The herald., 1894-11-07
A VARIETY OF POKER.
THE INVENTION OF A CAPITOL
OFFICIAL.
The New Game of "Loo Loo" Not
LIKELY to suppiant the
old Style In Pop
uiarity.

Hartford Times: Congrsssmen ant
others in Washington are INDUCING in .
new variety Of poker to vile away tht
dog days and the monotonous tsrif
grind. The loo loo game" is the title
of the new diversion. and it 10 alleged
to have been fathered by Sergeant
Arms Richard J. Bright OF the United
States senate. This official seems to
have aspirations in the same line that
msde General Robert @. Schenck oi
Ohio famous. Encouraged by the cue.
cess which rewarded the efforts of Cen
eral Schenck to give the American
game of poker q worldwide reputation,
the present esrgeant-et.arms of the
senate has set out upon a poker reform
crusade. and the result 10 the startling
innovation, which may ultimately re-
suit in the overthrow in the west of
stud poker and Of straight poker in the
east.
For Mr.. Bright's new version OF how
to play poker. deck OF SO cards, in
cludihS the joker, is oil that is abso-
lutely necessary. The uses to which
the Joker can be put ere manifold, Is
will be shown later on. Before q party
OF five or ak gentlemen cit down to
play the loo loo game q few hipis de-
rived from personal contact from Ser
geant-at-Arms Bright will! bo found ir-
structivs as well as interesting. To be-
gin with, the joker can be made aug
thing that the holder may desire, fill
out pair, make up flush, esrsight or
fve aces, and, as a matter OF TACT, this
one card can be made O very valuable
factor in opening and closing jack pots.
Having disposed of the joker, the
next thing in order will be the arrange
ments Of the combinations to 10 used In
the loo loo games. First comes one psir.
then two pairs. followed by "blazsr."
This consists of five court cards; for
instance. pair OF kings, pair OF
queens and q kuavs or jack. 1t takes
three of kind or better to beat a
"olszsr." Then comes a straight,
which in turn beats three OF kind, and
next in order ia q skip composed OF
alternating numbered cards; for in
stance, three. five, seven, nine, jack or
knsve.
While holding hands of this new game
il will not do for the unfortunate pos
sessor to overlook "tilter," which
comes next after skip and Just ahead
OF flush. A tilter is q hand in which a
deuce is the lowest card and nine epo.
the highest. 1tfrequently happens that
in the early stages Of the gams the nuv.
ice is apt 10 overlook the value OF
tilter. After the tilter comes a flush.
then full. four OF kind. straight flush
and skip flush. In the case of the
latter it is made of alternating num bere.
Five OF kind will be skip flush, and
this is when the joker comea out strong.
for in an emergency it can be the fifth
ace, fifth heart-in fact. any thing that
is needed to make up five of kind or
color.
Now comes the hand from which the
game derives it's name. loo loo, and this
is brought about by means of six-card
draw. Whoever wants to nake loo
loo throws away the five car6e, or book,
as it is known in poker, and draws six
cards, with the expectation OF making
three pairs. Should the player be lucky
enough to bring about such com bina-
tion in the six-card draw, all that he hns
to do is to send his loo loo to the nearest
bsnk-savings, national or state-where
1t will be found AS good ae q government
bond for obtaining money from the bank
vaults. 1t is possible, but highly i'm
probable. that more than one loo loo can
be played in one evening whers the
game is strictly on the square. Up to
date, however. no one has sent loo loo
hand over to the treasury department,
which is presided over by scion Of
Kentucky, who is supposed to be an ex-
pert at all that pertains to the American
game of poker.