One of the greatest benefits of playing online poker is that you are able to play as many tables as you want to at the same time. This allows you to get in significantly more hands per hour than was ever possible before, increasing your overall hourly win rate. It is important, however, that you find a good balance between the number of tables you play and your ability to play well at those tables. Each extra table you play requires a certain amount of attention and that degrades your overall decision making capability. Multi-tabling is a powerful resource, but requires careful use to attain optimal results. Any time you are dividing your focus between multiple tables, you profitability at each table is going to suffer. With multi-tabling the key is to find a balance between the number of tables you can play and your overall hourly win rate. Consider this situation: you are currently playing one table of $.50/1 NL Hold’em 6-max and winning at a rate of 10bb/100. This means you are making $10/100 hands and probably playing about 100 hands an hour at 6 max so you are making $10/hr. If you can add another table, but this ...