The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-08
POKER.
Sergeant-at-Arms Bright Invents a
New Game.

Washington Special to New York Sun.
Congressmen and high rollers generally
about Washington are INDUCING in a new
variety of poker to while away the dog
days and the monotonous tariff grind. The
version, and it is alleged 20 have been
fathered by Sergeant-at-arms Richard j.
Bright, of the United States Senate. This
official seems 10 have aspirations in the
same line that made the late Gen. Robert
G. Schenck, of Ohio, famous. Encouraged
by the success which awarded the efforts
of General Schenck to give the American
game of poker a worldwide reputation, the
present Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate has
set out upon a poker reform crusade. and
the result is the startling innovation which
the West of stud poker. and of straight
For MIR. Bright's new version of ''how
including the joker, is an absolute neces,
sity. The uses TO which the joker can be
on. Before a party of FIVE or six gentle
men sit down to play the loo loo game a
V with i sergea qe[asEa rloR RriPPS Sf'U wil be eI found
instructive as we'll as interesting. To be-
that the holGer may desire, FIJI cut a pair,
make up n flush. a straight. or five aces.
and as a matter of fact this one card can
be made a very valuable factor in opening
and closing jack pots.
Having disposed of the joker. the next
thing In order will be the arrangements of
the combinations TO be used in the loo loo
game. First comes one pair. then two pairs,
followed by a blazer This consists of
kings. pair of queens and a knave. or
jack. II takes three of a kind or better to
beat a blazer" Then comes a straight.
which. in turn. beats three of a kind, and
next in order is a skip" composed of al
ternating numbered cards: for instance,
three. five. seven. nine. jack or knave.
While holding hands of this new game it
will not do for the fortunate possessor to
overlook "A filter" which comes next after
a skip and just ahead of a flush. \ filter
is q hand in which a deuce is the lowest
card and a nine spot the highest card. 1t
frequently happens that in the early stages
of the game the novice is apt to overlook
the value of a tilter. After the tilter comes
a flush. then a full. four OF a kind, straight
flush and a skip flush. In the case of the
latter it is made up of alternate cards of
the same suit, whether hearts. diamonds,
clubs or spades, and Is much harder 10 get
than the plain skip in the alternating num-
bers. Five of a kind will beat a skip flush,
and this is where the joker comes out
strong. For. in an emergency. 1T can be the
fifth ace. a fifth hearth fact. anything
that is needed to make up five of "a kind or
color.
Now comes the hand from which the
game derives its name. loo loo. and this is
brought about by means of a siX-card draw.
Whoever wants to make a loo loo throws
AWAY the five cards, or book, as IL is known
in poker. and draws six cards. with the ex-
pectation of making three pairs. Should the
player be lucky enough to bring about such
a combination in the six-card draw all that
he has TO do is to send his loo loo to the
nearest bank-savings,. national. or State
where IL will be found as good as a gov
eminent bond for obtaining money from
the bank. vaults. 1t is possible. but highly
be played in one evening where the game
is strictly OH the square. Cp to date. how
ever. no one has sent a loo loo hand over
to the Treasury Department. which is pre-
sided over by "A scion OF Kentucky who Is
supposed TO be an expert on all that per-
tains to the American Eamc or poker.