New Furniture and My Full House Beats His Set of Aces

Our mission today, should we choose to accept it, was to locate some high quality furniture for next to nothing prices.

So naturally, our first stop was at Wal-Mart - the home of low prices and some shady looking characters, especially here in Las Vegas. The furniture search was only moderately successful - we found some lamps we could live with, but figured we'd keep looking. We did pop for some assorted kitchen doodads, including a can opener, spatula, spaghetti fork, slotted spoon and more. Always able to find something plastic to spend money on at Wal-Mart.

Then we headed out to Cort Furniture, a national renter of furniture. They have a spacious nice showroom where they sell lightly used and some new items, so we checked it out. Long story short, we bought a dining room table, 4 dining room chairs, a black living room chair, a coffee table, two side tables and three lamps, complete with shades and light bulbs, LOL! I considered hauling this stuff in the Vue, but decided to have it delivered and cough up the $70 delivery charge. It should be here tomorrow.

It'll be nice to have all of our furniture in place. We've been here one week today and by tomorrow we'll have the place pretty much the way we want it.

After all that shopping, I needed to hit the Strip to cash our winning FB teaser ticket and to see if the Poker Gods were on our side today. Helen had found a dime, which she considered to be good luck. So with that talisman tucked in my wallet, I made my way to Bally's where I parked and checked out the poker room. It was busy, but there were about 6 names ahead of me on the $1-2 No Limit waiting list, so I played a little BJ there before heading to the Imperial Palace. I won about $15 at blackjack.

At the IP, I immediately got a seat and bought in for $100. I didn't have any hands worthwhile for quite a while, but I remained patient and didn't throw my money into losing situations. I won a couple of small pots, but eventually found myself down about $40 when I was dealt 10-10. Five of us were in the pot when the flop came A-10-3, giving me a set of 10s. One guy bet $20 and it was pretty obvious he either had an Ace or wanted us to think he did. Everyone else folded to me and I just called his $20. The turn card was another Ace, giving him (I believed) 3 Aces and me the full house. The river was a 7 and he bet $20, I raised him another $25 and he called. I raked in a pot of about $125 that put me ahead for good. I eventually left up $72 and went up to the IP Sports Book where I bet a $50 3-team basketball parlay - the Pistons, the Bulls and the Lakers. If all 3 just win tonight, I'll cash a ticket for $104.

On the way home, I stopped at the local Middle Eastern market and picked up some fresh bread and two hefty chocolate bars that we'll enjoy tonight for dessert. Dinner was a casual meal of olives, lebne, hummus and that tasty bread.

Tune in tomorrow to see if our furniture delivery is flawless...