Small update got a quick session @ nl20, there was one table going during the freeroll so I played for a bit and when the freeroll went on break it seemed like everyone went back to work or wherever players go when they not at the tables, so the nl20 table broke. I know from late afternoon the sites traffic picks up, and I've been able to either play 4 tables of nl20 (sometimes more) or a mix of 50 and 100. I have other commitments so no more poker for the day 😥 
Never got into any spots worth mentioning unless getting rivered almost back to back by the same damn straight, but it's a freeroll - can't really get angry - there will be time for that when I actually PAY to play in a tournament - and besides it's my own damn fault for being ALL IN with the best hand - I tried I failed I had fun - nh gg 

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R878 --> gonna have to take shots or this gonna be a fucking marathon

Goal BankRoll - R10000 --> is this even still alot? 

I was going to do a proper grind today. Was. I sat down at my most awesome grind station and opened up pokerbet and BOOM, there was already a table there for me, cause I regged the freeroll the day before. Super smart of me. Then I opened up some high society, 10c 20c 😎 - I always buy in deep 125 bay bays 😎 
First hand a player sitting directly to my left, who clearly does not know how to top up their stack opens for a lot, another player, sitting directly to my left smooth calls like its 2003. I am in the Big Balls with Big Dick herself AK - and since I'm in the middle of this sandwhich and they both shorter than I am, I decide to skip all that pre flop foreplay bullshit and make a fist and shove it in the air and then click and shout ALL IN. They both chicken out and fold. I'm left so unsatisfied. Few hands later I have AA, I make it a little, this player that made it alot from before, really makes it alot, no one else calls. I decide to go ahead with all that pre flop foreplay bullshit, I make a fist and then extend one finger and click one button, maybe 2 I don't remember the sequence of events. ALL In. This player calls of the rest of his stack which wasn't a lot at this point. The flop is clean, the turn brings a sweat, and the river makes me smile. 
The smile on my face instantly turns to a frown. Ah shit, I need to take a shit. But no, I am in grind mode. I can hold it. No I can't. I sit out. I run to the toilet and shit out. I run back and now someone has my seat. After 1 min I am back in the game. After 10 more mins I am once again turtle heading and heading str8 for the damn shitter again. At this point I gave the fuck up. I'm so disappointed in myself. I thought I could hold it, but I guess even AA can't hold sometimes. 

Don't shit your pants at the tables

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R878 --> not worth writing about 😤

Goal BankRoll - R10000 --> Amazon pays more 🤣 

Finally got a proper session in. No almost shitting my pants no nothing. Just poker. Got some time in at the cash tables, played some nl20 and nl50, the 50 didn't go my way, I was taking a shot so, meh. Nothing to really cry to GTO wiz about. Standard shit, I open, get a few callers and completely miss the flop, check fold. The freeroll finally went my way. I made a mistake on the last hand, my opponents' tendencies said fold. I wasn't surprised by what he turned over. But it's a freeroll so I won't dwell on this. Br moving in the right direction, I just gotta put in more time and grind. I played a bit since Thursday, but if I keep at this rate then I will finish this challenge round doomsday. I still have some things going on that is keeping me from putting in volume. You know, work, study --> not poker related work related but at least not boring so that's a plus. Got an exam coming up as well, 2 should be coming up, so I need to put in place some kinda work study and poker study routine and this routine can't fuck with any of my other routines. Otherwise, everything gets fucked up and nothing gets done.

So, one small poker goal for this week is to setup a proper routine that works round everything else.

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R1490.97 --> Finally a solid session

Goal BankRoll - R10000 --> It's not too far

Played the Sunday Slam on PokerBet last night. Had a deep run but it didn't go my way. GG. The first 2 levels at my table were crazy, like freeroll crazy. It was so crazy aggro I was starting to get reluctant to fold. I got 3bet with 72o, can you blame me. I made some big folds, and my opponents were mostly showing what they had, and in every case where I was thinking about calling, I was crushed. I had fun overall. But loosing is not fun. I couldn't help but think if I didn't make the choices I made earlier in the tournament, my last hand would not have played out the way that it did. My brother says I am too eager to play for stacks. He's right. I don't know what I am trying to prove by emptying the clip when I didn't have to. This is part of it. That poker ego. And when you combine that with all these bad habits I've developed from playing the freerolls, you get a false sense off "I'm so fucking good". No, you are not. You playing Freerolls you cunt. Wake up. 
I'm going to build my game back up, from the ground up. I'm going to start with Poker Coaching's 5 Day pre flop challenge. It's a free course, has a quiz at the end of each lesson. I want this to become a habit, in a way where I feel guilty if I don't study. Habits can take up to a month to form, and this is a 5-day course, so I'll reevaluate after the 5 days. Maybe start another one or do it over if there is something I don't fully understand. Poker is repetition. I need to put in those reps. 

