How do you play so many tables at once?

Man I tried an Experiment tonight and boy was it a failure, I just kept on opening up table after table after table, after table, and I must say that eventually I hit a number of tables which I couldn't fit it all on my screen at 1 time so I then had to force myself to do it Cascaded but God almighty, that was quickly beyond me on my 17inch laptop, not only was I timing out of most tables (6max btw), I kept on seeing comments on most tables, like WTF, are you kidding me, this is bs...How do you multiple Cascading ****s do it? LOL, I mean that was a once and an only time I'll try that again, and never again...Also with these hot keys, and buttons exactly how do they work, because I mean theres no way you can't be using those when your doing 20+ tables correct? My record if your all wondering btw was 25, and **** I mean having tables popping up left and center was beyond me

lol.. just lol... 25tables is pretty danged good. I've got up to 6 tables at a time to fit on the screen bit at 9 or 8 handed tables. i imagine the more serious MTs have their computers set up with multiple screens to accommodate.

When i play my 10-15 tables of 180mans ($2.20 turbo) on PokerStars, i stack them at my laptop. I only see one table at a time. (This way i don´t see all the showdowns and beats ). I don´t use Table Ninja or something. My maximum is 22 tables, i think my laptop is too old too...

At the end of it, how many games did you find yourself itm, did you finish ahead? Good job playing 25 tables, i could never do it.

Just 3 of them, because the Majority I was Timed out..

i think most multi tablers are playing on full ring not 6max

and stacked is the way to go

i used to play 24 tables of 6 max. i was a sick man, i don't do it anymore, just 12-14 at a time, 6 max of course.

I dont see how people multi table that many tables myself. There is no possible way you can get a feel for players at a table by playing more than 2 or 3 at a time.

I played 38 tables using cascade. It's very hard. And i don't kno how to do it without Table Ninja.

But i think, that's much better to play 4 tables A-poker, than 100000 tables with ROI=0.000001%

I get past 4, I start having problems. Any tips on how to make sure you keep up?

I really respect you folks that can play this many tables at once. I find 3 is about all I can take at one time and even if Im folding most of the time, it seems all the action will happen at all 3 tables at one time and sometimes I my mind fries and I cant make decisions quick enough and end up getting folded on a table I wanted too.

Might get flamed here, but really if folks are using table Ninja in conjection with hold em manager, is that really playing poker, to me it seems one step away from having a bot just go ahead and hit the bet button for you. I dont know it jsut seems wrong on every level, but throw me some good arguments where Im wrong cause If ever get good at this game and these tools seem legit I might try them, but I hate the fact that one program is setting a guys bet and the other is tellinng them my frequencies of folding and such to make the decision to bet against me.

I play on fulltilt mostly. So I can only play 16 tables at a time. But stacking tables is the way to go. Your mostly folding so you hardly ever have to move the mouse at all. I think I got close to 20 tables(45man SNGs) going at pokerstars before but my HUD is screwed up there so I don't play there much.

wrong. think about the way you clear bonuses, rakeback and such.

When we're 5yrs. old & just learning how to ride a bicycle.... do we hop on a cafe sportbike.. or a GSXR1100 and start pulling wheelies off the stoplights? Umm... probably no.
More likely we'll start off with training wheels (or not) and a smaller bicycle (with pedals)... then eventually we'll on a 10-speed (or whatever).
We might like two wheels so much we take up riding motorcycles. So.. do we go get the biggest most powerful bike having had zero experience on any bike before? Umm.. probably no.
We're more likely buying a smaller bike first until we can confidently handle a bigger one. (we might even take a motorcycle riding course first).
It's the same for multitabling online poker. Common sense would pretty much sum it up.
BUT how do they play 20tables!?!?!
When you were 5yrs. old, you may have wondered, "Ok I've got my training wheels off but how can I pull a double back flip on a BMX bike?" (it'd likely seem impossible). Same goes for playing 20+ tables.

