Okay, here's a question for all you online gurus.

So, as some of you may know, I've been strictly a live game player here in SoCal. I base my game mostly on reads.

I tried bringing my game to online and had limited success. Making reads is really pretty hard to do when all u see if a freakin' name and a chip count. Notes help, but you rarely see the same guy enough to make it matter. I guess I'm a visual person.

What happened was that with the blinds being so small, it seemed like for every two good reads, I'd make one bad read and the bad read would always cost me more. It's weird, but it seemed that way. Over two months time I went from a $100 bankroll to a $700 just playing sparingly. Not bad, but not really anything to write home about.

So to make a long story short, I decided to give up reads, play multiple tables and started playing way beyond my bankroll. (I only started with $100 and didn't care about losing it since I have a decent bankroll for live games). I'm playing 3 tables of $200NL with a $2,500 bankroll now in just two weeks. I know I'm running good and will hit a downswing, but I started with just $100 so big deal (I already took out $200 actually).

Is my ABC poker with no reads strategy going to last? Are you guys actually able to make good reads while playing multiple tables? I'm just not at that level yet. I basically just lump all online players into one big online player model (which is way different from live) and then make my decisions from there.

Tell me I'm smoking crack. Go ahead. I can't believe this is actually working so far.