Multi-Table Play

Many poker writers cite multi-table play as one of the advantages of online poker. After all if you are a winning player you should be able to win more by playing more than one table at a time. Right? Well, maybe. Most poker professionals feel that earnings one big bet an hour, i.e. on a $6/$12 table you would earn $12 an hour is doing well. Of course we would all like to do better but statistically it is unlikely unless you are unusually lucky. The idea with multi-table play is that if you can earn $12 per hour playing one table then you should make $24 playing two tables and $36 playing three tables and so on. It's an nice idea but the reality is that you will make more mistakes and miss key opportunities by having your attention split between multiple tables. Putting your opponents on a hand will be almost impossible.. Another problem is that at any given time it unlikely to find more than one really good table. Chances are only one table will be worth sitting at anyway. In my opinion is that if your bank roll can support playing at two $6/$12 tables then you'd probably be better off playing at a $10/$20 or even a $15/$30 table and giving it your full attention. You will gain the advantage of being able to pay close attention to the betting pattern of your opponents, take notes and profit from opportunities you otherwise might have missed. There are a minority of players that do well playing multiple tables if so I suggest you try both ways keeping careful records and see what works for you.