The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-02-16
THE GAME OF I" aoP.
It Excels Poker and Il Equal to the
Fascinating Faru.

| TeOpl0 Oh L dTl6 WHO SauOAc aIe
devoting all of their spare time to q
new game that has supplanted all
ofthe other games played for money
The new game is called shop
and it is described as being the
most fascinating game that has ever
been played-not even excepting
the alluriug game of poker.
Paris is so infatuated with shop
that millions of francs are lost and
won at it every night.
The game of shop" has been in
troduced into the clubs of London,
and it is being played there with a
zeal worthy of a better cause. So
Ear as known the game has not as
yet been attempted in the United
States, but it is only a matter of
time when it will become as pop
ular there as in Paris and Lon
don, for the reason that it is so en-
ticing that it is impossible for card
players to Withstand its tempta
tions. All that is required to rem
der 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 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 PACKS IN ONE.
All four of the decks are shuff1ed
together as though there 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 players until he has
dealt them three cards apiece, but
has taken 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 a card from
the top of the deck and proceeds to
pay and take, according to the ex-
igencies of the game.
Losers and winners are determ-
ined thus: If the dealer turns an
ace he makes a sweep, or, 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.
1t is merely this: The persons to
whom the cards are dealt takes
chances, after looking at their cards,
and before seeing the turn up, of
their cards being higher in denomi-
nation than the card that will be
turned up or has high.
The ace is the dealers percentage.
A king or a seven will stand off a
king or seven, and there is moth
ing 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 hand
against the dealer, he wins if he
turns an ace.
When the cards have all been
dealt by one dealer he passes them
to the player on his left, and they
are shufled and dealt by that per-
son until they are again exhausted,
and so on as long as the game lasts.
They are not shufaed 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, of course, is determ-
ined by the purse of the players.
A 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 il
Blackie's deal. He shuffles the
cards and hands them to Bolander