‘K, starting a new project. Probably a short one. Playing on Rush Poker.
Rules:

I have to Open raise every hand from every position
Iso-raise any limp or limpers at every opportunity
3-bet in position often
Squeeze often from the blinds

So my VPIP should be 90% or so (which is why Rush Poker lends itself to this project) except for [...]

After a few weeks in Europe (and with limited internet access) I’m still not quite recovered from jet lag yet.
For now I’m just playing some $10nl FR Rush Poker as it requires little focus, plus I’m trying to cover as much of the bonus that Tilt offered up as I can. I probably should have [...]

This is just a list for future reference. These are types of hands that I want to go back and review.
Hands to search for for analysis purposes:
3 bet pots
flat PFR IP
flat PFR OOP
call post flop raise or checkraise
Play of flopped or turned sets or better (search final hand = )

Not sure where things are going these days.
I suspect what’s gonna happen is I’ll donk around for the rest of the holiday season, start grinding again in the new year, probably re-starting at 10nl again. I think I’ve lost some confidence again what with not playing much and playing micro tourneys and some super turbos. [...]

Not much posting, basically due to a lack of playing.
I’d been dreading, or at least not looking forward to the first two weeks of December because I knew it was going to be busy. Two gigs, two meetings on top of regular family responsibilities and I went into a bit of a depression in the [...]

After what was probably a small down session, only playing 4 tables of 25nl FR because I only had 40 minutes to play, I was left still trying to figure out where my head is at in terms of poker.
I’m gonna ramble here, ’cause I wanna trace what I’m not sure that I’m clear on, [...]

In connection with my accidental registration for a $1.20 sit and go on Full Tilt the other day, if anyone is interested, vandweller, a Deuces Cracked instructor, started a project on November 1, 2009. He’s started with a bankroll of $100, has a bankroll management plan in place, and is targeting a bankroll of $5,500.
He’s [...]

I put this for entertainment purposes.
A series of hands played trying out the new $1.70 super turbos at Full Tilt. I shove AQs and get dominated, leaving me with 10 chips and in the big blind the next hand.
Now I’m sure according to ICM I should have been all-in much earlier than waiting until [...]

I accidentally registered for a $1.20 6 man Sit and Go on Tilt. What I thought I was registering for was the new $1.70 super turbo but apparently I clicked the wrong one.
Anyway, the reason for posting here is that after I realized my mistake, I was curious how these played as these are the [...]

Not much to report; struggled trying to accomplish something on Party, won some money last night playing with friends at 10nl at Stars, and didn’t unregister for the Sunday 1/4 million to give it a try. Went out 10,000 place or something, out of 30,000 runners. Pretty darn weak play, but too many runners to [...]

I’m not sure who reads these posts in the Daily Grind section; I don’t know that there’s much of value for an outside person?
The other day I ran across an opponent again that I remember very well from the first time I was playing 25nl on a regular basis, Daw****. I have a lot of [...]

Gaah, I tried to create a 3rd blog on my domain that shared the same database as this one and the main one. I thought it was working okay, but later this blog and the new one got crossed; trying to log in fresh to either one would take me to the other one.
After a [...]

Not much poker time available these days, but I realized that I should note my Party Poker freeroll attempts. I’m sometimes (though not always, and I don’t know why) eligible for a private freeroll, even though in theory I shouldn’t be because there was a deposit date requirement back in the spring, long before I [...]

One thing that I want to note in here, so I’m putting it in a separate entry so that it stands out, is how tight I’ve become OOP.
This is for full ring mind you, but I’m now open folding AQ and lower from the first three positions as well as sometimes 88 and down.This is [...]

I opened Full Tilt this morning and it asked to upgrade. I okayed the upgrade, but then it also asked to upgrade Adobe Flash. This is interesting because I use Mozilla as my normal browser, Internet Explorer as my default browser but ZoneAlarm to let me control automatic browser access to the internet. In other [...]

Full Tilt is going to be running a promotion called Take 2. You have to opt in to accept the promotion (Cashier -> Promotions -> Take 2).
There’s two elements at work in order to earn a bonus.

You have to play at least 2 cash tables at the same time
You have to play on at least [...]

From my previous post: “Third hand, same guy, AA UTG, raising slightly less looking for some action. He flats. Flop is not very good, hits his range much much more than mine, but I opt to bet in case he’s missed as well. If I get raised, I’m done with the hand. He flats, so [...]

Nearing the end of May I’ve about completed 4 months of multitable grinding.

So there I sit. Still with a negative bb/100 at 25nl, though that’s somewhat offset by the positive in 25pl. Note the W$SD for 25nl is lowest, an indication of how I’ve run poorly at that level. VPIP/PFR are about the same in [...]

What’s happened is that I’m playing more poker, playing more regularly, playing more focused. Meanwhile, my philosophical meanderings continue, which is what my main blog has become.
So I came up with the idea of creating a sub-blog, somewhere to keep only daily grind or daily play thoughts, in note form. In many ways, this is [...]