Hey all,

I am fairly new to cardschat but I have been recently struggling with my time management playing poker. I am an artist as well and so I work from home and can usually do quite well but lately I have probably been giving a little too much time to poker lol. I love the game and I have been profitable but not enough where I should be cutting into my work time. Last year I profited about $5000 total but my average buy ins were around $11 or so each. I would like to get some feedback on how much a day you guys spend playing poker. I try to reserve Sunday completely for poker and only a play few hours if i have time on the other days of the week. Do any of you have a system that is working out really well for you?

Thanks

My favorite question.I play cash games 4-5 days per week 5-6 hours per day.I make 1-2 hour session than go outside or relax.

I think that you yourself must build your system. Too many individual factors affect this.

Establish you priorities.
With too many tournaments on the line we must focus on the most important ones for us attempting to attend our life's priorities.

It's all about scheduling your week according to a set amount of priorities.

(Example: Priorities are tournaments and Cash Games...
I want to dedicate:
1 full day to live tournaments
1 full day to live cash games
1 full day to online play
6 days max to play any kind of poker)

I like to play tournaments, if I do well only play one tournament a day and Sundays a couple of them. This takes me on average 2 to 3 hours.
But you should consider measuring the number of hands

I play 4 hours a day. it is advisable to begin to multitabler minimum 6 table to make your playing time profitable. until reaching 12 table at the same time. but it must not interfere with your level of play.

I play every day for 3-5 hours) I play mostly tournaments

When you play tournaments you need to reserve 6-7 hours a day, this time is needed to take 1st place in the tournament. With cache easier, you can play as many hours a day as you want.

Good question which concerns everybody at some stage. It very much depends how you treat poker. Is it just one of your several hobbies, is it your main hobby or is it at professional level? For me poker is just one of my hobbies so i usually play for 1 to 3 hours after work approximately 2 or 3 days during business week. I like to play during weekends but unfortunately rarely have the time needed. Your strategy to play in the evenings during week and reserve sunday for poker looks good compromise to me.

I set aside every evening for poker but then only play in the evening unless there's a special tournament, but I will always give it up to do something more social with friends or family. This way I play about 10-15 hours per week but still balance everything else in my life!

This depends on the sites you play as well as your favorite tournaments. In a way, setting up a bankroll is an efficient schedule for the available tournaments, I'm starting with the promotions that cardschat offers, based on which set priorities and the best of their time.

I do not know, in Poker Online should definitely adhere to what time mainegov, say if I play cash it is better to play sessions say to determine for a couple of hours or an hour, and if the tournaments it is better to Grindeth on the weekends, there's even a special tournament Saturday and Sunday, play on weekends, and the rest of the time, take a break from poker, then you will increase the performance and equity of the hand range! Good luck!

i also find hard sometimes to keep up with playing daily and also be social... it's all about priorities i guess. but is easy to get lost if you start playing often and more professionally as you get more experience

On weekends, I play poker for 6-8 hours. On weekdays I play poker 2-3 hours a day. Of course, there are days when I do not play poker, but it depends on my mood.

Same problem here, tournaments take for hours & can just consume your whole evening til midnight, what I do is I play some turbos for fun or maybe just 1 tournament that can take for long hours.

Hi.
I play 3-4 hours each day. But on Saturday and Sunday, I usually play more than 8-12 hours. Sometimes, I can go on a business trip for a few days, then I take a break and do not play poker.
Good luck.

I like to play for 40 minutes and take breaks and come back and reload

Hello.
I have plenty of free time, so I can play for 5-6 hours a day, and basically I play every day. But I spend very little time studying. Therefore, in the future, I plan to spend 3-4 hours a week to study.

I hate myself when I forego my work, which is writing, to play online. Even if I make money online, the value of the lost time weighs on me.

i don't think it matters too much. your life should take priority over a game.
any time you put into it will reap dividends as long as you approach it seriously!

Still working on this myself can be hard to walk away from a good game.

Make a schedule like you would when you're working from home. Time management is crucial in most aspects of life and if you need to set an alarm on your phone as a reminder you should do that. I prefer cash games to tournaments and that makes it easier to navigate leaving at any time. I do Sundays when I don't have anything else to play tournaments since I can just sit and grind those. They do take a lot more time in larger fields and need to kind of kill a day to play them if you do well.

Originally Posted by cardartist85

Hey all,

I am fairly new to cardschat but I have been recently struggling with my time management playing poker. I am an artist as well and so I work from home— and can usually do quite well but lately I have probably been giving a little too much time to poker lol. I love the game and I have been profitable but not enough where I should be cutting into my work time. Last year I profited about $5000 total but my average buy ins were around $11 or so each. I would like to get some feedback on how much a day you guys spend playing poker. I try to reserve Sunday completely for poker and only a play few hours if i have time on the other days of the week. Do any of you have a system that is working out really well for you?

Thanks

My2 cents—you cant talk about time management without including study time.

Time management is a difficult one when it comes to poker
Especially tournaments lasting around 8 hours
My advise is just to play one day a week
Because once you start playing you will most likely want to continue for hours, lol
So one day a week is great

First of all, you need to establish your priorities for the week's activities. Then count how much time you are willing to spend on poker and of those, how much time is your free time. After thinking about doing this, without forgetting other activities necessary for daily life, I believe that the path is more or less.

I play every day. Some more others less. The most important thing is having fun, like working at home, I can reconcile tasks and play.

it is personal and depent what is your daily rutine

Originally Posted by danntesvarna

My favorite question.I play cash games 4-5 days per week 5-6 hours per day.I make 1-2 hour session than go outside or relax.

