varies a bit from day to day as i am more worried about hour count than exact schedule but something like this
7am wake up
8am-noon session 1
noon-2:30 gym/lunch
2:30pm-6:30 session 2
6:30-11:30 freetime
some times i get up at 8 instead and end up playing 3 shorter sessions one in the evening

Hi Bullitos,

I respect and follow your posts a lot, so thanks for sharing. I definitely see the idea behind reducing the level of mental exercise as you get close to going to bed. Probably at least 1 hour cool off period is needed, although when completely exhausted/drained, it probably does not matter as you crash in bed and snap fall asleep.

I was a little bit surprised that you do not play after 22h. Are you not concerned that you are missing a lot of juicy action? Or it is simply the case that your other responsibilities force you to wake up at around 8am, so you cannot afford staying up later and waking up at 11-12?

I find the 11am wakeup-3am sleep and 12noon wakeup - 4 am sleep regimes quite optimal when it comes to covering the best time zones to play. Some issues might arise when one has to balance it with other real life responsibilities.

So you guys never have sex?

Haven't seen that in your schedule...

what is this sex you speak of?

Thanks!

I have trouble sleeping when I've played too much poker during the day. So although I am mentally drained and exhausted I still won't fall asleep. This sucks a lot, especially when you have a baby waking you up several times in the middle of the night.

My responsibilities are indeed also the reason I can't and don't want to play till 2.00-3.00 midnight, although it would probably be the most +EV thing to do.

11 am wake up, breakfast, watch pokervid, read forums and stuff
1 pm - 3pm: session
3 pm - 4pm: eating and chilling
4 pm - 5.30pm: gym
5.30 - 6pm: shower and chill
6pm - 8.30pm: eating + chilling
8.30pm - 10.30pm: session
10.30pm - 12pm: eating + chilling
12pm - 2am/3am: session
3am: sleeping

Seems fine to me!

A +++++++++++

This thread gives the impression that most MSNLers put in 8hours playing, 2 hours studying the game and spend 2 hours in the gym.

well played sir!

they do.. it's called masturbation.

girls dont like getting near a guy with 8 piss bottles under his desk ya know?

oh, and they dont like guys who schedule their sex either..

lol, yea a guy who pencils in "Sex" in his datebook is someone who probably gets a lot.

heres my beat of a schedule for weekdays

6am - wakeup drive gf to work
7-11am - food and errands, maybe nap
11-3pm - drinks/lunch downtown, gym, shopping
3pm-9pm - playing, coaching, reading 2+2, maybe even out bowling or something weird
10pm - doing whatevers clever, and going to sleep eventually for 6am wakeup

my schedule consists of
wake up 8-10am.
Poop
Shower
Immediately chow down on a banana or two.
Possibly eat some breakfast.30 min
Eat another banana.
Grind. 2+hrs
Eat a banana.
Have lunch.
Eat a banana.
Grind 2+hrs.
Eat a banana.
Grind 2+hrs.
Have dinner.
Eat a banana.
possibly sleep, possibly watch some Tv

So ya basically I like poker and I love me some bananas

mmmm bananas

F*ck the schedule. One of the main perks of being a poker pro is that you don't have to have one, and if you do, you can usually just say f*ck it with little to no consequences.

my schedule isn't so strict, I try get up before 11am, and incorporate at least 2 sessions of poker(2hours long), gym, breakfast lunch dinner(sometimes out for dinner/sometimes I spend a an hour or 2 preparing a few days worth of food/sometimes just order), playing sports, couple hours browsing, popping to the shops, watching some sports/tv, then socialising post dinners a few times a week

Wake up whenever - chill out and eat then play, stop when im bored lost a **** load or just want to book a win... Watch movie spend time with the misses and friends sleep simples

NOM NOM NOM

in b4 cheets "wake up in the morning feeling like p diddy"

re: the guy who lives with government working wife who egg timers his session

just quit the fish when that little buzzard goes off? yaaaaa rightttttt

no grind before gym; my flawed brain just cant do it

well there are definitely exceptions, but it's just an issue of knowing that my play gets a lot worse in hour 3 and I've lost so much money playing long sessions. Generally long session = bad session, the timer is just a way to remind yourself and not go down the rabbit hole into an 8000 hand grindfest...

If I have a great seat/table I will just start closing the bad tables one by one until that's the only one left and I'm one-tabling so I can also do email etc. (I almost never do chat/email/browsing while playing)

Don't get me wrong I am all for the sleep-to-noon poker player lifestyle, just not going to happen with my current life arrangement since everyone I know is in normal life (teacher, lawyer, government, insurance, health care) and works a regular daytime schedule.

really?

i have a tough time putting serious hours in after gym, my brain just feels too tired after like 2 hours of grinding

8am wake up, shower, read WSJ, breakfast, hh review
9am-12pm sesh
12pm gym
1pm lunch/hang out by pool/watch soccer
3pm run random simple errands or go to class (went back to finish degree finally woop woop)
6pm-9pm sesh
9pm-midnight go out, creep on hot chixx, get laid, etc.
sleep by 2am at the very latest

FMP

GYM is a great "reset" activity for me. It is great between sessions and the session after GYM+food+rest feels like a brand new day with totally new concentration levels and mindset.

Plus sports are a great way to fight/counteract the inherent laziness of most poker players and the general lack of physical activities associated with our profession.