{"id":366,"date":"2008-01-28T21:59:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T02:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/all_in"},"modified":"2013-11-17T23:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T23:44:16","slug":"all_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2008\/01\/all_in.html","title":{"rendered":"All In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As any Texas Hold&#8217;em pro will tell you, it&#8217;s a very bad feeling when you say the magic words &#8220;all in&#8221;&#8230; and your opponent flips over his pocket aces to make four-of-a-kind.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least, so I hear.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"All In\" alt=\"four aces versus a royal flush\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2218\/2228073764_0407b950d3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t know from personal experience, because on this particular instance, I was the guy holding the royal flush.<\/p>\n<p>In any given seven-card hand, the probability of a four of a kind is 0.17%, of a straight flush, .027%. As for the probability of four aces versus a royal flush, this is left as an exercise for the writer, when he is not as sleepy as he is right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As any Texas Hold&#8217;em pro will tell you, it&#8217;s a very bad feeling when you say the magic words &#8220;all in&#8221;&#8230; and your opponent flips over his pocket aces to make four-of-a-kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}