Grinding: making a living playing a lot of online poker, often at low to moderate stakes. You have to admire the irony inherent in its use in the poker world. The “daily grind” has always been used to describe a job. In fact, usually one that you go to five days a week, where you are expected to show up at a certain time and not leave until the work day is done. Exactly the thing that so many professional poker players are avoiding (claim to be avoiding, hope to be avoiding). And yet there are many of poker players who, without apparent embarrassment, describe themselves as “grinders”. I wonder who, on what online poker forum, first dared to associate the term “grinding” with playing poker. I mean, according to the TV shows, being a poker professional is supposed to be about the most glamorous career in the world, if you’re not an A-list actor or a pop music legend. But I imagine that there are thousands of serious poker players who have suddenly thought during the middle of a (presumably losing) session, “ZOMG – this is like doing work. It’s… it’s… it’s like having a job.” And this feeling is only ...