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Help with multi-tabling - any/all advice welcome
Hi guys,
I currently play 5/6 tables (dym's) and am trying to see if I can increase this.
However, I get too much lag / freezing when I've tried to play 8 - also, I can't see all the tables on one screen.
I play on a Dell inspiron 1525 and just bought more RAM to increase capacity to 4GB - however, this still caused significant slowdown/freezing playing more than 6 tables. Is it that my notebook is too old to handle this much capacity? (originally came with just 2GB four years ago).
Would getting another monitor help? Would this enable me to see 8/9 tables all at the same time? Or do I need all new gear? If so, what? (How do the pros 12/16 table??)
All advice much appreciated, ty.
Priyesh (aka PJ / Jingle).
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that,s a great question.
i too am playing 6 dyms
and when i load up even 7th table it starts lagging and
generally playing up.
i have a 27" screen
and it fits 6 multi tables comfortably
could squeese 9 even 16 but they overlap
which isn.t ideal.
i know it doesn,t answer your question
as i don,t know the answer
so, i await as you do
sure someone must be able to help,
as i am now interested too!
devon
i do remember someone saying
that they played on a higher resolution
2560x1600
don,t know any more than that
sorry
devon
i play on a tower
paid £200 pounds for it
(£400 new i think)
and 27"moniter(£385)
i too struggle playing any more than 6 tables
don,t know how powerfull the tower is,
do you think buying a more expensive
one,and i,m therefore thinking more powerfull
(don,t know if that,s neccessarily true)
would that help,?
cheers devon
yes but there is a little overlapping
but it is playable
but as i too struggle with more than 6
i cant say that i really have given it a good go
but i also have a 23"moniter
which i can set up
and if i play 6 on each
i can easily play 12 tables comfortably
which i have done playing cash
and he struggles getting 6 on his
(not that he could play 6 anyway)
so as they say
maybe size does matter!
I'd always advise playing on a dekstop rather than a laptop. You get so much more for your money when you buy these over laptops. The gear in them if you buy/build the right ones are much better too.
I'd also advise you to ditch wireless network connections too if you're using it.
Tower is definately the way but you dont need to spend that much mmoney on it. A 23" monitoer will allow you to play 9 tables without overlap. A little tip from flashflush i had the other day which i kicked myself with is if you move the task bar to the side of the screen you can fit the tables without the overlap vertically.
When looking for a tower the graphics card is going to be a prime concern something that has its own memory and at least 2 outlets you never know if your going to want to opwen up more tables in the future.
What would be a worthy post by some of the techies on here would be a setup ie what you should be looking for to get your multi tableing up and running properly.
ie min spec for cpu / mem /graphics card and monitor sizes
For 2 monitors this http://www.microsoft.com/athome/organization/twomonitors.aspx
Bang for buck desktop over laptop but lots of things other than pc spec can affect multi tabling so bare this in mind gl.
My laptop is a 2.4Ghz, 8GB RAM, 64 bit machine and it gets the face on when I play only 2 tables. I suspect it is my ineternet speed (Sky broadband, ironically).
Also try using Firefox instead of IE. IE can come fully loaded with a ton of add-ons that don't help connectivity at all.
3 Tables is about my maximum for cash. I can usually do 6 for STT, but I am maxed out in brain power even at that.
It's just something that comes with practice. I remember back in the day that 3/4 was my limit and I would start timing out. Just add a couple more on everytime you get comfortable and then it comes quite easy. For example the other day I managed 20 tables fine.
Playing on a laptop isn't really good for serious grinding. I have quite a high spec laptop and that can only take 6...just starts slowing down/fan annoying me....
Here's a screeshot I took a while back....its of 15 but gives you an idea
http://twitter.com/#!/scotty_77/media/slideshow?url=http://yfrog.com/kf0k74j
I like you increased my Ram from 2 to 4 gigs, were before i was able to 7 table max now with the new ram i get 9 to 10 tables before PC struggles, now it seems my CPU is the weakest link. Its not a problem for me thou 'cause I do the majority of my play elsewhere.
Sky poker is super resource hungry so you will probably have to upgrade your system if you want to multi more on Sky.
When I multi on sky or anywhere I stack my tables so monitor realestate isnt an issue for me.
If your problem is purely the difficulty of actually just playing more tables then theres nothing for it but to just practice, theres no secret you just have to practice with more tables until you become better at it.
Most players recommend adding one more table onto your session until you become use to it and just keep doing that one a week or so.
My tip thou would be to throw your self in the deep end and open as many tables as you can until you are really struggling and do this a few times a day and soon it will feel much more comfortable to play a huge set, this method worked better for me than the add one table at a time method and I can only suggest trying both methods and find whats right for you.
Thanks for your help folks. I think I need to really be playing more than 3 at my microstakes levels to build up a bit more quickly. I love how you have time to watch Richard Orford while playing a crazy amount of tables, lol. I am going to try and add in a few more and see how I get on