So I've yet to master the art of playing 2 games at once.

Most nights this past week I've had (for example) a HORSE freeroll & a private N/L freeroll playing at the same time, under my same FullTilt account name. So I make one screen smaller than the other and just go back and forth when it blinks letting me know it's my turn to play. All that happens is the one game I was playing first and doing great in (before the 2nd game started), starts going down immediately, and I end up losing both. The other night I went from 7th place in a HORSE tourney and ended up only winning 19 cents. I hear there's pro's that can play like 5-7 tables at once. Wow.

Advice: Concentrate ONLY on the one you're doing well in...even if it's a 7500 person freeroll...& pass up on the opportunity for a 50 to 100 person private freeroll once it starts (at the same time as my big freeroll game)? My thinking has always been that placing in the money in the smaller private freerolls is a piece of cake...all-be-it smaller money, but it adds up over time. So I can't convince myself not to play both at once. Advice?

Thanks in advance.

jackdonkey1717 said:

I hear there's pro's that can play like 5-7 tables at once. Wow.

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I think 5-7 tables is pretty common for a lot of players. Some professionals go up to +20 pretty easily i believe.

How long have you been playing poker? Sounds to me like you might just need more experience. After playing tons of hands from different positions, different stakes, & in different situations deciding what to do in a certain hand in most cases becomes second nature. When you can accomplish this multi-tabling becomes million times easier to do in my opinion.

Darkphoenix5000 said:

I think 5-7 tables is pretty common for a lot of players. Some professionals go up to +20 pretty easily i believe.

How long have you been playing poker? Sounds to me like you might just need more experience. After playing tons of hands from different positions, different stakes, & in different situations deciding what to do in a certain hand in most cases becomes second nature. When you can accomplish this multi-tabling becomes million times easier to do in my opinion.

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I couldn't have said it any better myself. I haven't played poker in maybe 6 months or longer and within a week I was 4 tabling like nothing. My daughter walks up to my computer and goes Dad how can you keep up with 4 games at one time? I said to her 4 isn't alot I used to do 8-10 at a time.

I will add this though, play as many tables as you feel comfortable playing. If it's just 1, don't be discouraged. Just play your best game and don't worry how many tables others can play.

It might not help that you were trying to play 2 completely different games. A huge HORSE freeroll and a small NLHE freeroll are 2 different animals. The majority of the time people multi tabling are playing the same game on each table, making it much easier. And then what they^ said.

yes it is hard to play stud in mix with other games in stud you must look other players cards so you need more to pay attention on that game then in holdem

I do heads up sit and go and it hard to play two table at once
I can do it with the 9 handed sit and gos but when it time for the end game my head start to spin.

still practice on 2 to 3 table per game

Yeah heads up playing 1-3 is probably standard due to the amount of awareness you need in them, but playing big mtt's theres no reason why playing two tables should be a problem, i know when i first started playing cash games i would struggle to playing a few at once, but now im comfortable playing 10 and theres many people in this forum who can easily cope with 16+ tables, So just keep practising and focus on the main things if ure in a few tournaments at once, like position, opponents stacks and it really shouldnt be hard to build it uptoo 4 or so tables good luck

OP. get a bigger monitor so you can have both games up in ful size at teh same time. You'll be much more able to play two.

That said, like everyone else says, it's a bit harder to do with mixed games, but the better you are as a player the easier it is to multi.

Personally, I play the best with 2 max, but can easily play 4.

I've been playing for about 3 years now, and I'm just now starting to get pretty good. But I find out something new that helps me out every day. The largest problem I have to overcome is 70% of the games I play in I could guarantee (even if blinding out) to finish in the money. But I just can't get myself to do it. Always trying to go for the win.

Darkphoenix5000 said:

I think 5-7 tables is pretty common for a lot of players. Some professionals go up to +20 pretty easily i believe.

How long have you been playing poker? Sounds to me like you might just need more experience. After playing tons of hands from different positions, different stakes, & in different situations deciding what to do in a certain hand in most cases becomes second nature. When you can accomplish this multi-tabling becomes million times easier to do in my opinion.

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It will take time to get used to playing multiple tables at a time, but it will help if you are playing the same game on both tables. If you play mixed games it will be more difficult, but I usually just stick to NLHE 6-max cash games and can effectivly play 9 tables at a time. It will take some practice and getting used to, but the most important thing I can think of is to play the same game, and try not to play mixed games with multiple tables if thats what is troubling for you.

Patience and Practice.
Keep adding tables one at a time.

jackdonkey1717 said:

I've been playing for about 3 years now, and I'm just now starting to get pretty good. But I find out something new that helps me out every day. The largest problem I have to overcome is 70% of the games I play in I could guarantee (even if blinding out) to finish in the money. But I just can't get myself to do it. Always trying to go for the win.

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I'm sorry, but you will never be finishing 70% of your games in the money. Over the long run it just won't happen. Sure, you may finish 7 out of 10 ITM, but 700/1000 would never happen. Don't overestimate your ability.

But going for the win is the right move,,, making a deep run is much better then constantly min-cashing.

Just wait until you get the experience. A couple of tips when you start multi-tabling would be:
- don't mix two types of games,
- don't mix different sites as some of them will give you a hard time finding the other sites' table
- if you are getting to late in a tourney concentrate on that and close down others
- don't mix different numbers of players. If a cash table gets depleted of players close that down because it will bling all the time and 5-handed plays much different than 9-handed.

When I started playing two tables and tried 3 tables I was thinking woa this will NEVER work, but now I can play a good deal more.

i remember when i first started playing poker...before i joined CC...i would deposit 50 or 100 bucks....and proceed to take at least 25 if not my entire BR to one table....and sit...and i'd get bored...and play shitty hands.....

than i joined CC....read about grinding a BR....opened 2 tables...and so forth...now i usually play 6 tables...but i like 4 best on my laptop so that i can run my HEM HUD while i play...even though its still pretty hard to read on a 15" laptop screen

you'll get there...experience