As far as I know variance is ROI dependant, not volume dependant. So by playing more tables you actually increases your variance, as you ROI will be certainly lower due to losing focus. There was even a thread about it on 2p2.I really respect guys who are able to multitable husngs. I tried it and its extremely hard for me to get any reads or even frequencies playing two opponents simultaneously.

My 2 cents concerning last hand:I expect him to have J2, J3, J4, 23o, 22, 33 or maybe even 44. And he probably assumed you couldn't have set or A5 (as you would raise or minraise with any pair or ace) and it was unlikely that you had 65 (that play would be too aggro for such hand). So quite dry board IMO (of course it was flushy, but still). 

Big volume helps you get to the long run faster, which decreases your variance in terms of how many losing months you have, etc. That's assuming it doesn't hurt your play too much :) I'm a big believer in training yourself to put in volume. Not doing so is a leak just like any other leak if you'd be able to if you tried. I very much like your strat adjustment vs the player who was calling tons of c-bets/minraising limps. Minraising limps with a wide-ish is an awful tendency to have and makes me very much want to play limped pots vs him, not getting pushed out pre ever is a big plus. In hand 1, there's nothing you can do except call turn. Post the river decision :) He can have Tx for sure but also a lot of draws and random stuff betting small.The second really depends a ton on exactly what you've seen him do, not just "aggro postflop". Have you seen this turn sizing from him as a bluff? This river sizing from him as a bluff? This river sizing for him for value? How wide would he bet the turn for value? I'm asking these questions rhetorically, the job is to think back through all the hands, as I think you're smart enough to know what the answer to each question means in terms of helping/hurting a river call. But I certainly don't hate it (or am 100% convinced of it) without futher reads. But those are the things to be thinking about. Any reason behind 45 instead of 30 in the last hand? (can be fine). The river is just a puke spot, It's a fold without any more information but a call is certainly reasonable based on his bluffing tendencies/how he'd play his flush draws/whether he'd ever turn a pair into a bluff. 

In response to your volume problem - why not play turbos?  You can get in many more tourneys in your limited time.

"1.) Would you scope your opponents when they haved joined you to get a bit more information or wouldnt you recommend this to not cloud your judgment? 2.) How many hands / day on avg. do you think is fine? I think a lot of "us" is asking themselves this question. As I'm very eager on learning as much as possible I think I could easily overdo it but I rly dont wanna take advantage of you or anything like that. 3.) What do you prefer: converted hands like the previous ones or like these in this post? I think the advantage of this is that is more "compact" and cleaner. But I convert them in the way you want it." 1. I don't scope them, but it's fine to.2. I would just make sure you're not asking so many questions we can't have a coherant conversation, trying to talk about 6 different hands at once and all. If I feel we're not having a coherant conversation I'll just pick out a hand or two of what you post and talk about that. In general a hand or two a day with a theory question is reasonable, but I'm not going to set hard and fast rules or anything like that. If anybody ever has a problem with the attention they're getting just come talk to me, I won't be upset.3. I don't care :)

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1235387I take your exact line basically, I know we don't feel good on the river but trust me we're good 23% of the tim here. I like the bigger turn sizing for sure if you bet (check raising also an option depending on frequencies). 

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1235392Preflop and flop perfectly standard, turn looks fine. I think I'd bet a little bigger on the river, 380 or so. His line is odd as hell, I have no idea what he has.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1235400I think you can call this turn. I'm not loving it, but we'll hit an ace or a five 12% of the time and have some implied odds there when we hit, he can have some flush draws that picked up a straight draw on the turn or something like that, occasionally he'll have worse 5s, and even when he has 8x we're in position so when he checks the river on some scare cards we can bluff and have some extra equity that way. I think a fold is reasonable, but think we have just enough in expectation from continuing.

