Have you ever fallen asleep during a tournament?

Chica_bonita · Feb 27, 2025

Yes, just the other day. I was playing in a tournament and after 2 hours I decided to lie down and play lying down. In the end, I just fell asleep in the middle of the tournament. And even though it was a conditional chip tournament, the entrance cost 1,000 000 chips and it was a pity that I fell asleep🙈

besttest11 · Feb 27, 2025

Yes, especially when playing late-night tournaments. Once, I was playing a $350 tournament entry ticket with a very high prize pool. The first part of the tournament went well, and I was playing really good, but due to tiredness, I went all-in against someone ranked under 5th and lost all my money.

pavel1111111 · Feb 27, 2025

🤣🤣yep...final table top...lucky me that i had a big stack and somehow i finish 3rd 🤣🤣🤣

pirateglenn · Feb 27, 2025

Just the once, during a MTT on Full Tilt Poker called Midnight Madness of which i used to love, it was probably my favourite ever online tourney, insane value and you realistically only had to double up like twice to get close to the money due to lateness of tourney and value of buy in.
I had built up a decent stack and decided to sit out for like 15 mins, big mistake.
Woke and had min cashed so money back pretty much but the pay jumps were so good in that tourney i kinda would have rather risked it and played, note to self - dont play late tourneys again for money unless live ones.

theStarfish · Feb 27, 2025

Luckily this never happened to me though there were some long tournaments in the night.

KrazyKoo · Feb 27, 2025

Many many times, even in final table few times!

userX · Feb 27, 2025

Pulse_69 said:
I had a funny situation when, after a hard day, I decided to play a tournament late at night, and during a five-minute break, I just fell asleep with my laptop next to me. 😴🥱
After this situation, I don't open tournaments when I'm tired.

Sometimes on weekends I play longer than usual, 6-8 hours, and a few times I fell asleep during a break. I'm even thinking that maybe I should stock up on energy drinks for such occasions.

Pulse_69 · Feb 27, 2025

userX said:
Sometimes on weekends I play longer than usual, 6-8 hours, and a few times I fell asleep during a break. I'm even thinking that maybe I should stock up on energy drinks for such occasions.

I advise you not to abuse energy drinks, there can be very bad consequences. If only a few times. Good luck

Spielkind · Feb 27, 2025

! Never! When i play a MTT, i had slept enough, had a good meal, enough drunken(never alc). Ill take your chips

antonis32123 · Feb 27, 2025

I have but not on an important one , cause if it is an important poker game I will bring as many coffees as needed to stay awake . Fallen asleep then is not an alternative possibility or option .

Rost · Feb 28, 2025

I've been playing poker for over 7 years, and during this time there were only two cases when I fell asleep during a break. I fell asleep because I was already very tired when I started playing.

Gilead · Feb 28, 2025

I’ve never fallen asleep during a tournament, but when I get too tired, I just start shoving all-in to get eliminated and go rest.

Sparta77 · Feb 28, 2025

En once I fell asleep during a competition.Because the card was pile up and I fell asleep.

odonob · Feb 28, 2025

I have played while being tried, that never ends well. I can’t say that I actually fell asleep per se, but I could understand how it could happen!

martinoni · Feb 28, 2025

So many times, and plenty of the time it happens when I have chips necessary to achieve ITM hahaha... When I get back, I'm in the money but short stack hahahaha

EvertonGirl · Feb 28, 2025

Nope, I've never fallen asleep, at least not yet

RonanPERNA · Feb 28, 2025

It's happened to me a few times. I know that concentration is very important, but even so I insist and play late at night when I'm already tired, and I end up falling asleep in the middle of the tournament.

steve01991 · Feb 28, 2025

no i cant say that i have, im usually out before i get tired! lol

mrfastflow · Feb 28, 2025

I have never fallen asleep and I have very long poker sessions I often adjust my sleep to poker I try to never start a game when I am sleepy First of all, the mind is not fully functional Secondly, the subconscious can give bad advice because the body wants to sleep

Once I played because there was a clear overlay in a tournament, registering at the last moment I had an all-in-fold situation surviving two all-ins would have probably meant cashing During the tournament I once imagined that I had a pair of eights after all-ins, I didn't realize it was 89o, the guy after thinking about it called me with KQ, I survived that hand after couple hours I reached the final table with almost half of all the chips but I gladly agreed to a deal with 5 or 6 players

Rmi · Feb 28, 2025

Never, I play from my desktop PC and try to have as much concentration as possible

skaterick · Mar 1, 2025

if you have a big, safe stack at the bubble in a satty , falling asleep can be helpful .

mariale_1990 · Mar 1, 2025

This happened to me a few times, many years ago, the pokerschool leage still existed on pokerstars, something like that, I registered in one that was played at around 9-10 at night, I remember that I was leading the tournament and I fell asleep when it wasn't long before the final table, maybe there were 20 players left I don't remember and I woke up about 2 hours later we were already at the final table, I had few chips left I remember that at the table they were talking about they would eliminate me, but I was able to recover chips and win the tournament hahaha, other times it happened to me in tournaments that were not free, the poker stars mobile App was already in its beginnings, it was easier to fall asleep and when I woke up I was already eliminated a long time ago, from that moment and as a result of other factors I decided that I would not play so late and I would better organize what and when I was going to play

MishkaZL · Mar 1, 2025

I think this has happened to everyone who has been playing poker for more or less a long time. I've fallen asleep several times while playing tired and it happened during a 5-minute break.

gloria_marga · Mar 1, 2025

A few months ago something similar happened to me:
I take the breaks to lie down for 5 minutes and not think about anything. That day I was very tired from work, but I still decided to sign up for a zoom tournament; during the first break I went to bed and fell asleep unintentionally. Obviously when I woke up I was already out of the tournament 🤣

Zaner · Mar 1, 2025

Pulse_69 said:
I had a funny situation when, after a hard day, I decided to play a tournament late at night, and during a five-minute break, I just fell asleep with my laptop next to me. 😴🥱
After this situation, I don't open tournaments when I'm tired.

i never had sleeping while i playing poker but,sometimes i play really tired

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