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The Chico Network's traffic rises and falls with the US clock. Here's a live read on whether it's a good time to grab a seat, a 7-day peak-hours heatmap, and a countdown to the Sunday Majors.
The biggest weekly guaranteed schedule runs every Sunday (US time). Your local time: –
Peak-hours heatmap
Every hour of the week, coloured by expected table traffic — shown in your local time, so "when should I play?" answers itself. The bright column is US prime time; the brightest cell is Sunday Majors.
The heatmap applies the same honest model as the live estimate: documented Chico patterns (US-evening peaks, Sunday Majors), converted to your timezone. It is not a live server feed.
What the traffic means for you
US evenings (6pm–12am ET)
The busiest, softest window of the day — full cash tables, big tournament fields, ~3,500–5,000 cash players network-wide.
US overnight/morning
The lull: ~800–2,000 players. Lower-stakes cash and Windfall spins fill fastest. Fine for Europeans playing daytime.
Sundays
The Majors push the network to its weekly peak — 4,000–5,000+ cash players plus the biggest MTT guarantees. See the schedule.
Traffic figures are estimates based on typical Chico Network patterns, not a live server feed — for exact real-time player counts and today's tournament list, open the poker client.
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