Event #2 $300+40

Left for Borgata this morning at 8 am to make the 11 am $300+40 Borgata Summer Open tourny. The structure was decent with 40 minute rounds and 6k starting chips. I was up to 8k pretty early on after i limped with A5c in a multiway pot. Flop came A 4 9 with 2 spades, i checked it in early position and it went checked around to the button who bet 300 into 800 or so. it went folds around and i just called and it went heads up. Turn was a red 2, i checked it and he bet 600 pretty quickly. I called again and river brought a blank. I checked it once again and he took that as a sign of weakness so he bet out $1100. At this point i figured i had to look him up but wasn't happy to make the call, i called and he said i win and mucked his hand and was disgusted for some reason when i showed the A5, i guess cause of my kicker.
Then a little bit later on i get 99 on the button after 2 ppl limped behind me, i make it 150 to go blinds were 25/50. bb calls as does one of the limpers and we go to a flop of Th 6h 9. one guy bets 150, i raise it 500 on top to 650 and he quickly calls. Turn is the Qd and he checks it. I bet $1300 and he smooth calls once again. At this point before i bet the $1300 i asked myself do i really think i'm going to call an all-in, and i was afraid i might've had to since there's no hand that i can truly put him on so i'm just hoping the board pairs. River came a black K so the board was T96QK, 1 away from a straight and he checked so i checked too just in case he had it and he flipped over J8h, so he had it on the turn.
A few hands later i get moved to another table and the table is really weak. Every pot had weak betting and weak action so i knew i would literally just steamroll as long as i didn't get unlucky. I hit a sort of dry spell but finally picked up AJ in early position and made it 400 to go with 50/100 blinds. I got 4 callers and flop came A 4 2, 2 spades. Everyone checked around to me and i bet $1500 into $2,000. Sb flat called and we went to the turn, heads up. The turn paired the 2 and he insta checks which sort of confused me. I asked him how much he had left and he counted out 2250 so i put him all in. He took less than 10 seconds to call and then flipped over Q3s for a flush draw + gutshot. river Red 5, i lose.
After that i was down to 1075 with 100/200 blinds and got it all in preflop with A3 vs QJ o/s and lost that too. I was kinda bummed since it was such a sick oppurtunity for me to boost my bankroll but hopefully i'll be back to take another shot for the next one. There were 560 entrants and first place was $46k.
After i busted out i had $1200 left to work with and i knew the cash games were gonna be soft since alot of players who busted out of the tournament would be playing cash, so i got on the list for 2/5 and soon enough they started another game. The table was pretty wreckless with $30 raises preflop and multiway pots. I couldn't pick up a hand for a bit and was hovering around even when the following hand comes up.
I limped for $5 with 69h in early position and i think 4 of us saw the flop which was rare to see at that table. So the flop comes Jh 7h 8d. Sb who was a really dangerous and loose player bet $15 and i raised it to $50 to try to build up a pot against him. He instantly re-raised me back $50 more. Now at this point i had barely gotten into any hands with anyone and had just been really quiet and sat tight so my image was really working for me. I knew he had to take this into consideration so his 3 bet made it seem to me like he flopped the nuts with 9T. I simply called to see the turn and it was a black Ten filling up my straight. He bets $100 and i moved in for $175 total, he hesitantly called and after i flipped over my hand he mucked so that pot brought me up to around $550. I played a few more hands and then decided to get going back home so i could still hang out and enjoy the remainder of the day.
Overall, i lost $90 + gas and food expenses but i'm not really too upset about it. Pretty standard i guess so now i can only look forward and try my shot at the upcoming $300 tournies which are on June 16, 19, and 22nd. I still feel pretty confident but the commute is definitely tiresome.

Later

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.