Are there more fish at the weekend?

Primewise

Has anyone found that the standard of players in online cash games varies greatly depending on what time of the day and what day of the week you are playing?

I’m sure this applies to tournaments aswell, but its more easily noticed in cash games because you spend longer with them at the tables.

Some of my most profitable sessions have been on Saturday and Sunday afternoons playing cash games. Then I go back to these same tables the following Monday/Tuesday night and there are (seemingly) not nearly as many fish.


The reason I’m asking this is because I am not sure if this is a result of the cards/variance or if its because the games actually get softer at the weekend....


(or maybe i'm just delusional and trying to justify in my head last nights losing session)

BigCityBanker

Weekends ppl have more spare time and games are better. Its the same in town. You are pretty correct in your assumption imo.

Primewise

It was such a shock to me on Sunday though, I moved up to 6max $2/€4 for the first time and I could not understand why there were so many fish at the tables.

I had 3 tables going and there were players regularly sitting down and then busting after half an hour with stats like 75/6/1

Then last night the same tables were full of good TAGs and LAGs again. Its easy to avoid the TAGs but sometimes I cannot tell the difference between good and bad LAGs before its too late

RoundTower

I think Friday night, not Sunday.

Ste05

For some reason I find Sunday afternoon a great time to play, during the football, maybe I'm just on autopilot with one eye on the game but I find the tables really really good. Along with Friday and Saturday nights, I find those nights are when I have my best and worst nights, drunk maniacs that get it AI with A7 against your KK or QQ and the likes, if variance favours you it's a great night if not it can hurt like hell

luckylucky

Definitely softer games available over the weekend, logical really since a higher percentage of recreational players are around.
During the week similarly games are softer in the evening (on the non us sites at least) as of course in the day time there is a higher proportion of pros to hobby players.

ianmc38

i used to think weekends were much better on ipoker. Now i think the difference is minimal.

Van Dice

ianmc38 wrote:

i used to think weekends were much better on ipoker. Now i think the difference is minimal.

Nah there is a v big difference, Fri and Sat evening/nights are wild

coillcam

I suppose it depends on the limits of the game your playing.

@ $100NL and below obviously the ordinary joe soap is able to afford a few buy ins. Same for the STT's/MTT's with small buy-in's.

I'd imagine say at $400NL and higher there are smaller playing pools anyway and that the buy-ins are less favourable on the pocket to our perennially under-rolled fishies.

For me @ $50 I find new people with no stats(even though I mine) every weekend and a few thousand extra players in total on the iPoker network.

I haven't been playing much until the last month so I can't say tthe above with 100% accuracy.

RoundTower

No, the fish come out to play at the weekends at higher levels too, just like the lower limit fish they have to work during the week.

cardshark202

ianmc38 wrote:

i used to think weekends were much better on ipoker. Now i think the difference is minimal.

Are you mad?! There is a huge difference, the weekends are much better.

ZZR1100

Agreed / weekday nights are better than days / weekends are best /
Morning weekdays really bad but after about 3pm things start to improve.
We really need the Chinese to start playing poker to even things up

ianmc38

cardshark202 wrote:

Are you mad?! There is a huge difference, the weekends are much better.

the last 4 saturday nights have been awful before midnight and there are less games than during the week. i havnt gotten to play much post midnight cos of my location so i dont know what theyre like after as ive only really played 6-midnight

Van Dice

ZZR1100 wrote:

Agreed / weekday nights are better than days / weekends are best /
Morning weekdays really bad but after about 3pm things start to improve.
We really need the Chinese to start playing poker to even things up

lucky 8!!

dvdfan

On ipoker during the week theres a massive difference at different times of the days, 12-4pm bad time you have to hunt the fish down and table averages are around the low 20's or worse. 8pm-12pm is great, plenty of fish and easy to find a good few +30V$pip tables in between and after 12pm its somewhere in between for obviously the same reason, the fish have to work and be in bed early. Thats at 50NL and 100NL btw

ianmc38

all the games have gotten awful on ipoker recently. very beatable, but full of ok tags. table selection is THE most important thing at this moment.

Imposter

ianmc38 wrote:

all the games have gotten awful on ipoker recently. very beatable, but full of ok tags. table selection is THE most important thing at this moment.

It would be nice if the lobby updated often enough to allow that to be halfway easy to do!