$120 to $1150 at Borgata

Crazy day today, got to Borgata around 2:30pm after i picked up a hundo from eng at Rutgers. I used this in addition to my $220 that i had on me and we went halves at 1-2. I was doing alright at first, up 100ish and just teatering above even and then the table died down so i switched. Missed an open ended straight flush draw on the flop and after that I just knew i couldn't play 1-2 anymore. I was tempted to go to 2-5 with it but i decided against since it was eng's money too and he wouldn't approve. anyways, i had exactly $120 and decided i'd register for the 7pm tourny. There ended up being 91 entrants so i was good to go. Early on i double up with QQ when i raised preflop to 200, got 2 callers. flop came Q 6 7 with 2 spades, sb checked i led out for $500 they both call. turn another Q. Sb checked again and this time i checked it to the other guy who bets $600. Sb calls and i flat call praying a spade comes off. River is a red T and sb insta checks and i try to think which line to take. Obviously he doesn't have a Q so what kind of hand does he think I have and what kind of hand might he have. I can't really lead out cause it's very suspicious to smooth call on the turn and then lead out on the river so i decided to check and he made a bet of about $1300. I was gonna try to make it look like a steal so i raised it to $5500 or so and he thinks for like 20 seconds and then shoves with TT lol.
After this i had 22k, blinds got to 1k-2k and i had seen 1 ace, no pairs, and one KJ. I was playing super tight but took down a pot in the blinds when i made a good call with a pair of 6's on KK86J, check check on flop, i led out for 1k on turn, check called 2.5k on river. he had A high.
So i actually did get really lucky cause i was at 17k and blinds were gonna be 1500-3k so i shove with A6 and get called by AQ and flop is A T 6 and i win. But from there i basically picked up Kings at a good time and ran it up to like 106k. We got down to 2 tables and i was feeling confident that i was going to win this thing. $3k for 1st.
So we get down to 2 tables and i pick up AA in the sb, folded around to me and i make it 20k on top blinds were 3-6k. BB auto shoves i call he has ATh and i lose that pot bringing me back down to 70k. When we hit the final table that's when i felt the game really began and within a couple rounds i was back up to $160k. Then we got even more short handed and i ran it up to $260k having 30% of the chips in play. The players were asking to chop and clearly i wasn't going to with this kind of chip stack, we were down to 7. All of a sudden short stacks kept doubling up, then i lost a couple big hands and blinds doubled up so everyone was avg in chips and we agreed to chop evenly. Came out to $1187, gave 37 to the dealers and pocketed $1150. Overall sick run but i'm really determined to use this money to go on a massive heater. Now that i have a roll to work with I kno i can go on a decent run. Hopefully all goes well.
Last week i played online mostly since i lost from that previous session at AC and Bloomfield. So i'vebeen playing $10 and $20 heads up 500chip UT's and been pretty dominant. Since i was left with only $50 in the account after Alex had lost on it i built it up that day to $212. I realized that $20 heads up sng's can give u a pretty steady win rate and sizeable too. It's really easy to get burned out from HU so u gotta really play only when u wanna play. Do not force it. I began to keep in mind this idea and the next morning Alex had lost again and I was left with $100 this time. I played the whole day on and off and ran it up to $285. The next day i transfered some to dimsumboy and had $35 left. Ran it up to $144 and then that day Alex played some $1/2 heads up and doubled it up to $289. I then played a little bit more and had some losing sessions overall down to like $250.
Anyway, i'm really confident in these heads up sng's and i know i can rely on them for extra income. You just really need extra patience but the field is so weak that its worth it to play even if you aren't on your A game. (btw just checked AP and have $12 left, way to go)

So i'm gonna keep playin with this new-found roll and hopefully things go well.
Good game