Hi all,

I always have this weird feeling that when I don't update my blog for awhile I need to have an extremely thorough and interesting blog as my first post back. I guess the rationale behind that is that if I haven't been keeping up with my blog, I better have at least been doing some interesting things, right? I guess there has been some interesting real life stuff going on lately, but definitely not enough to warrant a 45 day hiatus from the blog. I'm not going to update on any of that stuff right now for purposes of breaking the requirement of an extremely thorough comeback blog.

I will say that I"ve been grinding Rush poker as if it were my job. Actually, I wish it were my job, I would love to spend 8 hours a day grinding it if I could. I get so freaking obsessive with things sometimes, and Rush Poker happens to be that thing right now. I've played about 40,000 hands this month at 1/2nl, which has to be close to the most hands of poker I've ever played in any month in my life. Things have been going well so far and the reason I am enjoying it so much is that I am learning a lot. It's been awhile since I have really put in the hours playing and studying on a consistent basis, and that's what has been happening this month. The feeling of self-improvement is just so intoxicating to me. I wake up every morning wanting to put in hands at Rush Poker and I can't wait to get home from work or the gym to put in a few hours.

I will admit, it's really nice to have 100% rakeback when you're playing a 800-1000 hands per hour, so breaking even at the games is worth a decent hourly rate. What's been the most enjoyable though is just realizing how much more strategy there is in the game than I thought there was. Taking a step back, there was so much room for improvement in my general 6max nl game because I haven't played much of it over the past year or two. Improvements there aside, there are so many nuances to Rush Poker that I never really even considered until I have been playing in the games everyday.

The reason for this post is mostly to let people know that I'm going to be in the CardRunners Rush Poker forum everyday talking strategy. I responded to just about every recent post this afternoon, and I encourage you to stop by to visit and post if you are interested in the game. I want our Rush Poker forum to be the best on the 'net, I'll respond to every new post in the forum until I post here saying I can't promise that is the case.

check out the forum here: http://www.cardrunners.com/members/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=100&page=1

Good luck at the tables,

Taylor