Get to live another day

+990 tonight in the city.
Got in at midnight after chillin at bhavin's for the night. The loosest maniac was at my table. This guy loved to gamble and hated folding. Pretty dangerous combination. After about half an hour of building up a tight image and not getting any cards i pick up AJ on a limped pot in the sb. Actually there was a straddle so there was about $25 already in the pot preflop. I made it 30 to go and the maniac guy calls. Flop comes A A x, 2 spades. I bet $40 and he raised it up to $100. I figured he either had a spade or an A and i was gonna find out on the turn. Turn card brought a J sealing the deal. I checked as did he. River was gin, 3s. I moved in for 160 and he insta calls and flips over a straight. i showed AJ and he didn't even realize that he lost at first lol.
Exactly one orbit later i was in the sb with AKs when there was a raise from a tight player to 15 and a call by the maniac. I decided to make it 50 and the tight guy called pretty quickly so i gave him credit for a pocket pair (JJ TT) and immediately regretted my decision to raise. The maniac pauses for about 20 seconds and raises it up to 150 more. I couldn't give him credit for a hand so i had to push for about $500 total. He thought about it for a good minute and then decided to call with AJ. The other guy had about $150 left but he let it go preflop. I hit a K on the flop and took down the hand. The turn brought a T and the other guy said he would've hit his set of tens. Fortunetly for me he folded.
After that pot i was up to around 1,000.
A few hands later i get in another pot with the maniac. This time he sleeper re-straddled which meant he made it 10 to go from 1 off UTG since there was already a $5 straddle on. So blinds were 1-2-5-10 lol.
I call in the SB with AJ and he makes it 20 more. I call and it goes heads up.
Flop comes A 5 6, 2 hearts. i check and he insta bets 40. I smooth call and turn brings a 7d. I check again and he bets $80 this time. He possibly could have 2 pair so i just call again. River is a Jd. I bet out $150 and he insta calls with A3h. After that pot he cursed me out but then said nice hand and moved to a different table.

About half an hour later the table broke and I was moved to another game. The floor person wouldn't let me take chips off the table since i wanted to play still but i didn't want to risk my entirely new BR so i just left.

It was a pretty clutch win since last night i lost $315 and was down to my last $500 since i paid my mom $850 last week for credit card for Jan. and "rent" for Feb. I still owe her $500 for this month's credit card but that should leave me with an even 1,000 to work with so i'm not worried.

Also, i've been watching alot of Million Dollar Cash Game on Pokertube.com
I think it's definitely an amazing tool for helping my game. The show has like 8 pages of episodes and you get to see mini interviews with the best players in the world. It's inspiring and the best kind of homework i could be doing so i'm looking forward to finishing up the last half of the videos. Hopefully all this time and effort will pay off but I'm not rushing it. As long as I have food and a place to sleep i'm grateful.

I should be goin to Montreal to chill with James this weekend and we might go to Casino de Montreal so hopefully i'll have good news to report about that. They have the most electronic poker tables in the world so it'll be interesting to see how it is to play on them since I never have before.
That's it for now, more to come later.