Sunday Tournaments

Played a bunch of poker this weekend though I did not play my regular 18 man SNG's. I played in four large multi table tournaments. I placed in the money in 3 of them but two of them I was just barely in the money. In fact one of them I was doing pretty good in, but I had to leave and run an errand that could not wait so I blinded out into the money. The final tournament I played was the 6k Guarantee which I placed 39th out of about 2800.That is the highest I have placed in a large tournament. I hit quads 3 times in that game....That has never happened....I got quad 3's but it didn't pay much, three hands later I hit quad 9's but that one didn't pay much either...about an hour later I had quad aces and that one paid off....I got two guys stacks and was probably the main reason I got as far as I did.  I know one Sunday soon I am going to final table one of these large tournaments. All my friends have and to be honest the quality of these guys I am playing against in these Sunday games are not that good. I think the biggest thing to remember is you cannot bluff a Donkey.These asses will ride a 2 outer straight then make it everytime....have a ace high straight? No problem some donkey will call your all in with 2 pair and river the full house.  For the first time in a long time I played cash games last night. I did really good though the stakes were micro. I tripled up my money.  I like it and if I thought I could make a good living doing it (Ala Dusty Schmidt AKA Leatherass) then I would do it but tournament play excites me for some reason more then cash games. I like the structure and the blind increase. One thing I do think is funny is there seems to be a lot more smack talkers at the cash tables then the tournaments. I guess guys are used to the bad beats in tournaments...it happens...your down to 10 big blinds or less, you gotta start shoving with anything that is a 40% shot or higher.