What is the best time to play, and why?

What is the best time to play, and why?

For small-stakes poker, I think the best time to play is usually evenings and weekends. That's when more casual and recreational players are in the games, which often means more action, looser calls, and bigger mistakes.

If you're playing online, Friday and Saturday nights can be especially good because many players are there for fun rather than grinding seriously.

That said, the absolute best time is whenever you're focused and playing your A-game. A sharp player in an average game will usually do better than a tired player in a great game. ♠️😎

Nameless14 said:

For small-stakes poker, I think the best time to play is usually evenings and weekends. That's when more casual and recreational players are in the games, which often means more action, looser calls, and bigger mistakes.

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Especially weekends and, as you say, especially friday and saturday night. On workday evenings games can be quite reg infested, because there are many "part time pros", who play after work. Of course the definition of "evening" will depend on, which time zone you are in, and which time zone most of the player pool is in.

On US-facing sites like ACR Poker "evening" is evening in the american time zone, which means night or early morning in Europe and daytime in Asia. On PokerStars there are kind of two "evenings", since there are a decent amount of players from Canada and South America, but also many from Europe. So in general the worst time to play on PokerStars is the asian time zone evening hours, while the rest of the day is ok.

I prefer the afternoon; I get bored really quickly in the morning, lol.

as others noted , for those in the US playing on ACR(+BC) and BOL friday and saturday later in the day ,(say 4 pm PST to 8pm ) are busier .

“The best time to play is after midnight when everyone is tired and makes a lot of mistakes.”