Good ol' Borgata

Last night me and eng went to AC. I played for about 12 hours, took a nap, got in another session.. Eng-being the robot that he is, didn't sleep so he just played from friday night 9pm till midnight of saturday.

Considering my last session was a crippling loss of nearly my entire br, i still managed to come up with $360 for this trip. Eng was running low on cash too but he was able to spot me a hundo.

So we get there around 9:30 and luckily i managed to find an open seat without having to deal with floor. I sat with 300 and got down to 240 and reloaded. Picked up a couple of pots and within an hour or so I was up to 550. Then this hand comes up. I have TT on the button and make it 15 to go, i get 2 callers and flop comes 5c 4c 2. They both check to me and i bet 30. sb calls and other one folds. Turn is a 2 and he quickly checks so i bet 75. He thinks about it and then hesitantly calls. River is Qc and he moves in for 150 so i'm forced to lay it down. He says he had Q5, don't really know if i believe him but i was definitely beat. So then a few hands later i get 86 in the bb and flop trips with 8h 8 7, i bet $6 and this guy goes all in for $40 so i call and he has J7h, turn heart river heart...sweet.
So in the mean time eng was doing a $100+20 sng but busted out and sat down at my table after getting a brutal beat on a previous table. I think it went down like this but i could be making things up.
He flops top set on 5c4c3 board. Check called to the turn which is Ac. guy bets eng raises and they get all their money in. River Qc and the guy nails a higher set. He was down about 400 and sits down at my table. At this point i had been dwindling down to 200 and reloaded for another 100 more. I was playing pretty solid and being patient, after about 3 hours of nothing i picked up some pots and was up to 660ish. Eng had been losing a couple hands and ended up reloading two or three times, not sure. At around 4:00 for some reason i found my rhythm and peaked at around $850. I had just reloaded $100 more so was in for 460 total . Before i knew it 7 hours went by and i finished with $835 for a win of +$375.
By now it's 11 am and i had been up for almost 24 hours so i had to take a nap in the car. Got up at around 4pm and cleaned up a little in the bathroom before starting another session. Eng had been at the same table this whole time but now there were completely different faces. I pulled up a seat to eric's right and within an hour i was up to 450ish after stacking a guy with KK. Really not sure what he had but it was a pretty standard hand. I was in position and flop came 8 5 3 or something i don't remmeber exactly, he checked i bet 22 and he calls. Turn is a Q, he checks quickly and i bet 40 and he calls. River is a J and he plays with his chips a little bit and then checks. I put him all in for 120 or something, i announce I have kings and he just mucks. Not really sure of what he had, maybe flush draw and picked up a pair.
Took down a few more pots and was at 550ish when the following hand comes up. This haitian or african guy makes it 7 and 2 people call. i have AQ in the sb and re-raise to 30. Table's pretty tight but hatian guy calls and the others too. Flop comes Ad Jd 4h. Not sure why but i decided to check to the aggressive hatian who checked behind me. He had just reloaded after busting out on putting all his money on a flush draw so he was definitely steaming at this point. Anyways, the other 2 checked as well and turn peeled off a 3h. i bet 45 and haitian moves in for 143 total, 98 more. I started breaking down the hand and felt as though he thought i was weak because i could've been stabbing with KK QQ JJ TT. Also since he did insta shove i figured it was probably a draw and if he for some reason had AJ then so be it. So i called and river brought a black 4. he says he missed and shows KTh...dodged a few there.
At this point i was pretty hungry and got some lunch at the foodcourt downstairs. Btw, not sure if i ever mentioned this but Borgata's foodcourt is ridiculous. They've got japanese, burger, pizza, chinese, cheesesteaks, and ice cream.
After some pizza I got back to the table and for some reason wasn't feeling it. I hovered around 700-550ish and had lost motivation to play. I think the reason is because i knew i had a long drive home ahead and figured i may as well get it over with before i get too tired later. by now it was 7:30 and i figured we'd leave soon. The table had been getting alot more aggressive and people were getting stacked left and right. I got right back into the action and peaked at 900ish. It had already been approaching 11 and me and eng decided we'd stay till no later than midnight. Oh yeah, in the meantime eng had gotten up to $1500 lol. He was just taking down monster pots but i forget the biggest one, maybe it'll come back to me. At this time i figure i'll accept a +400ish victory but really felt bad that i couldn't get atleast 600. Then, the following hand comes up.
I have 53c and limp utg. Goes around to the button who makes it 15. I call and it goes 5 way with sb and bb in too. Flop comes down 456, with 1 club. i fired out 25 and button called with frustration and sb folded. Turn is an Ac, great card. I fire a 2nd barrel of 75 and he calls. River is gin, 7c. I bet out a stack of 130ish and he moves in for 165ish total. He shows A8 for a straight and i immediately flip over my hand. SHIP IT! By far best hand this whole trip. That pot put me up to $1102 for a total of +$800. Conveniently it was 5 minutes to midnight and me and eng just left with 2600.
Oh yeah, i just remembered the hand that eng won huge on.
It's raised preflop i think and flop comes 9 2 2. Eng kicks my leg and shows me 99...lucky bastard. He check calls the flop and then checkraises the turn from 40 to 55. The guy instantly moves in for a couple hundo and shows A2 and eng immediately shows him nines full...poor guy.

Oh, on a side note. At my table was this girl that plays in the city too. I forget her name but she recognized me and told me Straddle got busted on friday...LOL. I was there tuesday, wednesday, and thursday night and they coudl've easily come then but i dodged it by 1 day!....anyways i was gonna ask her the address to Genoa but she had gotten up to get food so i missed her. Oh well, maybe straddle will reopen next week.

So overall this trip was definitely good financially but more important mentally. Not sure what would've happened if i were to go broke today but it wouldn't be pretty. I ended up paying eng back 400 since i still owed him 1000. i'm gonna try to win next week so i can pay back lu since i feel really bad that i've owed him money forever now. Worst case i'll give him 100 every few days or something, we'll figure somethin out.

It's 5:13 am and i'm getting flashbacks of 3 years ago when i'd go on these same AC trips. Good to see not much has changed.

I'm exhausted...thank God tomorrow is sunday, i'm sleeping forever.

peaceee