nice post belok. Question. How do you know if you've timed out at a table and it has you sitting out or if you've been moved off a table for inactivity and its just sitting there open on your screen but never popping up?

good job belok. i would also suggest playing 16 tables tiled with minimal overlap if you have 1600x1200 resolution. granted ive been playing for a while now, but on a 20" moniter 16 is seriously not a problem to follow all action.

The table that pops up for action should stay until you acually click on it, so no other table should pop up.

Belok, you stack your tables which part of monitor? I mean bottom left or top right or? And why?

And you can keep eye on IHH and lobby if your tables are stacked and you are using only one monitor. But if you miss that your table is breaking up or you time-out then it's god damn hard to find table where you timed-out or which table breaked up.

I stack on the bottom right

I tried stacking a few years ago and I remember I would just get into a fold fold fold fold clicking and then click fold when I got AA. That alone is enough reason for me to stick to cascaded as it forces me to look at the hand while moving my mouse for like .1 seconds.

very nice post belok. ty

Thanks for the post. Especially look forward to the AHK info.

i use one hand on the keyboard for my AHKs... just not a fan of the mouse

Well I keep my alert sounds on, so if you have a table that is about to be inactive, or if you are running behind, stars lets you know. And when you get sat-out on a table, that table pops up, so you can usually sit-in, or at least see the table name so you can get to it.

Plus, if you keep an eye on your PT import text, it tells you how many files it is reading from - which lets you know how many tables you are actually active on.

If you check out the same post on my blog, it has screen shot examples of each style. The stack screen shot shows almost exactly how I play. Start bar on the left with all table names, tables right next to it.

Timing out can be a big pain. God forbid you have to go to the bathroom. At least while tiling I could buy myself a good 20 seconds. Stack = no breaks.

I've folded AA and KK a couple times stacking...I've also done it tiling, but there is a bit more risk while stacking. Another slight drawback.

It isn't that the table pops up and you misclick, its just when you have 8 tables needing action and timing down, you get 6 rag folds in a row, and then AA shows up, occasionally you cant get out of fold-mode fast enough.

And then you spend the 4 seconds you just saved slapping yourself in the face.

Thanks for this post. I was just about to buy a pair of 24" monitors so I could tile up to 24 tables. (probably still will) But I might have to give the stacking thing a go again. I never really liked stacking even 4 tables when I first started but the Stars software has improved a lot since then. Cascading is just too annoying visually. I always think Im missing something. The idea of tiling 24 tables was a bit hard to fathom being able to keep up with all of the mouse and head movement without getting fatigued pretty quick.

sorry if u answered this but do you use a HUD when you play?

If you didnt like missing things with a cascade, a stack probably would not work out too well. You miss a LOT of information you're used to having while you tile. It is information that doesnt matter -that- much...like the results of all-ins, or action you are not a part of. But it takes quite a while to get used to not being able to see whether or not your AA held until 1 minute later when you notice that table is down to the minimum buyin.