mucho gracias seigneurs - would be like trying to play poker in the dark without all of your wisdom, day by day I'm a stronger player for it.

End day 3

Well despite that rather melodramatic 'this is the hardest thing i've ever done in my life post earlier' ... cutting the donk bets out is really helping my bottom line. Just finished the last session of the day, I played for 2.6 hours, and ran at 27.5BB/100 for 412 hands. As I'm seeing more winning sessions its becoming more and more enjoyable.

This means I'm just over half a buy in down on the day which i'm very pleased with considering I was 5 down at lunchtime. The losing sessions as you guys saw from the hands I'm posting are at least 50% donk moves on my part. Tomorrows plan is to cut them out completely. Start with the mentality I started the last session today with, 'I will not make any donk bets - default action, fold rather than call'. If the hands not good enough to be raising it's probabally not good enough to be calling with - so thats going to be tomorrows focus.

Another good day. The poker grinding muscles are developing, and I know I have what it takes to pull a winning session out when I need it, I just need to make it the default now - instead of only mustering it to save a losing first session! =)