What time of day do the fish bite best?

It seems to me that at certain hours of the day, players on some sites seem less skilled. Other times of the day they seem tougher to beat. I don't really have anything concrete, but I think I see some consistency. Would love some input.. please include the sites.

Aloha

doesn't really matter, just go to sharkscope.com and use the tournament selector to find sng's with lower roi averages. secondly, on sharkscope under additional self-search options, you can use your personal history of games based off of time of day you so you can see at what time you win the most if its really that important to you

martygokona said:

It seems to me that at certain hours of the day, players on some sites seem less skilled. Other times of the day they seem tougher to beat. I don't really have anything concrete, but I think I see some consistency. Would love some input.. please include the sites.

Aloha

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Depends on the site. Plus there's always fish out in different parts of the world. You just gotta hunt for them. Like the saying goes: "It's always 5 o'clock somewhere."

I dont think theres a particler time since theres allways morning or night somewhere as Sticker pointed out.
But i think the weekends are probly the "fish" highest % time of the week

Agreed friday saturday 2am my time EST lotta drunks willing to play, a little trash talking at those fools does'nt hurt.Then there out to get you,usually at any cost. GL peace

I find Sundays I can bring in a lot of profit...possibly just coincidence, but there seem to be a greater amount of weak players at the lower limits at least.

The weekend in general seems to be when the casual players usually come out.

Likminutz said:

I find Sundays I can bring in a lot of profit...possibly just coincidence, but there seem to be a greater amount of weak players at the lower limits at least.

The weekend in general seems to be when the casual players usually come out.

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At least on Stars, Sunday is the day where most of the big tournaments are. I think a lot of players will play some cash games after they bust out of the tourneys and most people first of all may be on tilt ("MY AA LOST TO 94o TO BUST ME OUT POKER SUCKS") and second off may not understand deep stacked cash theory. Play a cash game like a tournament and your money's pretty soon gone. Stacking with top pair loses you money pretty quickly.

Also I've found that at night (EST) there are more fish. Plenty of fish earlier but the concentration of regs, at least for 50nl and 100nl, is much higher in the morning.

Yeah, Sunday seems to be the best time to find the real fish (ATMs) on Stars. Also, Friday and Saturday night can see some serious action, even at the micro tables.

My PT database has usually listed the 8-9 AM Est (roughly) as my highest BB/100 period, but that's probably down to me playing my best poker in the morning.

I'm California, and find evenings good. This leaves most any Europeans still playing in a dazed and confused state of mind as they should be asleep, and its getting late for East Coast players and they are thinking about sleep, or drunk, or both!

^^^^ what DJ said. I also keep in mind the time diff between here and Europe because is key to finding tired/drunk players the same as bar closing time here in the US. Ya have to be carefull though, you will see some realy sick calls by people hit.

Weekends, night time... varies by site, because some have more players from particular parts of the world, but basically you want to be playing against the recreational players and drunks.
One simple measure I'd guess would be checking how many people are on the site at different times - when there are the most people on the site that's when the non-full-time players are on there - the recreational players. When you've got the minimum number of players on there it's more likely to be those that are on a lot of the time, at a guess.
Of course, finding a table with some spoilt rich person who's got time on his hands could happen during those quiet times... so it's probably better to check the tables to see flop percentages, aggression rates, etc... rather than expecting to get a good table at a specific time.

It stands to reason that the weekend would have more recreational players, ergo more fish. But remember you are swimming in shark infested waters as everyone else knows this too.

I am an european player.
The best moment to play for me is very early in the morning (7.00 o'clock)
it seems a lot of players are tired on that part of the day.

The most worst time seems to be late in the evening....

I have found Friday/Saturday night...9pm pacific and later to have a higher probability of finding some drunk willing to stack off with anything from Jack hi to second pair. Seems like the east coast partiers are hitting the tables and maybe some dazed overtired euros too,

Yeah, Friday/Saturday evenings US time = lots of drunk college kids playing = awesomeness.

Best part? Thanks to the joys of timezones, Friday/Saturday evenings US time equates to Saturday/Sunday afternoon here, so I don't even need to stay up late to get in on the action

My experience says that during the lunchtime here in the US is good, especially during the "happy hour" times at FullTilt. Anytime on the weekend is juicy , seriously from Friday @ lunchtime onwards to Sunday night is great.

I seem to do my best work late at night (10-3 am central standard time). I do not like to play mornings. For some reason Euros (no offense ot any here) beat me up pretty good so I try to avoid. Take on the drunks and you will have an advantage especially in sngs and mtt's. Drunks have no patience and you can pounce.

There's always fish around - you just have to have the right bait and dangle it in the right pond

Get yourself a tide chart usually 2 hours before the ebb tide is the best time.

Zorba said:

Get yourself a tide chart usually 2 hours before the ebb tide is the best time.

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Get the one with bleach alternative.

Wait are we talking about fishing or poker because they are two very different subjects...... hahhahaha