St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-01
The GAME OF "HOP."
A Partisan Creation Which
Has Set the Gamblers
Wild.
Large Sums Of Money Lost
and Wen on a Single
Ace.
Four Short Decks and Four
Persons Make the
Game.
The Wrinkle Has an Action
as Fast as That of
Faro.

People of Paris who gamble are de.
voting all of their spare time to new
game that has s6pplanted all of the other
games played for money.
The new game is called chop" and it
is described as being the most fascinat-
ing game that has ever been played, not
even excepting the alluring game OF
poker.
Paris is so infatuated with shop that
millions of francs are lost and won at 1t
every night.
LONDON HAS THE FEVER.
The game of shop has been intro
duced into the clubs of London. and it
is being played there with zeal worthy
better cause. So far as known the
game has not as yet been attempted III
the United States, but it's only a mat
ter of time when it will become as pop
ular there~as it is in Paris and London,
for the reason that it is so entieing that
it is impossible for card players to
withstand its temptations. All that is
required to render it q go there is to eX-
plain the rules governing the play.
PERFECTLY SIMPLE.
sHop" is an extremely simple game.
| Any person of ordinary mental caliber
| can play it if once told how to proceed.
| Here is description of the game:
| Four persons are necessary to make up
a game. Take four decks of cards. from
which throw out all the cards below tho
sevens. That leaves the aces. kings,
queens, jacks, tens. mines, Fights and
sevens to play with.
All four of the decks are shuffled to-
gether as though they were one deck.
This done. and the cards have been cut,
one person makes
THE DEAL.
Giving one card at time to the other
players until he has dealt them three
cards apiece, but taking no cards him.
self.
After the deal those who have been
supplied with cards look at their hands
and bet or stay out, as their Judgment
! dictates.
The matter of betting having been
| settled. the dealer turns Il card from the
| top of the deck and proceeds to pay and
| take, according to the eXigeEcies of the
game.
Losers and winners are determined
thus: If the dealer turns an ace ha
makes sweep; or, III other words, wins
all of the bets that are made, regardless
of the cards held by the other players.
If he turns king, and there are any
kings in the hands out, they ''stand off,
the dealer. All cards below the king
lose Oh that hand or deal. All aces ont
win.
1t is merely this: The persons ia
whom the cards are dealt take chances,
after looking at their cards and before
seeing the turn up of their cards being
either higher in denomination than tho
card that will be turned up. or as high.
THE DEALERS PERCENTAGE.
The ace is the dealers percentage. A
king or seven will stand off king or
a seven, and there is nothing lost nor
won on such Stand-off, but nOtlrse
will stand off an ace when turned by
the dealer. Even if there are three aces
in hand against the dealer, he wins il
he turn an ace.
When the cards have all been dealt
by one dealer he passes them 10 the
player on his left. and they are shnffied
and dealt by that person until they are
again exhausted, and so on as long rs
the game lasts. They are not shuitled
between the hands as in poker or eucher
but after each hand is played the cards
employed in that hand are thrown aside,
not to be used until another grand shut,
lie has been made.
A limit is placed on bets to be made,
which is determined, Of course, by the
purse Of the players.
AN EXAMPLE.
Imagine game. Say the players are
BIackie Edwards. Tom Meade, Dich
Holland and Bill Bolander.
They sit i'll tie order named, with
Blackie on Mead'S right. It's Blackie'<
deal. He shuffies the cards and hand;
| them to BOlander to cut. Then he deals
one card at a time, helping Meade first
until he has dealt three cards from the
top of the deck to each of the players.
Meade looks at his hand and finds
king, ten and seven. The limit /.
S25. Meade bets 81. He signifies his
willingness to bet by declaring that its
''go," that being the technical phrase
Holland finds in his hand a Jack,
nine and an eight spot. lie bets the
limit.
Bolander discovers queen ard a pail
of tens. He bets S625.
Blackie then turns up jack.
TIE RESULT. =
Meade'S king, being higher than TIL
jack turned by the dealer, wins 81, but
the ten and seven both being below the
jack cause him to lose 81 each, which
forces him to pay the dealer 81.
Hollands jack is a Standoff for Black
les jack turned up, and there is no ac'
tion so far as that card is concerned,
Dick loses ON the ten and the seven,
they both being below the jack in value,
so he owes Blaekie twice $50 until hd
can see Bill Hyde.
BOlander wins one bet and loses two,
having q queen and two tens.
The next hand of all of the outsiders
ii. O., those other than the dealer
have average cards and bet well up "a
the limit, but Notwithstanding the fac,
that Meade has three aces, Blackie wins
everything in sight when he turns us
his card for it is an ace. Remember,
aces in the hands OF the outsider do not
stand Off an ace turned by the dealer.
When the dealer turns an ace there is
but one thing to be done on that deal,
and that is to take everything-if you
are the dealer.
If an outsider hold three cards CORE
spending to any card-except an ace,
turned by the dealer, there is nothing
lost or won on that hand, for they are
all a stand-of. If an outsider have
three cards that prove to be higher
than tho one turned by the dealer, tho
person holding the cards in question
wins three times the amount OF money
he bet. If he holds three cards that
are lower than the one turned he looses
three times his bet.
QUICK ACTION.
Those who, play cards for money like
to get quick action. and for that reason
the game of ''HOp" is bound to become
popular in the States when once started
there. Especially wilt it become all the
rage in st. Paul, where there is no faro
permitted. The action in ''Hop" is as
rapid as in faro. In fact it is littld
short of being furious.
She Was Gathered Forthwith.