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[Gregg777]

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Restrict the number of tables at which a player is allowed to sit to 4. Your game selection is already plenty spotty; the fish don't care, but when you have four limit games at a given level, all of which consist of the same TAGs, it actively hurts your site.



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You do realize restricting good TAGs to four tables will make the games much tougher, not easier, don't you?

It's a moot point anyway because they have put months into resizeable tables, something they wouldn't do for just four tables.

[RunDownHouse]

You should also decrease the amount of time a player is allowed to sit out at a speed table. Those of us wanting to get hands in don't want someone to be able to take up a seat for the same amount of time as a normal table.

[RunDownHouse]

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You do realize restricting good TAGs to four tables will make the games much tougher, not easier, don't you?

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It seems intuitive to me that good players will play the best games they can find, for as many tables of that game as they can. They won't devote significantly more effort to table selection if they can play 12 tables than they can if they can only play 4; they'll just play at x tables that meet their criteria, up to the limit allowed.

So it follows that, given set standards and limited tables, TAGs won't just sit at every table, they'll sit until either the site limit is met or their standard for sitting is met, whichever comes first. A site's limit on tables only maximizes the number of TAGs at each table, since the regulating factor is the quality of the table.

I guess a counter-argument could be that good poker players aren't rational. Or that good players receive some sort of payment I'm not thinking of, like prop payments, that outweigh the monetary and psychological effects of being neutral or -EV at a table. In any case, if you can point out any errors in my perspective, I'd like to hear them.

[DLizzle]

i think he means if people only play 4 tables they will play much better, and also there will be less games in general, which hurts the site a ton more than the harm that comes from multitablers.