How many tables should i play?

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nhellomoto

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HI

I started playing poker again yesterday, I am playing on pokerstars 0.25/0.50 blinds starting with $50BI on each table. atm i am playing 4 tables at once, i have played for 7 hours so far and have played 2167 hands. I am up $312 so far. I would like your opinion and if you think i should stay at 4 tables or start to play more?

Any advice is greatly appreciated
 
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I'd stay with 4 until I have more hands to assess the level of play, but the decision includes a subjective element. If you're confident you're a winning player at this level, even based on your small sample size, I don't see a huge problem adding tables one at a time. Just be sure your rational mind makes the decision, not your ego.
 
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Arjonius is correct, but I'll give you a more simple answer. Wait until you've played 10k hands.

Also, consider the idea of climbing stakes rather than tables...I think this helps you grow more as a player. Massive multi-tabling in itself is a tremendous skill that can make you relatively low variance money online, but doesn't translate fully to live high buy-in MTTs or high stakes cash games where you get notoriety and sponsorship.

I suppose it depends on what your personality is. Are you more of a nanonoko or a durrrr. For you to decide. Good luck. I personally can't deal with more than 6...just do to pure size of the table.
 
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with waiting until you've played 10K hands. In my case though, I had at least one level where I played less than 1K. What happened was that it was very clear very quickly that I was solidly +EV with the same game I was already playing. Even some of the players were the same, and not just the better ones.

Since I'm conservative with my BRM, I already had enough to play the next level up. If I'd found that level to be -EV for me, I'd have dropped back down, but it turned out to be marginally profitable. So I stayed there quite a while longer while making the adjustments needed to be solidly profitable and to move up again.
 
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