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  1. NEMO701 NEMO701 is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 12:42pm)

    a huge part of what i believe to be skill is OBSERVATION.......
    what do you girls/guys think?
    should you multi table or should you have 100% focus, does the buy in affect your decision?
    love to hear back
  2. GodPunishU GodPunishU is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 12:46pm) in reply to NEMO701

    Observation is the key in developing your game and getting it to the point where you can quickly evaluate mulitple situations based on betting patterns etc

    Then you can Multi-table

    I find playing 3 tables really focuses me and tightens up my game now
  3. doubLe a tom doubLe a tom is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 1:01pm) in reply to GodPunishU

    I find I play better when I multi-table. I think this is due to the fact that I'm seeing 2-3x the hands I'm seeing vs. playing only one table. If I'm only playing a single table, I will often become bored and start playing questionable hands just trying to get some action going, which more often than not, has bad results.
  4. GodPunishU GodPunishU is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 1:02pm) in reply to doubLe a tom

    Thus the beauty of HU
  5. Bizzle17 Bizzle17 is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 1:31pm) in reply to NEMO701

    I actually cannot MT tourneys or sit-n-gos very well. I like to focus more on those. However, I do like to get a tourney going that I can focus on, then have a $1/$2 NLHE table open. The cash game I will just play extremely tight and hopefully get a few pots while playing the tourney.
  6. threeven threeven is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 2:25pm) in reply to NEMO701

    I play a lot of 6 man turbo SNG's on UB, and I do MUCH better if I multitable. I am a winning player at my level, but when I only play one table I try to make tricky pro moves that simply don't work. But if I am playing 4 tables, things get frantic enough where I am forced to play ABC straightforward poker, and generally with all the fish, that's what I should be doing anyway.
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  7. AawwNutz AawwNutz is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 2:27pm) in reply to NEMO701

    One of my New Year's resolutions was to not play more than 3 MTT's at a time and to not start another tourney if I bust out of one of the originals.

    Woo hoo... Good decision! I'm a much better player. 2006 is off to a killer start.
     
  8. SusieQue SusieQue is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 2:53pm) in reply to NEMO701

    I also get very bored while playing only one table. But When I am in a big tourney and need to focus on it I prefer to just do something to occupy myself to combat boredom. So I will jump on a NL penny table just so I have some kind of action going..but nothing I really care about
  9. Cubs567 Cubs567 is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 2:57pm) in reply to SusieQue

    When I just started out playing online, I only did one table for a while. Now I play up 6 $55 and $100 turbos at a time because I'm essentially playing the same against every opponent unless I recognize them. In that case I push harder against them :-).

    I would stick to one tables until you have a single game down. Then you can try 1, then 2, then 28 tables at a time as RAINKHAN was doing today.
  10. MuckMe MuckMe is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 3:13pm) in reply to Cubs567

    I usually keep a full ring game of limit going while in a NL MTT.
    Allows me to concentrate about 95% on NL without getting bored.
  11. dead_plant dead_plant is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 4:54pm) in reply to SusieQue

    just make sure you don't play Royal Flush Susie...can cause some concentration issues when you see AA in the BB and think YES!!!
  12. timzc1 timzc1 is offline

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    Mar 7th, 2006 (3/7/2006 5:09pm) in reply to dead_plant

    I think one of my major leaks is that I play too loose at the wrong times in MTTs and one way for me to combat this looseness is to multi table... by dividing my focus, I find it easier to make correct folds etc...

    but, ultimately, to be a better player, I just have to learn how to play tighter because tight play at the right times is correct regardless of whatever else is going on at another table or not

    -- timzc1
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