Grinding

You're a grinder if you can find a way to win when you've basically been losing the whole night. A simple way to rank how successful your grinding was is to sort your winning sessions in ascending order of average ending balance. The lower your average ending balance, the higher the quality of your grinding. Last night, I hit the top 5:

$-38,302 2014-02-03
$-34,387 2011-12-17
$-32,470 2013-10-21
$-31,588 2014-05-30
$-31,028 2014-06-19

Grinding isn't fun, but it's a necessary skill to have.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 68 hands and saw flop:
 - 8 out of 11 times while in big blind (72%)
 - 5 out of 10 times while in small blind (50%)
 - 30 out of 47 times in other positions (63%)
 - a total of 43 out of 68 (63%)
 Pots won at showdown - 9 of 15 (60%)
 Pots won without showdown - 6

delta: $6,096
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,176,976
balance: $9,234,679

Grinding

Last night I had to wait a long time to get into the black - 71 hands. I called it a night on the very next hand. That's a textbook example of grinding - hanging in and hanging on, fighting to bring your stack back up to its starting level. You know you won't be able to win much, but you want to be able to win something. Grinding is definitely good for you; it keeps you humble, and keeps you from making foolish plays. Pot limit hold'em is much more amenable to a grinding style than no limit is; that's one of the reasons I switched back to pot limit when I went into no limit freefall. My aim is to grind my way back to the golden ratio, and see where that takes my balance.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 72 hands and saw flop:
- 9 out of 10 times while in big blind (90%)
- 9 out of 12 times while in small blind (75%)
- 37 out of 50 times in other positions (74%)
- a total of 55 out of 72 (76%)
Pots won at showdown - 6 of 10 (60%)
Pots won without showdown - 2

delta: $6,100
balance: $1,711,753