The Helena independent., 1893-09-01
A LITTLE GAME OF DRAW.
He Was u Novice, but He Had a Bit OF
Lcndvillo Experience.

He Was u Novice, but He Had Bit %
Lcndvillo Experience.
There was n little game of draw on th'
other night. -Four friends sat around th'
table. Ono of them was a novice. He hat
never played a game of poker in his life
but he was not aversc to paying for a LITTLE
instruction, he said, and besides he had t.
have something to do whereby to Will,
away what would otherwise DO yer,
stupid night.
He asked all sorts of foolish question.
and threw his chips in so recklessly thai
his three friends were sorry for him. 1t die
seem to be shame for him to lose so mucl
money, but then he wanted to play, and il
wasn't their fault if they held the better
hands. Finally jack pot came around
and the novice. who sat next to the opener
raised the ante to the limit. Some one else
saw him and went him n chip or two better,
Then the novice tilted her to the limit
his hand and asked, "What did you say a
straight flush would beat?"
The other players gasped. One of them
said that it would beat anything in the
pack but a royal flush, and the three
promptly threw up their hands The nov
ice smiled blantlly rs he raked in the big
stack Of chips. Then he threw his hand
down on the table. 1t was simple straight,
and that was all.
'What did you say that was straight
flush for?" asked one of the others, who had
laid down three scvens and pair of jacks.
"Well, said the novice, ''it is amt it?
They're all red, and they run along in Il Sc
quence"
Then the three carefully explained that
the cards had to be all of one suit to be a
flush, and after much questioning the nov
ice seemed to understand
The game went along for time Hands
ran low, and not many chips changed own
ers. About II o'clock there was another
jack pot. The novice raised the opener to
the limit again, and the next man, who had
fours, came back at him with another big
raise. The other players staid, and the
novice raised back. This made a pot with
considerably over 500 in it, Everybody
staid on the last raise, and the dealer said,
"Cards, gentlemen" in subdued sort of
voice.
Hold on!' blurted the novice, 81 want
to ask another question. I'm little mixed
on this straight flush business. If Tve got
five cards of the same suit and they form a
sequence, I've got straight flush, have
not?"
1ne Otnef players relnem Dered che former
jack pot and winked at each other. They
fastened to assure the novice that his sup
position was correct, and the man with
fours followed the openers chip bet with
raise to the limit. The bright smile that
came over the novices face when he learned
what Il straight flush was had not faded.
He was actually anxious to get his chips
into the center of the table. He raised back
to the limit.
THAT'S good bluff" said the man with
fours, and he tilted back.
The two others who had been trailing
with fairly good hands all the time dropped
out, and the novice and the man with fours
bet until there was nearly $500 ON the table
Then the man with fours grew compassion
ate and said to the novice: Now, | don't
want to make the learning of this game too
expensive for you. Your little bluff went
once, but it won't go this time, so I'll Just
call you"
Then thenovice laid down straight flush
In clubs, running from seven to jack, and
the man with fours fell back in his seat IN
q helpless condition. When he recovered,
he said slowly: "rll quit this game. Such
dodblamed fool as you couldn't learn to
play poker in 10000 years"
II don't doubt that" replied the novice
as he cashed in his chips. "They used to
tell me the same thing when was in Lead
vile. buffalo Express.