{"id":13,"date":"2011-01-02T01:54:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T09:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:27:41","slug":"crowded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Crowded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full houses were my bane in a tournament tonight. I called a bet on the turn with a straight in my hand and a set of threes for the bettor, then a queen on the river paired his other card, leaving me with just a bit more than the big blind, which was a couple of hands away from me. I managed to triple up going all-in with <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ten of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">T<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"seven of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">7<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and hitting a straight just before I was forced to take whatever I was dealt, but another full house in the next round took me down for good.<\/p>\n<p>Full Tilt&#8217;s Midnight Madness was a bust tonight. Only big chip win in the 40 hands I played was with a Mutant Jack, then my king-high flush was beaten by an ace-high flush.<\/p>\n<p>Progress or a breakthrough on the pre-flop odds calculator I&#8217;ve been working on (or not) since last Christmas (the original Objective-C files are dated Christmas Eve, 2009). Maybe more on that soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full houses and ace-high flushes are the hands to watch for tonight. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=13\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[10,5,7,8,9,11,6],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poker","category-tournaments","tag-flush","tag-full-house","tag-full-tilt","tag-midnight-madness","tag-mutant-jack","tag-odds-calculator","tag-straight"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1t0pn-crowded","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}