Anyways, gl at the tables

https://pokercoaching.com/courses/5-day-preflop-challenge/

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R1490.97  --> this is less, I took add-ons in the 2 sats I played, I'll update it next time

Goal BankRoll - R10000

Come join me and the rest of the South African Poker Community on Discord
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Watched the first and 2nd episode of Poker Coachings 5 day pre flop challenge. The 2nd ep is by Matt Affleck, I've watched some of his coaching before and he is really good. If you don't know this dude, you can look him up on youtube, he played a hand that stuck in my head ever since and it probably sticks with him as well, he gets into a massive hand, late, at the WSOP Main Event against the eventual winner Duhamel. Its brutal. And I don't know if I would have had a different reaction to being KO'd like that. What always goes through my head is, "not today", do it to me online when it doesn't matter. But poker don't work like that. One times are bullshit. Ever since, I've always checked to see if he's ever made another deep run. That's 15 years ago now. Poker is way different and at the same time, it's the fucking same. It's crazy how many things have to go your way to win a tournament. 
I haven't played much poker, besides late reging a few freerolls and basically clicking buttons. I'm distracted. I've got some things that I need to finish. And I've played poker long enough to know that you don't play this fucking game if you are not 100% focused. Even at the Micros. 
I know I am doing a short 5 day course, but it don't mean I need to grind through it in 5 days, this isn't a fucking tournament. 
There are some things I am going to work on. The most important, is my pre flop ranges, I am just fucking lazy.
Matt asks the question right at the beginning of the video, how many people study pre flop ranges all the time and the answer he gets back is almost fucking no one. So yeah, poker players are lazy.
It's a long weekend, I might play some cash, or take some shots in the R35 -> not properly rolled but I don't mind. 

My gatsby is cold and I am already way to stuffed...its the long weekend I'm gonna try and get fatter...

Anyways good luck at the tables, enjoy the long weekend and stay safe 

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R1490.97  --> No movement

Goal BankRoll - R10000

I forgot it was fucking easter yesterday. I've been distracted with work. But shit man, I've never forgotten a holiday before. I've forgotten my birthday, that shit is easy to forget. I needed to focus on work, but at the same time I needed time to switch my brain off. I think I accomplished that. Forgetting a holiday is a big brain switch off. I got ahead of what I needed to get ahead of, and I don't feel so...fuck man you know what I mean. 
I played a little poker, not as much as I'd like to play. Played the freerolls and played some cash, 20nl and 50nl. 
Finished a short session about 60 or 70+ I hit deck at 50 but I also played like shit. Crazy, you hit deck but still fuck it up. It's fine, it could easily have gone the other way, and then I am writing this while pissing through eyes filled with rage for playing when you should not have. I should not have played; it's why my session was about 40 mins. Fuckit. I did put in study time, a lot. I haven't rewatched any of my games in a long time, I still record them. This is something I must do. Even though I am always this bitch negative nancy when it comes to poker sometimes, I am up, across 4 sites. So, there's that. But I will only focus on PokerBet. 
I've got my study routine and what will become part of my warmup almost down, suggestions are welcome.

Currently it looks like:
500 hands pre flop - UTG RFI vs UTG +1 - Just RFI and my response to a 3bet.
50 hands post flop, flop to river -> this is random for now -> but I would ideally prefer the same spot as above -> pick one area to work on
The last one, that I haven't done yet, is solve 5 hands -> deep analysis -> I am thinking this will be all those spots in tournaments where I am saying out loud to myself "I have no fucking idea what to do here". 
I might install HEM and do this on one of the other sites I grind as I am more rolled for tournaments on those atm. But for now, I'll keep it almost simple and focus on pre flop. 

Anyways gool luck at the tables

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R1512.53  --> Looks like it barely moved but I never updated it the last 2 posts

Goal BankRoll - R10000

Don't really have anything to talk about just yet. Study. Grind. Study. Grind.

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R1647  --> baby steps

Goal BankRoll - R10000

Sup. Been grinding cash lately. Booking small wins. I don't really like cash poker, I prefer tournaments, I've said it before, and you will probably hear me say it over and over until I am properly rolled for tournaments. As you can see, I am almost there. R3500 is the goal for the lowest buy in tournaments on PokerBet. I've put a lot of work into my pre flop game. I do about an hour a day on pre flop with a trainer, I pick a stack size I struggle with and work on that. Today I did LJ vs BTN 15bb RFI. I must have put in about 20 hours of study in April. This is pre flop with trainer and I've started post flop as well - but will put more time into post flop in May. I've got one episode of the "5-day pre flop challenge" to finish. I don't know what I will watch after I am done with this, I know that working on my pre flop game won't stop, there is so much content, and everyone claims to have the best course. I've got a tournament master class and cash master class through poker coaching that I still need to watch so maybe I will check one of them out. Might watch cash as I need to grind cash a bit longer. 
I streamed the sunday slam freeroll on Sunday, finished in 11 or 12th, didn't leave the video up as it was a test. My mike is shit, it picks up the dogs barking perfectly but I need to fucking scream to be heard, so fuck that. 
I'll buy a proper mike with poker money some point down the road. I'm looking forward to when the Monster Jam comes down to CT, I don't play any live poker and for some reason I am itching to play, it might be reading about Jaco and the rest of the SA poker crew crushing it down in Tanzania last month. 

