Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-18
BIG POKER STORIES.
THEIR TEXT TIE REMARKABLE VA
 CARRIES OF LUCK.

Retold In Condensed Eofm-Ihe Pefsoa-
 al Confession of One of .sthc Company"
 s'I suppose Senator Wolcott is one of tho coolest mon living When engaged in a game of chance, i" said Abort Watson of Denver. "Lizo most men whose early manhood has been spent on the frontier, he learned the value of poker hand and the best way to keep cases as soon as he learned law, and he was known as linn it player all over Colorado before his famo as lawyer had spread outside Of Denver. When playing faro, he always did and docs yet bet as much on tha turn of a card as the dealer will allow him to, and when he sits in poker game the other people want to keep their eyes Vido open and play their cards mighty close up to their chests.
 "Woleott once found himself ia gamo of poker where three of the other players were playing sure game. They were professionals and were after big bundle Of money that he had ill his pos. session as well as looking for that which the fifth player, mining operator named Durkin, was known to have. Woleott knew in 20 minutes after tho first hand was dealt that the intention was to rob him and wearied his wits trying to find way out of the game without making trouble, but he couldn't discover q means to save him. At last he was dealt a pat flush of diamonds made up of the 5, z, 8, 9 and jack He skinned those cards over aud did 6 mighty piece of thinking. He felt i'll his bones that flush would be no account in tho world when it came to show down, but he clipped in and staid to draw cards To his surprise. he wasn' raised before the draw.
 He looked over his bright red dia- monds and concluded to draw a card, in order, if possible, to strengthen the se= quence. He pondered long time be- tween discarding the spot or the pie tnre, and at last tossed away tho jack and called for a card The dealer looked surprised at his wanting any, but gave him the card. Wolcott picked it up and found he had got the spot of dia- monds He never turned hair. Tho betting began, and he nursed his se- quence of diamonds and just staid along, letting the other fellows do the raising At last it got down to Woleett and one of the professionals. Finally there was call, and the other man showed four queens Woleott laid down tho 5, 6, 7, s and of diamonds and swept i'll the pot. The game stopped right there. Ireckon that was the great est piece of luck that any man ever had in Q poker game. '
 When Mir Watson had concluded his interesting recital and the wonderful draw had been expatiated upon, one If his listeners remarked that he reckoncd it was his deal. "This is story of luck, too, ; he remarked, ''but of different character from that experienced by Sen- ator Wolcott A friend of mine who lives out in Maryland was playing in a little poker game not long ago. The paraphernal-a of the game was primI- tive, consisting of q single we'll thumbed deck of steamboat cards, with grains of corn for chips. My friend was followed by q regular tempest of bad luck, and his corn was down to very few grains. He agitatod bis mind for minute or two and then suddenly announced that he had forgotten to give his horse water and would have to it. He went out of tho house, aud being familiar with tho premises made his way to the courthouse, and putting in his hand in the dark got all car of corn and put 1t ill his pocket. Then he went to tho stable, after mal- ing big n@ise at tho pump to let the fellows inside believe he was moistoning his animal, and returned ill few min utes to tho house. He sat down and pro- eeeded to pull out the chips he had placed in his pocket when he left, and which he Tad substantially added to meantime. You can imagine his con- sternation when he found that he drew forth his original dozen whito chips, with twice that many red. He had man. aged to find ill the dark the only red ear in tho courthouse.
 'I'll make a personal confession after that, said Henry Miller when the laugh subsided. Some years ago l was prone now and then to indulge in the delights of draw, and there was friend living near mo, over in Georgetown, afflicted with intermittent insanity of the same sort that visited him at inter- vals coinoident with my own. Conse- quently we usually hunted the animal together. One night we came over this side of tho creek together and proceeded to a place on Ninth street, where a pub- lie game, with tablo stakes, was pretty popular. Along about II o'clock we both got broke and concluded to 20 holne The night had grown stormy, and it was sleeting like sin when we left the 'cluD, as it was called. A search revealed that we had but one car ticket between us. The bobtail cars without conductor, were then used on the Met ropolitan line, and wo conceived tho highly original idea of splitting that ticket ill half and dropping the two pieces in the box. We bearded the last car over and carried cut our seheme You may knock me down if both pieces didn't fall in the box white sido up The driver glanced at them and then started to open the door. but we both made broak and got off the car. l made up my mind there that my luck