Operation: $$ accumulation

Originally Posted by The Bean Counter

Nice work - it's good to see you back in the zone and talking about the game with assertiveness again.

Other than a broken arse, would you mind if I ask you what conditions you find work well for you when grinding?

my setup is pretty simple, clear-ish desk with laptop and monitor taking pride of place. Wall behind so no distractions there. Swiss ball cos it's better than a fancy chair.,

I think that the most important thing is a state of calm and focus beforehand, and the ability (difficult, and i fail here often) to objectively confirm this calm and focus at intervals during the session, to correct if necessary, and quit the session if calm and focus are gone. Coffee and/or booze are both fine, as long as they are acknowledged and their possible impacts are identified - and sessions quit if these impacts manifest.

Ideally it's quiet (i used to grind with music, but have noticed loads of variation in my game vs tempo and etc - so do that less often now), i'm not postponing doing anything that needs to be done, internet browsers off - only thing running on computer are hem and the poker client(s). I don't answer my phone or anything like that, i only have it to hand if there is a reason to.

biggest week of poker play this year i think, that's what being confined to home does i guess. My body is getting better pretty quickly, i'm going to test it with a half hour walk tomorrow. Psyched. Sessions tab from HEM. Red sessions are losing sessions.
I'm hating those players who quit tables as soon as they get a little reg-infested. I'm usually last to leave cos i don't race for the button much. But, meh. Hate having tables break all over the place.

Sorry to hear your walking and bicycling days have been held up, hope it gets better sooner so you don't slow that metabolism and become overweight like a lot of poker grinders do, lol.

I like to get in three mile walks(about 5K), and it's a bear right now until I go to Florida for the winter here in 2-3 more weeks. Been getting in walks at the 24 hour grocery stores , but nowhere near as fun as outdoors. I cough in cold weather. Temp has been no higher than 32 for last couple days. I stay in Florida until April 15th, then decide to head back north slowly.

still pretty heavy on the grind volume - 80k hands since the 15th.
had a small downswing (about 17 stacks?) a few days ago, but i've won that back plus interest since then.

looks like it might be a few more weeks than initially anticipated before i'll be able to climb/run/hike/bike/surf/etc. Don't matter. Life is still a good place to be, and i've figured out what training i am able to do in the meantime - i thought chinups would be fine. Wrong. Very wrong. But some stuff is ok.

a really annoying hand. Villain is terri-bad something like 60-20 and 15% 3b likes to get involved pre and post. I've stacked him twice on other tables.

7 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($46.37) 46bb
UTG+1 ($81.90) 82bb
daven (MP) ($100.50) 101bb
CO ($100) 100bb
BTN ($105.16) 105bb
SB ($146.72) 147bb
BB ($38.50) 39bb

Pre-Flop: ($1.50, 7 players) daven is MP
1 fold, UTG+1 calls $1, daven raises to $4, 4 folds, UTG+1 calls $3

Flop: ($9.50, 2 players)
UTG+1 bets $2, daven raises to $6, UTG+1 calls $4

Turn: ($21.50, 2 players)
UTG+1 checks, ...