I have been reading some of these very inspring threads where guys are building crazy rolls. I know this requires being a skilled player and having a decent win rate but another big aspect is volume. I see a lot of them are playing 8 and sometimes close to 20 tables at a time.

I am just wondering how someone learns to do this effectively. I have played 4 and timed out by accident before... I'm am by no means a slow person so it just seems insane that some people are playing upwards of ten tables. Is it just a matter or practice?? What steps can I take to increase my multi tabling skills to put in more volume? Any insight is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Zippy

it gets easier..

each session just add one table.. youll get used to it

gl

Multitabling is a skill. Mass tabling is just the next step of that skill. The down side is that you stunt your own learning at some point -- sure you can get to where you have the physical skills to play 16+ tables, but your attention on each will be diminished. Thus, you can play 20 tables say "I played 200K hands in the least few months", but the quality of that will be different than someone who 4 tabled those same hands.

To improve a mental discipline, you need mindful practice. You have to be present when you make the decision, and ideally you have to be able to reasses the decision away from the heat of the moment. When you get going mass tabling you've got seating scripts getting you into games (even just table ninja to reduce clicks), the decisions fly by, and you have little idea of context at each table. That's the opposite of mindful practice. You become a poker bot following your HUD and what you can remember of the action. You'll remember more than you think you could, but it is different than being aware of context and playing every hand at every table.

tl;dr to say that you won't learn as well once you move your # of tables > some number. I'd keep it to 3 or 4 and just concentrate on improving your game so you can move up.

Imho multitabling its not a skill.
You cant play 7hours per day 24 tables,even at nl2 you can crush it and then after few weeks you will burn out,its that simple.

BUT,you can play 24 tables every day without problem if you have something that few regs have,a strategy.When you have a plan for all 1326 hands pre and post you can start massing no matter the stakes.

It is my understanding that players generally mass-table micro, small and low stakes but tend to drop tables as competition gets tougher at higher limits to focus more on the details (just generalizing though).

Yes,also now there is zoom poker so you can play 6 tables high stakes its close to 20 normal tables.

as anything in life... u can learn to multi table.. it is a skill

just keep at it my friend.

gl

Some random advice:
- Automate and maximise your efficiency as much as possible: a good software setup is very important when multi-tabling. Take your time to investigate many table/hotkey/Note tracking software like TableOptimizer, PlaceMint and all the software offered in the software section of the forum.
- Add one table at a time when you're comfortable with your current amount of tables
- Learn to stack
- Work on your mental game: don't get to rattled when you time out, lose BI quickly or "feel" (incorrectly) you are being played back by the regs: as you had more tables, the occurrences of these events increase and it can be tilt inducing.
- Do session reviews more frequently to alleviate the lower quality of your decisions while playing many tables.

Good luck

^^ nice post

His suggestions on "how to" are good, so +1 there. The issue is, why would you want to become good at it? I review hands on micros LHE, and someone mentions that he's playing tons of mass tabling grinders playing freaking .10/.20 LHE. There is this thing in the poker lore where playing a lot of tables is good. If you're grinding NL200, NL400, or NL600, you might make the decision that you can maximize income by mass tabling, rather than trying to move up and beat the super sick pros. There are big rakeback rewards for this. If you're a micros player, the rewards aren't there (or aren't worth enough). You probably aren't a good enough player to give up edge by spreading yourself out. You will actually slow your growth, by spending a lot of times mashing buttons.

I say this as someone who hit supernova mass tabling the midstakes LHE games. I've done it. Having done it, I wouldn't recommend it. At the time, hitting the milestone and getting paid cash were worth it. However, nobody is handing out $3k or $5k bonuses for learning to mass grind NL10 or NL25 or whatever. The way to get good at poker is to learn to make good decisions based on all information available. By stacking (and when I mass tabled, I stacked and liked it), you miss out on tons of stuff. Instead of learning about it, you're passing up on that edge and making up for some of the lost $ in volume. Since the $ in the micros are so small compared to small and mid-stakes, the incentive to mass table in the micros is fools gold.

Short answer, learn this stuff much later.

^ +1

Good responses guys! Particularly Donkey an Doug! I agree for sure with that you guys are saying. I will continue to play a lower number of tables and gradually increase as my decision making skills become more routine. I do only play micro right now so you're definitely right in saying it is best for me to really focus on the hands I play and actually learn as I play. I dont only want to make money. I want to be a good poker player. Currently playing 3-4 tables with one being zoom/ rush or whatever it is called on the different sites