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February 21, 2013
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Hello and thanks for great site.
Curious how the pros think about their management of tables during multi-table online grind. How many tables on how many screens, what resolution? Do you vary, for example cut down number of tables after running bad, analysing more in depth, trying new things? How do decide how to fill up or cut the number of tables? deepness, buyins levels i guess are factors. Do you know beforehand exactly what to play and register well in advance? How much do you check main and tournament lobbys? Are you trying to register in breaks mostly? Not sure what the current legal situation are like for the americans as I guess thats a majory of you, but what clients do you use? Do you skip some clients because of bad layout making multi-tabling more troublesome? As a european i suspect i waste some focus and energy just choosing what to play, so much to choose from. Do you not mind playing a number of tables that causes real problems knowing much except your own hands in the beginning, just nitting in volume early levels?
please share you reflections, thanks again / D
i have a dual-screen set up, generally trying to keep HEM configuration on one side and then my tables on another. often both screens have tables especially on a sunday. i have played up to 18 tables at once but feel my best focus is one 6-10.
in terms of game/tournament selection, i often just draw up a schedule the night before. ill bring up all the lobbies i want to play and then register them all when im ready the next morning. on stars i dont ever check tournament lobbies, because the “info” tab will tell you how close you are to the bubble (places paid, i think is the stat). i think checking lobbies frequently for average stack and places paid is incredibly overrated. i dont remember who said it but i once read a post that said im playing my best when i am treating my table as a never-ending sit n go and focusing only on whats going on at my table (the only factor in an MTT you can control).
the only sites i ever wont play on a full grind would be sites like Bovada that dont have standard syncronized breaks. also bovadas software is terrible at reminding you its your turn and i used to miss a lot of hands. pretty much every other site i play however has the breaks and “okay” software. hope this helps
dyrer said:
Hello and thanks for great site.
Curious how the pros think about their management of tables during multi-table online grind. How many tables on how many screens, what resolution? Do you vary, for example cut down number of tables after running bad, analysing more in depth, trying new things? How do decide how to fill up or cut the number of tables? deepness, buyins levels i guess are factors. Do you know beforehand exactly what to play and register well in advance? How much do you check main and tournament lobbys? Are you trying to register in breaks mostly? Not sure what the current legal situation are like for the americans as I guess thats a majory of you, but what clients do you use? Do you skip some clients because of bad layout making multi-tabling more troublesome? As a european i suspect i waste some focus and energy just choosing what to play, so much to choose from. Do you not mind playing a number of tables that causes real problems knowing much except your own hands in the beginning, just nitting in volume early levels?
please share you reflections, thanks again /
I prefer to be 6-8 tabling as my roi (and any player's)is much higher as the quality of play increases. I have a dual screne set up with 2 28 inchers. I play up to 20 tables, but again I try to keep it closer to 10. I register as I go usually playing everything 20$ and up as it is very tough for americans to get the necesesary volume needed to maximize profit.
Lock is roughly 70% of play and the other 30% is merge and Bovada. Prefer to be mass tabling early as Ill usually go into auto-pilot(which isnt good) during the pre ante stages of mtts. When I do get deep, i 100% will unregister in order to focus all my attention on the table which matters the most. I find myself to be very successful when 1 tabling late in mtts. The HUD can only take me so far and paying close attention to every lil detail is very important. For instance, nice to know if a sicko just took a sick beat and might go on monkey tilt. Happens all the time, so don't underestimate the value in playing less tables. ROI goes way up.
Hope this helps!
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dyrer said:
Hello and thanks for great site.
Curious how the pros think about their management of tables during multi-table online grind. How many tables on how many screens, what resolution? Do you vary, for example cut down number of tables after running bad, analysing more in depth, trying new things? How do decide how to fill up or cut the number of tables? deepness, buyins levels i guess are factors. Do you know beforehand exactly what to play and register well in advance? How much do you check main and tournament lobbys? Are you trying to register in breaks mostly? Not sure what the current legal situation are like for the americans as I guess thats a majory of you, but what clients do you use? Do you skip some clients because of bad layout making multi-tabling more troublesome? As a european i suspect i waste some focus and energy just choosing what to play, so much to choose from. Do you not mind playing a number of tables that causes real problems knowing much except your own hands in the beginning, just nitting in volume early levels?
please share you reflections, thanks again / D
I have two 23″ monitors and usually play 12 or so tables. On Sundays I've gotten up to 30 tables before but that's far from optimal. Usually I only use one of my monitors for tables because it's too easy to lose focus looking back and forth between two monitors.
From a US perspective…
Revolution software isn't great but it's good enough. Merge software is awesome in comparison. Both are OK for mass tabling.
Winning Poker Network (Black Chip/ACR) software is laughably bad, so even though there's a lot of decent tourneys available on there, I usually only play the bigger ones. Trying to jerk around with their terrible software is too distracting. I definitely wouldn't recommend playing there if you've got other options. (Unfortunately in the US it's pretty much mandatory to play there, and they know it, so they just lie about upcoming software upgrades knowing people don't have other options.)
Bovada designed their software to be difficult to mass-table, so I let them have their way and don't play very much on there either.
It's definitely best to focus on your deep runs and unreg others if possible.
As far as choosing tourneys to play, being backed makes it easier because I have a list of tournaments that are available to me. I play pretty much everything I can fit. This probably doesn't help my ROI though.
Checking tournament lobbies…I try to keep track of bubbles but that's about it.
A HUD is essential if you're playing high volume IMO.
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