{"id":748,"date":"2007-03-02T20:59:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=748"},"modified":"2007-03-02T20:59:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:59:15","slug":"holdem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Hold-em"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-03022007.jpg\" alt=\"Winning hand\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-03022007(001).jpg\" alt=\"Winning chips\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI went to the IBM club&#8217;s Casino Night and played no limit Hold-Em.  It was fun.  Everyone started with $200 in free chips.  So everyone plays differently &#8212; much looser.  But not me.  I was tight.  I only had one pocket pair tonight and the Queens held up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe last hand of the night was amusing.  Since the chips would turn into raffle tickets at the end and I could care less about the raffle prizes, I decided to go all in.  I then look down at my cards: an eight of diamonds and a three of spades.  The second worst hand possible.  Sigh.  Still, I was determined to go all in no matter what.  Four other people called and I had the smallest chips of all of them, so there was still betting going on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe flop comes Ace, King, three of diamonds!  I have hope now for a flush!  Then the rest of the people bet and go all in.  I am sure someone has a better hand than me at the moment, but it is out of my hands.  The turn is a Jack of diamonds!  Yes.  I made my flush with only three possible cards that will beat me (Queen, ten, nine).  Now I have to hope that the board does not pair.  The river is a seven of clubs.  Everyone one reveals their cards and no one else has a higher diamond (or any diamond for that matter).  Woo woo!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is always fun ending the night quadrupling up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the IBM club&#8217;s Casino Night and played no limit Hold-Em. It was fun. Everyone started with $200 in free chips. So everyone plays differently &#8212; much looser. But not me. I was tight. I only had one pocket pair tonight and the Queens held up. The last hand of the night was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}