While some people play better in the morning or evening, still others feel they play better based on the amount of sleep they have had or how many distractions are going on around them. All of those are valid factors in how a person plays but there is even more to consider.
If you look as some of the most popular sites and track the amount of players on them at different times of the day it doesn't take long to realize the vast majority of players are from the Western Hemisphere. Namely the United States and Canada. We are just speaking about the quantity of players. It has nothing to do with the quality of player. There is much more competition during the daylight hours for the U.S. and Canada. Even then consider that early in the morning on the east coast the west coast is still sleeping and a good number of people are more concerned with going to work. Having less competition will always up your odds of winning.
Many people like to come home from work, eat dinner and then relax to a game or two of poker. They are often surprised to find that dinner time hours to early evening hours mid week a bad time to play. Think in terms of the kids getting out of school. Like it or not there are a lot of kids on the poker sites. Watch the site you play on to see if the play get much more aggressive in the after school hours.
This leads us to the time of year. It seems odd at first that the season would make a difference but it does for the same reason as the after school hours. Kids have vacations. All summer the play changes and each time there is a school holiday. We aren't talking about some local school. We are talking about two nations worth of teens. The play isn't just aggressive, any good player can bet an aggressive player. The play is reckless. It is the kind of play that is dangerous. Kids don't have the same concept of money as adults.
So what about the late weekend nights? Think about the number recreation across the nation on the weekend-drinking. Many people continue to drink throughout their evening of play. It can go either way. You may get a severely reckless player who is easy to beat or a severely reckless player who is lucky. You have to remember it's poker. You can have the best hand and never win a pot. But keep in mind, timing is everything.
