Sit and Go Tournament Strategy -Multi-Tabling
Online poker sites offer a variety of poker tournament options. The most popular of these is probably the sit and go. You can play sit and gos for nearly any buy-in, and while traditional sit and gos have always been 9- or 10-handed, you can play sit and gos with smaller or larger numbers of players as well.
Internet poker gives you what is nearly impossible in live poker is the option for multi-tabling, playing more than one sit and go at a time. This is not to be confused with a multi-table sit and go, which is a single sit and go tournament with more than ten players. In multi-tabling, you actually take on separate tournaments at once. Is it a good idea? It depends on the type of player you are.
Multi-Tabling Pros
If you have a short attention span, and have trouble being patient in a sit and go, multi-tabling may help your game. Some players, especially those playing online, out of poker rooms and online casinos, are not able to maintain the discipline required to be as tight as is often necessary in the early stages of a sit and go, folding hand after hand. If you’re in more than one tournament at a time, you are twice (or three or four times) as likely to be in action at any given moment.
Maybe you are a consistent winner at $22 sit and gos, and you want to make more money at it, but you’re not ready to risk more money on a single tournament where anything can happen. Multi-tabling can increase your win rate without forcing you to increase the amount you risk on one tournament.
Normally if you get busted out of a sit and go, you have to start all over, building a chip stack and learning about your opponents. If you are multi-tabling and you get busted out of one sit and go, you can just shift your focus to another one you are already working on.
Multi-Tabling Cons
You need to be able to maintain concentration when your focus is divided or you will be lost. If you are playing more than one type of tournament, say a no limit Hold'em tournament, a limit Hold'em tournament, and an Omaha hi lo tournament all at once, it's easy to get confused and make mistakes if you're not highly focused.
If you are not good at handling stress, playing multiple tournaments at once is not for you. If you get down to the money or close to it at more than one table, the action to you will be fast and furious, and you will have to make good decisions at more than one table nearly simultaneously. If you have not mastered this skill, you could be in trouble.
The best way to find out if multi-tabling is for you is to try it. You should start small, with just two tables, preferably at smaller than your usual buy-in, then if you are having success, move up to more tables and higher limits. For more poker and other gambling-related articles, news and tips about for example go to Netbet.org.
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