For 25 tables, I'd have big screens, high resolution (so everything seemed smaller) and multiple monitors.

I still probably couldn't keep up.

I used to 6-table 6-max, doing 7 on occasion, but that was it.

Nowdays I don't grind so I only play one or two tables. (When FT had the Rush promo I did three tables)

Funny, I heard and interwiev with Hevad Khan.
He said he made good money playing like 50+ lowstakes cashgames.
But then one day he tried to just 4 table, on a bit higher level.
And he never looked back.

Sure, he cleared bonuses fast when he was 50-tabling micros, but after he started playing fewer tables he became a millionaire in just a few months.

The big difference he said, was all the spot on reads he could pick up. However he said coming from 50-tabling was probably key.

I tried 10 tbles at once one time and the comp was lagging very slowly and freezing like crazy. Not goin to do that again, mostly will hav 1 to 2 tbls at a time thats my limit.

Most massive multi-tablers aren't cascading, they're stacking. I prefer to tile, and with my 3 high-res monitors I can comfortably tile 18 tables across 2 of my 3 monitors. Trying to use the 3rd monitor gave me a serious neck ache swinging my head back and forth across like 5 feet of LCD, lol, so I just keep a browser, HEM, and the lobbies up on that one.

I'm not going to flame you, and honestly I'm tired of repeatedly addressing this. Over. And. Over. Again.

Suffice to say, you are about as wrong as it gets. Please search the forums for our countless discussions of this topic, and let's not derail yet another thread on a pointless and frustrating "mult-tabling isn't poker" and "using software isn't poker" and "you can't possibly make good decisions or have reads when multi-tabling" and all the other misinformed statements new people repeatedly make on these subjects.

If it makes anyone feel better I am still playing one table at a time. I tried 4 tabling and even 6 tabling and felt like I made lots of bad decisions and folded hands I wanted to play and played hands I wanted to fold. I felt at my stage of development that it was better to focus on making the best decision on every street. I actually enjoy the easy pace of one table. Once I am profitable over a 10k stretch I'll either add tables or move up in limits (probably the latter).

I have not been able to get past two tables at a time. To play a true game. I understand the reason behind playing MT's But if you relaying on software to make some of the decisions in the game are you really leaning anything about how to play the game? I know that it takes time to bulid your bankroll up by playing less tables. But what I feel you to need to focus on is becoming better at the game over all. I know that playing more tables again increase your decisions at a higher rate which in turn gives more experience. I feel that you are losing a lot of the finer points by making those quick decisions.

Nothing wrong with this, it's the absolute correct approach to take. I don't think any of us advocate playing more tables than you're comfortable with, and it's absolutely not recommended for players just starting out. Some good players may never work their way up to it. That's fine. It's just another approach to playing poker.

I think you (and many others) misunderstand the types of software being advocated and how it's used. Software that makes decisions for you is banned by all poker sites. It's cheating. No respectable player is promoting that type of software, least of all nobody here at CC.

Tracking software and HUDs don't make any decisions. They just keep up with your data for you, and present it to you in a convenient fashion. It's up to you to make decisions, and trust me -- HUDs and stats in no way can turn a bad player into a good player. A good player is a good player, regardless. The software is simply a tool that, if utilized properly, will advance your skills faster.

Once you know the correct decision, it's irrelevant at what speed you make it. Common sense would tell us that the player who can make the correct decision in an instant is going to be more successful overall than another player who takes 30 seconds to arrive at the same correct decision. Reason being, you can make the correct decisions faster and thus play/win more hands per hour from making those correct decisions. And the only way to get really good at making good snap decisions is to be forced to, which multi-tabling does. Think of it as an intense conditioning environment for your brain, a workout that you can't get playing single tables, or live.

dmorris is right on point here, the software doesn't make decisions for you, rather it helps you make decisions faster so that you can play more tables at once, hence increasing your hourly. I may be unfairly assuming/judging here, but the players I've seen criticizing HUDs or table-management software haven't used it and don't understand it.

