Multitabling

I don't really understand why people multi table micro stakes, I kind of see it like this

10 tables of 5nl or 2 tables of 25nl

Explain your preference and reasoning? :icon_rend

IPlay said:

I don't really understand why people multi table micro stakes, I kind of see it like this

10 tables of 5nl or 2 tables of 25nl

Explain your preference and reasoning? :icon_rend

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There's far less variance multi-tabling five games of NL 5 than there is playing one game of NL 25. Futhermore, multi-tabling helps people with patience/hand selection because they see a lot more hands and are less likely to get bored and play garbage.

-HooDooKoo

Stakes alone has little to do with it for most people. It's more about your possible winrate at each stake. If you can beat any given stake at one table, it's generally easier and more profitable to learn to add tables to increase your hourly rate and maximize volume incentives like RB, chase promotions, bonus clearing, and/or VIP rewards, than it is to move up to a stake you can't beat or are not rolled for.

Let's say you beat 5NL for 5bb/100 but can only beat 25NL for 2bb/100 (and this is probably skewed because 25NL is way harder to beat than 5NL). Multitabling cuts into your winrate, so let's say your winrate drops to 2.5bb/100 at 10x5NL and 1.5bb/hr at 2x25NL. You play 100 hands/hour at any single table. Your hourly at 2x25NL would be 3bb/hr or .75/hr while at 10x5NL it would be 25bb/hr or 1.25/hr. And that's not even counting the volume incentives you can earn on top. And if you can beat 25NL at a similar winrate to 5NL then you obviously add more 25NL tables until you can beat 50NL at enough of a winrate to move up and repeat the cycle.

This is why people massively multitable. It also compresses your variance such that swings last for a shorter duration.

(I typed all that on my ipad and just off the top of my head, hopefully I didn't butcher the math too bad)

However your example is a bit aberrant in that the micros often suffer from brutal rake that seriously erodes your profit potential. So for the specific stakes you mentioned, it might actually be better to play 2x25NL if you can beat it at a decent winrate. I never played that low and can't recall the specifics of just how much the higher rake takes out of your winrate but I'm sure someone will chime in on that.

Player X might find that he can crush the vast pool of fish that swim at the 5NL tables but finds at 25NL there are more regs and the fish are less fishy thus he has a lower BB/100 not to mention he might not be even have an edge at 25NL at all. further more he may have 30 buy ins at 5NL but that would only equate to 6 buy ins for 25NL which isn't sufficient cussion incase of a bad run. Also by multitabling 5NL player x is able to see alot more hands per hour thus given more oppertunity to use his skill edge over the other players and seeing more tables allows for faster RB/VIP clearance.

plus some people get bored single tabling and find that they need lots of tables so that they always have playable hands at any given moment. Seems to me there is plenty of difference between mutitabling 5NL or single tabling 25NL.

Hope this helps

Thanks for the answers guys, I was figuring it was something to do with variance but you guys answered quite well. Thanks.

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also it is a skill that needs to be worked on, just because you can 2 table 25nl profitably doesn't mean you can handle the massive increase of table load by playing 10 tables of 5nl it is really cool to play a lot of tables bc you notice when you don't have reads and where they would be nice to have

rumsey182 said:

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also it is a skill that needs to be worked on, just because you can 2 table 25nl profitably doesn't mean you can handle the massive increase of table load by playing 10 tables of 5nl it is really cool to play a lot of tables bc you notice when you don't have reads and where they would be nice to have

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Got ya, I can only play 2-3 tables max atm lol Trying to increase the load casually adding one at a time here and there but wanted to know WHY I was doing it.

I am a why type of person lol, I like to know reason.

It really depends on how many tables you can handle. Playing a lot of tables can decrease your win rate but a smaller win rate over 10 tables might net you more. Id rather play more tables but 10 may be too much for me!

For beginners you would play and master your skills on one table! Once you start becoming a winning player, move along to two tables, then three and so forth. You will find that when playing 4 or 6 different hands at once, you concentrate more and more likely to make the right decisions.

It can be a very profitable tactic once your comfortable!