Money Green Life: Save Money. Go Green. Improve Life.

I was playing my usual cash game poker at Pokerstars the other day and I saw this one particular player at every one of my tables. I was curious and did a player search on this guy and discovered that he was playing 41 tables at the same time!! Talk about trying to maximize your hourly winning rate!

When I first playing poker at Pokerstars, I obviously played only 1 table at a time. The thought of playing 2 tables never came to mind as I was trying to figure out how to play each hand optimally. But as I got used to playing just one table, I slowly added another table, then another table, and now I can comfortably play 9 tables at the same time. Sure, it becomes complicated at times and you might even time out occasionally or even miss a value bet, but your hourly rate  can double or even triple as opposed to playing just one table.

For example, if I have a winning rate of $5/hr playing just one table at the limit of $100NL, I can win $10/day by playing 2 hours. If I play 2 hours every day, that will equate to $300/mo. Now, by adding another table to the mix and playing two tables at the same time, I can double that amount and earn $600/mo. If I play 9 tables, I will earn $2,700/mo. Now, that’s a nice chunk of change. However, the caveat is the more tables you play, the less optimal you will play each hand. Most likely, unless you’re a super robot, you will not be able to decipher each hand to play optimally since you’ll need to react quicker during each hand.  Due to this nature, you will probably decrease your hourly winning rate per table. If you assume that you will be 50% less optimally playing 9 tables as opposed to 1 table, you will still earn $1,350/mo. That’s a lot more than $300 if you were to play 1 table.

I can play 9 tables comfortably without timing out or losing a value bet on Pokerstars and 6 tables at Ultimatebet. I got there by slowly adding additional table as I became comfortable. I suggest you trying adding one table at a time and find your comfort zone. Then start increasing your winning rate exponentially. I dunno if I’ll ever reach a point where I’m playing 41 tables at once, but I will continue to seek out way to maximize my winning rate.

When I first started my blog Money Green Life, the direction of the blog I was hoping was to write articles about saving energy and saving money at the same time. Since I have extensive knowledge about saving energy, I figured it was a good match. I still have visions of carrying out such hope as I will continue writing about the topic. However, I also have been having visions of expanding and writing about other topics that I am passionate about. I love the topic of energy, I’m always in the lookout for money saving/making opportunities, and I love playing poker. If these topics were to be combined together, you get a single common denominator in personal finance.

In this new direction of the blog, I plan to write about tips, advice, and reviews of products that help save energy thus saving money as I have been doing currently. In addition, I will also write about poker strategies that I have learned over the course of a few years I have been playing. With the money saved and money earned from saving energy and playing poker respectively, personal finance will come into play and I will write about tips and strategies that help to optimize money savings.

I am very excited with this new direction of this blog. I hope that you will find it useful.