As for OP, the secret is just practice, no one is going to be profitable by adding 10-12 tables overnight.

Bingo, this is the point I've been making a lot lately, since it seems we've had an influx of new players, or at least new to the online poker culture, who are (understandably) out of touch here. That's fine, we all start out ignorant. The frustrating thing to me though is instead of asking or researching and making informed decisions, they make knee-jerk, misinformed statements about how software is cheating, software keeps you from learning how to play, multi-tabling isn't real poker, etc, etc. It just seriously tilts me, lol.

^^^ This. I think new players go crazy with this. First, they overrate their own ability to play even one table (as we've all done, it's a basic law of poker), and then think if Leatherass can play 20 tables then they should be able to as well.

Multi-tabling has it's pros and cons. It's not for everybody, and not everybody learns to do it as effectively or as quickly as others. It's just another level of play that none of us start out at, and some of us will never get to, whether by desire or inability. And that's okay, it's not the only way to play and be successful at poker. But don't cast aspersions or judgments on those who play the game differently from you, is the whole point I'm trying to make.

I am comfortable with 2-3 tables and get busy with 4!!!

But I will never try out more then four...

I can't grind this way, I loose to much or loose focus on important decisions. Timing out or miss-click happens then too often.

Damn, you guys must have multi-task brains...(like women... :O ...)...

I can do 12 Np, but that night I was just bored (Never Again, If I get a tendency to become bored like that again, I'll just figure a way around it)...Thx all for the feed back really, I don't use HEM or any HUDs at all btw....Anyways thx all for the feed back once again

I totally 'agree'... IF when you're referring to 'you'... you're actually referring to yourself... or to a newer player... or to one who hasn't put in alot of time studying the game. I agree that it'd be much better for a newer(ish) player to just stick to one or two tables, spending the time to get better at the game (and I also think that some try to progress to multi-tablilng before they're ready), but I KNOW that once you've put in alot of time, adding tables doesn't take much away from one's game at all. (sure I'd do better by focusing on 4mtt's at a time compared with 12-20... but that's just where I'm at). Some of the online Tourney pros actually only play 4-6 mtts at a time.... but there are others who regularly play 20 at-a-time. Whatever works.

i play 4 as then you can give them all the attention you need to give your self the best chance of reaching the money in them,unless im chasing ftp points cant see th point in playing more than 4 at a time,most ive played while getting my ftp bonus is 9 anfd thats to get my bonus quicker,,,gl in playing 25 what ever amout of tabls u need play to rock your boat lol

Not all women have multi-tasks brains. Yours truly, case in point.

I'm a one tabler. I totally enjoy getting thoroughly immersed in that one table. That being said, I'm so, so curious about whether I can get that same type of enjoyment from more than one....so I'm stretching my wings to.....two!!!

It's beyond me how anyone handles 16+ tables but I do know that if I see that someone is playing that many, it gives me an advantage in having a pretty good idea how they're likely to play. With that kind of volume, I'm sure it's relative in importance whether they make it to the money at my one table. But it matters to me, for obvious reasons.

I will do 4 ring games at once and throw in a MTT You have to learn to SLOW the game down, Disregard the beeping and flashing and just play your game. You will find there is plenty of time to make your decisions. The only issue I find is when tables are stacked and when you try to click on one another pops up in its spot and you end up mis-clicking on the wrong table

i dont reli like playing anymore than 2, because after that i have a brain ake lol

Was this 6 max or 9 max?

It was all 6max tables

i prefer sticking to one. max 2 i just don't like feeling rushed.

ouch!but shortstackstrategy was nice to multitable on fulltilt. but i never played more than 14tables.

I kept stats playing between 1 and 6 tables and my lowest win rate was with 6 tables and my highest was 4 tables. I think I have a comfort level at 4.