Yes, playing normally during the day is best.
I'm in PHI (Asia) which is 13 hrs ahead of EST & the pokerstars big tournaments start late in the evening or very early in the morning. Tho am not really inclined playing the very long tournaments & could always find nice tournaments in Pokerstars during the day or just play an hour or so of cash games.
I actually think, it would suit me very well to play from PHI time zone. Sure the major tournaments like Sunday Million or Sunday Storm begins at 1-3 am, which is smack in the middle of the night. But I like to start playing at 5-6 am, and there is significant more action and softer games at 5-6 am PHI time zone rather than 5-6 am CET. You can basically still catch all the "cool down" or whatever the late events are called, and many opponents will be tired, because they did not sleep. Sometimes even drunk as well especially on a saturday or sunday morning
It probably could be but its also the time when the house wakes up so prepares breakfast & later drives kid to school. After the chores, its time to play!
I think it definitely favours the American time zone starting these big late tournaments maybe 5 hours earlier which would be odd to base on their time zone as they cannot play most clients! It's good to see sites like Stars have had the sense to split the Sunday Million into two days. I think day 1 finishes 2-3am my time (UK). Before they did this though it would finish sometimes when I was at work.
How late are these finishing for you? When I was doing this after work I found I would go on to 2-3am. It was killing me to go to work so try and concentrate on the weekend more. Sometimes find if I start paid games I risk entering a longer one. Generally only do bigger mtt's.
One might have assumed, that the exit of US-based players from the international PokerStars site would have pushed peak hours forward. But that does not really seem to be the case. Maybe because a lot of brasilans are now playing instead, and maybe also because many europeans prefer to play after dinner even in the weekends.
Which is still 3-4 am CET and still way to late, if you are working monday. But of course its only an issue, if you run deep, and maybe some people just call in sick or take a day off, if that happens. American players have a similar problem, if they make it to day 2, since that begins during their working hours. So they also have to call in sick or go home early. In reality these big MTTs are best for people, who dont work, or for playing during your vacation.
This must be a big factor. A LOT of not only Brazilians but also players from the rest of South America/Latin America are starting to play poker online.
True we are also seeing a significant number of players from other countries in South America/Latin America on Stars. And from canada but they were supposedly there all the time.
Not to sure about that. Africa is poor, but large parts of Asia is booming and presumably an important factor in the growth of GG Poker. GG Poker was originally a chinese owned site. Today the ownership is a bit unclear at least to me.
"Big tournaments" are most likely the ones which cost like 100+ ...
Bronze was the only one that finished at 1am which was annoying. Silver and plat usually take 2 hours 3 max
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Yes, our tournaments start very late at night, it happens at 24:00 or at 1 am, so we have to play late at night and you all know that tournaments take a very long time from 3 hours or more, sometimes 8-9 hours, so it's very difficult for us to come after work tired and then we play in a tournament and want to sleep and tomorrow we have to go to work so I have to risk my time if I know that I will make it to the final then I try I'm playing, and if I see that I won't be able to reach the final, I quickly try to finish playing and go to bed
Well, I'm okay! For example, the Sunday Million every week starts at 8:00 pm for my time zone. Yes, after midnight I can move to my smartphone since I have the PokerStars App installed. PokerStars rules allow you to play the same tournament from different devices, so it's fine.
