A couple of weeks ago I pledged to myself -- and said it here -- that I would practice "quitting when ahead." I haven't been playing video poker much since making the pledge but I went to Rincon last night (Saturday night) because I had $475 of free play.

And that's all I used -- the free play.

To make a long story short, I turned the free play into about $2200, then lost all of it but $300 and then took that remaining $300 and brought home about $12-thousand. No royals, but a lot of quads. Yes, a lot of quads.



Most of the quads were on $5 Aces and Faces and the machine spit out a ticket each time I hit one. I had two handpays -- one for quad aces on single-line $5 Aces and Faces, and quad aces on a five-play $1 DreamCard machine. I wrote about my adventure on the "Casino Stories" page here: http://www.alanbestbuys.com/id242.html

And if anyone else has a great run of luck, as I had, send me your photos and your story and I'd like to add it to the Casino Stories page. And if you happen to be in a casino when someone else strikes it big, and you have a photo, send it along to me at alan@alanbestbuys.com.

By the way, every game I played during the evening was a negative expectation game: either 8/5 Bonus or 8/5 Aces and Faces.