There comes a time when you are playing online poker that you get it. Whether it is just from playing hundreds or even thousands of hands on the Internet, or it comes from studious reading and note taking, the time comes when you can look at a wired pair and know, based on the number of players in the game, how aggressive the game has become, the relative chip stacks and your position, if you should be checking, betting, folding or raising the hand. When you can understand and make these kinds of decision on a constant basis, you've "got it." And you really need to get it for online games, much more so than live games. In a live game you can take your time, add up the chips in the pot, figure out your pot odds, your implied odds, etc, and make your action. Online you have, if you are lucky, a full fifteen seconds to make your action. When you've got it, its time to add a few additional games.

Running more than one table simultaneously may seem like a crazy thing to do, but it can actually help you play better on each table. Boredom is a true enemy when it comes to poker, especially online poker. While the short action clocks do keep things moving, if you have a full table of ten players and each one is letting the clock run out, and to top it off you folded your hand pre flop, you have nothing better to do than watch the other players play. To keep you from succumbing to the resultant condition of boredom, that is, impatience and rash decision making. If you have another table open, well, then you have something else to do on that other game. Going back and forth make seem like it is counter to concentration, but remember, you only have 15 seconds to make decisions any way, and you've "got it."