Whens The Best Time To Play Poker?

I recently read in a magazine that if you choose when you play poker you can be more successful. Im in two minds about this one so anybody got any opinions or stats that it is actually better to play at a certain time of day?
Anybody suggest when the best time to play is (when there are most donks kicking about) ??

late night, early hours of the morning for the players at the table(just in case you are in a different timezone), Im only remembering what I read somewhere, but if its after midnight for a player, and he's had a few beers in the evening, and maybe lost a buy-in/mtt or two, he's looking for one last hand to recuperate his losses, so he's a lot more looser, and maybe off his A game.
But also, in the mornings/early afternoon, a lot of new people to poker seem to play then, bringing the minimum to the table, to try it out, they are just ripe for picking.
As for yourself, dont do it when you're tired, drunk, etc, unless you wanna lose/win big(huge variance!)

I find it that the best time to play on Full Tilt is during the "Happy Hour" so many donks out trying to get some extra points and yet there are so many sharks out ready to eat them alive, lol. And also like KD mentioned definitely at night, you will have few people tilting by then drinking their beer and playing few hands before they go to bed, also you don't have to worry as much about the people who play for a living, since most of them are finish up a tourney they are deep in and going to bed.

Right now, Sunday afternoon through evening/night is feeding frenzy on the cash tables and tournies.

At any casino it is always Friday and Saturday nights. You get people that are not regular players and just went out for a good time, along with players who might play sober on a week night but drink enough to seriously hurt their game. I make it a point to play at least one of those nights every week and sometimes both. I definitely see a higher return on a Friday night than I do on a Tuesday in the middle of the day.

Online, I'm not sure. But when I was playing the Jokerstars steps to the wsop, I found that the play was much worse when the Euro-players were more likely to be playing. It's like the whole continent is full of over-aggressive shove-addicts. So evening in Europe, which is like afternoon here, was a great time to play on Jokerstars...but I only played the steps, so I don't know if that is true for other games on that site.

I'd say at night if YOU are not too drunk or tired because other people defiently will be.

Haha thats fairly true because friday night i played 4 tourneys and won 3 of them which is pretty good for me as some of you may have heard about my 2s and 3s up play!! I played with a few guys who were just typing random letters in the chat and went all in with 10 4 i think haha i played all day yesterday but had a horrible day and only finished ITM 3 out of 10 i think couldnt hit anything !! So not sure about the sunday play on betfair but im thinking of putting some money onto full tilt if i profit this month so shall see how it goes !!!
Thanks for all your replys

^^^lol, good luck Jurn8!


(memo to self, hereford is in england.................)

KerouacsDog said:

^^^lol, good luck Jurn8!


(memo to self, hereford is in england.................)

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Hahah !! il need abit more luck by the way the past 2 days have gone for me mate !!

I find starting at like 1:00am ET the tables start to get really juicy. Which is nice because that's only 10pm for me.

Sunday afternoons and evenings works best for me. I play a little tighter at the begining of Sng's.

DuaneK said:

Sunday afternoons and evenings works best for me. I play a little tighter at the begining of Sng's.

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funny you should say that tbh i played all day sunday and had a mare of a day !! lol

Something I have found absolutely easy money is playing HU cash late night weekends(if you are not too drunk that is). There are many players who are pissed they got a "bad beat" and want to tear up the HU game by being uber aggressive and end up getting all in with low pair or something on the turn. Most of these players are playing up in limits too I would imagine to recoup the bad beat money they donked away.

widowmaker89 said:

Something I have found absolutely easy money is playing HU cash late night weekends(if you are not too drunk that is). There are many players who are pissed they got a "bad beat" and want to tear up the HU game by being uber aggressive and end up getting all in with low pair or something on the turn. Most of these players are playing up in limits too I would imagine to recoup the bad beat money they donked away.

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thats a good idea actually i might try that, although im not very good at HU tbh!

Irexes said:

Right now, Sunday afternoon through evening/night is feeding frenzy on the cash tables and tournies.

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^^^ this

Sundays are by far the best days to make money if you dedicate that day to strictly poker like me.

^^^^
Just remeber, sunday is a day of rest, to do what you believe in, so if it's poker, then thats fine.
Me, i might even get to church this sunday, its been a while!
(Hope God will let me in, ha, I know he will, he lets everyone in!)
Take care, all
KD

Purely anecdotal evidence, but my best profits occur weekday mornings. I wake up about the crack of 10 & play a couple SnG's to warm up, which I win about 7/10 times, then hit the cash tables.

I usually run hot until 5 or 6.

Weekend afternoons are good for me too.

I think that I play my best against good players which is why this works for me. My worst luck is weekend evenings, when the donks are coming out of the woodwork. That's when all my bad beats happen & it seems the rooms turn into bingo parlors.

I guess it all comes down to your game & who you match up well against.

^^^nice post, so you're telling me I have to play donks and fish for the rest of my life, as that's what my level is, and thats what i match up against, yeah???? Thanks, just kidding!

Have a good day, KW, be lucky!

KD

While it may be true that there are more bad players on during certain times of the day or on certain days, the best time for you to play is when you can play your best.

If you get tired at 10 PM, it's not good for your game to stay up till 2 AM playing poker just because there are more bad players on during that time. If your house is a crazy place full of distractions on Sunday afternoon don't try to play on Sunday afternoon. Give yourself the opportunity to play great poker and you'll find worse players day or night and on everyday of the week.