I've been discovering the wonderful world of online poker and I hear some stories of people multitabling ridiculously high amount of tables at the same time and I'm just wondering how can people manage it?

At first I was playing 1 table at the time as I come from live environment I ended up playing over 30% of my hands and got some tips to tight down and play more tables so you get more decent hands coming in same time.

But purely from technical point of view, do people have all the tables visible at same time or do people react to a table when it pops up from somewhere in the background?

I can fit 4 tables to my screen without them overlapping each other too badly and if I try to add more tables, I get totally confused when they are popping up. But if I can see all my hole cards with one view I can sort of plan where to focus and the game is easier to manage.

Also as I'm a starting player my decision making maybe takes some time and the times when I have 3 hands ongoing at the same time I notice to be running way worse than I would on each hand if it happened just by itself.

I would like to request some tips for following:
- How many tables people usually play?
- How do you organize them to the screen (screenshots of how you do it would be awesome)
- Did you just jump to the deep end of the pool or did you begin adding tables bit by bit?
- Anything else that comes to your mind that might point me to right direction?

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Start with what you are comfortable with. Different people have different styles. SOme like cascade tables that pop up, some just have huge monitors and tile. Depends on the games you wanna play ie SNG vs cash

Also people use 3rd party software, like key scripts, table ninja, etc to make betting pre set specific amounts easier and faster. Also what mouse you use, and how you program it is important.

There are a lotta articles, videos, tutorials, etc on this subject. You just gotta search for them

Some people tile tables so they are all visible, some people stack them so only one is visible at a time, others (including myself) have a hybrid of staking and tiling that stacks tables they fold on and tiles tables that they bet on.

When starting out I would say tiling is the way to go, it is easier to keep track of which table is which.

Definitely do not jump into the deep end mass tabling unless you want to hemmorage money.

Add a table at a time until you get comfortable.

Depending on what site you play on, hotkeys make it much easier to multitable. What site do you play on?

Unfortunately as most poker software is sucky and most do not have hotkey support, you often have to get third party software that amount to enable hotkeys.

Hotkey shortcuts like right clicking the mouse to fold and increasing/decreasing bet sizes with the mouse wheel are extremely useful and greatly improve ones speed.

If you are typing in bets to multitable thats gonna seriously suck.

right click on your desktop wallpaper > properties > settings > adjust screen resolution. then you should be able to fit 12 tables with a little bit of overlapping. sit at micro stakes games and only play something like JJ or better. you can even do this at 6 max tables... people are too stupid to realize that you are playing like a rock and their k10 is no good.

also, whatever site youre on should have card settings (i.e. 4 color deck, bigger fonts).

it would even be profitable to play 10-12 tables (maybe start at 8) and only play AA, KK, and QQ. add AK, AQ, JJ, and 1010 when you get more comfortable. then add more tables. or the other way around.

the first account i ever had was on UB and i did this from the start. i made $100 playing .01/.02 in no time. i felt baller. its very simple.

Imo the basics are getting table ninja, having your style and type of game determine and adding tables when you feel confortable.

There is really no point in trying to mass-mutlitable (for a beginner) until you reach a limit where you could stay and grind out a decent living. Even then most midstakes crusher do play 4-6 tables where they can still focus on every table and have a good feel for the tabledynamics.

If you are a beginner and get bored 2 tabling or 4 tabling then you are doing something wrong and you are not paying enough attention to detail. There is so much information to take advantage of. Betsizing, timing tells etc etc

Thanks for responses, sorry if this is in wrong forum. I was pondering about whether to post this in Beginner questions but since it's not really about my poker play I thought this would be appropriate place.

I don't like those supertight hand ranges. I play quite loose style and have stats like VP$IP 25, PFR 18
Also I steal blinds a ton, my blind stealing is about 33%. Which is a big thing to my overall profits. I play at pokerstars and I'm making almost 5BB/100 at 0.25$ playing 4 tables at same time.

Pokerstars has those quick buttons that I love to use Preflop: 2x, 3x, 4x BB and postflop 1/2, 2/3, 1 pot size

I use PT3 and I understood that table ninja is some application that comes with HEM. I guess I'll check if I can use it with PT3.

Shortcuts to mouse buttons sounds solid advice, Thanks for that! I will check if I can do it.

Well now you have a Table ninja like intergreated on pokerstars, try it out.. its in options is a beta test.

hello Jabari

I play anywhere from 18-25 tables. I play 180s and MTTS. I am not sure what you play but i like to separate my games that are re-buys... I play re-buys games different from other games. Also table ninja makes things 10 times easier. I stack my games

hope this helps

Some thoughts:

I find it much easier to stack than tile.

A HUD is a must if you are multitabling.

Loose play = tougher post flop decisions, therefore this will result in a lower upper limit of tables you will be able to play - this is not a bad thing IMO, I think it's better to accept that you can't play more than x tables instead of tightening up significantly just to grind out some bonus or whatever.

Add 1 - 2 tables at a time, so if you play 4 tables don't just load up 20 tables and expect to be able to play them...go to 6 or something.

Realise once you get past a certain number of tables you have zero time to make notes so your game will suffer.

would a 24 inch monitor with 1920x1080 resolution work to play 12 tables, most people recommend a resolution of 1920x1200 but they are double the price. I don`t understand why a 1920x1080 wouldn`t work, because theoretically a pokerstars window @ smallest is 480x350 pixels, so you do the math.

The only problem I can think off is a little worse visual qualities. PLZ let me know if any of you have experience with this. Cheers XD

I tried to play 6 tables and noticed that once I tile them to each other it's quite ok to play and I was able to concentrate and play even with the added 2 tables to my usual so I guess I keep on practicing.
(Btw for what it's worth I have 24" display with 1920x1080 and personally I believe that fitting 12 tables there would not be very nice looking as 6 start to be quite cramped already)

I noticed just one practical problem. The Pokertracker HUD I use is way too big and takes all the space, comes on top of buttons, prevents me to see peoples cash etc.. I really need to clean it out a bit.

can`t find tableninja, btw isn`t that supposed to be a software that enables you to preselect rags which the software automatically folds for you??

No, it doesn't do this. Autofolders are on pokerstars' list of prohibited software.

When I was a beginner, I wanted to fire up 12-24 tables like I think a lot of people do. These days Im more interested in playing good poker on a few well selected tables (and keeping an eye on the lobby for better games) than having as many tables as possible open. These days, I play on a netbook with 4-6 tables tiled. That works great for me.