Connecticut western news., 1882-06-28
THE GAME OF "DRAW POKER,
A Straight Flush That Didn',
 Win.

To such of our readers as only play | whist and euchre and don't know much, if anything, about "draw poker" we will mention, says Tue Hartford 7Enaes, that " flush" in the game of poker is that situation of the cards in which a players whole hand of five cards is composed of one kind-that is, all bearts, or all diamonds, or all of any one kind. Such hand would beat three aces, but not four. A straight is where player holds five cards which count straight along without break, thus: spots 1, 2. 3, 4, 5-or thus: 10, jack, queen, king and ace. Either sim pie straight or "f1ush" is consid- cred strong hand, but combine the two and you have straight flush, thing which is almost impossible to get by honest dealing, and which took the $450, 1000 ''pot in the Newburg game alluded to above. In learning these facts from gentleman posted in such matters, he was led to tell us true card story. Here it is:
 A party of poker-players in Hartford ha d an amusing experience in the staight-fush business not long ago, though the stakes were not quite so heavy as those mentioned. There were five in the party and the limit to the bets was fifty cents. If two players happened to have good hands one could | l~o Az III see his half and "go him" fifty cents better, while the first man who bet could "see him" and go fifty cents better. This could be kept up until one or the other was ready to 'call, which is done by squaring up to the amount last bet and declining to ''raise" the bet. The Hartford party had met two or three evenings 8 week for several years, and frequent wishing for straight flush" hand had never brought it about until one evening when two of the party showed by their actions that they had struck "ile."
 The party on this particular evening had adjourned to another room for a few minutes to partake of refreshments, and when they returned the cards were dealt, and the most reckless betting, within the limits, took place between two of the party; the others dropped out of the game early, and took great inter- est in watching the pair of excited play CTS, who eagerly planked down their money, "seeing" each others pile and ''going' fifty cents better till their pocket-b books looked as if Jumbo had stepped on them, and then they bor- } rowed from the others until they were "broke." They did not stop here. They 'bucked against each other on credit. Paper and pencils were brought into acquisition, and the credit bets were recorded for some time without any sign of either weakening or back ing down.
 At last one of them, becoming tired, remarked, "I will keep on betting as long as the pencils and paper hold out. J
 The other replied, "I am in that boat, too. When you get tired marking down the bets 'calr me, for am going to take nap."
 'Well," said the first, "if that's the case, perhaps can wake you up when I tell you that I've got straight dush;' and he looked at the other, chuckl1ne over his supposed discom6ture..
 Then the other chap took his innings and astonished his adversary by remark.
 
 ing, "Ive got straight flush, too, and 8 big one at that"
 "Well, can you beat the ten, jack queen, king and ace of hearts ?"
 ''No,' was the answer, followed by the query, "Can you beat the ten, jack, queen, king and ace of clubs?"
 Then both men looked for their friends and caught glimpse of them as they were sliding through the door. The fun was over. The cards had been "fixed while the players had adjourned for re- treatments. The stakes were divided, and the two men went home flush" in stead of "broke."