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El Mogul's Diary!

El_MogulEl_Mogul Member Posts: 158
edited May 2012 in Poker Chat
OK, this is a bit impulsive but I've decided to start a diary (despite the fact that there seem to be a whole lot already on this forum). Not sure if anyone will be interested but I like to write and I think the diary will help be keep my focus and sustain my motivation if not anything else. I deposited £50 last week (after previously withdrawing my roll of £400 because I needed the money at the time) and I'm now up to £75 after playing a few small stakes MTTs and a bit of NL4.

Background of me:

I'm 18 and finished college last year passing my three A-levels (much to my surprise). Wasn't ready to go to uni straight away so I deferred my place in Swansea uni (studying English) 'til September this year. I'm currently claiming job seekers which helps me stay afloat (even though I'm lucky to have financially stable parents who will support me IF I ever need anything depserately). Cannot get a job to save my life! No one wants to hire an 18 year old with no experience it seems... So during the large amount of spare time that I have had, I've basically been playing on a few poker sites and now I obv. play on Sky (loving the community BTW). Overall during my short online career I've made around £500 profit (which I'm happy with but I ultimately want to make a lot more progress!).

So with it being the start of a new month and all that I've decided to start this diary. Been reading EvilPingu and GaryQQQ's diary over the past few weeks and both diarys have inspired me to start one of my own. I will mainly be playing £2.20 BH touneys (due to the fact that the bounties I collect from these will help keep me above water during times of variance) and NL4. Hope you all enjoy!

Bankroll before I officially start: £75.02 

P.S I will also summarise each day of poker in a short poem - just for the fun of it!
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  • MP33MP33 Member Posts: 6,308
    edited May 2012
    GL with it - Seems like you,ve made a good start already

    MP
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  • EvilPinguEvilPingu Member Posts: 3,462
    edited May 2012
    In Response to El Mogul - Yet another diary to swell the forum!:
    OK, this is a bit impulsive but I've decided to start a diary (despite the fact that there seem to be a whole lot already on this forum). Not sure if anyone will be interested but I like to write and I think the diary will help be keep my focus and sustain my motivation if not anything else.
    Posted by El_Mogul
    No better reason to start a diary than this IMO - Good luck.
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  • devonfish5devonfish5 Member Posts: 4,291
    edited May 2012
    good luck with your challenge EL

    loving the poem idea btw....

    we could get something going here....
    you & i....
    right up my street.   lol

    best wishes

    :-)

    devon
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  • YOUNG_GUNYOUNG_GUN Member Posts: 8,948
    edited May 2012
    GL, poem sounds interesting :) 
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  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited May 2012
    Best of luck to you, love the poems idea!
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  • Dudeskin8Dudeskin8 Member Posts: 6,228
    edited May 2012
    Good luck with your challenge, and sorry to dissapoint but £2 BH's are 30p rake :(
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  • Lambert180Lambert180 Member Posts: 12,197
    edited May 2012
    Yeah the £2 BHs are 30p and are generally pretty terrible value (as I've been told) unless you play the later ones with decent guarantees.
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  • El_MogulEl_Mogul Member Posts: 158
    edited May 2012
    In Response to Re: El Mogul - Yet another diary to swell the forum!:
    GL with it - Seems like you,ve made a good start already MP
    Posted by MP33
    Cheers man, hopefully I can keep the positive trend going!
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  • El_MogulEl_Mogul Member Posts: 158
    edited May 2012
    In Response to Re: El Mogul - Yet another diary to swell the forum!:
    In Response to El Mogul - Yet another diary to swell the forum! : No better reason to start a diary than this IMO - Good luck.
    Posted by EvilPingu
    Cheers Ping!
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  • El_MogulEl_Mogul Member Posts: 158
    edited May 2012

    devonfish5, YOUNG_GUN and GaryQQQ - Cheers guys, and yeah as I mentioned I like to write and adding poker poems to the diary could be a bit of fun... as well as making those boring days of poker where nothing much happens seem more interesting! :P

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  • El_MogulEl_Mogul Member Posts: 158
    edited May 2012
    Dudeskin8, Lambert180 - The rake at the lower levels isn't exactly favorable IMO anyway so it will be a bit of a grind... but I should be getting my C4P from last month soon which is something like £27 which will allow me to play the odd £3.30 tourney (most likely the 8:15 Mini BHs).
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  • El_MogulEl_Mogul Member Posts: 158
    edited May 2012
    Also if anyone can tell me how to reply to many posts in one post (with the pink boxes etc) then that would be great! I'm not exactly the best when it comes to computers...
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  • EvilPinguEvilPingu Member Posts: 3,462
    edited May 2012
    In Response to Re: El Mogul - Yet another diary to swell the forum!:
    Also if anyone can tell me how to reply to many posts in one post (with the pink boxes etc) then that would be great! I'm not exactly the best when it comes to computers...
    Posted by El_Mogul
    Click to reply to a post.
    Highlight, copy, go back.
    Click the next post to reply to
    Paste the first post
    Repeat ad infinitum.
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  • El_MogulEl_Mogul Member Posts: 158
    edited May 2012
    In Response to Re: El Mogul - Yet another diary to swell the forum!:
    In Response to Re: El Mogul - Yet another diary to swell the forum! : Click to reply to a post. Highlight, copy, go back. Click the next post to reply to Paste the first post Repeat ad infinitum.
    Posted by EvilPingu
    Ahh OK cheers, pretty simple then haha!
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  • devonfish5devonfish5 Member Posts: 4,291
    edited May 2012
    In Response to Re: El Mogul - Yet another diary to swell the forum!:
    In Response to Re: El Mogul - Yet another diary to swell the forum! : Ahh OK cheers, pretty simple then haha!
    Posted by El_Mogul
    trying to reply myself..
    have i got it...lol
    :-)
    devon
    YES.
    hooray.
    thank you Evil,
    i was wondering how you did it too.
    cheers buddy
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  • El_MogulEl_Mogul Member Posts: 158
    edited May 2012
    May 2nd

    Don't think I'll be playing much more today so I might as well summarise my sessions now.

