Hi everyone, I'm not a pro player, I only play once or twice a week, but I would like to do it daily. What advice would you give to a freelance software developer who lives with his wife and has the nights off ?.

Being freelancer gives you opportunity to better regulate your time. When you have some free time and you have done your other duties just login and start playing. Good thing about the online poker is that there is always a game waiting for you to join.

The whole point is not to stay at poker every night and she will wait for you in bed! Then there are the problems and the accusations that the game is more important than it!

Try to manage your time around a tournament you want to play. It sounds like you can manage your worktime yourself, although I'm not too familiar with your profession. Hoping to get back into poker myself after a little break. Feel like CC games are definitely the way to go

Difficult answer, try in a day.

Tou should communicate with your wife before playing it daily. Your wife needs you as you needs poker. But your wife id human and poker just poker.

Play whatever amount you feel comfortable with when you have the time. If you feel like it's cutting into family time then it probably is.

play cash this game mode is free

I play poker on weekdays and weekends. On weekdays, I usually play 3-4 hours a day. On weekends I play 5-8 hours a day. For me, this is the best option.

Not easy, ideally on breaks

Originally Posted by nesser

Hi everyone, I'm not a pro player, I only play once or twice a week, but I would like to do it daily. What advice would you give to a freelance software developer who lives with his wife and has the nights off ?.

Develop a software that helps you manage your time to play Poker and take care of your family or wife and that she helps you or agrees with you.

For those who have little free time, the best option I believe are short games.
There are those who like turbo and hyperturbo tournaments. However, my recommendation is to play regular sit and go with a maximum of 90 players.

Only you know how much time you can spend on Poker without disturbing your wife.
So a tip try to take the poker without disturbing your wife and the problems begin in the couple.

I think you should have a plan and control how much time to spend on specific activities. In that way, you will find free time to play poker. Although I feel you do not have enough time to play tournaments, it requires a lot of time. Cash game or Sit and Go is a good choice here. You should play during the day instead of playing at night. At night, it's time to relax after doing many activities.

Cash tables and Sit and Gos. You can play for as little as half an hour or less whenever you feel like it. Want to skip a day because you're taking your wife out just skip a day. You have the most freedom playing cash tables and Sit and Gos require minimal commitment. You can play them whenever you want.

It's almost possible lol, but it is a way to play very well in addition to understanding poker strategy bro

Originally Posted by jleon_zat

play cash this game mode is free

interesting, I liked this advice I come to snoop whenever I can very organized you as to the serious game I need good advice I am prioritizing poker and family time and Poker are great combinations for life, but the balance this I am looking for too !!

Sorry, but in my humble opinion no one can do that for you. You have to try to conciliate your work, family, poker, etc... and only you can know how to organize your days with all this, and surely more. The advice given to you here can help a little but cannot replace your judgment, we are all different in our professional and family circles. So... good luck with your new schedule.

Hi.
I just play when I have free time. I work as a driver and usually on weekdays I do not always have the opportunity to play poker. But on weekends I usually always have time in the evenings.
Good luck.

You need to find a compromise with your wife. Tell her that after the first big win you will buy something for her.))

You can only figure out this problem yourself. Get your wife interested in your game.

Originally Posted by milka1605

You can only figure out this problem yourself. Get your wife interested in your game.

I taught her, but by the moment she's still not interested, or at least not as much as I am.

Originally Posted by redmast

You need to find a compromise with your wife. Tell her that after the first big win you will buy something for her.))

I think this is the best advice. She doesn't dislike me playing, but you're right, maybe if I tell her that I'll buy her something nice, she may like the idea that I play more.

Originally Posted by PokStorm

Sorry, but in my humble opinion no one can do that for you. You have to try to conciliate your work, family, poker, etc... and only you can know how to organize your days with all this, and surely more. The advice given to you here can help a little but cannot replace your judgment, we are all different in our professional and family circles. So... good luck with your new schedule.

Of course, that is precisely why I like this forum, because I can get the best out of every tip. In the end I know I have to solve it myself, but it helps a lot to have all this feedback.

