Quote:
Originally Posted by AALegend
Quick suggestion: why do you need to multitable given that you know you are a losing player? Fire up a couple $10 tournaments, put baseball on TV, open up a cold beer and enjoy yourself. Or, if you want to be more focused about poker, just play those same 2 tournaments (without the beer and TV) and really think through your decisions.
Guys who play 12 tables are typically already successful winning players who have their hand ranges and basic decisions down and can therefore run on autopilot. You, on the other hand, need to work on your fundamentals and improve, so it is better to play less tables, but play better.
Ok well, I would like to win between 1 and 2 buy-in a day. This is just a goal, not necessarily achievable with my current mindset, but a goal none the less. Now if I were only playing 1 table I would have to double or triple up to make that happen. Certainly a possibility, but as I have learned, shooting for that is a quick trip to either going big or going home. So by playing 4 tables, it limits how much risk I need to play. Plus, I may be card dead on a single table, but running hot on another, so it balances out. Like last night. I was up on 2 tables, and down on 2 others, so I broke even for the day. Had I only played 2 tables, or one table, and it was one of the losing sessions, than I would have put up a red number for the day. Just trying to minimize variance, or more importantly, minimize the effects of variance. If I played 1 table, 4 days in a row, and had 2 losing sessions in a row (on top of the 2 losing sessions I had at $5NL) I am going to be in just that much worse of a frame of mind wen I move into the next game. By doing this, hopefully I can keep my head right and prevent myself from going on tilt.
This has been easily one of my biggest issues with the game. Not staying focused, getting frustrated, getting board, whatever. I stay much more engaged multi-tabling than I do playing a single table. And honestly, I feel like I play better multi-tabling. If I am only single tabling and I catch a big hand, I am going to go for it (even if I know I should fold) if I have a big draw, I am going to call off my stack and try to chase. Multi-tabling I am more disciplined and can make the fold easier. I still struggle with not folding often enough, but I am trying to work on that.