{"id":1139,"date":"2009-01-06T07:31:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T12:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2017-08-19T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T16:59:05","slug":"conundrum-poker-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1139","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum: Poker Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/356\">old poker friends<\/a> have migrated from five-card stud to <a href=\"http:\/\/texas-holdem-rules.flopturnriver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">no-limit Texas hold \u2018em<\/a>, which they always play with a single deck of cards.<\/p>\n<p>During one hand, the flop was an Eight, Ten, and King \u2013 all clubs. Ron went all-in, and the other three players called with money remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The turn card was the Nine of Hearts. Nick went all-in, and the other two called with money remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The river card was the Ten of Hearts. Frank went all-in, and Lennie called with money remaining.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, nobody went broke on this hand.<\/p>\n<p><em>What is the best possible hand that Lennie could have had?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/board.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\/\" height=\"135\" \/><\/center>UPDATE: Puzzle solved by Kimi. See comments for answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our four old poker friends have migrated from five-card stud to no-limit Texas hold \u2018em, which they always play with a single deck of cards. During one hand, the flop was an Eight, Ten, and King \u2013 all clubs. Ron went all-in, and the other three players called with money remaining. The turn card was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,60,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conundrum","category-logic-problem","category-poker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6384,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/6384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}