Genoa and AC , +$3,100

This week I hit up Genoa on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights and then went to AC for the weekend with Eng. Needless to say, i'm exhausted from poker and a week break is definitely necessary. I've been playing pretty well but i'm also not getting raped by the cards....yet.

The NL game at Genoa is not easy, but its also very live. So far from what i've seen the play is aggressive and people are not afraid to pick up on weakness when they smell it. It's 5/5 with $1,000 buy in and i'm excited to see whether or not i'll sink or swim, but one thing is true...this game can definitely make me.

Sunday night I played for 4-5 hours and won $1,000.
Monday night I played for only 2-3 hours and won $800.
Tuesday night I played for again 2-3 hours and won $200.

After paying back my mom $800, I didn't feel like playing at Genoa until I was more securely bankrolled since going broke would kill me right now so I decided to take a trip to Borgata on Wednesday night. I played 2/5 and lost $700 after running into AA with KK AIPF and losing with QQ on a 873 flop to A3 after he "swore i had overcards". I stepped down to 1/2 and grinded back $500 giving me an overall loss of $200.

Thursday night I picked up Eng and we headed to AC for the weekend. To say that Eric has been "running bad" is an understatement. The kid just can't win and its completely because of the cards. This weekend was his last opportunity to get out of this shitty slump.

The plan was to play at night and get a room during the day and just grind it out the whole weekend.
Thursday night I finished up $300.
Friday night I won $700.
Last night I won $300 giving me an overall win of +$1300 for the trip.

Eng was down the first 2 nights and at 3am last night I told him I'd stake him for 2/5 since that was his only real chance at making his money back.
He was in for 700 after reloading when the following hand came up.
Some kid made it 35 to go and there was 1 caller when Eng repopped to 80 more in the sb with aces. Both players called and the flop came J x x. Eng blind bet 125 and the kid went in the tank. Finally he pushed and the other guy called all in for less. Eng ended up calling and the pot was around $1300. Turn was a spade and river...spade. Not just that, but the dealer accidently flipped over the burn card for the river which woudlve been a 9d giving Eng the win. Ofcourse the real river was the As and the kid showed two black kings.

After that demoralizing session I cashed out, losing 400 that session but was still up $300 for the night.

I've been on the best rush of my life these past 5-6 weeks and I feel great about my game and what's to come. This week i'm just going to take it slow and relax from poker and spend some quality time on guitar maybe...we'll see.

Peace