new home on the lower east side

Haven't updated in a few weeks so i figure now is a good time. Right now i'm in an apartment on 2nd ave and st. marks, which i'm subletting from an NYU girl who is out of the country. I stayed here 2 nights last week and then relaxed at home for a few days. Then i came back here Sunday night and have been here since. I'm not sure how long i'm gonna be staying here but if i had to guess i'd say another week or 2 cause that's when the girl gets back.

These past 3 weeks i really haven't been playing that much. Sorta playing whenever i really need to and not focusing on putting in my time. As a result since i'm taking a sort of break from grinding, this lifestyle has become less structured and with the new environment, there's a lot of mixed feelings and emotions that are going through my head. I've stopped writing down my every day results too, maybe i'll start again if i have enough reason to. I don't think it really helps or changes anything other than being more neurotic and over-analytical.

So I played Monday and lost $195 at this private home-game on 35th and lex. Leuis came with me, he only had $200, $160 of which was mine but i had a good feeling about playing so i had to spot him, even though i truly couldn't afford it since i had $900 to work with. The session went mediocre, i called of $75 on a bad call and made a $100 bet which got called so with luck being put aside, those were the only real situations which made me lose money. There's so many situations and combinations of events that occur in poker that makes the game so intriguing and entertaining. For instance last night I won $730, all of which i had to do no thinking, its just the way the cards played out.
Actually both hands were totally different, but the one i guess i'm referring to is the set-up hand situation. How often do u get flush over flushed, straight over straight, the most popular is the set over set.
So i had QTh on the button and utg made it 20 to go and 2 callers behind me so i called. Flop came 6 3 2, all hearts. Original preflop raiser makes it 60 and this older guy makes it 130 all-in. if i were to just smooth call here i might be giving odds for the preflop raiser to call with the Ah so i re-raise to 250 to isolate in a way. He ended up having top set but i made it loud and clear that i have the flush and was willing to take the pot down right then and there considering most likely that my opponent had a flush too and only 2 flush combos beat me, Axheart or Kxheart. So he had 89h and was drawing basically dead. That was a nice pot which brought me up to 1k.
Before this i had won 1 other pot from the same guy who just had 89h. i limped utg with JT o/s and it was a limped pot preflop. Flop comes Th 8h 2s. both blinds check and i check as well, 1 guy bet $5 and there were 3 callers so i made it $25. 1 guy calls and the older guy to my right makes it $100. At this point i have to decide what he has and if he has something, what am i beating and what do i do. He had 50 left behind him and the way he raised really seemed weak. I couldn't really put him on a real hand and it began to look more and more like he wanted to just take it down then and there. I knew the other guy was weak and couldn't call a raise to 200 but if he did have a flush draw he might still pay $75 more to see it. So i re-raised to 200 and the other guy folds and the guy to my right calls and says are you lookin to do somethin? referring to doing business, he had 79h giving him and open ended straight flush draw. i had the Jh so that took away some outs but it was still a coinflip for a decent size pot. I said run it twice? and he said 3 times so we ran it 3 times. He bricked 3 times in a row and i scooped that pot, pretty ridiculous.
Then after the flush over flush hand i left up $730.

So i got around $1300 to work with now, i still have to pay for another week's rent but that's still under negotiation. Might go to AC tomorrow for the day with Adam since he wants to go. We'll see what happens.