Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-02
THOUGHT THE POT WAS THEIRS,
Bat the Man Who Had Four Fours and IN
Ace Raked It In.

But the Man Who Had Four Fours ana an
Ace Raked It In.
Four travelling men from various paris
of the State and resident of Scran-
ton sat down to a friendly game
of draw the other night. Some Ct
them were going to leave Scranton
an the l o'clock train, and it was agreed
all around that the game should ED at
midnight, no matter WHO might be ahead
at that hour. The ante was five c.Dts, just
enough to make the game interesting, ana
ten cents was the limit. The banker gave
each tlsyer tsn fve-cent and ten ten-cent
chips and for an hour the game was as
monoton GUS as poker could very well be,
Then some one prop led jack pot end from
that time on there was more fuu. The
banker then established kitty" into
which he soon deposited enough chips TO
nav for a round OF something, and the
game e5t liylier and livelier all the while.
After that every hand was a jack pot,
aud the "kitty" kept collecting funds TO
paw for more rounds By II o'clock the
party was very jolly. A little after that
hour the fun re anne general, snd it wasn't
long after that be- fore something unusual
happened with the cards. Two hands
vera dealt around, and no one was able 10
open tbs ack pot. There was Collar In
the pct then, and, after the ards had tesn
dealt the third time, nobody had Ell ougn
to opsn it wi h. The result was the same
a: tie erd of the sixth del, when the rot
Contained 81. 1t was 81 big POI Thea
that everybody wanted it, and tie papers
were thrown around for the seyeDth time.
Tn n the man at the let Of the deale:
opsned the Pot, and, to the amazement OF
all, every player came in. In answer 10
the uu.tton, "Hov many cards will you
have, sh?r from the dealer, tie man who
bal opened tie pot said:
"Give ne one"
Same here said the next one.
"Ditto," exclaimed the tn I'd.
ME, tco," the fourth re marked.
"Thsrs all want" the dealer taid, az
he hslred himself to one card. Nov,
axe your btts, gentlemen"
The first player let the limit, the next
rs:s:d bin ten, and they all stayed in He
made it good and went them ten bstter,
end the second man raiaed ii, end the
o'her three rsi ed him. 1t was getting de-
eide Ely interesting, but the men at the
left of the dealer cJye ei all the raises,
and came back at them with ten cents
batter. In this way they kept betting and
borrowing chipI from one another until
every chip on the table was in the pot,
which now repres en.ed 81 90, and still
they eli stayed. .,
Then pocl ets were rSrsacked for small
change, and, after all the subsidiary coin
in the party had been dumped into the
TO-, dollar bills and bland cartwheels were
10 d upon the pile aud b t by fractions
until they belonged to the pot also, snd
still there we. no Figos of weakness en- the
part of single one Of the plucky players
Somebody then put five dollar bill on the
pile and 10 k silver dollars in pace of it,
and the betting went around few times
n,rre. There was then between S2l and
S22 in the pot, and it Looked as though
that hand would last until tie midnight
hour was reached The pot grew and
thr;ved until it contained 500 worth OF
chips and solid cash, and then some one
callei 1t was the dealer, and he said:
That pits big enough fer ten-cent
limit, arc go all please show up"
All did 80 except the man who had
ocened the pot, and he held hack little
Each had drawn one clrd, ard there were
four iulls-an ace full on tens, jack full
On queers, a nine full en- deuces, and a
seven foil on king. The other man thea
sp'e ID out four fours and an ace, coolly
remarki5g as lie did so:
81 had them fours on the start, and I
drew one card just to fool you fellows. |
guess the pots mine, gentlemen" and he
began to paw tie pile over.
By this time four disguised men were
kicking themselves sill over the loom and
butting their heads against window
castings and furniture, and there was some
tall ard loud wearing by an angry quartet
Of bass and tenor voices. Just then the
town cloek struck ~. Accounts were
s; eedi'y settled. The last hand had been
played.