Question about 8-tabling 1/2 Holdem :)

Flipper

I've just recently bought a 3-monitor setup and I wanted to set myself a challenge... I was owed $5,000 by someone and he paid me through Stars today. With this, I was gonna start playing 6-8 tables of low stakes NL holdem.

I usually play 2-3 tables of omaha and I'm not really much of a holdem player so my question to you is: Should I play .50/1, 1/2 or 2/4 and is it better to play full ring games and only play quality starting hands? What would your approach be???

Any advice (especially form people used to multi-tabling) would be appreciated...

ianmc38

I recently experimented with 8-tabling and 6-tabling .50/1 holdem. My winrate drops drastically at 8 tables and sharply at 6 (1-2bb/100 over 5k hands). Anything over 3 tables and my winrate drops (my bb/100 at 3 tables is over 10). I find the best strategy at those levels is to play premium starting hands, play position and dont get tricky with sophisticated bluffs as players at the lower levels tend not to fold top pair or even middle pair...

And beware the minraise. I know everyone on here has said the minraise is no longer a set but I can assure you that 90% of the time i've been minraised recently it's been a set.

cardshark202

I would recommend starting off playing like 4 tables and then add one in after a while so its easier to adjust. There is more profit to be made playing 6 max so I think you should try that.

valor

what size are your monitors btw?

im thinking of getting a new monitor setup.

Hawk Eye

Don't play full ring you will probably start staring at the wall even 8-tabling.
Start out with 6 tables of 6-max and just play real solid poker. Play real tight out of postion,3-bet loads in position and c-bet nearly every flop. Good idea to start off at 1/2 with 5k and try not to stack off by bluffing.
Beware of the check minraise its usually a set or nothing.

Ste05

My win rate also drops alot if I play 4+ tables.

But along with what's been said above, I'd spend sometime with your PAHUD and get it setup with stats that you think will help your game, include some Post Flop %'s in it too, as usually you'll be raising PF in position and Cont. betting, and you need to know if someone is a floater/ calling station/ maniac etc. and your Stats will be your main way of reading players, especially as the amount of player turnover is quite large at these levels.

Also play 6-max.

Flipper

valor wrote:

what size are your monitors btw?

im thinking of getting a new monitor setup.

I got 3 x 19" Dell Ultra bright LCD monitors. I'll post a pic of it on my blog over the next few days

ianmc38

Flipper wrote:

I got 3 x 19" Dell Ultra bright LCD monitors. I'll post a pic of it on my blog over the next few days

Why didnt you just buy some decently sized monitors?

Flipper

Cos I got them dirt cheap

Might upgrade them if I see a future in multi-tabling

valor

whered you get them dirt cheap?

nicnicnic

dont mean to hijack flipper but im looking at getting the dell 30inch about €1500, now extravision are selling an lcd 42 inch which it says is pc compatable for €800, I'm not much of a tecky so are we talking like for like here

Flipper

They bought 12 of them at my Dad's company. That way you get a good price and don't pay VAT

robinlacey

diving in at 8 tables in a game you dont play often is madness

what i would do if i were you is start off playing 4 tables of .50/1,when you have played 20k hands and your winrate is above 5ptbb/100 play 5k hands of 6 tabling,5k of 8 tabling,then try moving up to 1/2

Mr. Flibble

nicnicnic wrote:

dont mean to hijack flipper but im looking at getting the dell 30inch about €1500, now extravision are selling an lcd 42 inch which it says is pc compatable for €800, I'm not much of a tecky so are we talking like for like here

They are two very different things. Don't get the xtravision one for computer use - it is designed for watching TV, it will have a low resolution compared with a proper Dell monitor . You would fit very few tables on it and they would be huge.

ocallagh

nicnicnic wrote:

dont mean to hijack flipper but im looking at getting the dell 30inch about €1500, now extravision are selling an lcd 42 inch which it says is pc compatable for €800, I'm not much of a tecky so are we talking like for like here

Just a quick heads up before you go buying that 42"!

There is a lot more to the monitor than just the size. Pay close attention to the maximum resolution. You could get a 42 inch screen but it might only have a 1200 X 800 max resolution for the PC, which means it wont be any better than a laptop screen. Well, the table will be friggin huge, but apart from that there will be no difference. Most LCDs on sale in shops offer a max resolution of 1368 X 768 which is not great at all... The average size of a poker table (online) is 800 X 600. Basically, all the 42" LCD will do is magnify the screen. The size of the TV has no bearing on the resolution. Three 19" LCDs (like flipper has) with resolutions of 1368 X 768 will give you 3 times as many poker tables than a 60" LCD with a max res of 1368 X 768 would.

The Dell 30" is a good choice though because it has a huge resolution on it and you could probably squeeze 6 tables onto it.

nicnicnic

ocallagh wrote:

Just a quick heads up before you go buying that 42"!

There is a lot more to the monitor than just the size. Pay close attention to the maximum resolution. You could get a 42 inch screen but it might only have a 1200 X 800 max resolution for the PC, which means it wont be any better than a laptop screen. Well, the table will be friggin huge, but apart from that there will be no difference. Most LCDs on sale in shops offer a max resolution of 1368 X 768 which is not great at all... The average size of a poker table (online) is 800 X 600. Basically, all the 42" LCD will do is magnify the screen. The size of the TV has no bearing on the resolution. Three 19" LCDs (like flipper has) with resolutions of 1368 X 768 will give you 3 times as many poker tables than a 60" LCD with a max res of 1368 X 768 would.

The Dell 30" is a good choice though because it has a huge resolution on it and you could probably squeeze 6 tables onto it.

cheers OC and mr fid i understand now. and flipper talk der the dangerous from galway, think he is playing eight on stars

[nicK]

another way to get used to multitabling is to hit the low limits and load up more games than you plan on using normally..

so in your case, have a go at multitabling 12 tables at the lower limits for an hour or so, getting use to the speed at which you need to act and trying to remember who's raising and occasionally checking hand historys for the big showdown hands..

after this, 8tabling won't seem so daunting..