    Got off to the worst possible start today. Some guy decided to play aces really strangely and I ended up getting my money in with jacks on a flop with low cards. Then basically got really unlucky for the rest of my cash session. For example if I had kings pre, the flop would come up with an ace and my opponent would always seem to have it! And to end it off my aces got beaten by J7... so by this time I got pretty fed up and entered the £2.20 deep stack at 2.20 and a BH around the same time. I was out of the deep stack pretty quick - I flopped top two pair and the guy flopped bottom set so it was all going in. However I did manage to win back some of my losses today as I came 3rd out of 46 in the BH... which was complete mayhem so it was pretty easy to gilde into the money.

    There's probably not much point in posting my C4P cause I'm hardly gaining anything at these stakes but I'll post it anyway.

    Bankroll: £67.99 - £7.03
    C4P: 24p + 15

    Anyway... Here's the poem!

    Ahem

    So it’s the second of May, what can I say?Jumped into NL4 and had a bad start to the day,3-bet my jacks pre, got a caller in the blinds,It appears he was getting tricky, as it’s aces that he finds, He donk bets the flop and I think he’s weaker than he is,So I shove all-in and he shows the rockets, you’ve gotta be taking the P***! Things didn’t improve at NL4; I just lost more and more,I found the aces and raised, got callers galore!The flop comes down 76J rainbow,Me and a fish go all-in, what does he show?!Seven Jack is his holding and I can’t believe my eyes,But all I can do is sit back and exert a barrage of sighs, So I left the cash games and entered a couple of tournies,Maybe in these Lady Luck will work for me,But that wasn’t meant to be as I hastily exited the deep stack,I flopped top two pair and he had a set, I want my money back!But in the bounty hunter I was doing OK,It seemed that all the donkeys had come out to play! This one was a frenzy; people really wanted them bounties,Even though one could barely buy them a pack of Rowntrees!Within an hour I was at the final table,Forty-six had become six and yet, the donkeys hadn’t returned to their stable,Despite being short, getting in the money was easy,I ended up bagging third; low stakes bounty hunters are pretty breezy…
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  • El_MogulEl_Mogul Member Posts: 158
    edited May 2012
    In Response to Re: El Mogul - Yet another diary to swell the forum!:
    May 2nd Don't think I'll be playing much more today so I might as well summarise my sessions now. Got off to the worst possible start today. Some guy decided to play aces really strangely and I ended up getting my money in with jacks on a flop with low cards. Then basically got really unlucky for the rest of my cash session. For example if I had kings pre, the flop would come up with an ace and my opponent would always seem to have it! And to end it off my aces got beaten by J7... so by this time I got pretty fed up and entered the £2.20 deep stack at 2.20 and a BH around the same time. I was out of the deep stack pretty quick - I flopped top two pair and the flopped bottom set so it was all going in. However I did manage to win back some of my losses today as I came 3rd out of 46 in the BH... which was complete mayhem so it was pretty easy to gilde into the money. There's probably not much point in posting my C4P cause I'm hardly gaining anything at these stakes but I'll post it anyway. Bankroll: £67.99 - £7.03 C4P: 24p + 15 Anyway... Here's the poem! Ahem So it’s the second of May, what can I say? Jumped into NL4 and had a bad start to the day, 3-bet my jacks pre, got a caller in the blinds, It appears he was getting tricky, as it’s aces that he finds, He donk bets the flop and I think he’s weaker than he is, So I shove all-in and he shows the rockets, you’ve gotta be taking the P***!   Things didn’t improve at NL4; I just lost more and more, I found the aces and raised, got callers galore! The flop comes down 76J rainbow, Me and a fish go all-in, what does he show?! Seven Jack is his holding and I can’t believe my eyes, But all I can do is sit back and exert a barrage of sighs,   So I left the cash games and entered a couple of tournies, Maybe in these Lady Luck will work for me, But that wasn’t meant to be as I hastily exited the deep stack, I flopped top two pair and he had a set, I want my money back! But in the bounty hunter I was doing OK, It seemed that all the donkeys had come out to play!   This one was a frenzy; people really wanted them bounties, Even though one could barely buy them a pack of Rowntrees! Within an hour I was at the final table, Forty-six had become six and yet, the donkeys hadn’t returned to their stable, Despite being short, getting in the money was easy, I ended up bagging third; low stakes bounty hunters are pretty breezy…
    Posted by El_Mogul
    For some reason the poem came out in one big paragraph... but oh well hopefully it will make enough sense!
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  • YOUNG_GUNYOUNG_GUN Member Posts: 8,948
    edited May 2012
    Nice poem, bit long but cool :) 
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  • OopnorthOopnorth Member Posts: 157
    edited May 2012
    Quality poem Sir, as someone who likes to write a bit too, thats some achievement to get it all in sync with the weird wonderful world of online poker terms, look forward to the next instalment.
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  • devonfish5devonfish5 Member Posts: 4,291
    edited May 2012

    like it like it like it like it like it like it.

    you get the general idea....
    where this goes nobody knows.
    great game this poker
    so hit and miss
    highs and lows
    jacks and jokers.
    u say donkeys
    i say a**
    your go mate
    fold or pass.
    my aces v queens
    got cracked twice tonight
    double your money
    don,t think so honey
    not very funny.
    it,s getting late
    time 4 bed
    enough said.!!!
    dev
    :-)

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