I've been playing nothing but 6-max for a while now with reasonable success, but I do significantly worse when I try and play more than two tables. Seems like I end up playing a lot weaker when I play more tables. My aggression factor overall is 2.2 and I just checked - my last 3k hands of 3-tabling were at an AF of 1.6.Not sure exactly why, but I think it may be that I don't play very confidently if I dont have a good feel for stuff like 'Player X always bets out on rag flops' that come mostly from just observing the table and dont really show up in PT stats. Basically I think I become weak-tight if I dont have a good read on my opponents betting patterns.

For those of you who play more tables profitably (I know Piers and Xas do), how do you deal with this? Do you just use standard rules of thumb, like not respecting weak lead-outs that you apply to everyone at the table? Do you have some system for observing play at multiple tables? Or are my multi-tasking skills just not up to scratch?

I'm also pretty bad with PAHUD. Are there any specific stats I can use to give me better reads on stuff like bluffing frequency, 3-betting standards etc?

Any other advice/observations would also be appreciated.

yeah i would be interest in this as well...i've played 6max exclusively for the past two months, over 20k hands but i know that pales in comparison with the other guys here..

but i've noticed too that when i try to multi table...even just playing two tables at once....i play a lot weaker and don't have the confidence in making steals, espeically re-raise steals or check-raise steals against people i suspect might just have overcards and missed the flop.

Do you guys who multi-table just forfeit these pots that are "steal-able" and wait for solid hands? because when playing in a table against someone who i know is multi-tabling...they usually seem to just play ABC poker and i see very little stealing from these guys.

I don't know how long you have been playing, particularly SH games, but that may have quite a bit to do with it. I have been multitabling for about 7 years now on the internet and 8-10 tabling full ring games quite often in the past 6 months or so. When playing 4 tables, even SHed ones it doesn't seem to be a problem at all. I am positive that I lose some value at each table by doing so but I believe this is easily overcome by the volume of hands so I don't sweat it.

Another aspect that I have in my favor is that I am playing a site with quite a few of the same people all the time so instead of facing 20 different opponents I may be only facing 10-12 different ones and that is not such a tough thing to deal with even spread across 4 tables. PaHud also helps in the task and probably could help more if I really set it up for maximum information but I don't know how much more I would gain from it when playing 4 tables because most of the time you are not going to be able to just analyze one players actions that in depth. I only use VIP, Preflop Raise, Agress Fact. and # hands. Using only these 4 values will tell you most of the story on a player and the rest you should be able to pick up just by paying attention to his play in various positions in regard to what he is showing down.

With any poker game the better you are at being able to read your opponents hands the better you will be able to take advantage of the situations that you face. I am a pretty damn good reader of what my opponent has most of the time and you should be also. Practice, practice, practice that skill, particularly when you are not in a hand. When you are skilled at this adding extra tables should be a less difficult thing to overcome because your correct action according to what you think your opponent has should become second nature to you. Of course this isn't going to come overnight but it will come but in the meantime I wouldn't worry too much about overextending yourself. Instead I would concentrate on excellent table and seat selection when possible and this will make up for some of what you are missing multitabling. I don't know what sites you are playing but if you are playing a site that has multiple skins and allows you to open more than one skin at a time I would keep money in at least 2 of them and probably three. Here is why and in my opinion it is a very important one reason. You can put yourself on the waiting list at different points at each site for respective tables. This will allow you what no site allows now and that is a seat change button. Seat selection, particularly in short handed games is very important and the more attention you pay to that aspect of the game the better your bottom line is going to be. Hope some of this dribble helps you out.