Practicing 3/4 tabling

Per my last poker post on hourly rate, I'd decided it was time to think about developing my SNG repertoire to include the ability to play three or four tables at the same time (I currently two-table the SNGs that I play, sometimes with a third table running a multi-table tournament at the same time). Rather than start out three or four tabling my current level of $30+3, I decided I'd hop back down to the $10+1 and start there. In three sessions tonight, of three tables, three tables, and finally four tables, I managed 60% ITM with 45.45% ROI and 0-4-2-4 finish distribution (OOTM was a fourth, a sixth, and a tenth). A nice heater, but amazingly my ROI should have been even higher, as twice heads-up I got all the money in the middle preflop in dominating situations and both times my opponents caught their three outers. One other time ITM tonight I got the money in on the flop with two pair (AJx on the flop) and my opponent called with KK and spiked a king. That should have been an easy first place finish there as well.

Man, the $10+1s are really really fishy looking back once you've moved up a couple levels - in one game I trippled up on the first hand (posted as Comment #1) with KK all-in preflop versus two other players: one holding 44 and the other holding AQo. Then two hands later I took 2/3rds someone's stack with AKo flopping TPTK. Then two hands after that, I stacked a third player when I limped UTG with QJs, caught two pair on a rainbow flop, and he called me down to the river (through a series of milking bets by yours truly) and finally called off his stack with an unimproved AKo, aparently thinking I was on a stone bluff (or just not thinking at all, I guess). Hand history for that one also posted, as Comment #2.

Made $22/hour for the two+ hours I played tonight - sadly that's more money per hour than I've been making at anything but the MTTs. Might be smarter to fourtable the $10+1 for a while to get more experience here, and then work on adding a third and eventually a fourth table at the $33 level.