How to lose at Poker and still make money

I started my session pretty early today at 4:30am, and I must have been sleeping still as I completely forgot to take notes of memorable hands and the such but I was pretty card dead and missed a lot of my monster draws, so I was down 100 dollars pretty quickly.

I rebought for another 100 and ground my way up to 350 and not before long a fateful hand happened.  I had KcKs in early position and make it 16 dollars to go.  Some guy who has been a complete luck sack and a horrible player in general, reraises me to 35 dollars.  I know he doesn't have Aces so I just smooth call him and the flop comes Th 3s 6d.  He bets out 40 and I call. Turn is a 8s, he bets out 50 and I immediately reraise him all in and he immediately calls.  River is a Qs.  Guess what he has?  yeap, pocket Queens, and so now I'm down 200 dollars for the day.

After taking a beat like that I decide to go home and just relax and refresh and refocus for tomorrow, basically my three R's for poker.  As I'm leaving the casino, I start thinking, you know, I want to at least break even, so let's try some table games!  Put 50 bucks into the slot machine and cashed out 80 bucks after I hit a very small progressive jackpot.  okay, up 30 bucks, so down 170... that's not too too bad.  Then I decide to play some Texas Shoot out, and after a while i'm down 100 bucks from that so, down 270.  I rebuy for another 100 at the table games, and just play smart and slow and grind up to 300 dollars.  Now on my last hand of the day this happens. 

For those of you that don't play Texas Shoot Out or know what it is, it's a table game where players are given 4 cards and you choose the 2 cards you want and the dealer does the same, then 5 cards come out and whoever has the best poker hand wins.  The bonus is that there are 6 decks so 5 of a kinds are possible and pay out very well if you play the bonus. 

So back to my last hand, I have Qh Jh 2s 6h.  So obviously I choose Qh Jh and I had 5 dollars on the bonus and 90 dollars as my bet since I just wanted to lose my money and leave.  The dealer shows 8s 8c so I basically needed a Q or a J to double my money.  I'm just praying for either that or hearts.  First card is an Ah, and i'm like sweet, that's 1 heart, next card is the Th i'm like awesome, that's 2.  The next two cards are the Ks Ks (which is possible since again, 6 decks are being used).  So here I am praying for any heart, eventho I have a straight already since a flush pays 3 ro 1 on the bonus while a straight only pays 1 to 1.  The last card is a Kh.  I don't notice it immediately, but all of a sudden it hits me like a ton of bricks.  I yell out. ROYAL FLUSH and hit the table hard, <a royal flush in texas shoot out pays 200 to 1 on the bonus>  I have 5 dollars on the bonus.  So yes.. I got 1000 dollars out of that hand and everyone on the table who plays the bonus got an extra 250 dollars as an envy bonus. 

Not too bad from being down 270 to up 730 dollars for the day. 

All in a day's work haha, now I go to sleep and tomorrow I will remember to document my hands at the grind and hopefully have a few more stories to tell!

Happy Friday!