Monday, February 2, 2009

Bloomfield, AC, and new BK club

Well, since I didn't get a chance to play the $350+50 Borgata Winter Open tournament due to insufficient funds it was time to go back home. I played at the Taj for 2 sessions and stayed at the Hilton since I was able to get a free room there. I remember not really being in the best of mindsets and really was just playing cause i had nothing else to do and needed money. That's always a terrible motivator and poker should be played for the love of the game, although you can't simply disregard the money either.
Soooo I went back home and told myself I was done with poker. That's it, I had had enough. After trying to search for jobs on craigslist and filling out some job applications a few days went by and I started talking again to Scuba Steve after we all parted our seperate ways after high school. He's still been playing online all this time and had been earning himself a decent living as well as a big bankroll. I told him I was busto and he wanted to put me back in the game. He put up the money for me to play in Bloomfield but the deal was he'd cover half my loss in exchange for half my profits. Good thing my first night I won $890 in about 2 hours and then bounced so atleast that was a good start. In the following 2 weeks I went on to make him about $900 total mainly from Bloomfield and a little from AC. I had also gotten myself some money but since I owed my credit card bill I was really hesitant on playing. I continued to give up half of my action.

Also, last week I stayed with my friend who was playing in the $3200 event at the Borgata Winter Open. He has a house in Margate and in the mean time i played a little while he went onto day 2 and day 3. Eventually he busted in 49th place for a total prize of $8500. Unfortunetly he had to give up 60% of his profits since he was being fully staked. His last hand he lost AIPF with 77 vs. 55. The tourny brought out a lot of pros and the 1st place prize ended up being $650k.

Yesterday I checked out a new club in Brooklyn that my friend Tim told me about. I met Tim in AC and got his number so we started talking. He's a dealer at one of the other clubs in Brooklyn. Anyways since it was Super Bowl Sunday they decided to have a $100+10 turbo tourny with 20 entrants. I was down to 2 BB's and made it back but ended up getting 4th and took my money back. 1st place was $1300 and would've been a nice boost to the BR. They had a 2-5 game going but I didn't feel like playing with the money that i owed the next day for my credit card so I just sat down at 1-2 for like a half hour and then left even. I was getting tired and worn out from the tournament so I decided to call it a night. I met up with Jeremy K. and his roommate since they were walking back from a superbowl party and had no idea how to get back. I ended up crashing for a few hours at his place and then went home at 6:30am and passed out till 3pm. Now I feel good to go for another session but I'm contemplating whether or not to go to this BK club again. Gas and tolls ends up costing me close to $20 per trip so it does add up. I already owe my mom for EZ pass from the previous months as well as other expenses that she's covered for me when I hit my downswing. I'm still not fully recovered from that and I owe other ppl tons of money.
Oh yeah, I did get a P/T job at CVS since Helm was able to hook me up. I worked on Saturday and it was pretty easy and everything started coming back to me just like when I worked there in High School. It does suck having to work for $9/hr doing routine shit but w/e, I guess it can't hurt. Also since it is part time i'll still be able to play poker 5 days a week.

I guess we'll see how the next few sessions go, I really need to focus and cannot afford to lose.

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