However when you play multiple tables like this and by multiple then I am referring to ten tables or more then a completely different way of playing takes shape. You may for example do very well playing ten tables but you need to adjust how you play and when you do this then individual plays when seen in isolation can look very bad. Let us look at an example here to show you what I mean. It has been folded around to you on the cut-off with Ac-9d in NL100 full ring and you fold the hand.

Now notice how bad this play looks as A-9 is clearly strong enough to raise from that position and under normal circumstances it would be. If you placed this hand on a forum then expect to get lambasted for playing too tight and you will be criticised for this play. However looking at hands in a vacuum is a big mistake as it doesn?t always reveal the truth. What if the player who had passed this A-9 was playing ten tables and involved in two big pots at the same time?

If you can handle three big pots at the same time then fair enough but what if you can?t? It doesn?t make sense to split your attention to a third pot when the pot in the A-9 hand is still very tiny when there are two big pots that need far bigger decisions somewhere else. What if as a result of playing the A-9 the following situation cropped up. The big blind called and the flop came 9c-4s-2d and the big blind checked. You bet two thirds of the pot and the big blind check raised you. Suddenly you have something else to think about that is detracting from your attention in the other two big pots that are happening on other tables.

Can you see how your entire game is starting to become compromised? You need to remember that when you play ten tables or more that you are playing them as a unit and not individually. This is why folding A-9 on the cut-off can be a good move in certain circumstances but it requires a certain level of imagination to comprehend it as such. When you lose money as a result of getting ?lost? in hands then your entire game can start to crumble! This is far easier to do when you are multi-tabling because decisions are coming at you thick and fast.

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Sometimes the players have been paid to be on those programs and paid substantial amounts of money. Don?t you ever stop to ask yourself why so many supposed world class payers would sit in the same game with each other? That simply doesn?t make sense and the only logical answer is that these players are making money on these games beyond the actual playing of the hands. I personally was once offered a million dollars by a leading poker site if I would advertise them?..there was only one snag and I had to reach the final table of the WSOP Texas Hold em main event.

However though this underlines how any sort of televised poker is worth an awful lot of money to poker sites in terms of advertising. So do not think that televised high stakes poker is always what it appears to be. You need to remember that when you play poker that you can only make money by your opponents making mistakes. However just how are world class opponents going to be making enough mistakes for you to make a living? All this of course is presuming that you can find hundreds of thousands of dollars or even several million dollars as a bankroll and can avoid the swings.

So never mind the hype of high stakes poker because this is all it is??hype! Very few players come through the journey from low stakes to high stakes poker alive and in one piece. Even if you do well then normal variance can tear you apart. If the thought of losing twenty buy ins terrifies you at NL100 with one hundred dollar buy ins then what about at $300-$600 where the buy in is $60,000? I tried myself some years ago to do this and I can speak from experience not just from my journey but also of the journey taken by many others that it simply isn?t worth it.

If you downgrade your goals so that you try and make poker a ?good career? rather than trying to be the best on the planet then not only would your chances escalate but your life can be altered for the better because of your goals being more down to earth. In my opinion high stakes poker should be reserved for nothing more than simple entertainment and it should be left at that.