Software to determine best hours to play?
 

I don't post, or lurk, here so much lately. But I'm a fulltime internet poker pro since 1999. I track my results with StatKing. It's only because of Statking that I know my earnings are significantly higher Monday thu Thursday compared to Friday thru Sunday.

I would like to nail down my most profitable hours... evenings? mornings? However, as far as I know, we can't do that with Pokertracker, or any other thing.

So, should I play at noon, or midnight? Anyone with an informed opinion on the subject, pleas enlighten me.

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I don't post, or lurk, here so much lately. But I'm a fulltime internet poker pro since 1999. I track my results with StatKing. It's only because of Statking that I know my earnings are significantly higher Monday thu Thursday compared to Friday thru Sunday.

I would like to nail down my most profitable hours... evenings? mornings? However, as far as I know, we can't do that with Pokertracker, or any other thing.

So, should I play at noon, or midnight? Anyone with an informed opinion on the subject, pleas enlighten me.

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I found Pokertracker to be quite good for this, but only after I got alot of hands imported. If you look in the Sessions->MoreDetail screen it shows you your winrates for every 2-hour section of the week and shows the best times to play in terms of BB/100.

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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only after I got alot of hands imported.

[/ QUOTE ]And we're talking a LOT of hands. I mean a LOT.

You know how many hands you need to be able to say "My winrate from 7PM-8PM is higher than my winrate from 8PM-9PM?

A LOT.
-Sam

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only after I got alot of hands imported.

[/ QUOTE ]And we're talking a LOT of hands. I mean a LOT.

You know how many hands you need to be able to say "My winrate from 7PM-8PM is higher than my winrate from 8PM-9PM?

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I kinda used mine to tell me stuff like "If I play between 11pm and 5am GMT" I do better than between "5pm and 11pm GMT", but I not sure if this was a great help as I knew this anyway and knew the reason (damn us European rocks! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]).

Interestingly Ben helped me with an SQL query for PokerManager which I hoped would give me an idea of the best times to play 6max using observed hand history data.

I hoped this ratio would be a good measure of this:

AverageAmountWinnerPutInPot/AveragePotSize

I have used a moving average of this value to detect tables of LPPs vs TAGs much better than just a moving average pot size alone, BUT interestingly it turned out to be a constant ratio of 44% for all times of day and all days of the week (I used almost 1 million 6max hands too).

It did show the pot sizes growing on Sat/Sun and also the increased pot sizes for the USA 'prime time'.

The results can be found here on the PokerManager forums.

Perhaps if enough 2+2er contributed their PT winrate and sample sizes for every time of the day, we could make a statistically significant version of PT's Session->MoreDetail view? (I noticed another 2+2 forum is making a PokerRoom style hand-EV table for 1BB/100+ winning players, so perhaps this could interest people?).

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]