My last post under VIP greater than 20% has lead to this post about what kind of earnings you should expect at a certain liimit while multitabling at online lower limit games. These numbers I am throwing out are certainly welcome to criticism from others as they are my best guestimates due to my playing style and ability and are mainly just an approximate guideline to those just starting out and wondering how much can be made per hour if they play well which is the hardest part of the equation I believe to solve. Again if my numbers deviate largely from some of your results taken over a large number of hands feel free to help me tweak these numbers. I believe they are perhaps a little conservative but not much so and the ability of the player between being a 0.5 BB/hr winner versus being a 1.5 BB/hr player will have a large affect on your numbers as well.

Number of tables played
---------------------------3----------4----------------5
0.50-1.00 limit:---------5.10-------6.40-----------8.00
1-2 limit-----------------8.00-------10.50---------13.00
2-4 limit----------------14.50------18.00--------- 22.50
3-6 limit----------------17.00------21.60--------- 27.00
5-10 limit---------------25.00----- 30.00--------- 37.50

Currently, I'm about $19 or so 3 tabling 2/4 at party but its somewhat of a small sample (4000 hands or so). I've tried 4 tables and I've found that it just seems so much more hectic than 3 which I handle with no problem. I'm just wondering how you can do 5 tables without overloading yourself. Do you only play for an hour or two at most at a time? How long have you been doing it?

Five table is no problem for me at all. I have been contemplating getting another video card and monitor and ten tabling

I have been playing limit holdem for about 10 years now and online nearly every day for a little over 4 years. The limited number of hands that I play and also the fact that I can size up the best way to handle certain situations extremely rapidly due to my experience dealing with these things thousands of times makes multitabling large numbers of games relatively easy. I commonly play 3 to 4 hours at a time although if I went to 8-10 tabling I would probably do alot more 2 hour chunks with breaks in between.

You've said in a post before that you often call raises from the BB and such with 86s and 57s, ect but aren't those hands best played with reads on people (assuming the pot is not overloaded with players). You said you are winners with all these types of hands. Are you just looking for flops that are great against big pocket pairs and playing it that way or folding or actually "playing the person" in those situations.

Don't mean to take this thread on a tangent. We can discuss this in another post if you want.

Heads up I will call raises with MANY hands from the BB particularly if that raise comes from late position but with 2 or more people involved I am very selective about the hands I get involved with for a raise. Against one person both of you are likely to miss the flop many times so you can either choose to attempt to out play your opponent by CR his flop bet and then lead at the turn and most of the time they fold up if holding nothing or you can fold if the board is not to your liking to attempt this. You can actually hit a hand and play the same way against his miss. Also there is no crime in calling the raise and folding to a bet because you only have to hit once every 3.5 hands to make your calling correct. One person is pretty easy to outplay but more than that out of position becomes alot more difficult.

With Game Time + I think I have improved somewhat in dealing with just this situation because you can drive a good player or a late position rock steal attempt out of a pot with nothing but with a less skilled opponent I only tend to play back when I hit a hand. I hope this helps some in what I was talking about.