were u planning to c/c in http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1235387 on the flop? i think leading there has some merit. i think we have too much value on the river to check so a bet is better i think, that raise is so small that as mers said i think we need to call herelast 2 hands hand 1 i think its fine as played but on hand 2 maybe u can jam turn (i think raising smaller seems too strong) and get called by JXc AXc or smthing a lot straight draw+ fd or smth, if u are already beat u have outs for the fd and you arent sure if he is going to bet his missed fd on the river (please mers see if there is anythign wrong with my thought here)i hope u dont mind me jumping on your thread, if u like only mers answers is fine :)

IMO if its too early in the match to have reads its probably too early in the match to 3-barrel although I totally see how you got there (flop c-bet, turn K - good card to bluff, river - no obvious draws hit etc.) and it seems really weak to check on this river.  I did the same thing a few times today so I'm definitely interested if I'm just to results oriented.

Hand 2 I think raising turn small is an option that makes the hand play more easily; a big part of his range is blockbetting draws and thinks he doesn't have much FE when the board pairs.  Obv fold to a 3bet since your hand looks a LOT like Tx if you raise small there and if he's inducing he'll let you know. Hand 3 looks good vs. a maniac.

In hand 1, I tend to not c/r those type of boards vs. suspicious regs, you get 3bet way too much and rep very very little.  I would like your c/r a lot more with K3 or A9 fwiw, interested to know what others think cause I'm not awesome in these spots.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1236667I would also c-bet bigger vs loose/stationy/passive player, and I also like a small river value bet. There are a few two pair hands but not as many as you might think. There's also a clear missed flush draw for him to put you on.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1236675No other way to play this hand I think, flop decision is close-ish but I still think flatting is best, turn you have no decision, on the river we chop with all Kx so there isn't even value to be had there, I would check as well.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1236675I don't see a lot of players at the $22s folding Jx third hand of the match, no. I think vs the general population flatting pre is going to be better than 3betting. I would give up but jamming isn't going to be that -EV.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1238996I would like the small turn bet a lot better if you had floated flop, as it is though, given that he called the flop riase and the 7 gives a lot of draws a pair or a straight, I think his range is too strong to bet, and I would check behind. I would fold to the jam - what do you think you're inducing from that called the flop raise? If he thought he had the best hand on the flop he's unlikely to bluffjam turn and if he had a draw he has a pair now for the most part.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1240047I think this is very spewy, yeah. I also think it's odd you think 78 might do this - I have never in my life seen this play from an openender in this spot (it would be funny if that is what he had :) ). People do this a good amount with their inducing hands and in my experience, far more often than their pure bluffs. You need far more reads than given to make this play.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1240047'I dislike raising turn (it may play easier, but it very likely has worse equity, as we do worse vs all his value hands) and think the hand is played fine. Sizing reads are EXTREMELY useful in these spots if and when you have them.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1240073No other way to play it especially given description.

I think raising turn isn't going to be that bad (on second look, I take back that it's not an option), but I still think his flop overbet/strong bet on the turn is going to have a lot of baby flushes/two pair/straight in it, and think flatting is best.

It's not necessarily about smallball - if I thought that we had better equity by raising, even slightly, I would do it without thinking twice. I just think given the unique overbet/strong turn bet we're actually beat a good amount of the time here, and when we are we're often crushed. But obviously not often enough to consider folding or anything like that.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1242144This depends a ton on the reg and exactly what you've seen, a ton of regs will never take this line as a bluff and shut down on the flop once called. I dislike your idea about calling to take the pot away on the river, though - I think his range is strongly weighted towards Kx/9x/draws and so the only thing you'll be taking the pot away from is the missed draws you're ahead of anyway.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1242169I would fold here, with further reads about the weakness of his betsizing here you can bluff but I don't think people take this line with worse than Qx very often so I don't think there's a lot of weak pairs to bluff out.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1242176Strongly prefer jamming to a smaller 3bet on the flop, that would look super super strong.

