{"id":17586,"date":"2004-05-26T21:19:23","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2004\/05\/26\/geek-gambling"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"geek-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2004\/05\/26\/geek-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Geek gambling."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Wed May 26 21:19:23 PDT 2004 --><br \/>\n<!-- T: \"Geek gambling.\" --><\/p>\n<p>A Slashdot article even my brother will read: this <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/05\/26\/1823226\">discussion<br \/>\nof the geekier side of poker<\/a> has exploded into a great thread about<br \/>\ncasinos, statistics, and other aspects of gambling, such as <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=108990&#038;cid=9262850\">when to hit the<br \/>\npoker tables<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote\" \n<p> cite=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=108990&#038;cid=9262850\"><br \/>\nI found the best time was afternoons &#8211; the locals are gone, and the sharks are<br \/>\nstill sleeping it off, leaving you and a lot of really stupid people. That&#8217;s<br \/>\nwhen I did really well. It helps when some moron will take 2-7 unsuited all<br \/>\nthe way to the river in Hold &#8217;em. It happened to me, it was great. You can&#8217;t<br \/>\nlose.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Oh, and I totally remember <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=108990&#038;threshold=-1&#038;commentsort=0&#038;tid=127&#038;mode=thread&#038;cid=9262544\">this<\/a>,<br \/>\ntoo.  On the one hand, what a <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/sttng.epguides.info\/?ID=292\">classic<\/a>!  &#8220;Where time becomes a loop.&#8221;  On the<br \/>\nother hand, what a ridiculous amount of storage space in my brain is wasted on<br \/>\ntelevision&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Slashdot article even my brother will read: this discussion of the geekier side of poker has exploded into a great thread about casinos, statistics, and other aspects of gambling, such as when to hit the poker tables: I found the best time was afternoons &#8211; the locals are gone, and the sharks are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}