Quote Originally Posted by Airles™
Quote Originally Posted by jimmyallin
add some more tables and keep learning.
Those two don't really coincide with each other. Adding tables is only going to add to your variance.
Not necessarily. Although it could if you start playing worse; as you add more tables the law of diminishing returns to sets in. Lower win rate, more variance etc.

However, if someone can play 8 tables just as optimally as 4 tables, the only difference will be more hands per hour (and the result of more hands/hour at the same win rate will equate to more $/hour), thus the swings will level out faster if you just play more tables because you're getting through your sample of hands faster.

In this case though I don't agree that adding more tables will help. 5K hands really is nothing, but to make sure it is nothing, I would suggest posting some stats (especially postional ones) to get some sort of idea on how you played. Obviously 5K hands isn't ideal to look at stats, but it will help highlight the extremes.