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Daily Update…Back into the Rhythm

Just a quick update.  I played for 30 mins after reading a couple chapters of Zen & the Art of Poker.  I read the chapters on hesitation which were very interesting.

Basically the point of it is to take the same amount of time looking at your cards and generally acting in the same time frame each time.  The only reason you should deviate from this is too indicate misinformation.

Did quite well financially as I almost tripled my buy in.  The point of course is not to focus on the money but rather to focus on playing well.  Which is what I have been doing.

Feeling good about playing poker again and I will continue to play at least 30mins a day.

-Ethan Caine
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Results Of 5 Days Of Grinding

12000+ Hands Rush Poker

I have been playing 2 x 25cent/50cent Rush 9 Max tables on Full Tilt Poker. I originally deposited $250 and am working on the $250 bonus.

$160 of the bonus has been released so far so in a perfect world if I broke even I would be at $410.

HOWEVER after many ridiculous bad beats my balance is at: $240

However I’m not worried about this because I think I’m finally finding my groove and if I just let the math take over I will make money.

I am convinced that I am playing correctly for rush which is playing STRONG hands aggressively.

Hopefully this dip is due to VARIANCE.

Also if I wasn’t doing the bonus I would be receiving $100 this week in rake back but thats secondary.

Anyway I am going to keep playing and see what happens.  I’m positive math will take over and the variance will swing the other way.

-Ethan

Grinding Update – Up $161

I have officially switched to RUSH Poker on Full Tilt for my grinding.  I have moved up to 25cent/50cent tables.

I am comfortable with these stakes.  After I get about $1000 bankroll I may brave the 50cent/$1 or just add more 25/50 tables.

As of now I play 2 tables at once which averages to about 800 hands an hour and a SHIT load of FTP points.  I have am also working on my first deposit $250 bonus.

Here is a snapshot of my account screen:

Deposited $250

Donkey Donkey – Day 4 Grinding

Keep making mistakes, stupid mistakes like the following.

All In After Flop With NOTHING..donkey donkey

Lost $7 on a stupid BLUFF.  A case of me overvaluing Premium PreFlop hands After the Flop…live and learn.

Another awesome call when I went ALL IN after the flop with over cards and got raped by pocket As.

My Bum was bleeding after this raping...

SO I need to work on a HUGE leak in my game and STOP playing dominated hands.

Damage isn’t too bad since I made back a little of what I lost.  Sitting at $113 instead of $127 so I lost $12 today.

Night isn’t over and I’m still got lots of poker left in me.

-Ethan

Day 2 of Grinding – 4 Hours $65 Up

It is Day 2 of my poker grinding career and I am up $65.  Its not as easy as one thinks to play multiple tables with full concentration.  While this is day 2 I have logged 4 hours total.

I am averaging $16.25 an hour playing 5cent/10cent tables!  My goal with the 5cent/10cent is to make $10 an hour.

Again only 4 hours logged but I need to adjust myself to be able to focus on 4 tables at once and I am getting better and better.  My goal for tommorow is to play 3 hours.  Eventually I want to play 6 – 8 hours a day and make up a full 40 hour work week.

Anyway here is a snap shot of my balance.  I transferred $5 to my friends account so he could play which is why it only adds up to around $60 in profit.

$65 UP - Day 2

Anyway I will update you guys again tommorow.

-Ethan

First Day Of Grinding

I read a book called Treat Your Poker Like A Business by Dustin Schmidt which I will do a full review of later.  The book is basically about the worlds best grinder who played 7 million hands and has won over 3million dollars in the last 5 years.

Made $30 in 1 hour for the Grinding TEST RUN

I have decided to setup my poker playing exactly like him and start grinding.  I played for 1 hour during Full Tilt Poker’s Happy Hour and it went well.  I made $30 overall across 4 tables.

5cent/10cent NL Hold’em Cash Games

My strategy is simply Blind Stealing when I can and then playing good hands aggressively.  I am just playing 4 tables for now because I can focus on strategy AND playing hands properly.

Honesty this is fast enough for me at the moment.

I am mostly concerned with getting a good rhythm down so I can consistently make money on my tables.  The key is to start out focused and STAY focused  because this is a long term conservative consistent money maker.

Lets hope so at least.

-Ethan