Originally Posted by neptun1914

Good question which concerns everybody at some stage. It very much depends how you treat poker. Is it just one of your several hobbies, is it your main hobby or is it at professional level? For me poker is just one of my hobbies so i usually play for 1 to 3 hours after work approximately 2 or 3 days during business week. I like to play during weekends but unfortunately rarely have the time needed. Your strategy to play in the evenings during week and reserve sunday for poker looks good compromise to me.

Really appreciate your response and I hear you. I would like to take the game more serious but every time I begin to really go for it, it seems my other priorities get away from me. Looking for that proper balance so that I don't burn out or become obsessed in an unhealthy way is important to me. I suppose if I was doing it as a passion/hobby of mine but being sharp and experienced enough to be a very profitable player that would make me happy. I am always going to make my artwork my main line of work.

Originally Posted by danntesvarna

My favorite question.I play cash games 4-5 days per week 5-6 hours per day.I make 1-2 hour session than go outside or relax.

Originally Posted by neptun1914

Good question which concerns everybody at some stage. It very much depends how you treat poker. Is it just one of your several hobbies, is it your main hobby or is it at professional level? For me poker is just one of my hobbies so i usually play for 1 to 3 hours after work approximately 2 or 3 days during business week. I like to play during weekends but unfortunately rarely have the time needed. Your strategy to play in the evenings during week and reserve sunday for poker looks good compromise to me.

Lol man I wish I could stick to that. I think I feel out of practice somewhat though when I only play one day a week. Now I do only dedicate one full day a week to it and that's Saturday. The rest of the time's I tend to invest a few hours here and there. I need to spend more time studying strategy though then just playing.

Originally Posted by danntesvarna

My favorite question.I play cash games 4-5 days per week 5-6 hours per day.I make 1-2 hour session than go outside or relax.

Originally Posted by neptun1914

Good question which concerns everybody at some stage. It very much depends how you treat poker. Is it just one of your several hobbies, is it your main hobby or is it at professional level? For me poker is just one of my hobbies so i usually play for 1 to 3 hours after work approximately 2 or 3 days during business week. I like to play during weekends but unfortunately rarely have the time needed. Your strategy to play in the evenings during week and reserve sunday for poker looks good compromise to me.

Right on! This is something I need to be taking a lot more seriously. Studying the game and understanding situations and theories that apply to the game is something I feel like I need to dedicate at least an hour or two a day if nothing else. I also need to sure up the leaks in my game and learn how to be a far stronger post flop player so that the strongest players can't exploit really deep in the bigger buy in tourneys.

Deedgee I can relate to that. My problem is I get just as passionate and obsessive about poker as I do my artwork. It appeals to my competitive side more than anything else I do. Reminds me of the days back when I used to play basketball I guess and gives me something to try and master aside from my main line of work. I know what you mean though, sometimes the time gets away from me and I am kicking myself for losing so much time doing something that isn't necessarily always bringing out the best in me. And that is putting it kindly lol

I have little free time. Therefore, I only allocate time for freerolls from Cardschat and Bounty.)

Originally Posted by danntesvarna

My favorite question.I play cash games 4-5 days per week 5-6 hours per day.I make 1-2 hour session than go outside or relax.

Originally Posted by neptun1914

Good question which concerns everybody at some stage. It very much depends how you treat poker. Is it just one of your several hobbies, is it your main hobby or is it at professional level? For me poker is just one of my hobbies so i usually play for 1 to 3 hours after work approximately 2 or 3 days during business week. I like to play during weekends but unfortunately rarely have the time needed. Your strategy to play in the evenings during week and reserve sunday for poker looks good compromise to me.

See we are in the same boat lol. I work from home too so it makes it harder to not go right back to the poker tables online sometimes but I am working on trying to find that perfect balance where I can be as skilled of a poker player as I want to be as well as maintain the quality of life I like to have. My priorities can't be Poker at #1 or everything goes sideways

Hello. I play when I am in the right mindset. When I am, it's real; like putting on a football helmet and walking on the field. This occurs when I am relaxed, have no things to get done, it's ok with my wife and I am ready for 2 to 4 hours of time. I found sitting habitually and playing game after game is not a good way for me.

Originally Posted by danoscar

Hello. I play when I am in the right mindset. When I am, it's real; like putting on a football helmet and walking on the field. This occurs when I am relaxed, have no things to get done, it's ok with my wife and I am ready for 2 to 4 hours of time. I found sitting habitually and playing game after game is not a good way for me.

Fully relate. Think one of the most important things I am learning is knowing when to cut myself off from playing anymore tourneys for the night. Anytime I get too tired and go into zombie mode my bankroll begins to melt away and I’m no longer sharp enough to even analyze my game anymore. The times I have been able to cut myself off as soon as I know I’m mentally exhausted, my bankroll begins steadily increasing without the hole in the boat lol.

It's good if you play so well. You don't have to play every day. Play a few days a week, but a normal number of tournaments and be careful. You don't have to tie yourself to specific days of the week. If you are playing for real money, play anytime you like, within short periods of time.

now playing sng $ 0.02. starts when 990 people gather! not very comfortable! but I want to build up a bankroll and start playing a $ 0.55 tournament. it starts at a specific time. and I can plan my poker time more clearly !!

4-5 hours, but it could be much less if I see it is not my day. If it is my day, it could be 7-8 hours.

Originally Posted by cardartist85

Fully relate. Think one of the most important things I am learning is knowing when to cut myself off from playing anymore tourneys for the night. Anytime I get too tired and go into zombie mode my bankroll begins to melt away and I’m no longer sharp enough to even analyze my game anymore. The times I have been able to cut myself off as soon as I know I’m mentally exhausted, my bankroll begins steadily increasing without the hole in the boat lol.

Yes, tired is not good. Now if I could only get the cat to leave me alone when I am playing, it will be better. Lol. Good luck with your games, cardartist!