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NewbSaibot United States. May 23 2009 14:04. Posts 4948 | | |
In the words of the great Borat, Wowwweee wowow!! So as I desperately try to self-analyze my HH's and sessions, my mood at the time (I tilt so easily), and what I remember from the CR videos I downloaded, after my 150k lifetime losing streak, there has been only 1 constant whenever I have done well. And that has been playing just ONE TABLE AT A TIME boys. Im not gonna lie, when the concept of multi-tabling was first revealed to me I simply assumed I could do it. Rather than starting off slow like everyone says, I just immediately loaded up about 18 tables. I didnt find it particularly hard to focus per se, I simply played a 10/7/3.5 game or so. I had a brief run of success at this but for whatever reason deemed it a waste of time and focused on a more LAG game and fewer tables. I have progressively continued to drop tables as I continue to get hammered, all the way down to 4, where I again just assumed this was plenty low enough to focus. But you know, I still find myself completely forgetting about 1-2 tables as I just auto-fold everything that isnt obviously raise worthy. Then I'll catch myself doing this, suddenly start trying to play looser at the table, but without any reads since I havent been paying attention I fail. I'll try to make some range estimation based on villain stats and go for a c/r allin or flop 3bet, and then get all pissed off when they call with some weird draw/PP and hit and feel like I got sucked out on, when I probably wouldnt have played the hand like that anyway if I had been focused.
So I took my shattered bankroll and decided to do the most boring thing on earth, grind 1 table of NL2. And for the last 3 days have actually been up. I've also played a silly 35/25/3 game, but my EV is in line and I have had the best hands. With one table running I find myself constantly analyzing every single action and trying to figure out what I can and cant get away with. I think I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how to read player stats, so I've been keeping them to a minimum to all but the most very telling ones. How often they limp or raise, do they ever 3bet, and how often they steal. This basically defines when they have a good hand vs when they have mediocre crap you can probably take away from them with on the flop.
You know my hero Daniel swears by one table poker. Whatever my fishy obsession with his style is (even though I dont think ive ever seen him win money), he too confesses that he just cant hack it at more than one table. So if I can run 30BB/100 playing 1 table, maybe I can offset the hourly earnings that some of you get when you mass-table at 6BB/100.
There is one last tidbit to consider regarding this "style". And that is enjoyment factor. I am ultra competitive, and I play to win, not for money. So even a game like NL2 can send me into a fury since I dont like losing, even though it's only $2 here or there. Whenver I multi-table I find myself tilting very easily. There is not 1 second of the game I even enjoy. I feel like it's some sort of damn chore that I'm being forced to do if I ever want to be able to make a living at this. But, whenever I one table, I thoroughly enjoy it the whole time, even when I lose. Usually I'm only losing when I'm trying some fancy, so when it doesnt work, I blame myself. When I mass-table I genuinely try to play straight forward, so when I lose, I feel I got cheated and get pissed.
I know everyone starts off at one table, so maybe Im just simply not ready for more yet. I might, MIGHT try loading up 2 tables just to see if I feel as involved or if I start staring at one table like a deer in headlights.
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vlseph United States. May 23 2009 15:45. Posts 3026 | | |
Agree with your post, I used to do a lot of tables simply cause I could, but wouldn't be able to get very good reads on players and my post flop game was as fundamentally sound. I've reduced myself to 4 tables and even though I don't catch everything, I do get a lot more reads on players and sometimes I find good spots to 3 bet bluff players post flop and such. |
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curtinsea United States. May 23 2009 15:51. Posts 576 | | |
I play poorly when I have more than one table going. I tend to play even more hands, marginal hands, out of position hands, simply not focused on the game(s). I will still play two tables sometimes, but I do better with just one table up. |
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