Some people may already be very familiar with this process and perhaps even do it without conscious awareness of the skills involved, however, playing on multiple tables during one poker session in known as multitabling, and like most things of any worth, it requires its own special considerations.
Unless you are rather unlucky, it is usually the case that the profit will outweigh the loss when choosing to play on multiple tables.
Unfortunately, knowing that multitabling is a good idea may not be enough for some people. If, like me, you can get overwhelmed with your head engrossed in one game, what chance do you have of trying to run seven or eight games simultaneously?!
Well, luckily, there are a few simple tips that can aid your performance when trying to take on this kind of endevour.
The first of these is may seem painfully obvious, yet you would be surprised how often it is overlooked…
Choose a quiet surrounding for yourself, if you cannot hear yourself think, then what hope do you have of applying any meaningful concentration to the sessions?
Make sure you are comfortable.
After all, you are likely to be in these games for the long haul, a comfortable chair and the right temperature can make all the difference in keeping your mind sharply focused on playing poker properly, instead of mentally shortlisting chiropractors.
Another important but often ignored improvement to aid multitabling is having a suitably fast computer system, if your PC cannot handle multiple games and is slow to react, you could very well be missing vital tells, hands or even the opportunity to bet on a winning hand.
Waiting for the first two windows to load while you are clicking on the eighth is not an experience I would advocate.
A simple tip that can bring new benefits to multtabling is making sure you can see all games being played at the same time. Not only does it negate the aforementioned problem but it allows you to become a better analyst of the trends and patterns that generally appear within poker.
The final and most obvious tip for playing on multiple tables is to practise.
Like it or not, practise makes perfect and the only way to see significant improvement in a new skill, such as multitabling, is to practise.
