Borgata trip:
I have so many things to say about my latest trip to Borgata, I don't know where to begin. I suppose I'll start with straight poker talk:

I played 2 tournaments. One was an invitation-only charity tournament for media and celebrities. My friend who works for Borgata got me in. It's funny, because I told pretty much everyone that I should win the damn thing, because it's for the media. How good can they be?

As it turned out, quite a few pros were in. Phil Hellmuth just busted the 15K WPT championship, and he joined. Jamie Kerstetter played while she played a partypoker tournament online at the table. There were former athletes like Ken Daneyko, Darryl Dawkins and Malik Rose as well. Other participants included Kara Scott, Lynn Gilmartin, Matt Savage and the WPT's Royal Flush Girls: Tugba Ercan, Ivy Teves, Jeannie Duffy and Brittany Bell. A friend of mine, Steph Johnston, who is a good player who lives in Brooklyn, also got in, although I'm still not sure how!

I ended up winning the tournament despite being shortstacked very early on. I won a key hand at the FT when Kara Scott, who had correctly been in push-fold mode before any of the others, jammed from SB into my BB and I called it off with T9o and 6 BBs. She had 97o and the flop came 9-high and I held. I beat Kan Daneyko HU.

Other than that, I played the $200+$30 re-entry on Friday. I busted after my 2nd buyin around 5:30. I never really got anything going, never had more than 40K and was extremely card dead at a terrible, terrible table.

So I was -$460 in tournaments. I played about 30 hours of cash in 3 days and went +$570 in very swingy sessions.