Online Poker - When to Play?

[fharmas]

This question may sound a bit odd, since one of the characteristics that defines online poker, and provides advantage over live games, is the fact that you can play anytime. Just login to your favourite poker room at 3 am in the morning, and you will find hundreds of tables filled with players from all over the world. So, is it relevant to ask “is there a better time to play?”. The answer – yes, it is, because there are indeed better hours to join the tables:

-First and most important, the weekend. It is not a coincidence that the biggest online poker tournaments are held at the weekend, usually Sunday. In the weekends, most people who have regular jobs have more time to play, and because of that, you can find much more amateur poker players at the tables, especially on Sunday;

-Late in the evening – you will be up against players that are or have been drinking or playing all day long and are no longer playing at their best;

- Middle of the night - when players are no longer wide awake. Be aware of what countries play at the site you are playing on. EST midnight is not midnight for a player from Sweden, if you want to take advantage of that particular player then you need to plan your session time accordingly.

-Early in the morning - you catch a lot of players at the end of an all-night session or a very long session and are now trying to either build on their session and make some more profit or trying to win back losses from a poor session.

[PokerWoody]

I play in my pants

[rfph1]

sort of...

Tuesday and Thursday




11pm- 1am

[DaMatrix]

Online Poker - When to Play?

After you log in, stupid!

[DaMatrix]

Online poker is idiotic.

[Barnfather]

When I was out of work and pretty much playing around the clock for a while, I certainly found certain times more profitable than others, around 2am GMT seemed quite good, although not sure why (tea time in the states?), and rather oddly I found the players I consistently do terribly against are Germans. Nothing against Germans per se, its just I find them generally difficult opponents

[Wakou]

So BeUnlimited is O2 Matt?
Used to be the only ISP to offer 24Mb?
Try here and compare:

speedtest.bbmax

[Wakou]

Yeah, I'm on O2. It started off really slow yesterday (600kbs, when it's supposed to be 20mbs), and got slower and slower.

Just clicked that link and did the test:

Ping: 3177ms
Download Speed: 21 kbps (2.6 KB/sec)
Upload Speed: 12 kbps (1.5 KB/sec)

Test took about 10 minutes to complete.

Pretty off-topic, but first post is obviously a spammer, so meh.

WOW Matt that IS shite ! IIRC most ISP's won't entertain speed problems for a week or two as the stuff at the exchange "trains" and fallsback to the best error-free speed, then increases it until errors creep in, but that speed is SO piss-poor I would phone your friendly local (Bangalore or Calcutta) ISP and report those speeds.
To find out where presactly your exchange is, so you can rebuff the BS about this being a factor use this:

Samknows Broadband - Exchange Search

As for the OP being a spammer, I found the same post on another forum today.. Still; RFPH's graphs were interesting.

[PokerWoody]

Aye, it was uber slooow. Now it's uber fast:

Date of Speed Test: 2009-03-25 14:53:00
Download Speed: 28325 kbps (3540.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1019 kbps (127.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

Just downloaded a 4mb file (Channel 4od) in 3.2 seconds. I've never seen anything like it. Mentalage!

Most poker sites have one, it appears so do most ISP's...



They're just messin with ya.

[TylerStroud]

Psl fkn tell me you made that.