Multitabling

[Markpl1]

Does anyone here do this? By this mean playing more than 1 cash game at the same time. I am currently having good success with it as a bit of a trial at 25/50c limit table at bet 365 (trying to sneak into their freerolls) and I am consistently turning a profit if a small one given the level. By playing very basic ABC poker. All you need really is a solid bank of starting hands and to be prepared to laydown a hand when you suspect your beaten.
Interested to hear from anyone with thoughts and experience of doing this.

[Jezza]

Yeah I play two cash games at once usually when I am playing. No more tho because otherwise my attention begins to slip and it becomes more frantic. I would say playing one only to start out with is best but if you can handle it then playing two is ok. Physically just make sure that the sets of buttons for fold raise etc do not overlap on the two windows. This is because a lot of poker rooms software auto switches when its your turn and you dont want to be clicking call on one only for the other one to auto switch and you click all in by mistake with 92o!!.

Some people do take multitabling to extremes. For example one of the best NLHE cash pros on the whole internet, a guy called "Grandiose" from USA is regularly seen playing in 6 or 7 high stakes games at once across multiple sites. He does have a beefcake setup mind you with multiple monitors across a wall. It is important to me however when I play I notice everything going in in both games I am in so more than two is a no no.

Congrats on your success Mark, I totally agree with you on the way to play those tables. You do not need any fancy moves and indeed trying to play loose aggressive like gus hansen does on the TV will just cause you to lose at those stakes. Simple tight solid poker will bring you the $$$ - boring but you will win in the long run.

Jez

[WorkingForTheEnemy]

Sometimes play multiple tourneys at once. Again I dont like more than two and think Jezza's comment about the physical positions of the windows is a very good point. I always move one towards the top left and one towards the bottom right to prevent clicking a button on the wrong table when the software changes tables.

Talking of high stakes multitabling, I remember seeing Phil Ivey(think it was him) playing 2 high stake cash games and 1 medium at the same time on Ladbrokes one night.

[slapdash]

I've tried it (only two tables!), but what always seems to happen is that
I go for ages folding rubbish hands at both tables, and then I get dealt
something worthwhile at both tables at once and have to flick my
attention back and forth like a headless chicken.

[Headless chicken? Hmm, I think I'll have to work on that simile.]

[Markpl1]

I find it actually keeps my interest (i probably play too much) as i find cash games somewhat boring much more interst in tourneys I find. No I don't think Gus's method would work so well at this level jezza . Great to watch on telly mind, the guy is fearless.