The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-30

farts ana London Sy storm, and PROM
ises to Become Popular in nAmerica-How
It Is Played and the Rules for 1t.
People Of Paris who gamble are de-
voting all of their spare time 10 q 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 played-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 hop" has been intro
iuced into the clubs of London, and it is
being played there with zeal worthy of
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 erticing that 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 caLber
can play it if once told how to proceed.
Here is description of the game;
Four persons are necessary to make
ND a 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 a time to the other. Layers
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 and 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, OF, in other words, wins
all of the bets that are made, regardless
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.
It is merely this: The parsons to
whom the cards are dealt take chances,
after looking ct 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 a king or o
seven, and there is nothing lost nor won
on such a stand off, but nothing will
stand off an ace when turned by
dealer. Even if there are three aces in
q hand against the dealer, he wins If he
turn an ace.
When the cards have all been dealt by
one dealer he passes them to the player
on lis 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 shuff1ed between the
hands as in poker or euchre, but after
each hand is played the cards employed
il that hand are thrown aside. not to be
used until another grand shuttle has been
made.
\ 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
Elactie Edwards, Tom Meade, Dick
| EollonG and Bill Rolander.
They SIT in the order named, with
B!aciiie On Meade's right It's Blackies
deal. He shuffles the cards and hands
them to Bolander to cut. Then he deals
one card at 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
king, :: ten and a seven. Tie limit is
go. Meade bets 81. He signifies his
willingness to bet by declaring that its
go" that being the technical phrase.
Holland finds in his hand q jack.
nine and an eight spot. He bets the
limit.
BolanGer discovers queen and pair
Of tens. He bets S6.25.
Blacllic then turns up a jack.
Mcadc'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 of for Black
les jack turned up, and there is 20 action
so far as that card is concerned. DlcS
loses on the ten and the seven, they both
being below the jack in value, so he owes
Blac!;ie twice S25 until he can see Bill
Hyde
Bolandcr wins one bet and loses two,
having . queen and two tens.
The next hand, all of the outsiders,
that's, those other than the dealer, have
! 1nScraGe cards and bet well up to the
limit, but, notwithstanding the fact that
Meade has three aces, Blackie wins
everything in sight when be turns up his
card, for it is an ace. Remember, aces
in the hand of the outsider do not stand
cif an ace turned bv the dealer. When
the dealer turns an ace there is but one
| thing to be done on that deal, and that
is to tako everything-f you are the
dealer.
# ~ outsider hold three cards CORE
| spending 10 any card-except an ace
turned Ev the dealer, there is nothing
lost OF Won on the hand, for they are all
q stand cif. If an outsider have three
cards that prove to be higher than the
one turned bv the dealer, tho person
holding the cards in question wins three
times tic amount Of the money he bet.
II he held three cards th;.i are lower
sh&n the one turned he loses three times
bis bet.
Those who play cards for money like
| fN, hot