I think I usually play about 35 hours a week minimum. It's a bit degenerate but I get a bit restless just watching TV on its own etc. I only play 2 tables at a time (occasionally 3) of full ring so not very taxing.

I think that for me, the more hours I play, the less importance I put on individual sessions and the less emotional involvment there is.

Molina

I need to take breaks after 2-3 hours usually, but I spend an insane amount of time on poker. "Taking a break" can mean browsing poker forums or studying poker literature.

I'm in law school and work part time at a law firm, but I'm starting to feel that I would rather have a career at poker than at law hehe.

I usually can't have a session go over 4hrs...even 3 is a stretch. So, if I'm going to get more than 15hrs in, I need multiple sessions in a day.

Man, I thought I was just strange. I usually play maybe 6-8 hours a day, but I can't play more than 2 hours at a time. If I'm doing a tourney and make it into hour 4 or 5 or whatever, no problem, but full ring multitabling max 2 hours. I play so much cause I have a very open schedule (my weekly committments require me to not be home for 4 hours a week, and that's it). If I had a real job I'd probably play a lot less.

Yeah, I try to limit my sessions to an hour each or so. Even so, I can get 5-6 table hours in (after tomorrow when the testing ends) per day if I can get 3 sessions in. Lately I have been playing about 2 a day and been having very good results.

Once I have the time (and before the thaw) I hope to get 3 sessions a day in (about 45 minutes a sessions) two tabling for about 4.5 hours a day.

-Jus

So, for people who want to get in multiple sessions to bring their weekly hours to around 40, you must be playing in off-peak hours then right? Peak hours seem to be from about 7pm-1am EST. I'm curious...

well there are two peak times of course

the US sites - Party, Paradise, UB, Stars peak in the evening US time
the Euro-sites/networks - Martin's, Crytpto, Ladbrokes peak in the evening Euro time

some networks like iPoker, Prima are probably more equally split - not sure about Tribeca yet.. guessing more US..

for example I got up at 6.30am (UK time) this morning to feed the baby - once he settled I fired up Paradise to catch some Friday late-night drunks

If I play later tonight UK time it will probably be at Ritz or Martin's...although it matters less at weekends..


as a US player playing in the daytime you should for sure try playing the Euro-sites..then switch across to US sites in the evening..

I completely agree.

I am good for 2 hrs max on a great run of cards - I am good for 45min - 1hr on terrible cards.