The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-10
calied; And when he threw down bis hand
he had three kings in it.n
Three kings" exclaimed the other men.

NAuks. eAClalIDeQ the oE0er men.
SIMPLY COULD NOT BEAT HIM.
Yes, three kings. He had had three
Kings at the start and had discarded ops of
them oy mistake. Bnt he had caught the
fourth from the deck, which really made
three In his hand and he had not nerve
enough or sense Of the game enough to stab
them. So he called
lone night" said the actor, when l was
young fellow and trying to get a living
from business at one night stands, went to
the hotel after the performance and was
met by the managers wife. She was
leeding lady and told me she knew her
husband had gone of to play poker
with tbs evening receipts. There was not
money enough in the party to pay our hotel
bills for we had been having a hard time.
She was good, honest little woman, and
we were all in the greatest trouble. l vol
unteered to go out and try TO find the man
ager and rescue something. The hotel
clerk knew where be was and piloted me.
As we opened the door OF the little den
where they were compelled g play by the
puritan spirit of the town heard him saw
in a voice thick with liquor: IN raise you
SlO.'
Il shivered, but went in and stood be-
hind him. He didn't know it was /. ANY
one around the table could have seen his
cards. He had nothing. The other man,
feeling bluff, raised back and my man
ager put the last dollar before him into the
middle-being a raise Of 50 more.
THE fellow across the table was beaten.
He had not expected that last tilt He
knew there was nothtssg in my managers
hand, but as sure as you live be hadn't any,
thing either. And my manager won $500
with queen high"
THAT'S pretty good story, )" said the faro
dealer. Did yeu get him to 60 home"
mo. Nothing could induce him to 60.
had 10 steal the money, reaching up under
his arm and passing it back to the hotel
clerk for witness. And he won faster than
| could steal. After had taken $500 from
him the rest of the fellows got mad and
broke up the game. IL the hotel clerk
hadn't stayed by mess--they would have
mobbed me and taken the money away. AS
IL was, we got the manager to bed, drunk as
lord and winner by more than the re-
ceipts of the show"
did he strengthen the cast with his
windfall?'
why didn't you let him play poker
while the rest of you played East LynneP"
HE WAS AN ARTFUL DoDGER.
1--WE hadn't been playing East Lynne"
said the actor. "Our bill that night was
oliver Twist" The manager was Fagin'
and l was The Artful Dodger.'"
skill for taking his money. II he were as
good 'Fagin' as you were in your part you
ought never to have walked a mile in your
life"
Sometimes" saidIthe horseman, "a GER
tain pair will haunt you for hours and you
don't know what to do with it. l had
ghost one night in the shape CT pair Of
sevens. Every time l drew to them. no
matter what it cost, they helped me and
a yUOT SOrnaFirnaa 7 would oaf rh n
third against aces and kings and in q
double break 1t would make the other
man very mad. but-well, threes beat two
pairs; you all know that. Then about a
week after was playing again and the
same two sevens kept coming 60 me.
remembered what they had done for me be-
fore and tried them again. Well, helped
them nearly every time, the same as before,
and the other fellow hammered me. l lost
more trimming them up than they had won
for me the previous sitting"
"Aud one time l was loser, and kept get
ting four flushes all the evening" said the
late manager. They encouraged me for a
time, and paid lots Of money to see If they
would fill: but they would not. Then 1 got
mad, and resolved would follow them till
they did FILL After drawing about forty
times finally filled against a 3-card draw.
But the other caught three queens to his
pair of jacks-and there l was again. Lord
but he bled mep'
az knew fellow who was every once in
a while getting three, five and eight; and
when they began coming he knew he was
hoodooed for that night. If one or two OF
them came before the draw he was sure
to get the third in the draw. He was
OF a speculative turn of mind. and just for
the fun of the thing followed them through.
Finally he got four straight, open in the
middle, with a three at the bottom. He
wanted O five and knew he was sure TO get
either five or an eight, and as that was an
even chnnce-which Is much better than you
have any right to expect in poker-he In
vested lot of money in the raise and draw.
He caught the five aud won the pot"
swell, that wasn't a hoodoo.h
80, yes it was. OF course he proved his
theory, but look at the experimenting be
had to pay for before he could get that
small satisfaction"
81 don't like a limit game" said the
actor. "If you lose you can never get
even. II you are winner you can't rob much,
for they will call you down"
"Yet | knew man lose $500 In limit
game one night up in my room, and then
play out 500 winner"
elbow did be do that"
30, he just did it. He played with every
thing, and no matter whether luck were
all the rules Of probability he ought to
have lost $1,000, but instead ne made a
pair of deuces better than king up over
and over again. Still, what | said in the
beginning is the funny thing about poker,
the old witch knows where her fa-
vorte is sitti ng, and she takes care Of him
A man with a boom on will draw to
shingles and catch cathedrals all night long.
He will draw against impossibilitles and fill
certainties. He will take chances that
no crap shooter would approve and
firmly expect to win. And he is never dis
appointed"
"Still, luck changes sometimes three or
four times in an evening""
go, yes Sometimes two pairs are good
and sometimes they are not. am speaking
Of the times when red luck simply runs to
man and won't let him get away. That was
the condition of Dan, here, the night be won
a carload of steers"
HOW DAN WON THE STEERS.
How was thatp asked the dealer.
"Weil, he had been out to the races, and
had lost all he had with him, and was mad
as wet hen. He came back to town after
the banks we're closed, and stood Billy Boyle
off for a supper. Then he went out on the
street and found nickel. Just after that
he met darby with eyes 80 crossed that
when he cried on one side the tears ran
down the other. Right after that he saw
a cat. And then, to make things perfectly
sure. he counted seven Cinnamon within
one block on Dearborn street. That settled
him. He went up to John, here, and
borrowad a hundred He went to a place