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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Alabama
Posts: 554
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raoni - try to keep a handle on which of your tables you're doing well and which you're getting short. I know I've been doing 4 tables now for a bit and that one key fact is easy to keep track of and enables you to make bold plays when the time is right. If you know that you're on the bubble and on the verge of 10BB's on the table to your bottom left (for ex.) then when that window pops up with AK and no one is allin yet, you just shove it. If you have to pause and ask yourself "What's my M? Who's shortest at the table? Is he involved in the pot? What's my best play?" - by that time your other tables are beeping at you and you're going to make a bad move somwhere. There will still be marginal spots you have to stop and think, but keeping a handle on which tables you are on the bubble with and which you're hovering around shortness with make the decisions much easier for me.
If you stack 'em, well forget about it. 
Another trick I use to help myself keep track is if you're playing more than 4 (recently I played 8 while finishing a block of 100 for BOP - a little -EV for me still), I would keep my shortie tables on the left and my healthy stack tables on the right, laid out in columns. That way I was able to pay attention more carefully without doing much extra thinking. Depending on your software, this can get sickening to try and move 'em around I guess, but in Stars, the layout feature makes it very simple for me. I get 'em close to where they go and click on the layout I set up beforehand and it pops 'em right in nice and clean. Think I'll hold off on playing >4 for a while tho.
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