Weekend warrior/rec fish who is about to come into a lot of free time over the next 10-12 weeks. I have put in 360 hours at 1/2 and ~100 hrs at 2/5 since August with a decent win rate at 1/2. The bulk of my hours have come from Thu-Sat night when games are super juicy and pretty much any seat is a good one.

I would like to put in more time while my schedule is free, but will need to experiment with either weeknight games or daytime games to get in hours. I am assuming these games will play very differently from what I am used to. Presumably there will be a very different cast of characters in these games as well, making a lot of the history I've accumulated over the past year less helpful. There will be fewer games running during these non-prime hours, so I am assuming I will need to table select which is something I haven't really had to think about in the past.

What are some things I should be conscious of while making the transition? Any recommendations from other full time players as far as schedule and overall plan of attack? What things should I be thinking about as far as table selecting goes?

Boom. Exactly what I need also. Recently started playing full time and tons of off peak hours. Please help us out with evrything and anything. Table selecting, seat selecting, schedules that work for you guys would be awesome.

Would also love some stuff like "look for the fish that do x, and exploit them by doing y."

One example I found is player who always bet the flop when they have tpgk in multiway pots to "see where there at". You raise and win a ton of free money when they fold especially if you were preflop raiser bc you must have overpair.

The irony is that as you move from prime time hours, the ability to table select goes down. There are less players playing to have fun for a couple of hours, leaving you with people who are either wanna-be pros and serious recreational players in the evenings. During the day, you'll see OMC in his element. He can be profitable, but you can't beat him by playing tighter than he is.

Therefore, you're more going to look to flee a tough table than find a juicy one.

If your local poker room uses the Bravo system, I would be tracking how busy the room has been at various hours to help figure out when it is busiest other than Thursday-Saturday nights. I'd probably be looking to see what the action looks like after any tournaments.

One adjustment you sometimes need to make is switching from trying to stack someone to trying to pick a bunch of smaller pots, with more emphasis on protecting yourself from being stacked.

Asiannit, please elaborate on the smaller pot piece. How to, dos and donts, common situations an patterns.

I also play at a relatively small poker room where during the weekdays there will be 5/6 tables [at the most] of 1/2 going. The bulk of the players are reg retirees and the games are dry.

The bulk of my profits [that don't come from weekend hours] comes from 10pm - 3am, Monday - Thursday.

Just common sense. Weekend night games have looser players. You can value bet bigger and with worse hands against those players. You can bet three streets with an overpair against more players, while daytime players are more likely to be sufficiently tight that it can be a mistake to value bet a one-pair hand on the river if they have called on the flop and the turn, while it would also be a mistake to think this means you can push them around and just bet every hand hard.

I'm sure Asian Nit can add more to it, but IME you're apt to play more small pots against nits. Typically they are fit-or-fold and you can blow them off a lot of flops that don't for their PF range.

They're not shoveling money into the pot without the nuts, so you play small ball and slowly wear them down. Conversely, do not get big money into the pot against them unless you're nutted.

If you're playing against a fit-or-fold nit, one very obvious adjustment is to decrease the size of your c-bets. I think that's something you should do even if there is a possible flush draw out there. I also believe you should consider a delayed c-bet more often, even when you hit the flop.

You guys find yourself triple barreling these nits big a lot trying to get them off top pair?

I'm not triple barreling nits, I'm delay c-betting and floating them. In position, I'm c-betting a lot and seeing how they react. Of course a lot depends on stack sizes, our image, and board distribution.

If I'm fairly certain a nit has a hand like top pair plus, I'm shutting down on the turn unless I pick up a fair amount of equity.

Why don't you table select on the weekend?

I've never really needed to. I generally play from late evening until close so there are several tables when I first show up and we are gradually moved to 2-3 8-10 hours later. My goal for the night is to get as deep as possible against other players who have won a promotion or just run well but are not used to playing 200+ BB stacks.

Dear god, no. If they didn't have the nuts they would've folded to the second barrel.

I loled at t-roys post. Thanks for that. Won't be triple barrel bluffin these guys. I do know what I would call nits who will just limp in and check call AK on K T 8 3 board. Was thinking no way they put their whole stack in with one pair.

It was rhetorical.

Isn't that table-selecting?

The player who wins the most is often not the best player, but the best bumhunter.

^ That's not part of being a good player?