The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-10
REMARKABLE POKER HANDS.
Each of the Four Players Held Fours
and our Fights Took the Pot.
From the Nety York sun.

From the NetU York sun.
SCRANTON, Jan 5.-A party of Scranton
poker players, who are in the habit of hay
ing a quiet game together once a week, had
most peculiar experience with the cards a
few nights ago. There were four in the
party, and they were playing their favorite
game of draw with a ten-cent ante and a
dollar limit. The game had been spiritless
| and not at all exciting for half an hour or
so, when three of them got hands before the
| draw that were worth something. while the
fourth man got nothing at all. The player
on the left of the dealer aud the next man
TO him said they would take two cards
apiece, and the player on his right said he
would take book just to keep them COM
pany. The dealer then dealt himself two,
and the betting began.
I'm bet Toe, -" the first man remarked
unconcernedly. The other three each raised
! it ten, and the first better made it all good
and went them ter more. When it came
| around to the dealer the second time he
raised them all quarter, and they stayed
IN like little men and came back at him.
| For two or three times around a quarter
was the highest raise Then the man who
had drawn the book, much to the surprise
of the trio, went them all half a dollar bet
ter, and they stood his raise like heroes, and
| for several times around the half dollars
were put up with clock-llke regularity, not
one of the four showing the least incliua-
ton to call the others.
Finally the dealer said he would observe
the limit rule, and make the raise an even
dollar, Just to keepup the interest, and the
other three responded with alacrity Again
the dealer raised them dollar more, but
| that did not drive any of them out Or force
any one to call, and 'make it good and
raise you dollar was the order for mum
Der OF times around, and the game was get
ting to be unusually interesting.
When there were between 800 and 500
on the table the man who had drawn the
book hestated a moment, but he made the
regular raise, as did also the dealer The
bets went around until the pot contained
upward of $120, when the man on the deal
er's left said:
''I'll just call you fellows. I've bet my
last dollar and l want to know what you've
got"
1--WE got four fives," said the dealer.
ooh, | can beat you,7 said the collar
i've got four sixes," and he threw them
down.
Them amt good" remarked the third
man, there are four sevens," and he
stretched big hand out after the money.
"Hold on, therem exclaimed the drawer
of the book, who had not said a word until
then. 81 happen to hold four Fights, and
reckon they beat anything any Of you have
got" and the four hands were spread out on
the table. For a minute or two they all
looked in silence on the queer spectacle,
and then the dealer said:
"Well, I'll be d-dm
I'm busted, and won't play any more"
remarked the next man.
I've got enough left for drink said
| the third.
And I'll scoop in the potn blandly said
! the man who had taken the book just to
keep them company.
Come to find out the dealer had had three
| fives before the draw, the next man three
skies, and the third three sevens, and had
each got the other one in the draw, while
the fourth player had drawn his fours all in
a heap. 1t was such a remarkable freak in
the cards that all Of them told their friends
about it before they went to bed.