To learn game one table is a must. Need max concentration on one game to play and learn at same time.
As you get more experience and competent you can play more than one table. Reasons why to play more than one table
- Playing one table only will be come boring
- There is only so many hours in a day to play poker need to maximise time
I completely agree with Joeisi. Playing to many tables is always worse than playing to few, and when you are just starting out or even moving up, its fine to just play a single table. However one of the main advantages of
online poker is the ability to multi table, and there is no reason to completely give up on that.
After a while boredom will set in, and you might start watching movies or writing in the forum while playing, in which case you are not fully concentrating anyway. Playing more tables also allow you to reach "the long term" faster and get a better idea of your true performance.
Its largely a matter of experience, and the more experience you get, the more decisions become more or less automatic. Which also reduce the need for note taking. Notes are to some extend overvalued in my opinion.
If for instance you saw someone call down with top pair no kicker, does that actually tell you, what he will do, if you try to
bluff him another time? Not really because maybe it was the board texture or the dynamics, which made him believe, he was being bluffed, or maybe he was on tilts.
This is part of the reason, why many serious online players like to use trackers and HUDs. Because in that way you can get a more general idea about, how someone play, that is not just based on a single hand. You can look at for instance, how often they get to showdown after seeing a flop, and if that number is significantly more than 30%, then he is probably a bit of a calling station, and you should only bluff the river in the most pristine spots.