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Old 23-08-2007, 22:40
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Re: Playing 18 tables at once? Yes, why not

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Do you not remember being 20??
only vaguely I'm afraid LOL

I know personally that I can comfortably do 4 tables (Even playing 4 different poker variants LOL). 5 is a little less comfortable and 6 is a stretch. I guess if you play a very NITty game at full 10 seaters, 8-tabling might be comfortable. But anything more than that must be difficult.

A typical hand will take about 1 minute. If you only play 10% of hands, you'll be able to reduce your decision time to a fraction of a second on 90% of tables, but the others will need action from you. 18 tables is about 3 seconds per hand on average, which doesn't leave a lot of time to make decisions. Sure, 90% of those decisions will be very quick, but the problem is that the ones that aren't are the ones that make and lose you a lot of money. If you've got a table popping up for a decision every 2 seconds or so, the difficult decisions could easily go wrong if you click a wrong button, or timeout

Even at 6 tables I've had that happen to me. I'm thinking about something and other tables pop up and before I can get back to the crucial one I've timed out.

Another factor to consider is the load on your PC - you'd want to make sure you've got a really good quality build and no driver problems - otherwise you're just asking for the system to crash!
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