Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-25
A Western Member Wins $4,000 Cold Cash
on the dead Mans Hand"---Repre-
sentative WaybacEs Luck
$4,000 Made in
Few Days.
Baltimore Herald.


congressman to invite q cotesie OF choice
friends to his home on an of night, to pass
a few hours in the back psrlor or library at
this fascinating game. The average party
is FIVE, and never more than seven: a
party exceeding ak cannot coVenientiy
play at the same game OF poker. so the
old poker players takes care that be does
no: invite TOO big q crowd. In these back
parlors and libraries, with decanter OF
whisky and auy amount of Hsthorn water
selrzsr and soda at hand, IS well as choice
cigars, many registering nights passed in
the happy forgetfulness OF the onerous
legislative duties that will dawn with NOR.
row. To the credit of these congressional
PLAYERS, it should be said that it is rare to
hear of game with more than 81 limit
This would indicate that our national law
makers play at this fine old Persian game,
no. from mercensry motives, but rather tor
excitement ard relaxation. 1t is true that
q reckless man, or man IN an unusually
hard run of luck, may lose considerable
money even at 81 limit, but person VINO
is at all careful is not in much danger OF
dropping over $50 in whole nights play
ing. H.
Il been playing S,limit poker all this
winter" said 8 Southern congressman,
SAY one or two highs each week, and l
find that am about even with the game.
PLAY ONLY FoR PAsTINE,
and make no bad spurts such as are com
mon with men anxious to win or to retrieve
bad luck. fit ia not my blind do not
come in unless have good psir-about
mines. Even then / do not make my blind
good if there should be straddle. never
bet the limit on anything less than threes,
and would not call $2 bet except on q
full or flush. By my observation | know
| have frequently laid down hands that
would have won, but am not very good
PLAYER and, in tho long run, my caution
paws, for it keeps me from taking desperate
risks on doubtful hands. Playing in this
way keep a5out even. One night l may
lose from $50 to $50 and the next night win
!, all hack, 80 it alternates from week TO
week, keeping me nearly even.
Many limits are even as low as fifty and
TWENTY-FIVE cents, thus reducing the hurttul
possibilities of the diversion to the MIMI
mum notch. Bot there are few senators
and mem bers who would soorn to play at
any game of drawPoker that had limit
And these are the games which you know
exactly how much it will cost you to come
in. but not how much it cost you to get
out Hoyle tells us that the successful
PLAYING OF poker requires more judgment
and nerve than any other dealt game. 1t
/ this is go we have q good many nervy and
judicious chugressmen, for number OF
them are credited with winning large
amounts in these big, unlimited games.
There is a man" said we'll knogn con
grrsslonal attsche pointing to Western
member who has won $40, 600 at poker
since the present session began. 1t he
keeps on in good luck he will have over
SlOO 600 before the session ends, and when
he goes home his constituents will say he
has oeen bribed. He came hsre worth
nothing, and, OF course, when he gets back,
buys o fine house and begins to drive fast
horses, il will look suspicious. Bat | hap
pen TO know that he won his money al
poker. was present a. game In IN a
senator's house one night and saw him
WIN Sc 600 on ONE HAND.
II IVES the dead mans hand. What is the
dead mans had2 Why it is three Jacks
and pair of tens. 1t ia called the dead
mans hand because about forty years ago
IN q town in Illinois, o celebrated judge be-
his house and lot on three jacks and pail
of tens. 1t was the last piece OF property
he had in the world. When his opponent
saoged I'D he had three queens and a palI
of tens Upon seeing the queens the Judge
fell back dead, clutohipg the jacks and tens
in his hand, and that's wig Jack foil on
tens is called the dead mans hand. Well
| saw the member we are talking about
now win S. 900 on his hand. There were
six gentlemen playing in, aud all had big
hands One had nine full, another four
full, another three scss, another three kings
and another seven.fuIl. 1t was $40 ante
and $50 to come in bot the hrst man
s,raddled the blind. making it $40 to come
lin. As all took cards, there were $40 IN
the pot to begin with. The first man BET
5000. The man to hls lett simply called
il mt the next man raised it $500. This
out the bet to $500, and the next man
sailed it. When it got to the western gam
bier, who dealt, be raised it to 81 900. Thia
scared everybody out except another west
eru man, a distinguished railroad lawyer
The lawyer saw the congressman 81 ,OOU
aud went 8. 900 better, stopping to take
cheek book ont Of his coat pocket and
draw q eight check for the amount. The
congressman saw this aud vent e 500 bet
ter. The lawyer began to think. He looked
at the congressman sharply and long tc
sudy his countenance 10 see If he couiC
form an idea of the hand he sat upon
I Then he fell to studying his own hand anc
to rubbing his forehead in ueditshv'
vsy. Then he lsid bis cards down, COOL!
took out his check book, wrote check 10
So 500 aud called the congressman. Th'
congressman held the dead mans hant
and the lawyer three nines and o pair o
sjxes subrsoting the so he bad put int
the blind and the bets he had made him
self there were exactly IS, 100 in the po
which represented the cougressmsn's win
pipes on that hand Did the game 60 on
OH yes; but the railroad
LAWYER HAD VERY DRY COUGH
, the balance of the evening, ard his sppal
eat melancholy had depressing effect o
the balance OF lie company. SO after 3
hour, or theresbouts. the game broke Ut
, This railroad lawyer, who is exceedingl
! we'll known East and West, vent to Ne
. York the next day, and I sfterEard hear
. that he lost $4,000 one night at poke
. in a loom at the Hoffman House.
a 4 Southern congressman Was credlte
: last winter with winning enough money
= poker to pay Of a $4,000 mortgage Wi
|. interest on bis p!antstiou, and to feRlaS
: his old mules, ploEs, wagons end ts'n IL
j. elements generally with nsS ones, b
, would not play except At unlimited game
: and be played with dash and boldne
= that dismsyed bis opponents. Luck 8
!, tended him until the very shank end OF q
i session. Finally it turned, but too late {
4 the losers tc get E,uch Of their money bsc
: The Southerner went home $4,000 bett
:. off than he came. This session it has be-
y the other way. The Southerrer hunted
. tba same old act and for few days play