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Having scrolled through the diaries for the past 6 months, I feel in the mood to make my own.

I have taken great inspiration from others who have posted, not leaving any details out and generally posting their honest thoughts and feelings.

No one on here will know me so a brief introduction.  

My name is Ash (may post full name later) and I live in Preston in the NW. I am 24 years old and currently work as a manager for an Accident Management company with poker on the side.

I think starting this diary will help me tremendously both through interaction with others on this forum and by me describing my feelings on a day to day basis (mostly involving pokers)

I have many degen stories which may come to light later on but I have moved on from there and now go about life in general with a level head (i think).  

i have a bankroll which is comfortable for 1/2, but have no intention whatsoever at the moment to grind for a living (hopefull y in the future).

I mainly play live cash either at any of the MAnchester casinos or private games.

I also have a streak of sports betting in me which maybe i should stop to concentrate fully on poker

Thanks for reading and hope to entertain all readers in the coming weeks and months!

A little bit about me

I was always a straight A student in school and came out with mainly A's and B's. 

It was when i went to college that I found poker and my days were spent in the canteen playing £1 games writing down who owed what to who as we were on camera. 

I played my first tournaments in Rileys snooker club and proceeded to play there for a good year, eventually becoming one of the better players through pure aggresive play.

I started university in Sep 2007 to study for a chemistry degree.  This is where poker took over my life and not in the good way.  I blew the best part of £15k in one year and by the end of the first year found myself in some deep trouble.

At uni, I played on stars and played 3/6 with one or two buy ins, building it up and losing it all again.  Had i known about BRM maybe i'd be doing this poker thing professionally.

The sickest thing i ever did was play in a freerool on stars, won a $11 tournament ticket. PLayed a $11 180 SNG and won roughly $550.  With that, i went straight onto the cash tables and proceeded to win just over $11,000 in the space of an hour simply by moving up stakes where i had one full buy in.  This came to a crashing halt when i sat on a 50/100 table i think and lost the lost with KK where i made a set and the other player made a flush. 

I took two years out from the game as i was degening out of control, got myself a job, quit uni and concentrated on paying back what I owed to numerous banks, credit card companies and friends.

Earning £1200 a month and having only £200 after paying my debts, i realised the value of money.

Two years ago, i enrolled back to university to study for a Maths degree, i now have 2 yyears remaining and hopefully will complete it.

I have started playing poker again semi seriously over the last 18 months and have my bankroll at approx £5000.  This is not my life roll and is completely seperate from everything.

The plan is to finish my degree, play pokers atleast 4 times a week and build a bankroll big enough to move up stakes and take it from there.

 :hello:  Looking forward to reading this, writing a diary has helped tonnes of people on here, and I'm sure it will be of benefit to you!

Thanks!

I dont even know what i've written even makes sense!

Feel free to ask questions etc

Real name so we can Hendon Mob/Google

Brilliant.

Sorry but i had to be the first to point it out! Gl with the diary.

Haha I know i realised it came out like that after i typed but couldnt be bothered changing it. think you know what i mean though!

Link to my Hendon Mob

Only the one entry

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=226075

you gotta a flag -large!!!!!

Confirmed

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Don't worry Ash, you'll get used to all the characters here soon enough, & their varying styles of humour.

Thanks for that "tikay Tip" the otheer week, too. More winners  please!

Good luck with the Diary, too.

no problemo.

ive put on £500 tonight on Arsenal v Wigan

(-1) @ 13/20

Gonna head to the G tonight in Manc to play some 1/2 and hopfully put some serious hours in for the rest of the month

Not played for a while since the GUKPT in Manc.

Only played the UKIPT last week which i busted in the 3rd level set over set.

Gulp.

Good luck you!

As you may, or may not, have noticed, there is quite a debate raging about that match tonight on "tikay Tips".

So far, we've had recommends for Wigan, Wigan DNB, Wigan with a start, & Arsenal with a handicap!

Swerve incoming......

I note your £5k "poker 'roll", is your betting & punting 'roll seperate from that?

good luck nice start

The £5k roll is solely for poker.

My betting roll is all in with life roll.  I have made a nice tidy profit over the last 6 months and have been using that.  

Im not completely serious on the betting side, I start with £50 or £100 and try to roll it over to a bag, withdraw and start again.

Ive read the responses regarding the betting on the Arsenal game.  I just think even though Arsenal have 3rd place more or less locked up, they'll see tonight as a chance to make it concrete as the others aren't in play and will really go for it.

I cant see anything other than an Arsenal win (even with Wigans good run of late) and they may win by 3 or 4

Thanks Ash.

I shall watch your wager tonight with interest, but I'm a nit, & my money is staying in my pocket. Its safer there.

What do you class as a full buy-in at a given level? 100bb's?

Sorry your bet went down tonight but the way wigan had been playing recently i was in the camp that left it alone.

Good luck with the diary from a fellow northerner!

RH

What's ur favourite section on the roulette wheel?


Prob see you around g then as I'm movin 2 mins away from there in may

 ;oopsy; on the Wigan bet. Good luck with this

Good luck with this, looking forward to reading more

not updated for a few days as been mega busy

last night thought id try to spin up on stars playing some tourneys.

so i deposited £100 and pplayed the big $55 ($125k gtd)

having got into the last 40 out of 2400 entrants and with an above average stack, i fell asleep!! there was 19k up top for the winner. i wake up in the morning and see ive finished 24th for$400. as gutting as that was and knowing i missed out on a chance for a decent bink, i decided to play cash on the new zoom feature on stars at 2.50/5

played around 6 hours in total today and have built it nicely to $4.4k

also just got onto the final table of the ept grand final sat 30 euro rebuy and have just busted in 4th place :-(, only the one sat in that.

just more or less finished on bubble in $109 (100k gtd), out AK vs k4 blind on blind

I havent played online for quite a while but my perception of it being harder has changed somewhat.

i know ive   only played maybe a thousand hands or so but still.

i have a problem now. with the money ive just made do i

1) try spinning up using v.agressivebanktoll management
2) use this to play properly at maybe 1/2

as ive typed this, ive just missed the chance to add on in the UKIPT dublin rebuy!

never mind, heres to a better night!!

Two bullets on 10 20 pls

thats too dgen for me!

i seem to pold along nicely on the 500nl zoom.  if anyoneon stars and wants to play HU im game, can be as small or as big

Fell asleep - how can you fall asleep!!!! Are you going to be late for a Final Table Heads Up "I was taking a dump"
Well done on the mini bink

Havent updated this diary in what seems like an eternity!!

I will be updating again in the New Year where I will be giving poker a real shot and taking it more serious rather than as a nice little hobby.

Have been mega busy working the last few months and hopefully by next month I'll be able to give more of my time to the beautiful game we all love

Ash

Playing the g 2525?

I don't know yet.  Thinking of going away for Christmas for a little break, still undecided.

Most likely will play though if I end up staying