Originally Posted by daniel888

I think you should have a plan and control how much time to spend on specific activities. In that way, you will find free time to play poker. Although I feel you do not have enough time to play tournaments, it requires a lot of time. Cash game or Sit and Go is a good choice here. You should play during the day instead of playing at night. At night, it's time to relax after doing many activities.

I would really like to play during the day, because poker distracts me a lot, but I can't do it because of work (and right now in the middle of this pandemic there is much more). Sit & Go can be a good option. Thanks

Originally Posted by Jim Rivas

Develop a software that helps you manage your time to play Poker and take care of your family or wife and that she helps you or agrees with you.

LOL Whoever develops it becomes rich. (not rich but super rich)

is not too hard to combine your day with poker when all your days are free

Originally Posted by nesser

Hi everyone, I'm not a pro player, I only play once or twice a week, but I would like to do it daily. What advice would you give to a freelance software developer who lives with his wife and has the nights off ?.

Don't make a rule that you have to play everyday. Especially if you are not a pro then I think it makes sense to have other priorities like family and friends. Maybe if you want play almost everyday but be willing to take days off for other priorities.

Get fluent in playing on your cellphone while watching TV with your wife so you can pay attention on both

Originally Posted by YoSoyMarce

is not too hard to combine your day with poker when all your days are free

Absolutely, it is much easier when you have nothing to do in your day to day.

Originally Posted by hellomynameiswhat

Don't make a rule that you have to play everyday. Especially if you are not a pro then I think it makes sense to have other priorities like family and friends. Maybe if you want play almost everyday but be willing to take days off for other priorities.

I don't think I can make a living from poker, so becoming a pro isn't one of my goals, but I do like the adrenaline that playing poker gives you. So what I need to learn how to balance between family work and hobby.

Originally Posted by Newzooozooo

Hi.
I just play when I have free time. I work as a driver and usually on weekdays I do not always have the opportunity to play poker. But on weekends I usually always have time in the evenings.
Good luck.

I don't know if you feel the same as me, but I like to play poker because it has nothing to do with what I do and it really disconnects me from work. As I work almost every day, I need to "disconnect" myself almost every day.

I think it should be combined with a bit of life in the open air and a good rest to lucidly face the poker sessions later.

The hardest players to read are from Eastern Europe. I suggest you play poker when most of them are sleeping.

Originally Posted by milka1605

You can only figure out this problem yourself. Get your wife interested in your game.

Originally Posted by perrypip

Cash tables and Sit and Gos. You can play for as little as half an hour or less whenever you feel like it. Want to skip a day because you're taking your wife out just skip a day. You have the most freedom playing cash tables and Sit and Gos require minimal commitment. You can play them whenever you want.

Last night I played 45 minutes at a cash table, and I think it might be a good option. Thanks

Originally Posted by neptun1914

Being freelancer gives you opportunity to better regulate your time. When you have some free time and you have done your other duties just login and start playing. Good thing about the online poker is that there is always a game waiting for you to join.

That isn't entirely true, once a freelancer accepts a project, they must fully commit, sometimes the deadlines are ridiculous short, but I agree with you, always there is a game waiting for me

Originally Posted by COMIRRR

The whole point is not to stay at poker every night and she will wait for you in bed! Then there are the problems and the accusations that the game is more important than it!

In an ideal world she would bring her laptop and play for a while too, but so far we haven't had any problems because she stays up late too

Originally Posted by Maurits92

Try to manage your time around a tournament you want to play. It sounds like you can manage your worktime yourself, although I'm not too familiar with your profession. Hoping to get back into poker myself after a little break. Feel like CC games are definitely the way to go

Unfortunately I cannot managet my worktime as I'd like because I always have tight deadlines, that's why I like CC games because I can play them most of the time (at nights)

Divorce your wife and quit your job.)))

