Hoppy Easter!

The best part of Easter is the day after, when all the candies go on sale! I picked up 12 Big Bags of Mini-Eggs at half-price this morning! That should last me about two months, or until I go into a diabetic coma.

It was a joyous weekend on the Poker front as well. Wife and I decided to go see a movie on Friday night, but it was about 8:30pm, and we missed all the 7:30 showings and didn't want to wait around for the 9:30 ones. So we tried to decide on which casino to head to... she wanted to hang out with our buddies at the Midway, and I wanted to try and take advantage of all the drunk idiots at the Silver Dollar Seatac. We compromised and headed south into Tacoma to find a new place to play.

We came across a Chips casino and got our names on the wait list (numbers 12 and 13) and ordered some food. After eating, our names hadn't moved up more than 3 spots, so we went down a block to the Silver Dollar Tacoma and got seated at the same table right away.

I had one of my best nights ever - the first hand I got involved in was with Ax of hearts and I rivered the Flush and my chip stack never again dipped below the $100 buy-in. Things really heated up when I got KK, and a flop of Q99. I played it hard on the flop, but then when I got raised on the Turn, I knew I was beat but called anyways. Then the third King hit the River, and I was able to steal the rest of the chips from the guy holding Q9. Ouch!

It was a full-kill game, so after winning the next hand with top-pair, I put in my $6 Kill blind. Was dealt T7o only to win again with two-pair. So this is what being on a rush feels like! And my 3-in-a-row didn't go unnoticed by the table. I justified it by telling them I never would have played that hand if it wasn't for the Kill button. My next blind was Q4, which flopped two-pair again! I tried to be nice this time and told everyone not to call, and I had two non-believers follow me all the way to the River. The fifth hand missed, and I was happy to fold and go back to stacking my chips.

The greatest hand of the night though was completing with 36c in the SB. Flop is 245. I check, BB bets, MP re-raises, I 3-bet and it gets capped. Turn and river were inconsequential, but betting was capped the whole way. I was really counting on one of them having A3 and the other flopping a set of 5s, and I wondered how I would contain my glee as I took all their money. The table had an audience at this point with so many chips out on the felt. I turn over my flopped straight, and the BB shows 36h and MP has 36d!!! MP had the best shot at the entire pot as he had 4 diamonds, but in the end, the dealer had to take 5 minutes to split the huge pot between us. Luckily we had a few poor saps who had come along for the ride, so it was still a profitable situation.

My wife got her fair share of good cards too, but, as she told me later, she was playing more loosely knowing I was so far ahead already. We had bought in for $200 total between us and cashed out at $420 (score!).

After spending the day on Saturday coloring eggs with the kids, I talked my wife into going to Seatac Silver Dollar for the evening. It was a reversal of the previous night as she scored big early on and never worried about having a down session, whereas I had to go all-in at one point. But the cards started coming back again, and it was nice to have some loosey-goosey guys raising and capping with their nut straight or King high flush when I've got the Ace high flush. That kind of thing does wonders for the chip-stack! After just a few hours, we happily left with a profit of $250 for the night.

Suffice it to say, we had a great Easter Sunday. Besides the extra nice Easter gifts, the kids got some quality time with the parents, as we had gotten a satisfactory Poker fill for the weekend. And, of course, I had made sure to put aside enough cash to be able to fund my Mini-Egg shopping spree!