The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-10-07
won and Lost at Pokor.

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-, Thor. is State law, which makes tho
I..c,,ir, Of a gambling house felony, but Is i,
~, enforced AZ ainst poker "cluO-rootns'
T,,ore ia no faro east Of the Kansas Safe Inc
The strictly professional gambling amounts 70
l.ost nothing, but there are some stnckuieli
80 ,b,t vvouId make cold chills run mp Inc
e. l. Of the average bu. mess man. maTe
seen $4,000 change ownership IN a ht.i rs
friendly game, on hands that went 10 tue pan
without being seen. UnsuspectnS PeoP!e
never dream Of the extent oil the poker ','tia'
believe that if the W0r1a wouio looA - up
:, ,r,nId find that if the poker clearlngs we're
i,cInded in the weekly statements, they w"ulu
~, IoDr way. towards offsetting the loss o.
e7Fi~,y oT forry per cent that the metropolis 10
,,ff.-ipr Al all events it would be so Il
.,or Ma wing is as popular in New York as II
is IN Kansas CITY
THE ETIQUETTE OF THE POKER TABLE,
We INTO the man who jumps the game!
Tl;ce di,praced is he who jumps tue game
-,bon he Is winner! Five rich stockmen hifGu
roorn in the S.. james Hotel on Friday hlsht
vol, ago. They had poker layout anu
~ I,Ire c,ips we're worth SIS, the red slu
J ,bo ,ybitc S.. II was $40 ante and no
limit The night few away apace' ana MORN m
inc dawued on the absorbed players sumo
we're poorer and some richer by Inou9a ttiuo
breakfast and dinner and then supper
brought up, but tle play went on Lave C. e.
10 ri,rbt one of the participants sgnlned
his intention to 20 home to ms vie anu %
lies INF he was kept by the promises Oh mn
frinD5s that they did not mean to play Wucn
ia,,,-er Another daybreak soon peepeo III
,,S1 Tho piaycrs, and still the click oil Tue
II ,cver ceased Breakfast, dinner anu
s,,,ine- we're again served. The play became
I,iTber and more reckless. Jack pots that
,rerId a,cn buy a ranch were raked IN by niS'
one pjaver aud then another. Az oreaAiSo'
time Monday morning the man VINO "auseu ~
70 home Saturday night swore he woulu Mai'
no longer. As he plunged through 'uo vi
way he was followed by TINS sca'hlns ioi =,
man who would jump game
,.o,r AGO l met a young man VINO nae
- ,mt West To grow up with the country
H. ,,,,s :, graduate Uf Harvard and had pleas
an, manners. but evidently left cominft"Di'
E,s,nrn home with exaggerated notions OIL 'h'
West In three weeks after his arrival he wal
US, an5 had all his best buds in pawn
,,.a so,,eyvbnt interested in his fate at tn
time. INIT did not see him again until d lev
DAYS alo. He had the earmarks oil ProSPeii u.
bout him, aud l was told luter' tna' ue h"
graduated from a coal dealer 8 ONCE do
crack poker player, and he had earneu ~
,ri,Lio u few months Some wonderful Store
was sail that he had good tat bank accoui
nd sat repularly in q stuckman game.
Tbo ;ide in his fortune was turned by n
,,rit in nInvipg two deuces in u big game
Rad been drifting into gambling Tor some 'lli
~ I,,o,, g, treat deal about deck oil cara
III. If the nlnyers had laid down their hanc
,fIar the draw, leaving only two contestant
Tho hero Of this story had been winning a.
bel freely on his hand. HIS opponent ne
seeing him and raising him, aud hnaIly; an an
the Dot had grown big enough no 10 Oe WI
fighting for, raised him S2,5Oe' Inc ole'h I
the coal office put on his thinSlns CAP.
had two deuCes unsupported anu NJ lOo,.o
Them. and then cooly eyed lis aulaScui
D' I,S,oJ two or three minutes. Not tacl
" % call you," he said at last, throwing
,Ieuces down on the table.
They won the pot. GOOD
Tie other mans hand was not as soou
a@ told that this young Harvard gr9dn
ia one of the best poker players lereSOou
He calls a bluff instincti7ely. HIS luck
charmed. and tue oldest and most Ieckl
players tremble when they 20 against nlth'
THE GREAT ART OF POKER.
The rreat art III poker is to know when
.oli and when not to call. With 500 IN
not and SIS bet by his antagonist once
the best gambler in Missouri lay down I'll
of a kind. ..,,,a ,
"Why did you not call hint would
have cost you S5?' l asked. rs, ~,
"He had better hand than dlu' al
would have been just So out,
Men are born gamblers, and 1t Is thiS ii y
ition to call at the right time that makes u
successful. in a big game at a hotel mere
long ago, in which five or SIX lrieuuS
part, there was an exciting illustrator Oh
delirious sort of doubt. Every player
made GOOD his ante, and some of them had
in a few hundred dollars additional be
Jr,npinr out AT length $4,000 lay on
table with two players fighting fOrit is
behind one of them. lie had three que
having drawn to them at the start; HIS {! Q
nent had drawn three cards. The latte
- :........ro nnnllr announced q rals