Monday 26 January 2009
Tried my first session of 8-tabling today at 100NL and it went pretty well. I only made a few minor mistakes like trying to setmine against the raise of shortstacks and I'm sure I missed some stealing opportunities but fortunately it wasn't too costly. I didn't time out in any hands so its definitely within my capabilities to play 8 or more.
Cons
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- Harder to pay attention to everything that is happening
- Harder to find the time to make notes on players
- Easy to throw away marginal hands in late position and miss stealing opportunities
- Harder to quickly get to the relevant HUD stats for a decision when 3-4 other tables are needing your attention
- Harder to table and seat select without losing focus on the active tables
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- Easier to get away from potentially costly marginal decisions - my biggest loss in all the hands of the session was only 12.5 BB
- Speed of play prevents any boredom and stops me trying to engineer situations against fishy players
- I won't see rakeback stats till tomorrow but I'm sure this should be good
- FT points come much quicker
- Volume of hands helps smooth the variance. (managed to play 938 hands in 152 minutes)
One bonus was that when I was shutting down the tables I missed unchecking 'auto-post blind' on one table so was dealt in for another round and this happened:
I finished up the session up $283 so it continues my good run over the last few days.
Definitely think I'll invest in a 24" monitor so I can try and keep all tables on the same screen - I'm currently coping with 4 tables on each of my 19" monitors but its a bit like watching tennis!
This was the other big hand of the night:
And just to remind myself it doesn't always go smoothly this was a cooler from yesterday although I managed to make the money back after. Was really pleased how I handled it though.. not a hint of going on tilt :)
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