{"id":2996,"date":"2008-05-13T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2008-05-13T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T14:16:13","slug":"know-when-to-foldem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/05\/13\/know-when-to-foldem\/","title":{"rendered":"Know When to Fold&#8217;em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/adam_pier.jpg\" title=\"adam_pier.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/adam_pier.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"adam_pier.jpg\" \/>  <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/salsa_dancers.jpg\" title=\"salsa_dancers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/salsa_dancers.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"salsa_dancers.jpg\" height=\"89\" width=\"111\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pier detective Adam deduced. Not pictured &#8211; the gate with the no trespassing sign.<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s Salsa class.<\/p>\n<p>****************<\/p>\n<p>Both Matthew and Diane are casino dabblers.  Diane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up or down, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember which, less than a dollar.   Matt, federally funded by his dad, left the poker machines, our first night here,  after four hours with only a small dent in his holdings.  Impressive, I thought, because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d more than made up for his minimal losses in free beers, of which he can consume quite a few without having to play from the floor. Last night that changed.  Not his beer consumption or his vertical position, but his luck.<\/p>\n<p>A rather big fellow informed him of a poker table where the dealers appeared clueless as to the odds, and to bolster Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s table confidence, he gave him pertinent pointers.  At the end of his evening, thankful Matt peeled off a twenty go give to his friendly compatriot. How do I know all this, the morning after, with Matt and Diane still asleep?  Matt woke his mom at 3 AM to display his three one hundred dollar bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pier detective Adam deduced. Not pictured &#8211; the gate with the no trespassing sign. Last night&#8217;s Salsa class. **************** Both Matthew and Diane are casino dabblers. Diane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up or down, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember which, less than a dollar. Matt, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/05\/13\/know-when-to-foldem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}