Sometimes a Great Notion

I've decided to try to play the cash game only if I have $120 or more in winnings from a tournament.  As it turns out, the Sunday 10:00 a.m. tournament at the Moose provided $150 to play with and it turned out to be pretty good idea.

In the tournament itself, my usual roller coaster ride ended when my JJ lost to QJ after my all-in at the final table.  I only had 5 big blinds (which was still 20,000 chips) so it was a no-brainer for me.  The lucky SOB holding QJ caught a queen on the turn.  I went home for awhile and puttered around and went back to play live at about 3pm.

At about 4:00 dealer Melissa gave me quad 2s for $150.  She was the dealer of the night as far as quads went.  She dealt quad 2s, three different quad 6s and quad 8s, all in 4 hours.  Only one of them paid $499, but oh well.  Free money is still free money.  One of the quad 6s and the quad 8s were back-to-back.  (On a side note, this is the 2nd time she has dealt me quad 2s within one month.)

By 6:30 I had moved to the main game.  One of the other players got aces full of jacks for the first high hand of the night.  He claimed it would never hold up until 8:00.  At about 7:00 I had JJ and the board ended up with 3 aces on it, so I tied for the high hand.  It did indeed hold up and I got another $50.

And finally, for the good timing award, at about 9:50 I was allowed to limp in on the button with A3 off-suit and hit quad 3s with an ace kicker for the 10:00 high hand.  I ended up with a total of $300 free money.  No complaints here!  I went home at about 11:00 and still had most of it!  I am patting myself on the back for not giving it all back.