Sleeping schedules

[Sonny]

The Mayor's new Podium for this month brought up a question I have for all of you: What are your sleeping scedules?

Do you take several short naps during the day or do you sleep all at once? Do you sleep in the afternoon when the weather is too hot or do you sleep in the evening when the casinos are packed with ploppies? How many hours do you get each day?

I am curious how other players are sceduling their playing time during trips.

-Sonny-

 

[Automatic Monkey]

Well I've got a trip coming up this weekend. I'll have 48 hours in the venue, and I intend to spend a mimimum of 24 of them at the table. The other 24 will be for: sleeping, taking a shower, eating, going the terlit, travel between casinos (will be significant) and any miscellaneous extracurricular activity I encounter.

I consider it a bad idea to play without sleep because you make mistakes, and the problem with those kinds of mistakes is that you will never know. An analytical instrument cannot analyze itself. So anyone who has played too tired and still won probably just got lucky. But how tired is "too tired" is an individual thing. The other thing about being tired is that it hurts your ability to deal with unexpected situations more than the expected. Sure, you can be too tired and maybe you can still count, but how will you deal with an attempted backrooming, a thief or con artist on your case, or any of the many other unexpected situations that one encounters in a casino? Get your sleep.

 

[ladykiller]

how long to play

When I go to LV, I usually stay for 3 days, get there in late afternoon, early evening on Friday, and leave Sunday afternoon. I like to get in as much table time as possible. So I'll play that first night till 4 or 5 am. The next day I'll get up around 1 and eat, then do it all over again till 3 am or so. It usually depends on how I'm doing. If I'm down a lot, there's no sleeping. Last trip, I was down 180 units after 2 nights(very bad run). So the next day I played for like 14 hours and wound up leaving only down 2.5 units. When it's at peak hours, I find it better to back count. On the down time, when the PC's have a much better idea of what's going on, I'll sit down. But you really need to know yourself and see how long you can go without making errors. ie: when you're a little drunk or really tired, have someone test you. I've done this, it really helps.

 

[Gordon Gekko]

Sleep Schedules

I try to get a full 5-7 hrs sleep, followed by a 45 min run. It clears the mind and provides tons of energy. A massage once or twice a week doesnt hurt either (GN spa is my favorate). If you absolutley have to go on limited sleep, meditate for 10 min or so to relax followed by a 1.5 hr nap. A full sleep cycle is 1.5 hrs. You will awake alert and refreshed.

A quality Mau Huang suppliment is also a good idea. Email me if you need a good source. Im sure Zengrifter could provide you with a source too, eh zg?

gg