One advantage online poker will always have over live poker is the fact that people can play multiple tables at once. By playing several tables at the same time, people can play a large amount of hands per hour.
And by playing more hands per hour, a person stands to make a significant amount of cash! Of course, the downside to playing multiple tables is that you can’t focus as much attention on each one so it’s important to find how many tables you can handle. Here’s a quick look at how to find that number.
Study Your Winnings
By keeping track of your poker sessions over a certain amount of time, you can find how much money you’re making per hour. For instance, if you played $1/$2 No-Limit Hold’em, and earned 8bb/100 hands, you’d be making $16 an hour. If you added another table to the equation, and dropped to 6bb/100 hands, your rate per table would be $12. However, you would also be playing 200 hands and would be making $24 an hour. So the table increase would be a good decision in this instance.
But if you were to add a third table, and your win rate dropped to 3bb/100 hands, you would only be making $6 per table. With all 3 tables combined, you would be earning $18 an hour, which is worse than the $24 an hour. So the obvious decision would be to step back to two tables.
Consider the Effects of Multi-Tabling on You
Poker players can still relax when they’re playing one or two tables at a time (provided they aren’t losing major money). But once you start adding even more tables into the mix, the game becomes a lot more stressful.
With this being the case, multi-tabling will eventually start cutting down on the length of your poker sessions. So if you earn $40 an hour playing 5 tables, but can only handle playing 4 hours a day, it could be more profitable to cut back the amount of tables.
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