The idea of APerfecto 8 tabling made me try 5 tables at NL$50. MY regular game is with three tables, and that I can handle very easily and well. A few days ago, I was in Prima, and decided to give it a try at 4tabling, with the mini view feature. I did it. Hard a t the begining but I made it. I played acceptably well and left the place with more than 10ptbb/100 in more than 900 hands (something like that, I just know I made a decent 97 bucks there).

Today 5 tables were driving me crazy. I was calling all the way stupidily. I lost 90bucks and filled the Stupidity losses field with nothing more than 190USD! I played 3 hours and loved the fact that I played more than 780 hands. The point is I played 780 losing hands!

I played horribly. It could have been a very good section but when I got excited because I had action in 2 or 3 tables, on the other two I had TPTK and a guy with a rock on his seat pushes all in and I call. Another one I am on a draw and solid player (in fact, the winningest player at UB $50NL on my DB) overbets the pot and i keep calling chasing my open ended str8 to the river, doubling him up!

What I wanted to ask is, If I can handle 4 tables with relative easeness, do you think I should play a the fifth table for a few days until I get used to it? Should I just stay playing my regular 3tables?

3Tabling I am doing more than 10ptbb/100. My problem is that i have set a goal of playing 1000 hnds per day, three tabling I need to put almost 7 hours daily, something I havent been able to do.

What do you guys think?

I tried the 5 table thing. It hurt my winrate a little..but more then that..it just taxed me pshycially and emotionally. Now i've decided to stick with 4 for my sanity.

What monitor(s) do you have? If you don't already have one, it mightbe a good investment to shell out for another monitor (19' CRT or 20/21' LCD) so you can fit 4 tables on that screen without any overlapping, then the other table (or even more) on the other screen. When I sometimes play more than 4 tables, i put the most aggressive tables on one monitor and passive ones on the other, it helps multitabling a lot. Just a thought.

thanks for the suggestion godlike.

i have a 19' CRT at the moment. I can fit 5 tables at 1600x1200, with no overlap, with prima's useful mini view. Actually I could fit 8 with no overlap if i wanted. It's just too much action for me to process!! That and my eyes go buggy after two hours

I will stick to four tables also. If I notice my winrate suffers I will blame that additional table. I will start a second session right now. I just hope I do a comeback and dont end up with the losing day. I cant remember the last one. It was like 15 days ago.

I can only adjust my screen resolution settings so I can lay four table s with no overlapping. The fifth table overlaps. I will buy a bigger screen but not now. I just ordered a new laptop with 17" widescreen monitor. P4 3.0 Ghz and 1GB RAM. DVD R, 80GB HD.That was with poker income! When I have enough to not hurt my BR I will take something more and get a 21 monitor. I hope that could be in late october.