MGM Springfield... Bought in at the cage for $700 and cashed out at $1,223. Not a giant score. but any winning session is a plus.
FWIW, this was a peculiar (very long) session where I felt like a nomad. Started out deep ($500) at 1/2, and went up a bit before running into multiple fish chasing their 1-4 outers and catching.
Moved up to 2/5, more of the same, up and down, the downs mostly losing hands where I was a solid favorite.
A friend arrived and I moved yet again at his suggestion to $5/$5 PLO. Made a little money there, but I hadn't brought enough to really play that game—most of the table was bought in for 2K—and I have a personal rule not to ever hit the cash machine at a casino.
Took a dinner break, then had to wait about 40 minutes before rolling off any of the lists I’d signed up for (1/2 NLHE, 2/5 NLHE, 2/2 PLO). Finally got back on a 1/2 table, where I made a couple hundred quickly then couldn’t improve my stack.
The table broke after about two hours, and I was moved to another 1/2 table which proved to be the Promised Land... I was not just making decent hands, but getting paid off big by much worse (e.g., made a 10-high flush that I bet only maybe 1/3 pot on the river, thinking I was likely beat by a better flush, and got called by two straights, two pair and top pair/bad kicker). An hour at this table made up for about 10 hours of up-and-down struggle.
Note: All the cash tables at MGM Springfield play up to 10-handed, and for most of the night these were full, which I really don’t care for. I already believe 9 is too many for poker, and that the game is best played 7-8 handed.