Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-02-07
THE GAME OF HOP"
IT ExCELS POKER AND is EQUAL
TO THE FASCINATING FARO.

A Ne Short Card Game That Has Taken
Paris and London by Storm. and Prom
ises to Become Popular in America-How
1t Is Played and the Rules for 1t.
People of Paris who gamble are de-
voting all of their spare time to new
game that has supplanted all of the
other games played for money.
The new game is called ''hop," and it
is described as being the most fascinat-
ing game that has ever been play yed-not
even excepting the alluring game of
poker.
Paris is so infatuated with hop that
millions of francs are lost and won at it
every night.
The game of chop has been intro
duced into the clubs of London, and it is
being played there with zeal worthy of
a better cause. So far as known the
game has not as yet been attempted in
the United States, but it is only matter
of time when it will become as popular
there as in Paris and London, for the
reason that it is so enticing tnat it is i'm
possible for card players to withstand
its temptations. All that is required to
render it a 60 there is to explain the
rules governing the play.
"Hop" 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 game. Take four decks of cards,
from which throw out all of the cards
below the sevens. That leaves the aces,
kings, queens, jacks, tens, mines, eights
and sevens to play with.
FOUR DECKS IN ONE.
All four of the decks are shuffled to-
gether as though they were one deck.
This done, and, the cards having 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 himself.
| 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 card from the
top of the deck ara proceeds to pay and
take, according to the exigencies of the
game.
Losers and winners are determined
thus: If the dealer turns an ace he
makes sweep, Or, in other words, wins
of the cards held by the other PLAYERS.
If he turns a king, and there are any
kings in the hands out, they ''stand Off
the dealer. All cards below the king
lose on that hand or deal. All aces out
win.
1t is merely this: The persons to
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 the
card that will be turned up or as high.
The ace is the dealers percentage. A
king or seven will stand off king or
seven, and there is nothing lost nor won
on such a stand off, but nothing will
stand off an ace when. turned by a
dealer. Even if there are three aces in
a hand against the dealer, he wins if he
turn an ace.
When the cards have all been dealt by
one dealer ne passes them to the player
on his left, and they are shuffled and
dealt by that person until they are again
exhausted, and SO on as long as the game
lasts. They are not shuffled between the
hands as in poker or euchre but after
each hand is played the cards employed
in that hand are thrown aside. not to be
used until another grand shuttle has been
made.
A limit is placed on bets to be made,
which is determined, of course, by the
purse of the players.
SAMPLE GAME.
Imagine game. Say the players are
Blackie Edwards, Tom Meade, Dick
Holland and Bill Bolander.
They sit in the order named, with
Blackie on Meade's right. It's Blackie's
DEAL He shuff1es the cards and hands
them to Bolander to cut. Then he deals
one card at a time, helping Meade first,
until he deals three cards from the top
of the deck to each of the players.
Meade looks at his hand and finds a
king, ten and a seven. The limit is
S25. Meade bets 81. He signifies his
willingness to bet by declaring that it's a
''go," that being the technical phrase
Holland finds in his hand a Jack, a
nine and an eight spot. He bets the
limit.
Bolander discovers queen and pair
of tens. He bets S6.25.
Blackie then turns up jack.
Meade's king. being higher than the
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 stand off for Black
les jack turned up, and there is no action |
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 |
Blackie twice S25 until he can see Bill |
Hyde.
Bolander wins one bet and loses two,
having queen and two tens
Ill &c al
that is, those other than the dealer, have
average cards and bet well up to the
limit, but, notwithstanding the fact that
Meade has three aces, Blackie wins
in sight when he turns up his
card, for It is an ace. Remember, aces
in the hand Of the outsider do not stand
of an ace turned by the dealer When
.he dealer turns an ace there is but one
hing to be done on that deal, and that
s to take everything-if you are the
lealer.
If an outsider hold three cards CORE
'ponding to any card-eXcept an ace
,urned by the dealer, there is nothing
ost or won on the hand, for they are all
| stand off. If an outsider have three
;ards that prove to be higher than the
me turned by the dealer, the person
lolding the cards in question wins three
lines the amount of the money he bet
f he hold three cards that are lower
han the one turned he loses three times
lis bet.
Those who play cards for money like
o get quick action, and for that reason
he game of shop" is bound to become
popular IN the States when once started
here. The action in ''hop" is as rapid
s in faro. In fact, it is little short of