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5. Is it Friday? Besides being the last day of the traditional workweek, Fridays are good for poker players because a lot of people get their paychecks on Friday.

6. What time of day is it? Games played during the mornings and afternoons tend to be full of older, more conservative players, who have a lot of playing experience. The pots at those times will be smaller than average, and you won't get paid off as well on your winning hands. Evening and late night players tend to be younger and a little looser, so there's a lot more action in those games. Your opponents at those times will be making more mistakes when they play against you.

7. How big is the jackpot? Is it double or triple jackpot night? If the jackpot is unusually large, then it might be worth your time to play, even if it's a time when you wouldn't ordinarily go. Some cardrooms double or even triple the jackpot (up to a certain amount) on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays in an effort to increase business.

8. Is it tournament night? Originally, one of the main purposes of tournaments was to draw players to the cardroom, so they would fill the ring games as they were eliminated from the tournament. It still works. That's why there are more tournaments on a poker room's slow days than there are on the busy days.

9. Personal obligations. There's an old joke with the punch line: "On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, when I attend my Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, we play poker. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, when I attend my Gamblers Anonymous meetings, we sit around and drink." Whatever your personal obligations are during the week, don't forget them. Take them into consideration when deciding when to play.

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If you're a typical hold 'em player, you probably have a job, a family, and a home to take care of. You're not free to go play poker for hours on end any time the mood strikes you. You have to budget your time. You have to plan ahead so that you can get the most value and pleasure from your poker playing time. That's how this chapter will help you.

If you play in a regularly scheduled poker game at a friend's home, there's not much you can do about changing the day or the time the game starts. If you're not there for the game, you don't get to play. If you play in a casino poker room, however, or if you're lucky enough to have a choice of more than one poker room to visit, then you have some decisions to make.

Every hour you spend in a hold 'em game is not necessarily equal to every other hour you play. In poker, as in most aspects of life, one day of the week is not the same as every other day of the week. A poker game changes over time. It is like a living, breathing organism that evolves into something else every time a player leaves the game or a new player is seated. You can predict in advance which times are better than others if you know which factors to consider. Let's look at a list of those now:

1. What day of the week is it? Most people have already realized the importance of this question. Everybody knows that Saturday is always better than Tuesday, just because the majority of people who have jobs usually work Monday through Friday.
2. Is Monday a holiday? When Monday is a holiday, the games are just as good on Monday as they are on Saturday and Sunday.

3. Is it Monday evening? If it's Monday night during football season, the poker room usually has giveaways and specials for the poker players. You might get to enter a free football pool or have a shot at extra money added to the jackpot.

4. What day of the month is it?The 15th and the 30th or 31st are Federal Government paydays, and Social Security recipients get their checks on the last day of the month. If that's a Monday, then the previous Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are what's known as "hot-check days," because everyone can write a check and know it will be good by the time it makes it to the bank on Monday or later.

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