The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-04
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Cards have played some peculiar
freaks on many occasions, says the Phila-
delphia RecOvi, and tbe STORY nj the re-
markable whist hands held at . table i'm
the Hamilton club recently, when each
player held = full suit, would seem i'm
credible were Il mot for tbs ~well-known
tlemen. The cards had been thoroughly
shufiied, hut thirteen diamonds went %
the dealer, and each Of che other players
held thirteen cards Of the same ss,it. Al
most impossible of belief, IL must always
be remembered that the possibilities for
great surprises are absolutely ~innunera-
bile, as q computation of the changes
show. Card stories, like fish stories, are
very prolific, hut there ARE many wonder
full expcrienccs of players that ARE well
In connection with whist % funny incl
dent happened about IA year aRo tn ~ we'll
wops Thai 81 Hoyie. He delights i ! f IN ssli.
ing his frientls that on one particular o.
casion he held the thirteen trumps and
his left led a. deuce, his partner played the
promptly trumped. His partner disg.sted
at such a play, threw his hand out of the
window and ended the game.
Foxes is perhaps the game where conn
RIicasaon: and Poss,hii.s'e turn up most
hands are without number. In a club in
this city n short time aRo q series of sur
prising hands developed i'm q most start
manner. All the gentlemen are we'll
known and the story In absolutely trie. A
doctor opened @ jackpot with a pair OF
a pat king full. raised; the next man,
with three skies, raised again ; the fourth
player saw the raises and so did the dog
newer, kept on raising and the two VIC
Tins, AS they thought, stnid i'm from abso-
drew to- his nSir and got two mors. a"se%s
and an ace. He had thrown u king away,
80 that he could not have four kings or
began dollars flew into the pot, and every
body raiseSl everybody else all around UNI
til the full hand got tired, the four skies
gave up, and the betting was left to the
dealer and the fourth man, who had
drawn one card. Atlast from sheer weari-
nes. the dealer said: "oh. ! wont rob
the same time reaching for the pot" Wal
n hit" said the quiet player. Ell have n
three, four. five. and six of spades. These
were four biz hands,, indeed.
Roland Reed, the popular actor. is also
He is fond of telling how ON one occasion
ON a railway train, with four playing: he
won several hundred dollars with four
aces against four jacks and a pat flush.
On another occasion mt Boston, with
Charlie Reed. Fred Hawley and Allen
Dale I'm the game. there were three pat
htishes to sweetcn the pot before the draw,
and u quiet individual i'm the corner. who
had staid i'm out Of sheer desperation with
a pair of deUces, eventually cOrralled the
wealth ny drawing two more.
The late John L. Raymond, who WAS an
enthusiast i'm. all games of chance, was
playing i'm "a small town i'm the far west
about ten years when poker was u
craze. He whiled away the afternoon by
having n small game of unlimited with u
gambler who was noted for his skill and
pluck. After playing without incident for
hours John suddenly struck four aces and
all he was worth Raymond excused him
self to his friend, rushed across to the
hank. and, showing his hand to the CASH
Ter, who was also u great poker player,
said excitedly,' "How much shall l stake?"
"Here, take $3O,OOO," said the cashier
did 40, rushed hack, and SOON afterward
divided $15,OOO winnings with his friend.
After such monster hands as these q re-
turn tn a lower level will perhaps he re-
fresbing. BluiiinR il considered an art i'm
poker. and has won many thousands of
down to a game of ''freexe-out" with "a
gambler, who had only $500.
After n few hands Vanderbilt raised the
pot $2,OOO. "fou can not do it," said the
gambler. ~nervously. ~ ONLY have $500"
We'll. $500 l go you," replied the million
had u pair of deuces and his OPP
had ~ pair of trays,
And last. hut certainly not least, i'm a
well-known gambling house i'm twenty
seventh street. New York. two hands are
nailed up over the mantcls. They are the
six, seven. eight, nine and ten of diamonds, |
and the same i'm spades. These two hands
came together and caused the division of
u small fortune between the holders.