I’m an amateur/recreational small stakes headsup hyper player and I’m trying to learn 2 tabling. So far I’ve been extremely unsuccessful at this.

My current 2 tabling skills can be well illustrated with this screenshot



This is a super standard play by me when I’m 2 tabling.

My common mistakes are:
misreading boards
thinking I’m on SB when villain limps
not being able to handread at both tables (usually I end up handreading at one and random clicking at the other table)

The above screenshot is from a vid I sent to a highstakes player who told me I’m playing too fast and should play as slowly as possible.

2 tabling I can beat 7s with great effort, but at 15s I’m certainly losing. That is despite my lifetime expected ROI at 15s is 3.5% (without 2 tabling sessions that would have been a lot higher). I know that everyone on 2+2 has a 7% ROI at 15s but even 2% is good and many players who are much worse at 1 tabling can successfully 2 table (and therefore can bumhunt at higher stakes), while I can’t. I don’t know what might be the reason. I have no problems with multi tasking in real life. The highstakes player told me it must be a mental block. Over the last 2 years I probably spent 300+ hours trying to learn 2 tabling, so most likely I will never learn it but I will try for the last time. If I fail I will just quit poker, because 1 tabling low stakes makes no sense.



My previous thread was about playing regs (I was sitting regs, not waiting for any fishes) at $30-60s but I stopped it because I wasn’t running great.




Basically the same player pool but I ran much worse at higher stakes than at lower stakes vs same players. Also I 2 tabled a decent amount (30%?) which wasn’t very smart considering my 2 tabling “skills” and that ruined my EVs.

For starters I will keep playing 7s because that’s the highest buyin I can beat 2 tabling. My results so far:



I have a lowstakes licence of bumhuntstrator, so I will use this to play 5 min sessions at the beginning and then if I play 5 ok sessions in a row I will increase duration to 6 min, etc. I don't aim at a particular ROI, I just want to improve my decision making. Atm I don't feel comfortable even at 7s.

I have the same problem :/
I will probably buy TableNinja and a custom keyboard so i can shortcut everything, but other than that I don't really know how to improve on this. Generally I think its probably key to not get stressed out when the tables pop-up at the same time but to go one-by-one.
Also at the low-stakes there are some 4-table supernova grinders - they mostly don't play that good though - who are just playing really slow.

^ I don't think many regs are using TN. Everyone is using sharkystrator.

Update. I'm capable of playing 15 min sessions at 7s without misreading anything. 7s are too soft though and 2 tabling them is not challenging, even for me. So tomorrow I will return to 15s.

i would use TN for shortcuts to put all actions on a custom keyboard or xbox controller. i think that would make life a lot easier because it eliminates a big amount of mouse movement and clicking.

sharky is obv better for regging.