Play when you have free time. When you win your first millionaire you will run out of free time.

hello try to balance your free time play but also leave time for your wife, if you play only poker she will bother with you

Originally Posted by okeedokalee

The hardest players to read are from Eastern Europe. I suggest you play poker when most of them are sleeping.

It's true playing against them is tough. Luckily when I play I do it at nights.

Originally Posted by Arthur ZM

Divorce your wife and quit your job.)))

LOL, that's the best advice I've ever been given, surely you're a priest, and if you're not you should be!

Originally Posted by gallora

Play when you have free time. When you win your first millionaire you will run out of free time.

Yes I play sometimes at nights. I hope to become a millionaire SN

For me, I play more games late at night while my gf watches TV... She gets to relax and so do I. I play poker on my phone so we are still sitting next to each other and talk... She doesnt mind when I play.

In my case I always try to play for a while at night when there is some time left and on weekends on Saturday afternoon if there is nothing to do with the family or on Sundays very early in the morning, I have the advantage that with My wife has different schedules so when she is not there I can play freely without thinking that I am not giving her adequate attention

Originally Posted by Sccrply

For me, I play more games late at night while my girlfriend watches TV ... She can relax and so can I. I play poker on my phone, so we're still sitting next to each other and talking ... She doesn't care when I play.

Lucky that mine also likes to watch TV, so while she watches I can play without her bothering me saying that I am switching to poker.

Find your wife a lover. Let her sleep wherever she wants, and you play poker....

It’s hard to balance anything in life with poker, I am 21 and have no responsibilities I’ve quit my job I currently have a 7k bankroll and play online for the better part of 12-16 hours mostly playing about 2 micro stakes tables and free rolls when I can but I feel like even eating is to distracting for me so having a family is going to definitely ruin some relationships. High stakes cash is a good way to be profitable when only playing a few games a week especially where I live but a bad day can ruin one with no discipline.

I am semi retired, so I have no problem fitting poker into my schedule. I play only one tourney at a time. Usually about 5 or 6 a day, unless I am working that day.

I usually try to play in the evening, during the day I try to take care of everything else ... work, family ... everyday life

How to combine, everything is simple, work in the afternoon, play poker in the evening, but so that no one bothers you to play, you need to create an atmosphere of solitude, play separately from family members, so that no one interferes and does not give advice.

Being retired and on a decent pension, I could play all day every day if I wanted to, but found I got bored after a while and started to lose interest. I have not played many buy-in games for about 2 or 3 months now and besides the odd Free-roll, I have not played much at all.
I still register for a buy-in game every once in a while to keep my points going on Pokerstars, but still not anywhere as much as I did during the lock-down's, when I was playing as many as 7 or 8 games everyday.
To be a Professional player, you need to play much more games, maybe as many as 16 games at the same time and for as long as 8 or 9 hours every day, this kind of pressure would certainly see me off in no time.
I will one day start to play more games but for now happy to play as I am for fun and nothing more, Playing like a pro only feels like being chained to a 9 to 5 job which is no fun at all.

When the fun Stops, STOP!
(I have)

Since I was forced into working from home due to the pandemic (the company closed the office and then decided to keep it closed) I am able to play poker at varying times throughout the day as I work. Just micro tournaments and freerolls on 888 but it stops me from getting bored and adds a little enjoyment to the day. Still not set on a daily routine but getting there. There's enough small tournaments to create a regular routine, and I really like that.

Big tournaments can be very time consuming, all depends how much time you have but I found mtt's very difficult around a full time job and am myself finding it a tough balance. Suppose hat's one advantage of cash games and sit and go's.

I at least played a free tournament a day when work allows me and another day I play a paid tournament

I think that if You have a Job or You are studing is so difficult to play everyday and more if You like to play tournaments because it can take a Lot of time

I try not to be routine ... for example I study more than I play three times a week ... and the remaining three days I increase the volume of play. I mean that I occupy less distraction with my goals ... which are to accelerate the roll of each day and the daily walk at night that culminates in relaxing me to a realistic future of not making the same mistakes ..... all positive changes are reflected in the short term ... mental well-being ..