St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-06
Why It Became Necessary for the Colonei
To Sell Some Valuable Rea
Estate.
Sad Experience of an Ill-Starred Poker
Player Who Ran Against -Four
Queens.
How the Play Came About and the
Very Small Ante AT the
Start.
No Limit Game Finally Agreed
Upon--Checks for $4,000
Freely Made Out.

int pieces OF real estate tnlS Week, SdIu
one well-dreSsed Kansas City gentleman to
another as they stood before the shining
bar fixtures of one of the most popular re-
sorts in that city.
Yes" was the answer" and ! was sur
prised to learn it. No later than ten days
ago he told me he intended to hang on &c it
and gave his valuation then at a much
higher price than he received for it. | don't
understand it,"
"Well. do" remarked the other know
lngly. The colonel has got badly with
cred. and he had to let it go to save HIM
self"
why. that can't be. He has prosper
Dus business, and his real estate specula-
tons have all turned out we'll"
That is all right but the coloneI's re-
verses were not met with in legitimate bust
ness You see he made quite plunge here
during the fair on the horse races. and as
he was one of the few to be plucked, he
DROPPED SEVERAL THOUSANDS
during the week. You know the colonel
has been regarded as rather a successful
poker player in a small way, and Monday
evening he was inv ted by several friends
to JON in a quiet little party where the
price of the chips would be small and the
betting light. After his bad luck of the
week before the colonel thought it was
time for fortune to smile on him again, and
besides being a convivial fellow, he was
nothing 10th, and promised to meet the
boys as soon as he could go home and
square the business with the old lady.
Well be went home and told madam he
had some very particular business on hand
that called him down town, and putting all
IL
pocket he kept the engagement.
1.-The party met at one OF the principal
hotels of the city. where parlOr room had
been engaged and about 9 o'clock they re-
paired to the room. Besides the colonel
there were five others present. A PROM
fnent horseman, a very liberal fellow. sat
at the head of the table. acted as banker
and looked out for the contributions To the
widow and the sweetening of
THE JACK POTS.
To his right sat myself and next to me
the colonel. The man next TO the Colonel
was the senior of a large sporting house in
the city. and the other player was a well
known politician, who is famous for his
wit and funny sayings.
THE game WAS a small one at the start.
with % cent chips and a S. limit. With
varying success this game ran along for
several hours, moth ng unusual in interest
coming up. The widow had been fed
rather freely and the money spent
drinks. most of the party for
taking theirs straight, although
the politician frequently asked for
a little settler and lemon and sandwiched
his whisky with that mild detection. The
colonel was a little ahead of the game about
II o'clock. and no one was much loser.
when one of the players proposed raising
the ante and to take off the limit. No one
made any objection and accordingly a S1.50
blind table stakes, game was inaugurated.
Each man put big roll in front of him and
weighted down the bills
WITH HIS CHECKS,
and as it was dead swell party each man
was understood to call unlimited money
behind him. The game went along for
fifteen or twenty minutes with no special
feature. although it had been interesting
enough for the colonel for him 10 drop
nearly 500 on several losing hands. Fin
ally at my deal we all passed out on the
colonel. making jack pot. The cards
were running badly and he shatfled them
until the spots were nearly worn off with
no better success, and the pot was sweet
ened again. The deal came around to me
again. and by that time the pot had assumed
very respectable proportions.
Il dealt the cards carefully because l
wanted an equal chance in the S25 or $50
in the center of the table. The pasteboards
felt heavy as they passed through my hands,
and as they dropped face downward on the
table in front of each player they tell like
openers. 1t was the coloners first say. and
after skinning his cards he stacked up and
opened for the size of the pot. The sport
ing man pulled his iron-gray mustache re-
hectively and pushed in his chips. and the
politician calmly put in S25 more. The
horseman staid out. and l. who had been
sitting in the easy chair. saw the raise,
MY sQUEEzER
having shown me on the pinch that l had
a bob tail straight flush to draw II. open at
both ends. To my surprise and not to say
disgust. the colonel elevated the pot $50
The sporting mans cards went into the
deck i'm a second. but our aldermanic player
saw the raise and was forced to stay. 1t
being my deal. You can imagine my in
creased disgust with Gen. Schenck'S noble
game when in response to my query as to
how many cards he wanted he settled back
into his chair with a calm cOmplacency,
and. bv giving his hand a careless flip, he
signified he didn't want any. The politician
didn't look pleased either. and murmurng
something about pat hand he threw down
two cards aud asked for two more. gave
him these and then discarding my odd card
7 rather hOpplessly drew one. l know
neither the politician nor myself had very
much hope of winning that pot. l had a
hare chance of catching straight flush. but
| didn't bank much on it. The colonel
began the music by betting an even hundred
tl. L.
hand for few minutes and then raised a
hundred more. l had in the meantime
SKINNED MY HAND
and found had caught the FIVE spot of
climbs which gave me small straight. If |
had any intention of calling before | weak
ened when the politician put in his extra
hundred and my five cards went to the
deck. Without hesitation the colonel
pushed all his ready money to the center of
$he table and remarked. lacOnicalIy, Well
iudoe | tap you The judge asked the
omount. and when told It was 5000. fingered
eeveraI bills over neryOusly. and taking out
his check book he scrubbed an amount in
4he blank and wrote his name at the bot
tom. and putting it on top of the rest, ans
..sWell. colonel. if you do. you will have
to come little freer. | will just raise you
SIS. coo.
..IJp to this time the colOnel's face wore
ahout the smoothest expression of having a
dead sure thing you ever saw, but the toss
tnU of that check into the center of the
fable worked a Transformation. He was a
Head veakener and l knew the minute l
saw the change in his features that he was
beaten and that he nearly thought 50 him
self. He is stubborn cuss, though. and
he glanced first at the money IN his hand
and then at the face OF the judge. From
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