Is 4 tabling cash game a smart move?

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Say you enter 4 tables with $25 is that a good idea so you have many ways to win money and recover if you lose on one table? Thoughts or anything would be nice!
 
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4 tables as opposed to 16 tables, or 4 tables as opposed to only one table?
 
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It depends how big your BR is and what stakes you are playing? It is no good playing 4 tables if your not comfortable doing it.
Need a lot more info to give constructive advice :)
 
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It reduces variance/hour and increases the speed at which you win/lose money. If you like the sound of either of those things then yea go ahead and open 4 tables. I can 4 table HU where you have to make decisions every second so you're wasting time if you're not multitabling cash.
 
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4-6 tables is pretty standard for most serious players.
Increases your hands/hour which if your a winning player usually results in increasing your $/hr and reducing your variance over time.

1tabling wouldn't make me enough money and would result in me undergoing up to 3month break even streaks when I run bad.
 
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It's not a good idea if you suck
 
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It's not a good idea if you suck

This^ ^

You haven't given much information , but you absolutely have to be a winning player on one table first.

If you are not already making a profit playing one table, multi tabling will simply increase the rate at which you lose, and also probably the amount that you will lose due to dividing your attention
 
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Each table is a business location. Let's say you owned a gas station and it cleared $100,000 profit each year. Not bad but you want more so you open another gas station. Now you clear $180,000 profit each year. You say to yourself, "Hey, if I opened a couple more of these..."

OR

Let's say you owned a gas station and it lost $25,000 each year. You want more so you open another gas station. Now you lose $45,000 each year. You say to yourself, "Hey, if I opened a couple more of these..."


If you can run and operate one at profit then why not try expanding?
 
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You need to add tables as you feel comfortable adding them until you find your "sweet spot", that is the number of tables that makes you the highest hourly rate. If you're a 2 BB/100 winner @ 4 tables and 1.5 BB/100 winner at 8 tables, then 8 tables is more profitable, but obviously if you drop down to a breakeven player at 8 tables you're better off staying at 4. Some people will play 16, 20 or even 24+ at a breakeven win rate just because the hourly rate from the rakeback is profitable. One word of caution is that adding tables just to increase your hourly win rate will likely stunt your poker growth. At some point you'll be playing too many tables to really be paying attention to what the other players are doing and you'll just be making robotic decisions based on the cards in front of you. Your handreading skills will never improve. Also, if you are playing anything over 4 tables, I think a HUD is a must.
 
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This^ ^

You haven't given much information , but you absolutely have to be a winning player on one table first.

Meh I've a few irl friends I coach. Before I know if they're winning player or not I start them off 4tabling 2NL with a $50 free bankroll. If they're a losing player they're going to lose the money anyway so I don't think there's a need to restrict them to playing 60 hands/hour so it'll be months before they find out if they're a loser or winner.

Wouldn't recommend the same at higher stakes though although I wouldn't recommend starting higher anyway if your not a confirmed winning player.
 
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Thanks guys! I've learned that one table i get really bored and stop caring about it so more tables keeps me focused but can tilt one and end up tilting all 4
 
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Thanks guys! I've learned that one table i get really bored and stop caring about it so more tables keeps me focused but can tilt one and end up tilting all 4
I used to at first my self.Then i started stacking (on good software of course aka FTP stars)
I can't do that on Merge now but it helped me to begain with,though i gave up reads because of it so gain something loose something.
 
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Thanks guys! I've learned that one table i get really bored and stop caring about it so more tables keeps me focused but can tilt one and end up tilting all 4

So play 4, but stop as soon as feel as though you are tilting. There, easy game :)
 
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Imo tiling is much better than stacking if you are playing 4 tables
 
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+1. I can make notes and mark everyone when I have 4 tables tiled, I can't do that when I stack.

Yeah, by tiling you can watch the action in hands you aren't involved in, and make notes when you see the showdowns
 
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Thanks guys! I've learned that one table i get really bored and stop caring about it so more tables keeps me focused but can tilt one and end up tilting all 4
There's plenty you can watch and think about playing 1 table, so if you're bored, it suggests you're not fully focused on playing that table to the very best of your ability. That said, I do understand where you're coming from. I seldom play just one cash table because watching the other players to assess their styles and tendencies isn't as much fun as being involved in hands. So I trade off and play more hands by multi-tabling but only playing my A- or B game.
 
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+1. I can make notes and mark everyone when I have 4 tables tiled, I can't do that when I stack.

Yeah, by tiling you can watch the action in hands you aren't involved in, and make notes when you see the showdowns
Yeah no doubt tiling is better for reads,notes etc. The good thing about stacking is that if your prone to tilt after a few suckouts you don't see the results.It just lets you focus on making the correct decision. With that said it's prob better just to try to fix the tilt issues.
 
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One thing some people haven't mentioned is your goals in poker. Some people say that is it not good to multitable too much in the micro levels because you start playing on automatic and therefore do not think through your hands carefully which stunts your improvement. In the micros, you're not going to be making that much anyway so you might want to focus more on improving your game rather than multitabling although I do agree playing on only one table can be both boring and makes you more prone to tilt. You also encounter more situations by multi tabling so it really depends on you.
 
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There's plenty you can watch and think about playing 1 table, so if you're bored, it suggests you're not fully focused on playing that table to the very best of your ability.

Yep - level one play going on
 
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There's plenty you can watch and think about playing 1 table, so if you're bored, it suggests you're not fully focused on playing that table to the very best of your ability. That said, I do understand where you're coming from. I seldom play just one cash table because watching the other players to assess their styles and tendencies isn't as much fun as being involved in hands. So I trade off and play more hands by multi-tabling but only playing my A- or B game.

That makes a lot of sense too, sometimes i'll watch tv or browse youtube so i am loose and can play my game
 
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Yeah no doubt tiling is better for reads,notes etc. The good thing about stacking is that if your prone to tilt after a few suckouts you don't see the results.It just lets you focus on making the correct decision. With that said it's prob better just to try to fix the tilt issues.

Yeah there is definitely benefits to stacking, but more so when you start 8+ tabling where you can't really watch them all when tiled anyway.
 
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Personally i do not advise you to play more then 2 tables in same time. If u play more then 2 tables a lot more depends on luck then...because then u cant follow which player bluffing which play safe etc, and that is important part of poker play. But if u do play more then 2 tables be carefull with your bank roll...
 
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6tabling zoom is fun. It plays like 24 tables of normal.
 
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