Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-31
THE CHAMPION POKER PLAYER.
A Harvard Graduate who Ia Beating
the Rest Records.

Correspondence Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
year ago met q young man who had come
out west to grow up with the country. He was
graduate of Harvard and had pleasant man.
ners, but had evidently left a comfortable east
ern home with exaggerated notions of the west.
In three weeks after his arrival he was strapped
and had all his best buds pawned. was some
what interested in his fate at the time. but did
not see him again until a few day ago. He
had the ear marks of prosperity about him,
and l was told later he had graduated
from coal dealers clerk as q crack
poker player, and he had learned 1t all
within few months. Some wonderful
stories were told of this young fellows
fat bank account, and sat regularly in a stock
mans game. The tide in his fortune was turned
~ hsd henn Playing two deuces in big game
cards. Three OF the players had ' laid ie down
contestants. The hero of this story had been
winning, and bet freely on his hand His op-
gonee,nt kept seeing him and raising him. and
finally, after the pot had grown big enough to
be worth fighting for, raised him 50, 500. The
clerk in the coal office put on his thinking cap.
at them, then cooily eyed his antagonist. This
last .o1. Two OF three minutes, and not facial
II call YOU" he said at last, throwing his
deuces down on the table. They won the pot.
Inc other mans hand was not ace high. am
eoi1 1i."o ILLS youuS HARVARD graduate Is one
OF the pest poker players hereabou,s. He calls q
BLUM lnstlnctively. His luck is charmed, and
the Oldest and most luckless players tremble
when they go against him. The great art in
poker IS 10 know when to call and wien not to
call. with 500 In the pot and So bet by his
antagonist, l once saw the best gambler in
Missouri lay down three of kind. "Why did
you not call him; 1t would only have cost you
Sol? SAID HE had a better hand than did,
ana would have been just So out" Men are
born gam biers and it is this intuition to call at
the right time that makes them successful. In
big game at q hotel here, not long ago, in
which hve or six friends took part, there was
an exciting Illustration of this delirious sort
OF doubt; Every. player had made good his
ante, and some of them had put IN a few hun
dred dollars additional before dropping out
players fighting for it. l stood behind one of
them. He had theee queens having drawn two
OF them at the start. His opponent had drawn
three cards. The latter at this juncture coOlly
announced a raise OF $4,000. The man with
three queens was fairly staggered. His antagO-
mist might be bluffng. He might have drawn
TO an ace and king and caught nothing or he
might have caught another king and two more
aces, or he might have drawn TO a pair and
caught a full hand. Was he buffing? That was
the question. After thinking the matter over
be did not consider his queens worth that
amount OF money, so both hands went 10 the
deck, and the man on the other side of the
table raked in the stakes. | found out after
ward that all this money was won on the fol-
lowing hand: Ace, jack, ten and two skies.
Tie three queens would have won by large
majority.