STT Multi-tabling advice
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STT Multi-tabling advice
by beezee » Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:34 pm
goofyballer
STT Multi-tabling advice
« on: Jul 5th, 2005, 5:29am »
Tonight I gave multi-tabling STTs my first shot (played four $10/$1's at once). Did decent, got one first, one third, one fourth, and one fifth. Anyway, I was doing really well at about two of the tables (the fourth and third place finishes) when another table (the first place finish) started winding down before the others were done.
The fact that I had to concentrate more on the first place table absolutely killed my strategy at the other two - I was terrorizing bitches' blinds left and right at both tables, but as I got in the money and eventually heads-up at the first-place table I eventually started auto-folding my marginal and bad hands when I'm sure I could have gotten more raises in and stolen more blinds. This made me go from the chip lead at both tables to an average stack as I got blinded out.
So my question is, how do you guys deal with this while multi-tabling as multiple SNGs get down into crunch time? It's definitely harder than 4-tabling cash games, since full ring doesn't have you playing hands anywhere near as often as the later levels of a tournament.
svenjolly
Re: STT Multi-tabling advice
« Reply #1 on: Jul 5th, 2005, 8:43am »
I could have written this post, Goofy. Been in the same boat and I hate walking away feeling like I short-changed one table while concentrating on another.
If I have more than 2 STT's going at once, I stagger the start times. I'll start 2 and wait till they are on levels 4 or 5 and start 2 more. It helps a lot. If I know it's going to be a long session, I like to get an MTT going as well.
Since I started whoring, I like having 2 cash tables on one screen and 2 or 3 tourneys on the other (2 STT's and 1 MTT is nice).
I've sat down and started up 4 STT's fairly close together, went deep in all and for me...it just turned into a click fest when each table got down to 3-5 players. Like you said, I found myself folding hands that I would normally be stealing with, etc.
mattaca
Re: STT Multi-tabling advice
« Reply #2 on: Jul 5th, 2005, 10:19am »
If you are patient enough you can stagger all four seperately. By the time you start your fouth you'll probably be close to finishing your first (or at least down to 4). Then they just sort of rotate through (unless you get knocked out early a few times).
MJ
Re: STT Multi-tabling advice
« Reply #3 on: Jul 6th, 2005, 11:38am »
I don't have any overlap on my monitor between the tables, so that helps quite a bit.
Otherwise, I just make my decisions real quick at each table, maybe think for 3-4 seconds max. Mostly I'm just on auto-pilot and attacking. Actually, it's easier for me to get an edge once there are less players per table, because I can start actually focusing more on each individual person, rather than trying to remember 40 different playing styles at once (I can usually only get a read on half the people per table when 4-tabling.)
Often, I consciously know I'm not always making the best decision, but if I'm under the clock for a lot of tables at one time, I'm not too concerned since the ROI is still positive.
STT Multi-tabling advice
« on: Jul 5th, 2005, 5:29am »
Tonight I gave multi-tabling STTs my first shot (played four $10/$1's at once). Did decent, got one first, one third, one fourth, and one fifth. Anyway, I was doing really well at about two of the tables (the fourth and third place finishes) when another table (the first place finish) started winding down before the others were done.
The fact that I had to concentrate more on the first place table absolutely killed my strategy at the other two - I was terrorizing bitches' blinds left and right at both tables, but as I got in the money and eventually heads-up at the first-place table I eventually started auto-folding my marginal and bad hands when I'm sure I could have gotten more raises in and stolen more blinds. This made me go from the chip lead at both tables to an average stack as I got blinded out.
So my question is, how do you guys deal with this while multi-tabling as multiple SNGs get down into crunch time? It's definitely harder than 4-tabling cash games, since full ring doesn't have you playing hands anywhere near as often as the later levels of a tournament.
svenjolly
Re: STT Multi-tabling advice
« Reply #1 on: Jul 5th, 2005, 8:43am »
I could have written this post, Goofy. Been in the same boat and I hate walking away feeling like I short-changed one table while concentrating on another.
If I have more than 2 STT's going at once, I stagger the start times. I'll start 2 and wait till they are on levels 4 or 5 and start 2 more. It helps a lot. If I know it's going to be a long session, I like to get an MTT going as well.
Since I started whoring, I like having 2 cash tables on one screen and 2 or 3 tourneys on the other (2 STT's and 1 MTT is nice).
I've sat down and started up 4 STT's fairly close together, went deep in all and for me...it just turned into a click fest when each table got down to 3-5 players. Like you said, I found myself folding hands that I would normally be stealing with, etc.
mattaca
Re: STT Multi-tabling advice
« Reply #2 on: Jul 5th, 2005, 10:19am »
If you are patient enough you can stagger all four seperately. By the time you start your fouth you'll probably be close to finishing your first (or at least down to 4). Then they just sort of rotate through (unless you get knocked out early a few times).
MJ
Re: STT Multi-tabling advice
« Reply #3 on: Jul 6th, 2005, 11:38am »
I don't have any overlap on my monitor between the tables, so that helps quite a bit.
Otherwise, I just make my decisions real quick at each table, maybe think for 3-4 seconds max. Mostly I'm just on auto-pilot and attacking. Actually, it's easier for me to get an edge once there are less players per table, because I can start actually focusing more on each individual person, rather than trying to remember 40 different playing styles at once (I can usually only get a read on half the people per table when 4-tabling.)
Often, I consciously know I'm not always making the best decision, but if I'm under the clock for a lot of tables at one time, I'm not too concerned since the ROI is still positive.
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