First off, let me say that I do not in any way advocate playing more than about 8 tables, especially in ring, if you want to improve as a poker player. I personally only 2 table ring and with good reason. I don't think I will ever go over 4 for ring. You are not thinking and adapting which is what "good poker" is about. Mass multi tabling is more about playing mechanical and unexploitable poker. The thing with SnGs is that you need to play a lot to sustain a decent hourly rate unless you can outplay people at the higher limits.
wtf
What on earth do you do if half a dozen of the tables become heads up!
I really wish I could pull this off as it would kick variance up the arse but there's no way i could physically handle it and even if i could my winrate would plummet.
Hearing people go on about how they 8+ table just makes me extremely jealous.
Half a dozen tables of heads up is nothing but if you play sets (as opposed to continuous), you generally bust in some leaving you more time for the endgame of others where you generally have less time to act due to less people. Fwiw, I 40 table DoNs so I never have to deal with heads up but I have played up to 30 table of normal SnGs.
I would not be jealous about this. Moving up limits and becoming a better poker player is far more important in ring (which, if I recall correctly is what you play).
Can you really 40 table? I thought 24 was the max.
I believe 24 is the max for ring. I have played 50 DoNs before so the max for SnGs is at least 50.
If there is some limit like 24 tables at a time, that would be per site, so one could conceivably have 24 stars tables and 24 tilt tables going.
Almost an imperative is tracking software like (PT3) Poker Tracker, or HoldEmManager (HEM).
It is humanly impossible without some sort of tracking software to do a lot of tables. I can probably handle 4 tables without my tracker, but I don't like it.
This is not necessarily true. You just play unexploitable push/fold poker (along with whatever other tendencies you can exploit at a particular limit) and you can be profitable readless (see
boku note below). I can profitably 40 table the nanos without a HUD which I do not use for anything over 24 tables because it lags too much.
well i wouldnt say impossible because im sure someone could easliy do 30+ tables of like 5nl with no problem (not that i know why they would)
You can't do more than 24 for ring unless they changed that. As stated at the begining, I wouldn't recommend anything more than about 8 for ring which requires adaptation, and thinking multi-street poker, something unnecessary to be profitable in low stakes SnGs.
i'm hearing about this guy boku87 on pokerstars. from what i've read he's doing like 50+ SNGs at once. i think what he posted was 35-40 on average. it seems this is all one site too. i've seen a video of someone doing 50 SNGs at pokerstars at once. the guy who made the video did it just to do it. this boku87 is crushing these. he's doing a $5 to $100k in a year challenge. he busted and started grinding playchips but pokerstars just gave him another $5 as they didnt want to advertise the sale of playchips. but he since turned that $5 into $9k+ in 2 weeks time.
The story behind Boku87 is that he won a prop bet that he could turn $100 into $10k in 15 days playing nothing but SnGs up to the 16s. He did this by 50+ tabling SnGs without the help of any scripts, HUDs or any programs which shows that it is possible to do. The challenge you heard about is like a follow up. Fwiw, I have done a few marathon sessions of MMT SnGs and I can tell you from personal experience that it is quite the awful experience. Furthermore, fatigue can affect your play or tilt which you may not even notice. Boku is just a machine. Do not try to emulate him imo.