Session length and focus

Quality > Quantity.

Originally Posted by OhioRounder

Quality > Quantity.

Quantity helped with my quality when I had the attention span of a kindergardener

IMO

Play one less table than you are confortable playing.

Boredome is your enemy. Before you add another tables, have notes on at least half of the table you're currently playing, even when using a HUD.

If you quit ahead and before you get tired then you won't be forced to quit behind and tilted.

Leave a table when you lose 3 big pots. Make it two if it's the same villian. When you lose 3 pots or 2 to the same villian you may have tendancy to "get my money back from that donk"

Again, IMO

Originally Posted by OhioRounder

Quality > Quantity.

In my opinion, Quality*Quantity such that profit is maximized is optimal...
I see this often stated, but for each player, this is different..
Ie. if your profit per table per hour is something like:
Tables - Profit per hour
1 - $10
2 - $ 7
3 - $ 6
4 - $ 5
5 - $ 4
6 - $ 3
7 - $ 2
8 - $ 1.50
9 - $ 1
10- $ 0.50
11- $ 0.25
12- $ 0

the total profit would be maximized at either 4 or 5 tabling, and I would say in the long run, you will improve your game more by playing 4 tables over 5, so based on this I would 4 table. Of course this is just a hypothetical example, but the underlying principle is obvious; if your goal is profit, everything you do should be to maximize long-run profit. If you are planning on moving up stakes, it may be worth your while to lower the number of tables you play before you move up stakes, to get used to making reads, and observe some higher stakes simultaneously to note the differences in playing styles between your stake and the next.

Simple economics, but I fear it may be overlooked. If your goal is profit, which is generally my assumption, that should be what you base your playing on. It isn't this easy in practice, but the concepts are the same.

Originally Posted by sven00100

In my opinion, Quality*Quantity such that profit is maximized is optimal...
I see this often stated, but for each player, this is different..
Ie. if your profit per table per hour is something like:
Tables - Profit per hour
1 - $10
2 - $ 7
3 - $ 6
4 - $ 5
5 - $ 4
6 - $ 3
7 - $ 2
8 - $ 1.50
9 - $ 1
10- $ 0.50
11- $ 0.25
12- $ 0

the total profit would be maximized at either 4 or 5 tabling, and I would say in the long run, you will improve your game more by playing 4 tables over 5, so based on this I would 4 table. Of course this is just a hypothetical example, but the underlying principle is obvious; if your goal is profit, everything you do should be to maximize long-run profit. If you are planning on moving up stakes, it may be worth your while to lower the number of tables you play before you move up stakes, to get used to making reads, and observe some higher stakes simultaneously to note the differences in playing styles between your stake and the next.

Simple economics, but I fear it may be overlooked. If your goal is profit, which is generally my assumption, that should be what you base your playing on. It isn't this easy in practice, but the concepts are the same.

Solid poast imo