I work Monday to Friday so the weekends are most convenient for me to play. Are the weekend games considerably looser/softer than the weekday games? Or are they about the same?

Most of my experience has been on the weekends, but I'll probably start going on one night a week on weekdays.

Where I live, Thursday and Friday night are the busiest and craziest times. People just got paid and are there to drink and have some fun.

It depends on the location. Generally speaking, weekends are better because more casual players come out. With some places, I think weekdays can be better. A lot of the more degenerate gambler types are there during the week. As long as there's not too many regs, these can be great games.

In Vegas, weekdays can be better because of the conventions. I think in most places weekends are better games though.

Good comments so far. I have found that you really need to 'scout' out each day of the week at each venue. Certainly weekends are available to more players, but that doesn't make the game 'better'. It just allows you to have more options for the best game/table to sit down at.

If a venue has a certain tournament, then the cash game might be better that night of the week, both before and as the tournament players bust out.

Some venues have 'bigger' games on a certain week night. You can pick up chips form players waiting to sit down in that game as they generally play bigger and looser when they are at the "JV" tables.

Nights when sports are on can be good to. During football games (American or not) opponents may be distracted by their fantasy teams or sports bets. Take advantage of spots where you can steal pots.

My suggestion during the week is to practice your 'cash and dash' skills. This will work in your advantage 2 ways:
1) You will have extra BI for your longer weekend sessions
2) You will torque over the regs who may play back at you when you are more focused during the weekend sessions.

I'm not saying play bad, but take some shots during the week and then settle into your 'normal' play in the longer sessions. GL

I've found the weekends tend to have more players. All the degenerates get paid on Friday, so.........

AT my local card room, they run differnt high hand promotions. I go on the days they are better. Wednesday nights are good, 550 every 1/2 hour as compared to $200 every 20 minutes on a Tuesday. Saturdays are the best as they get up to 1200 every half hour. usually the beginning of the time period is best, less players and you get a rollover or 2.

I too work M-F, so i make sure i go home, relax for a little bit, eat dinner and shower. You know feel relaxed instead of hurrying to get there.....

Always depends from location to location but in my experience, I do best on weekends and worst on Tuesdays and Wednesdays ...

The best thing to do is to track your results in a program like POKERJOURNAL and then over time you can filter out different days to see which have highest win rates ...

Good call Zen Bear. I used to track my Sit and Go results in Excel, and noticed a pattern of me being a losing player on Mondays and a winner all other days. Most likely attributed to being tired on Mondays from staying up and sleeping in on weekends.

I'll likely stick to Thursday - Sunday as days that I'd consider playing right now.

Weekends by default draw more people in, but this brings out good players for obvious reasons. Casino promotions, show/concert nights, weather, # of places to play, tournaments (there and nearby) also have an effect. No one size fits all option imo ... YMMV, definitely locale / player dependent. If playing on Wednesday is a nitfest and Saturday is action central, well obviously you're more inclined to play Saturday.

Does it matter which night I go out to a bar/club? Or will Tuesday be as busy as Friday?

That data is not very useful. I take it that neither you or Zen Bear are pros, so you won't play enough sessions. You have not played a statistically meaningful amount of sessions on different days. You would probably need to have at least 50 sessions on each day before you could draw any conclusions.

Yeah, there aren't easy answers to this and trying to solve it using historical trend analysis is fantasy land.

You could reasonably say that you will do best in the largest crowd, because excellent players are very much more uncommon than average players.

Like others have said, it really depends on the venue. Personally, my venue is Crown Casino which is quite known as a tourist attraction. The juiciest nights are when there's a large sporting event, because a lot of people tend to head to the casino afterwards. Lots of drunk lads who's only experience with poker are fun home games.

Weekdays are absolute regfests during day times/evenings. I find late at night the only players around can sometimes just be degens. It really depends on the table, so if you get a tough table don't be afraid to transfer.

So people in the US get paid every week? daaamn, we get paid once a month so the games get juicy on one Friday and Saturday a month and then they get tougher and tougher to the point that I don't even play on the last weekend before the payday.

Yes, in the US hourly employees generally get paid every week or every other week. Salaried employees generally get paid either weekly, biweely, semimonthly, or monthly.

Nice. I'm Canadian too (assuming you're from Vancouver), and I am a pro living in Vegas now... I play Thursday-Friday-Sat ... And then Sunday I watch football as I'm too distracted by all the NFL action.. Then I play Monday which can be good here cuz people still seem to be in... Tuesdays I take totally off and Wednesdays I coach ... Works out well in terms of capturing the good action and getting some breaks in between grinding to keep fresh!

Good luck !

I am excited to figure out this weekend vs weekday dilemma myself soon. In Vegas, weekdays during the day during conventions was always much better or a Friday/Saturday night...

weekday daytimes = nit regs and convention fish
weekend nights = drunks and pros
different mixes but you still have to pick your spots

I agree with this. Depending on your playing style and whether or not you have a bankroll one may be better than the other.

Having looser players (drunks/inexperienced players) that may come in on the weekend will also increase your variance. It is much more likely that you will be getting your stack in against these players than it would be with regs/nits. Against a reg/nit it will most likely take a cooler situation in order to get stacks in, but against a drunk that you have seen put lots of money in with K4 on a KJ398 board all of the sudden it becomes very hard to get away from strong, but not nutted hands. As a result you will be getting it in lighter than normal and this will increase your variance.

Can we please retire the term 'regs'? Most regular players are losers. Most irregular players are losers too. Nothing says I'm-a-fish more than someone afraid of 'regs'.

ENSS (excellent non sequitur, sir). A reg is presumably an experienced player with a fixed strategy. It has nothing to do with anything you wrote.

It has everything to do with what I wrote. Most people who are afraid of 'regs' can't differentiate between the majority of experienced regulars in the room who lose, fixed strategy or not, and the small minority of regulars in the room who do beat the game.

And the non sequiturs just keep flowing. A game filled with regs isn't any better just because they're losing regs. Most regs are losers; that doesn't mean sitting down with them channels their loses to you.

great poast sir - I am quoting it for truth

Knowing who the losing players are and how they play is a huge advantage over a table of unknown players, IF you're a winning player. But I do agree with you on one point - for most people, knowing that others play regularly really doesn't make much difference in their outcome.