Let's do it again

I had no intention of getting back into the game and then one day earlier this year my wife surprised me with a trip to Vegas for our anniversary. I won't say which anniversary for fear of dating myself, suffice it to say I am no spring chicken. I had never stepped foot inside a real B&M poker room before and had every intention of taking a shot at the small stakes. I needed to freshen up on my skills and what better way than putting a few bucks online. I didn't even know about Black Friday at this point, but quickly found out that my old stomping grounds, UB, was out of the picture, as was my second choice Full Tilt. (Not sure why I never played Stars, but from what I've read lately I think I missed out on the biggest fish pool out there). Stricty based on the FlopTurnRiver review and rakeback I chose Luvin Poker for my new site. I bought in for around $30 and started playing 2NL, just for fun. I didn't do so good at first, but didn't really care that much. I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing. I'm not sure it affected my game at all, but I liked that fact that I could play for an hour or two and walk away and basically just put it out of my head.

Over the next month I donked all of my $30 away... and I was ok with it. At that point I had no real hopes for winning anything in Vegas, but just told myself I'd bring $100 to a table, and just consider it an expense for the trip. About a week after going busto I opened up the poker client to see if there were any freerolls scheduled and noticed I had $0.18 in my account from rakeback. I took my newfound bankroll right to the first 2NL full-game I could find. A couple loose crazies plus a few good hands and I was laughing as I ran it up to $8 within two hours. Ok, so I wasn't ready to quit (again) just yet.

About 5 months have gone by since the miracle comeback from $0 and I'm up around $200. I'm at about 3BB/100 which is ok I guess, but I feel it should be higher at these stakes. I have a full time job and a family so my time is limited. Ive been getting in about 4K-5K hands per month, mostly on weekends and sneaking in some table-time while at the office.

Question...
I've tried, but I really struggle with anything more than two tables at 6max. Occasionally I've run 4 tables at full ring but I end up timing out if I get into more than 2 hands at the same time. How do you guys play 6, 12, or even 24 tables at a time. I just cant even wrap my head around it. I'm somewhat limited by hardware I guess, but even with a larger monitor I can't imagine fitting more than 4 tables on one screen, especially with the HUD running. Maybe thats why 6Max is more appealing to me. Even with just two or three tables I'm in enough action to keep in interesting, if not slightly stressful.

I'll post some stats as soon as I hit the forum minimum-post setting.

i know what you mean about the multitabling. I started out playing 1 table then 2 then settled at 4 for ages. The key is to just add 1 extra table at a time and play fairly tight . stack your tables to reduce mouse movement and most of your decisions revolve around fold fold fold fold AA raise etc.
i have 24 tabled 2nl FR but it was robotic and no time to actually think through a hands play .Now i just 5 table 20nl 6max

I can't play more than 4 tables if I tile them. Way too much mouse and eye movement. Just cascade them to where the buttons aren't on top of each other (so you don't misclick). I can play 9-12 tables of FR with ease.

I never even considered stacking the tables in the past. I always tiled them. I had just seen all the sample videos that way and figured it was better to follow the action. But I think that was the problem, I was trying to follow the action on all the tables.

I went to the 6max 2NLs opened 4 tables, stacked them and it was very doable. There where only 4 6max tables running on Everleaf so I opened 2 more FR and didn't have a single timeout and I came out up for the session.

Scary when you flop top set though and you cant see whats going on on the table... "Is that table ever going to pop back up?" "If someone raises and that thing times out it aint gonna be pretty". I guess that will just take some getting used to.

Thanks StarGrinder and Keith.

I have a second monitor where if I'm playing a big hand or have a big decision I drag the table over and separate it from the pack. If you don't have a second monitor, you can always just leave some room to the right of the screen and drag it there. Once the hand is over I just reorder the tables. Also, I thought not seeing the results was going to drive me nuts but it actually helps. You can always check it in HEM or PT afterwards anyway.