2013: Make or break

Went to the casino last night. Was my first friday night visit and it was RAMMED. All the tables were full and there must have been wait lists of 20ish ppl across the different limits.

I started at 1/2 due to lack of seats at other stakes and was up $200 and then moved to 2/5 and was up $1100 there. I could have moved up to the 5/5 game but it looked a lot more solid than the 2/5 table I was at.

The last 8 visits, up $11.7k. I'm going to estimate an average of about 5 hours per visit, so running at an hourly $292.50/hour. Somehow that seems unsustainable, but we'll see how it goes.

Last night was an interesting session variance wise. I was running VERY cold preflop in hands, so I probably played the tightest I have ever played last night. That being said, I ran hot post-flop in a couple of spots.

1) This was the biggest luckbox hand I played. I'm constantly iso-ing this one awful older player. He limps EP, I iso to $25 on HJ, and this kinda spewtard player (who is straddling every hand, and often raising all the limps from his straddle kinda player), 3b me very small to $62 on btn. EP limper cold calls the 3b (this means nothing IMO, I've seen him cold call pocket 3's etc). I have , I decide to 4b to $165 (pretty small, I really think 3bettor has bs and will fold most). 3bettor flats and EP limper flats.

Pot is like $500, with $350 behind. Flop is rainbow. EP checks to me, I shove all-in. PF 3-bettor tanks and is like "I know you have AA so sick... I gotta call though" and calls with KINGS lol as if tanking. EP limper folds. I bink the turn Q for my luckbox.

+ 660ish

2. 3 limpers in front of me, I iso on btn and get 3 callers. Pot is around $110 on flop.

Guy on my right has CONSTANTLY been donking into me. I've seen him donk quite often with top pairs, and some overbet donks into other players with draws. This is the third time he's donking into me, cks to him he donks $55 into $110 on a board, and we have about $850 behind. I call, the rest fold.

Turn is for the nuts. He leads $80, I raise him to $210 and he snap calls. Pot is $660.

River is and he donks $110 into $660. I ponder shoving for the remaining $600 or so, but raise to $405 instead. He calls and goes on a berating "how do you call flop with that?" spree, saying he flopped two pair? (Q4 / Q2? lol who knows)

+700ish