Sit and Go's and time of day

[rusty JEDI]

I have found over a small sample of sit and go's that the day time (eastern) the games have way less maniacs/dead money than the late night games.

The disparity seems much greater than the difference from day to night ring games.

Anyone have much data on time of day results?

[CrisBrown]

Hiya rusty,

I've thought about this too, as I can set my own schedule to some degree. So far I haven't reached any conclusions, though. The late evening (around 10pm-1am EST) have been good for me, but I've also had some success in the mid-afternoon (around 2-5pm EST). For some reason, from 5-10pm I seem to run into a lot of hyper aggressive players, but that's a very tiny sample size because I'm usually cooking dinner and spending family time then, rather than playing.

Cris

[Bluff1]

I have always found from 2-5 est time and early in the morning from about 9-11. Other than those two times the games are usually not too tough.

[eastbay]

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I have found over a small sample of sit and go's that the day time (eastern) the games have way less maniacs/dead money than the late night games.

The disparity seems much greater than the difference from day to night ring games.

Anyone have much data on time of day results?

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No data, just impressions on party. The few times I've played during the day, I've noticed a very large variation in my results. I struggle to break even during the day. My results in the evenings are much stronger (about 70% ROI since I started keeping track about 50 tournies ago.)

I think the poker "market" is about as hot as it will ever be. Buy up while the getting's good. I can't imagine this is sustainable.

eastbay

[MicroBob]

you say it's not sustainable with another season of WPT on the horizon??

the gettin' is pretty good now.....and it's about to get better.

i haven't been losing too many SNG's where i feel i am getting outplayed...just the occasional bad-beat.

board, 78T
me, KK
him, AJ

i showed strength with a re-raise pre-flop that he called....and then showed strength again with a strong bet on the flop.
he calls my all-in and turns the straight.

i see idiotic plays all the time in SNG's.
and they are spreading to UB and Stars as best as i can tell...although i am still a party-player for the most part.

sometimes there are some good SNG's to be had around 1-5 a.m. EST. i suspect there are a handful of players who are playing just 1 more SNG before they hit beddie-bye....and consequently are a bit more impatient making them more likely to lay it on the line with a suspect all-in call in the early going.

i call them the 'oh-well-off-to-bed' gang because i see these type of phrase frequently by some of the players who bust out early in late-night SNG's.

[Stoneii]

So that's why it's hard. My playing in the evening UK time is the afternoon Eastern time. So you mean I'm going to have to get up and play 3am-7am GMT /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

So decision is more profit & divorce or less profit and tolerance - mmmmmmm

In all seriousness, I think when u play late evening in any time zone you'll get a few who are "two sheets to the wind" and so nudge up your expectation (having played a few times myself when I was three sheets and lost much more heavily!!)

G'Luck

stoneii

[t_perkin]

Play in the morning GMT - 9am is good. You get the really tired and drunk americans.

Fridays are always good.

Saturdays are harder than Sundays.

just my not very scientific results...

Tim