Hi Dave: Yes, I know that Clarkatroid made a quarter of a million -- that's why I said that I was using him as a parameter, because I don't think that he is the top of the tree. I think that the top of the tree guys are pulling in about a million.
When you say "it isn't scaleable" in the sense that you are meaning --- well, yes. You lose EV from a lack of "individualization" which you more than gain back by playing more tables. Eventually you reach a cut-off point, and that level varies from stakes to stakes and from player to player.
But your "what happens when you can't get the volume" question has a parallel in 'ordinary' poker -- "what happens when your game dies or one of the two fishes disappears". The risks that a multi-er faces are, in this sense, paralleled in the risks that any successful poker player faces.
I think that the bigger risk is burn out. People underestimate how doggone wearying long periods of multi-tabling is. And without the intellectual spark that you get from playing at "slightly dangerous" stakes with occasional episodes of intellectual stimulation (bad for EV, good as mind food), you tire of the whole thing much faster.
That point of "difficult decisions" is important. To maximize EV when multitabling I want to eliminate all difficult decisions. I should be able to do everything automatically.
But to get better at the game and to maintain interest, I have to seek out "tough spots", because that's the way I learn to become a better player.
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Date: 2010-01-23 07:14 am (UTC)Yes, I know that Clarkatroid made a quarter of a million -- that's why I said that I was using him as a parameter, because I don't think that he is the top of the tree. I think that the top of the tree guys are pulling in about a million.
When you say "it isn't scaleable" in the sense that you are meaning --- well, yes. You lose EV from a lack of "individualization" which you more than gain back by playing more tables. Eventually you reach a cut-off point, and that level varies from stakes to stakes and from player to player.
But your "what happens when you can't get the volume" question has a parallel in 'ordinary' poker -- "what happens when your game dies or one of the two fishes disappears". The risks that a multi-er faces are, in this sense, paralleled in the risks that any successful poker player faces.
I think that the bigger risk is burn out. People underestimate how doggone wearying long periods of multi-tabling is. And without the intellectual spark that you get from playing at "slightly dangerous" stakes with occasional episodes of intellectual stimulation (bad for EV, good as mind food), you tire of the whole thing much faster.
That point of "difficult decisions" is important. To maximize EV when multitabling I want to eliminate all difficult decisions. I should be able to do everything automatically.
But to get better at the game and to maintain interest, I have to seek out "tough spots", because that's the way I learn to become a better player.
An interesting dichotomy.
Pete