Dear Multi-table Extraordinaires:

My question is to people who multi-table like 16+ 9man turbo sng's, how do you stagger your tables? Or do you stagger your tables?

I play turbos I just started staggering and i play 9 at a time. i stagger them by 3 at a time, starting another 3 every time the blinds reach 25/50.

i just register and click the box for another game and let it open up 16 times and press ok till it wont let me.

I'd personally recommend playing a set all at once, so if you're playing 9, load up 9 and play them all at once and don't open more until that set of 9 (or whatever the number is) are done. This helps me since you're at the same stage of the game in all your tournaments so you have your start middle and end game all there at the same time. Certainly helps me so I don't have to be thinking ok blinds are this so I'm tight or ok late in the game shove/fold etc.

nah this just crazy. either stack em or tile em you gotta decide what you like

Personal preferance here. Just experiment with table setups when you only have a comfortable number going.

I experimented with tiling, stacking, cascading and a whole bunch of other screen setups.

My ideal setup is as follows. I have one neat stack in the top right of my screen. I have setup a table ninja function so that I can move the tables from one location to another, this helps me move tables that are on the bubble so i can get slightly better reads.

As for staggering, i found my perfect number is to load 15 tables, after 15 minutes i load another 5, and then after 15 minutes i load another 5 tables. This way i can get 25 in per 1.5 hours. I have a lot more time to make decsions that i would if i just loaded the 25 games straight.


Also, a few programs you might want to look into:-

Stack and tile (free, but requires a bit of setup to get going. This program is the best out there if you play accross multiple sites.)
Place mint(free, but requires a lot of work to get it going properly)


Just to repeat myself, it's all about finding out what setup you prefer. But it's good to get ideas from other players.

I was jsut saying how I register for them. I stack tables most of the time.

thanks.

yea i forgot to mention i just started stacking my tables too (using table ninja.) before i was tiling 6 tables. so in a little bit of an adjustment stage.

15 + 5 + 5, this is exactly why i asked. i was tiling 6 with ease.

did you work your way up to 15 first befroe you added 5 and 5, or did you get to like 6 tables, then add 3 and 3, or 5 and 5?

Well it's just my setup, but i loaded 15 games straight away. Then waited 15 minutes before adding another 5, then 15 again before another 5.

I'm in no way suggesting that you should go out and start 20+tabling. It's a long process to be able to multitabling efficiently, and i've spent the good part of a year training. I started out just playing 2 tables in my early days, then slowly added from there. I think i played around 3000 games 12 tabling before i could profitably add more tables, so it takes quite a bit of work.


You can experiment quite a few ways with this, but at this stage, i'd say your goal should be getting better and slowly adding tables, 1-2 at a time. It's also a very good idea as you do this to keep a track of how you are doing when multitabling. In HEM you can run a multitabling report that shows how you are doing when playing a certain amount of tables (PT3 may do somehting similar, i'm not entirely sure). I found that when i 15 tabled, my ROI was significantly better than when i played 18+ which is why i developed a way to keep my number of games at a time down, while still getting in volume.

Anyways, as mentioned, don't just go out and start playing 30 tables, it's something you need to work up to slowly. Keep experimenting to find your perfect amount of games. What i'd actually suggest is just add 1-2 tables and see how you are going after a few hundred games, and of course, don't feel bad about dropping tables if you feel rushed and feel like you are making mistakes.

ok thanks alot.

I just join a number of sngs I would like to play, lets say 9, I tile them, when those are over, all of them, I join 9 again. I think aiming to have 9 open at all times is bad, mainly because you will have tables open with so many different blind levels. If you join 9 and play them, at least they are close to each other when it comes to early, middle and late stages of the game.

Gday, I have nothing to add to the discussion, apart from I have only just got a handle on 5 tables at once.

But, I would like to say that the feedback from CARDSCHAT is awesome, I have learnt more about poker over the past few months, (mainly all the bits a pieces that have to come together to make a great poker player), than I have from playing the actual game, over the 12 months before that.

WTG ... CARDSCHAT, Thanks for a great site.