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Multi tables players.
pet100
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Is it right to sit at a table of 6, where many of the other players are playing multiple games on other tables with a computerised link ?
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It's quite normal for players to Multi-Table, in fact many (me included) struggle to keep concentration if we only play 1 table. Not sure I know any "big" players who only play 1 or 2 tables at a time. Most play 5 or 6.
Plenty of players on here play as many as 20 tables at a time. Once you've played poker for a while, most decisions are pretty much "instant".
Don't worry about it, everything is tickity-boo, just enjoy your poker.
A few years ago - on another site - one fella played over 40 tables for 12 hours. AND made a profit.
I really enjoy my poker, and have done for over 50 years, but I now have concerns that my skills and enjoyment learnt in that time are wasted on poker site tables that have 'multiplayers' just making instant decisions. The expression 'Poker Face' and bluffing are lost.
I note that most of these multiplayers are on cash tables, perhaps I will stick to SNG and KO's, or perhaps live.... face to face!!
See you out there.
Pet 100.
I play anywhere between about 8 and 18 tables at once, depending what I'm playing and how much I need to think about each decision in depth.
In DYMs my decisions are often very simple, it's just "This guy has shoved pre-flop and I should fold this hand because maths". Once you've played about 25,000 of them as I have, it takes a split second to make most decisions, in the same way that doing simple addition or multiplication is far quicker for you now than it was when you were four years old. It's knowing how to make the decision and having experience that makes people fast enough to play so many tables without timing out.
I occasionally time out, but very rarely with a hand that I want to play - It's usually because I've got too much going on elsewhere to bother clicking the fold button on the 74 offsuit. It's easier to sit back in once there's less going on.
Playing lots of tables doesn't mean people aren't enjoying the game.
It would be wrong to pretend every single pro player, or anyone playing that many tables as a second income, enjoys what they do. For some, it's merely preferable to having a proper job, and it's tax free. I've also seen my fair share of pros completely give up the game because they stopped enjoying it. However, the vast majority of us do still enjoy the game.
We might get pleasure out of different things within the game - Some players might get pleasure out of successfully running a big bluff against a well known player and showing a pile of junk for example, whereas I get enjoyment out of knowing I'm playing my A-game and I wouldn't enjoy bluffing someone if I felt it was a losing play to do so in the long term.
Bluffing isn't 'lost' at all - for those playing a lot of tables, I believe there are different factors that go into the decision of whether to bluff or not compared to someone who is playing one table, but we definitely still bluff. Some of us, anyway
50 years? You might ne as old as me.
Not sure it is correct or fair to say that multi-tablers don't enjoy their poker. I suspect most enjoy it as much as you do, but the game is different these days. Honestly, don't let it spoil your enjoyment, most of the Sky Poker player base are friendly, chatty, recreational players.
Playing "live" won't help - many "live" players have a laptop or "mobile" with them, & whilst sat at the "live" table, are 4 or 5 tabling on their phone, I-Pad or laptop. It's fearfully rude & disrespectful, & if I were ever King For A Day, I'd have them all put against the wall & shot.
Anyway, been good to chat - post more, we need more good people here.
Look after yourself, & run good.
It's far better here than any of the bigger, global sites where the only time anyone uses the chat is to wish ill on your family after a bad beat. Makes me feel slightly disappointed with the lack of rude words that my languages teachers taught me
Keep a little lucky,
Pet100
Multitabling does have its groupies
There is a player who I see now and again , whenever I arrive at his table, he sits out ,calls me a sky leach, tells me to get a life , warns the rest of the table that I work for Sky, then clears off with a few rail comments.
>>>>>Tishtosh <<<<<<
I had a film on in the background when I was playing the other day and was chatting to one of the other players about it. The film was set in Iraq but apparently mentioning that particular country whilst at the tables is a no no.
I also wonder if Basil Fawlty had any thing to do with the censoring as I recently had a bit of trouble making a reference to Star Wars - apparently, whatever you do, don't mention the war!