The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-03-22
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So the other interest went in.
ssCharles's" wi nniRy hand showed three
deuces, three and four. His vis-a-vis
held two kings, two aces and three.
neither of them sensational hands, yet
considered good enough to hold out with
a mine at stake. This mine is now pro-
ducing ore valued at about as much per
month as the en- tire property was worth
at the time of the poker game.
In poker game played in Denver
one July day in 1884 there were four
diamond rings two watches, five thou
sand dollars in money, two pairs Of
handsome and costly sleeve buttons
and a number of scarf-pins. In this
game sat an ex-governor, well-known
smelter man, an eastern congressman
and a California miner. The man from
the east scooped in the pot and won by
straight"
Six thousand dollars worth of gold in
nuggets was won by a lucky poker
player in Denver in 1871. They came
from Clear Creek county, and were
brought here for the purpose of being
placed in bank. 1t was strictly
miners game, with all sorts of blufing,
and it lasted all night, with the result
that the man with the nuggets did not
place them in a bank, for the reason
that he had too much confidence in
paralyzing hand in which three tens
were conspicuous. while his opponent
had something worth photographing-
three jacks, two mines.
In Santa Fe. N. NJ, there is record
of a prominent business man giving
bill of sale for his stock of dry goods
groceries, etc, amounting to eighty
| thousand dollars. The bill of sale went
into a little, quiet game, played as long
ago as 1858, and was not lost. for the
reason that no one could show up any
thing excelling king full, which the
merchant considered good thing to
| cling to.
A rather singular poker game was
one played in Denver about two years
ago, and is remembered by number of
prominent people who witnessed it.
There were five sitting in that game
and all stayed in. One gentleman drew
one card, another two cards and the
others three apiece. The man who
| drew three cards raised and was fol-
| lowed up until there was $4,000 at
stake on the game. The first gentle
man, it transpired, was running beau
tiful bluff on two pairs, while the man
who had drawn two cards laid down an
ace full, and those who lad drawn
three each laid down in turn four
queens, four tens and four jacks. 1t is
said that this is the only instance of the
/ kind where cards ran in such way in
Colorado. The game was played at the
Windsor, and there was railroad man.
an ex-nayor. LAWYER and two promi-
nent business Iaca in it.
An anu ing instance is reported as
occurring on stock train coming from
a point in New Mexico to Colorado.
large shipment of steers was made to
this point and the owners of the cattle
travelled in caboose. There were
four of them. Now, there is only one
natural result of four New Mexico cat
tlemen travelling together in a car for
any length Of time, and that is a poker
game. There is great deal of beauti-
full scenery on the way up from New
Mexico, but scenery is cheap and not
always novel to look at. With poker it
is another story.
The game went along very well for
a couple of days. On the third day the
conductor going through the caboose
during the afternoon, was laid out with
establishment at hearing the remark: II
raise you five steers" Suiting the ac-
ton, the person who spoke them put,
five matches on the board. He was fol-
lowed up with more matches, each one
representing a steer, and still the game
went on When the shipment arrived.
in Denver it was owned by two instead
of fonr men Denver Sun.