estimate a bit.

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