Anyways good luck at the tables

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R1815

Goal BankRoll - R10000

No real updates to speak of, barely played anything except for the daily freerolls and I have basically just been clicking buttons. I'm distracted, I've got a work opportunity in an industry I really want to work in, I need to know a shit load more than I do, so poker is taking a back seat. I only won one seat into a sat recently, and then I got my times mixed up, so I forgot to play it. Fuckit. Been trying to help build the SA poker community up a bit more but its fucking difficult. It'll be a slow grind getting things back to what it was back when piggs was still a thing. 
I gotta go study, not poker (although I am behind with this) my brain is already fried and I donked my way outa this evenings freeroll 🤣 

Anyways good luck at the tables

Here's a link to the FreeRoll stream if anyone wanna have a laugh
https://www.twitch.tv/thenutssa   - if you wanna hear the sweet sounds of my shit talk then by me a better mike

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R1721 -> dip from cash and add-ons 

Goal BankRoll - R10000

Sup Grinders, been awhile. Just did my first coaching session. It's strange since I've normally been the coached. My student rinsed his bankroll. He was doing the 10k challenge and was about 5% complete. He is now less than 1% complete. It's fine, everyone busts at some point. I coached him in this morning's freeroll hence no stream (got like one person watching lol, got a mike now 😎 ). It was strange listening to his thought process, which when it comes to poker, is almost nonexistent. 
Not positionally aware. Does not understand ranges. Bets the minimum with strong hands out of fear of his opponents folding. If I think back to the baby poker me, I was the same. I'm by no means a crusher or poker coach. I know if I don't work on my game it shows at the tables. I know that studying the game doesn't help if you don't play the game. I never moved outa the microstakes. My fear never came from moving up, or losses or running into better players. It was always legislation. They keep taking my game from me. I know lots of SA players played through this and I respect them for that. I played and still play on unregulated sites, but that fear doesn't leave, what if they ban SA players again? I hate not playing poker. Out of all the games I've played in my life this is the best one. The graphics are complete shit, but the game play is unmatched. And this is strange for someone like me who comes from an FPS gaming background and fighting game background. I will beat your ass in either and provide all the commentary while doing it. There's a lot of ego involved in those games. Ego in poker gets your ass kicked, every single time. Trust me I know. That's why this time, starting out from the bottom again, I've decided not to focus so much on building my bankroll. I'm focusing instead on trying to build a thriving online poker community. It's kinda split right now, between clubs, unregulated sites and one legal site. This is why I decided to start teaching beginners for free (I don't care about money, I just wanna play). It helps me think about poker. Instead of thinking about how I can get better, how can I help someone else get better at a game they love as much as I do. I'm rambling here. I made some progress with the work opportunity, if I can put it in poker terms, I am on the money bubble. Very close, I'm not looking to min cash, I want to final table. This is still a way off. Shit man, hacking and poker, what more is there to life?

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R1479  --> took some out to buy me headset - cause I spend my poker money on poker 

I got this one for now - https://www.takealot.com/redragon-themis-2-0-gaming-headset-black/PLID69484595

Goal BankRoll - R10000

Sup,

Haven't been playing much, besides the freeroll which I almost always stream @10am daily, unless I miss it for work related things. I start work fulltime the end of July, so will have to play around that, and I am doing an internship for US company, the internship isn't really structured just yet, but that I focus on in the evenings.
As far as poker study goes, mainly been doing pre flop work, I have barely looked at any post flop scenarios (I did some work, but meh). I still gota complete Bencb tournament course but been doing so much other study I am too burnt out for that just now (its why I've been avoiding discord for the past few days, just logging in to check messages and then bouncing out again). I've been following the wsop, haven't seen any South Africans at any final tables (maybe I missed something?), which is disappointing. I would love to see a taxi gaartjie win a bracelet, went all the way to vegas grinding all the freerolls on pokerbet. But that hasn't happened yet so...
Jon Jones has retired, fuck that dude. Yeah, I'm one of the haters, I wear that badge proudly. I'm part of the group, and I know it doesn't matter what we think, but we think he LOST to Domonic Reyes. GG Jon, well played. 
And then there's Jake Paul...we can all see what he's doing, and we can't look away. And he's gonna keep running this same old play, over and over and we gonna keep falling for it. Jake by KO. Jr is just too lazy (like me and poker 🤣 ). He got the name, but when your strength and conditioning coach fires YOU, weeks out before the biggest fight you've had in years it is telling. I hope Jake get's KO'd, but I also hoped my opponent didn't have a Ten...he did have a ten and he may have, I have no proof, but he may have slow rolled me just a little. Or maybe he has kak internet? Who knows. gg

Starting BankRoll - R500

Current BankRoll - R1465 --> meh not putting in the work

Goal BankRoll - R10000