2013: Make or break

Went to the casino today, after a mega doomswitch at 1/2 for the first two hours, moved to 2/5 and then 5/5 and ended up the day up $1500 over 7 hours.

Total Tally over last year or so:
10 visits
$16.5k
Total hours: 57 hours
Hourly: $289.5
Hands: 3420 hands (60 hands/hour)

Had quite a few crazy hands today.

1. 1/2, with $325 effective. I was by FAR the most active player raising a lot. Two limps, I open to $17 with (I was opening at least $15, cause it was cell central). Player on my immediate left 3b me to $40 (pretty small), I call.
Flop pot: $85, flop , I check, villain shoves $285. HUGE shove. I figure nothing makes sense here, he either has a FD or something stupid like AQ/AJ. I tank and call, villain shows , turn brings the and river brick, villain wins.

-$325

2. 1/2, $300 effective. I open UTG to $15. Villain2 on my left (same villain as above, with $750 stack) calls, villain3 on his left with $900 stack calls. Two other players call.
Flop pot: $80ish, flop: . I bet $40, villain2 on my left calls, player on his left raises to $150, folds to me I shove all-in and player to my left goes all in for $750 and villain3 with $900 stack calls. HUUUUGE pot. Villain2 shows (HORRIBLE stacking here for like 325bbs or whatever), and villain3 shows
Turn brings: and river bricks. Villain3 binks huge pot.

-$300

3. 1/2, $325 effective. Vill1 ep limp, vill2 limps behind, vill3 limps, I make it $25 with MP folds around, vill1 calls, vill2 back raises to $75, vill3 folds. I really thought I was good here, seen ppl show up with nonsense AQ/AJ/KQ etc. Especially since vill2 wasn't open limper I didn't give him much credit, figured he wouldn't limp behind with a big hand. I shove all-in, folds to vill2. vill2 tanks and FOLDS (shows) and starts saying "I didn't want to risk it, been building up for a while. i would have folded KK" - wow live. I'm not sure what I think about my TT shove now. I mean it's obv a horrible value shove, but a good bluff? lol

+100

4. 2/5, I've shown some bluffs in smallish pots losing like 20bbs. Vill1 just caught me bluffing betting turn flush card and river pot with just the nut FD. 2 minutes later I open MP $25, two calls, Vill1 sq to $75. I jam $400 effective with and run into . This is bad luck, but also bad luck given I had a bad image going and esp bad image vs this particular player.

-$400

Up to this point on the day I was probably down $1k.

5. This was my biggest hand at 2/5. Effective stacks about $650. Again I had been very active. Two players to my left are online type players, aggro types. Probably getting fed up I'm opening on their right so often and barreling. I open to $25 with , vill1 calls and blinds calls. Flop is and I bet $40 into $75. Villain has been peeling ALL flops. Villain calls.
Turn is , this isn't an ideal card but I think he continues with all 8x now and JT etc for sure. I bet $105 into $155 and villain raises me to $300 (leaving $285 behind). It's hard to say the kind of reads/feels I get in hands. In general this is a standard fold here, but based on dynamic, my aggression, the fact that villain was peeling all flops I felt like he might make a move with some pair+gutter type hand (raising like 56, or 89 or something). Something also just didn't "feel' right with his timing, so given my read, I jam over his raise, he tanks and calls and I hold and win.

+700ish

6. 5/5, I triple barrel on board, betting river hard $375 into $405ish, same villain as hand 4. I KNEW he thought I was very bluffy, he calls and loses. No clue what he called with, but I figure it was light given I block Tx.

+625

7. 5/5, effective stacks $1700. This is the next hand after the hand above. EP raises to $35, I call , two players behind call. Pot is $140ish and Flop is . EP cb $100 into $130, I raise to $315, vill1 with $1700 or so cold calls my $315 (This was SCARY to me, at this point I figure I'm dead to 99/TT, or pretty far ahead of his 9T (he had been calling all offsuit hands too), and good shape vs random KQ/KJ/QJ. Turn is and I check. Villain bets $500 which leaves him about $800 behind. I figure I gotta go with it, I shove and he calls and bricks.

+1900

8. 5/5, $1800 effective. One limp, vill1 limps behind, I iso to $25 (had been raising fairly often), folds around, first limper calls and vill1 back raises to $75 (sound familiar? Similar action to hand 3 above). Again I REALLY don't believe this limp behind, back raise nonsense. I especially don't believe this player would have very much of a back raising range with these stacks given how he had been playing, and even moreso I don't think he would 3b a premium hand this small OOP if he did in fact have it. I 4b IP to $265 with and villain folds.

+100

Played quite a few other bigish pots, but these were some of the biggest. Clearly I'm hitting sets like there's no tomorrow, mind you I also had some run bad. I'm just glad te run bad was at 1/2 and not 5/5!