No such thing as too many

Things are still going well on Full Tilt for me. I don't want to jinx myself but it could become my poker home for a while.

For those of you interested in the bot matchup currently Polaris the bot is winning by 1 game. Of course you need to allow for variance, but this isn't a good sign for the future of online poker. Go the humans.

Now for today's topic Multi-tabling. If you want to increase your profits while lowering your variance at online poker then multi-tabling is a must. If clearing bonuses is your goal then there is no such thing as multi-tabling to many tables. When first starting out playing 2 tables at once can be a challenge, but with much practice and the right tools multi-tabling up to 12 tables at once is quite possible.

The first thing you need to start with is always thinking and acting as quickly as possible when playing online. Even when you don't need to, it gets you in the correct mindset. Using the pre-action buttons to fold is also a must. Start with 2 tables and once you are comfortable with this move to 3 tables. At first it will seem difficult but you might be surprised how fast you get used to the extra table each time. If you see your results being affected don't add another table until you are not making bad decisions. If you are a losing player then multi-tabling will be a disaster as you will just magnify your losses. You can contine doing this all the way up to about 6 tables. Even if you don't have a big monitor (I 12 table on a 20inch) you can still play up to 9 tables on most sites. Full Tilt, Pokerstars, and Party Poker all have resizable tables so you just need to make them smaller, It takes a bit of getting use to but works well. Ipoker, Ultimate bet, Ongame, and Prima all have a function called miniview, again it does take a while to get use to miniview, but once you do it can be hard to return to the full view mode. The only sites I have trouble multi-tabling on are the Boss network, Pkr.com, and Bodog, just because the sites just aren't setup well for it.

To multitable more than 6 tables you will probably need the help of additional software. Autohotkeys is a program that you can write script for to automate online poker actions. A lot of scripts have already been written and are available at overcards.com. There are scripts mainly for Party poker, Pokerstars, Full Tilt, and Ipoker. The ones I recommend are betpot and table navigator. Using these 2 scripts playing up to 9 tables is not hard with practice. If playing on Full Tilt then I recommend a program called Full Tilt Shortcuts. It's options are amazing and setting it up is very easy.

I often find with small stake NL holdem that you will often make more money playing one level down from what you are used to 9 tabling than 4 tabling your normal level. The bonuses you can clear 9 tabling are also huge. Just remember to take regular breaks when muli-tabling, I find anything more than a 3 hour session starts to negatively affect my game.

That all for today.