Multitable Bankroll?

[ZMD]

say i wanna multitable, does my bankroll have to increase significantly, liek for example, for every extra table another 100BB to my bankroll?

[RiverTheNuts]

multitabling doesnt mean you need more bets unless you tilt, which means youll tilt 8-12 times more depending on how many tables you play...

multitabling just gets you to the "long run" faster, there isnt increased variance... it just seems like it because you are playing more hands in the same time

[NicGreek]

I liked this concept.

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/multiMedia.php

listen in to podcast #5 with Howard Lederer on Your online poker bankroll.

I liked what he talked about there.

[F Paulsson]

I'm not sure where he gets the sqrt(no_of_tables) thing from. Is there something mathematically different in playing four tables than it is to play one table really, really fast? I don't see it.

[NicGreek]

Was some time ago i heard it, but i think you increase your risk or ruin if you play more tables but dont increse your bankroll. But he also said something about you dont have to have 4 times your bankroll for 4 tabling. Rather if you have 300BB you would need something like 500BB for 4 tabling.

Cant remember now was long time i listened to it.

[F Paulsson]

Sorry, my bad, I should have been more clear:

He said that for multitabling, you need "the square-root of the number of tables you play, times the standard bankroll" (not verbatim). So, if the requirement is 300BB for playing one table, you need, if you play 4 tables, sqrt(4) * 300 = 2*300 = 600BB.

... but I don't see where he gets the square-root from. In fact, I don't see any mathematical reason that the bankroll requirements would change at all, barring the fact that your win-rate will go down some.

Again, if you play 6 hands per minute on one table, or 1.5 hands per minute on four tables, why would this be any different?

[pzhon]

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http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/multiMedia.php

listen in to podcast #5 with Howard Lederer on Your online poker bankroll.

I liked what he talked about there.

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Sorry, Howard Lederer is just dead wrong about needing more (he says sqrt(#tables) as much) to multitable. The number of hands you play per hour doesn't matter, either. This has been covered many times before.

[Scottery]

Variance is the same, but it just looks weird when you can be up or down buyins in very short spans of time..

[bigbootch]

the only reason i can see for needing a larger BR for multi-tabling might be so that you don't have to cash out of one table in order to buy into another, for example:

say your BR = 2k, you buy into two tables for 1k each, you bust on one table and double up on the second table, now your BR is unchanged at 2k but you cannot buy into a second table.

in this scenario you could of course lift from the 2k table and buy into two separate tables for 1k... having a larger BR just avoids this inconvenience (and, for NL games, this potential advantage).

[NicGreek]

I still think its to reduce risk of ruin, why you need a bigger br multitabling than singletabling.