Hurry. Sundown.

We mentioned earlier that we passed up on a $1,000 opportunity this weekend. We qualified for a big seasonal championship in our city -- but it was scheduled for 12:00 noon Saturday, and we put the keeping of a seventh-day Sabbath to God first.

But Friday afternoon was quite a different situation. We entered a online qualifying tournament for the National League of Poker monthly senior championship. The top ten finishers qualified. Only 46 entered. The game began 65 minutes before sunset where we lived, and the start of Sabbath.

At the 20-minute break, our stack was fairly strong -- and 26 players were left. At the 43-minute break, we were still well above the 1,000-chip starting level. But now 17 players were left -- only nine falling away in the "second period."

With 20 minutes left before sundown, we could have tried a big "all or nothing" push to settle the issue. But instead, we became extra-tight: minimum calls before the flop, bail out if you miss the flop. That gained us a pot shortly before sunset, and security with about 2,600 chips.

At two minutes until sundown and 11 players left, we turned on NLOP's "post and fold" option for the first time ever. It automatically posts blinds and folds if anyone calls. Doing that in the big blind actually won us a pot with a straight at sunset!

We checked back at the computer a few times while we were making dinner, and NLOP disqualified us after ten minutes of inactivity in sixth place. We qualified -- and we typed a chat note explaining to the final table what we did.

So you tell us -- were we a "Sabbath breaker" in this case? We let the computer do the work, after we reached the brink.