I played from 10:30pm until about 7am and I managed to eek out a profit of $49. One of the slowest sessions I've ever had, but on the bright side... winning is better than losing. Being able to protect my stack for over 8 hours is a fine accomplishment by itself. Towards the end of the session, I made a loose call for $60 pre-flop all in with 66, he turned over AhTc and 4 hearts hit the board. Goodbye $60.

More to come.

**Edit:

I wrote the above when I just returned home and I started to feel woozy, so instead of sleeping I went out in search of food. I ended up passing out from 7pm-10pm. The trip as a whole was a new experience for me, because this was the first time I took Greyhound to AC. We got to Ballys at around 9:15pm and played out our $20 slot vouchers which quickly became cab money. $11 to anywhere in AC, what a bargain ripoff, fuck $3 gas!

Grabbed a sweet turkey & swiss sandwich at the call grill and finally grabbed my seat at 10:30pm. That's when the slowest poker ride I've ever been on started. I caught Aces twice; once when I raised and won the $7 in blinds (2 limpers), and the other time I re-raised this hilarious old black guy with his wife sitting by his side (in between me and him) from his $7 to $17, and then he folded to my $20 flop bet with a Kxx board.

There was another hand where I totally timed my random luck and got paid. I limped with 46o in the small blind. The board was something like 58JT7 (I can't remember the sequence exactly). The flop was checked and someone bet out $10 on the turn with 2 callers in front of me, and I made a stupid call for a horrible gutshot-ass-end-straight-draw... and I hit it like that one night stand I had in Mikey's house (quick thanks to those who made that possible!). I don't remember the exact betting on the river either, but I extracted some more money out of at least 1 person who was totally shocked when I turned over my beatiful 46o.

So that basically covers the amount of interesting hands I had in almost 8 and a half hours. Contrast that with what I ended up doing just an hour ago, which was load up some PokerRoom and hit a short handed 1-1NL table and take it for $130 in 30 minutes.

$260/hr + playing at home + sitting in boxers vs. $5.76/hr + traveling on subway, greyhound, broken greyhound, greyhound, subway for the round trip + freezing my ass off in the poker room. Will I go back to Borgata again? Definitely.

Also, on the way back on the Greyhound the bus breaks down after the first toll after leaving the expressway. We wait(sleep) for an hour while we wait for the back up bus to come get us. The trip was good, the experience was good, the poker was long, tedious, and boring but I was still entertained. So far, still better than the best day I've had at corporate.


Until next time Poker!

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Source: Cardboy's Poker Adventures