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So, generally speaking, the better the player you were, and the more money you wanted to make, the higher the stakes you had to play.
The only problem with this is, there were usually other good players who thought the same thing, and they are the ones sitting at the $20 / $40 tables too. Oh sure, you will still have some rookies with money to burn, but the competition did get stronger as the stakes increased.
But, you dealt with it, and as long as the table was good, you could still make a profit.
And this is how it was for over 100 years… but then came the internet, and no longer was moving up in stakes and facing tougher opponents the only option to make more money per hour.
For the first time in poker history, you could simply play more tables simultaneously at the same level!
Lets say for example, you are playing a $1 / $2 No limit game online, with a $200 buy in. You happen to be good, and can pull out an average $10 per 100 hands, or about $8.50 per hour.
If you want to make more money, you could move up in stakes, say to the $2 / $4 tables. The only problem is, you may not be able to make any more than $10 per hundred hands there. In fact, you may actually lose money at the $2 / $4 tables, just because the competition may be more than you can handle.
But if you could just see more hands per hour at the $1 / $2 tables…you could do quite well. So, you decide to open up multiple tables, and play more hands per hour.
Now, if you can play 4 tables for an average profit of $8.00 per hour per table, you now are making $32 per hour, and that can be decent money.
This is the reason why we multi table. You can literally make 2X – 10X or more money, playing against players that are no better than what you can already handle.
Sounds great, doesn’t it! Except that if you are a losing player, or just a barely better than break even player, this is a great way to lose all your bankroll, fast.
So before you multi table, you need to take a very honest assessment of what your win rate is. Furthermore, if your profit is very opponent dependant, then you might have trouble maintaining your win rate. Believe it or not, a fairly mechanical approach to poker is the way to go if you are multi tabling. The more tables you play, the more this holds true.
If you believe this is the way to go for poker profits, then I advise you to add one table at a time, and see how you hold up. If this works out well, congratulations! You are multi tabling for profits! However, if you are breakeven or even slipping a bit over a reasonable sample of 10K hands, you may want to back it down until you are solid over a sample of 10K hands.
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