Hand 1: I think his hand is value a ton, and we need like 28%.  So the question is what kind of value he can have.Do you know what his flop checkback range consisted of?  Like was it air, or marginal showdown, or trappy TP stuff?  Also, did he take bet/check/bet lines ever (which would indicate he pot controls or does weird stuff with TP on the turn)?  What was his raise frequency (i.e. can he ever have 83/82, which goes along with knowing his flop checkback range)?Really interested to see what mers has to say here...if we can put like ANYTHING else in his range a call becomes good, especially since there are no straights or flushes. Also, if he can check back Q8 on the turn, he can check back Q9/QT/QJ/KQ some of the time, and only needs to do a tiny bit of "f it I jam" for a call to be good.It comes down to the fact that Q8 is 6 combos, 88 is 3 combos, and then we have the weirdly played hands like 73/72/33/22/32/Q3/Q2. And if he plays Q8 like this, there is more value that you beat in his range. If he were raising 100% pre I would snap here, if not, his monsters might just be too big a portion of his range, but it's close. Hand 2: not sure about the checkback; the fact that he folds a lot of flops makes me want to bet the turn more, not less. Especially if you make it smallish you can charge draws (which won't pay you on the river), get value from floated Ax (which he should have even as described on that board), and 9x shouldn't be folding. It's close between getting value from 7x and charging draws...but one nice thing about betting turn is that you get 3 sts from Ax, and he also picks up some pair+FD on the turn (not a huge part of his range, but def worth considering).I call the river given that he has a decent amount of Ax (depending on his 3bet tendencies) and we're beating most of that. Sucks a bit that 8T got there, but that's not that much compared to Ax combos which prob play similarly. (As always, take this with a grain of salt till Mers posts, this is more for me to work on my own thought processes, since I f*** up at the actual table a lot)

Regarding the tables, I lost a ton of money last month trying to maintain platinum status at Stars on the $50's - sometimes I even ended up playing 3 tables by accident while playing 4-mans.  It was just "the big grind of the death".Now, I took a break from Stars and play at a smaller site, single-tabling, and I'm really surprised about how much more I can actually focus on my opponent and see what they're doing.  I'm also experiencing a much lower variance at the moment.Focus and volume is really something I still need to work on, for instance I just played about two hours, read a bit in this forum while waiting for action, and now I'm even too tired to look at specific hands.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1243989Yeah, against a reg who doesn't get out of line a lot, this is just a big "WTF" moment when he jams river. He reps nothing for bluff and very few hands for value (to comfort you, as per the essential reading list Ed Miller article, this hand means next to nothing in terms of correcting leaks for that reason). I think what it comes down to is whether 82/83/slowplayed stuff like AA/KK/AQ/73 etc are ever in his range, but since we only need 28% and literally only 88 makes perfect sense for a value hand (87 too I suppose), I think we have to call. Can't love it of course.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1243992Definitely bet turn here, I think checking is way too Fancy Play Syndrome. There's a ton to get value out of and I don't think the ace is going to fold people out as much as you might think or that we can never get called on the river. On the river, I think it's a super clear call, we may be beat even most of the time here but we're not beat 70%+. As reallymonkeyish points out he can call the flop with Ax a good bit and there are also missed draws he can go this size with.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1248576I think flop is pretty close. This betsize is going to be weighted against hands you're ahead of or have 6 outs against - I would argue for a fold to a half-pot cbet if your opponent has only been 3betting around 8%. vs a bet of 100, it's pretty close and I'm ok with calling, we have a backdoor flush draw which helps a ton. On this turn after he checks, I think you should go ahead and bet turn/bet the river. He's going to have overcards far more often then overpairs and I think vs this player type you can fold out a ton of his range. This is especially true if he tends to make more sizable bets for value when he does have a hand.

http://www.handconverter.com/hands/1248580Against most people you should be folding to this jam beause of how little air there is in his range, whether or not to call depends really on exactly what happened in the match and the way to interpret your reads. Your river sizing may induce a good bit based on his tendencies, and if he's calling down larger sizings with 9x that might be a better choice.