Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-24
THE GAME OF DRAW POKER
What an Old Bachelor Knows About
the Game.

the Odmes
Peck's Sun
Hardly paper that one reads. except
that extra piOus, but contain Something
about the game of draw poker. 1t is be-
coming the most popular game
In the world, and is
played as well in the parlor as in the
gambling hell, and by many who are
truly good in all of the walks of life. The
silence Of the pious press on the subject
OF draw poker places those who read no
worldly papers at disadvantage. bv not
keeping them posted, and they are liable
10 be rOped into game that seems the
most innocent, but which is full of guile.
II played for all that is out. The trouble
WIN amateur players is that they have
not schoOled their countenances so
lney can seem to be what
they are not, for success at poker depends
upon "blufing," or making your opponent
DelleVe you have or have not got good
hand. For instance, if a player has four
aces, Whlch Is the best hand, it is his
pollcy to so demean himself and so con-
troll his features that his opponent. who.
may be, has two pair, will think the four
ace man hasn't got anything, and he will
bet recklessly. On the other hand. if a
person has small pair, or no pair at ali.
ne desires to impress his opponent. bv his
looks and actions, that he is loaded for
bear, so the opponent will lay down a
good hand, and let the pirate that hasn't GOT
anything take the money. The dificmItv
with the truly good in drawing poker is
that thelr countenances are a perfect mir
f0r, and the opponent can tell by the
mourntul look which appears when thew
tail TO draw good hand that something is
wrong; and the joy that passeth all UNI
derstanding which appears on the face
When they NIL flush is as plain as though
Co
feelings in their faces should never draw
poker, while those who can disguise their
feelings and look happy when they are
SICK at heart and appear 10 be sad when
Jney nave got four of kind, should play
poker for steady business. For instance
man who can sit in his pew in church
When the collection plate is being passed
WIN his eyes riyeted on the ceiling. and
seeming to be engaged in silent DraVer
While his fingers are in his pocket snmee1'
ing nickel till the finger nails are blood
shot, mas mistaken his calling. Such a
man should rope III suckers to pIay
poker. The most successful noker
player we ever knew was a trulv GOOD
man, who acted as usher in a church. He
could disguise his feelings so you couldn't
tell whether he had a sequence or a
PAIR OF deuces. He would draw pair of
queens, and get two more, and then throw
down his hand in disgust, but finally. as
ne thought 1t over, he would say he
guessed he would simply chip, SO he
wouldn't lose his blind, and somebody
would bet him ten dollars to raise him
out, and he would see the raise and come
PACK with roll and scare the man out of
MS DOOts. lie was very successful. but
hnally they brought charges against him
for heresy, and he went West with his
savings, and now owns Il bonanza farm i'm
Dakota. A tirst-class hypOcrite. one who
can seem to be what he is not. is liable tO
hold the age in poker.
Inc game is being played so largely in
society that man wants to be mighty
careful how he sits into Il game. Young
men and women play it with remarkable
success, and if truly good man takes a
hand, OF an evening, just for amusement.
10 heip the company enjoy themselves, he
is liable to find himself several dollars out.
Not long ago gentleman who had PLAYED
some years ago was at card party at
the home of a friend, and he was invited
TO set in with couple of dudes and
a couple OF dudesses, and being an old
Dachelor he thought he would show
them that though he was no dude.
he could play poker. The first hand
ne got three ten spots, and a girl drew
one card and bet a dollar. He raised her
hVe, thinking she might have
TWO pair, when she came back at him with
a ten dollar bet, and he laid down his
three ten spots, believing she had filled.
AS she raked IN the money she laid down
her hand, and it was bOb-tail flush, The
bachelor said she played that bob-tail
hush as though she had tours, and there
was not movement of muscle of her
lace, though she breathed hard, and there
was seal-skin cloak CLEAN in her eve
that paralyzed him. On another hand.
she looked as though she had lost every
friend she had, and seemed to be sick with
ennul, and her whole face, as she simply
put up chip, seemed TO be pleading
with him to please not to bet
high, as she was only poor orphan, but
ne bet ten dollars Just to show her
that he knew his BUSINESS and to get his
money back. Instead of LAYING down
her hand, she languidly threw thirty dol
lars, and said she would raise him
twenty, just to keep up the interest, and
thinking of her bOb-tail flush that she had
blutfed him ON before, he put up the money
and threw down four Jacks, as innocent
as baby, and he only had a nine spot
full, and as she raked in the money She |
laughed so sWeetly that the bachelor said
he didn't care for the money. We mem
ton these incidents to show that those
who depend upon the pious press for in |
formation as to what is going on in the
world to come, and which neglect to keep
readers posted on what is being done in
the present world, are doing their readers
an injustice. The game is fashionable
and 1t is dangerous unless a man knows
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