The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-13

to think what the other fellow is think
ing about and do it accurately and
quickly. Very often I have been called
or raised when [ made a big bet be-
cause / acted neryousiy. / was called
because my opponent thought 1 was
nervous or excited on account Of my
thinking l might or probably would
lose if called, when in reality I was ner-
yous because l had such a good hand
was afraid 1 would not be called and
therefore could not win as much money.
STUDY YOURSELF IN POKER
In poker playing a man must study
himself more than the others. 1t is a
comparatively easy matter to size up
others, but it is not half so easy 20 size
up yourself and know just what you
will do under emergencies and in unex-
pected plays. A man must be slow to
get into a pot, but once in. he must
play il out 1t has always been my pol
icy to raise and seldom call. When
once you get OF from the post and get
a ssart in q pot. it's like horse race
don't stop or cali, keep going and
pettIng for all you're worth.
never knew OF any cheating after
the first yea. or two in California
f4accrviale. you know. used to be called
Hang Town. They strung up some
fellows there for cheating. and the
town then went by that name for years.
Generally # q man was caught cheat
ing, taot~h. he never lived long enough
to get harged
In the early DAYS we had scales
where We played poker. just as much
in evidence as cards. fer in setting up
we mad to weigh the gold dust
I Know story Of man, prominent
now. who losl all the money he had ex-
eept one little buck skin sack, which
looked as if it contains about $500
II Ms ne had been forced to bet sew
Grad times. and he invariably won when
he bet IT, Long years afterwards the
man grew into prominence. and in his
cups Cne time admitted that there was
nothing in that sack at the time except
ing every tine he bet it if ne could get
or. of the country alive if he lost his
bluff.
About the best poker story know
of happened in the early days of Cali
fornia. Senator Sharon and an En-
gEShmnn were on q steam boat to-
gether. Time hung neagiIy and the En-
1iishman said he was very fond of
euchre. and would teach the senator
two handed euchre. They played for
q, while, when the Englishman said:
Dbl JONS- QOIl L YOU AItOW- L VIC q
bloomin' good poker hand
Senator Sharon said so have L
Would You like to bet it?' said the
Englishman.
~ would said the senator if you'll
let me take up another queen and dis
card card
AN right. I've no objection said
the EnGlishnan. as he fondly and ayar-.
iciously looked at his four CIngs, and
knew he had a einch.
They bet all the money they had.
the EngIishnlan put up his watch and
diamond rings and scarf pin against
S1.400 Of the senator's money. Then he
sgd:
really hate TO take your money,
old chap don't YOU know-really I've
got you beaten-four kings-dGn't you
know, Really too bad
But I've got four aces said the
senator, laying down his hand-four
aces and one queen
After two or three nlor ent's deep re-
Election and meditation, the EnGlishman
sad:
81 wish you'd tell me what bloody,
bloomin' business you had with that
QUEEN don't you know
WOMEN AT POKER
e'Wonen are good poker players-the
best in the world. barring Cinnamon
I've PLAYED with ladies. Mrs. Senator
was a good poker player, better
than the senator BY good deal, though
she didn't play so high. Still she always
beat me and that's Why 1 think so
we'll of her.
Take a sharp. slrewd, beautiful
Womani They can beat a man at poker
ever time after they learn the rudf-
ments of the game-a Now. don't want
to say a thing against the ladies-but
they are natural born poker PLAYERS,
Thex have beer made such by nature
SO cor and designing. and Discrimination
fer them is not an acquired art III IS
their secor.d nature. Deception IS easy
for them to acquire, ard they grace
fully outWit men They size up men
more easily and quickly than we can
fathom their thoughts.
Have you ever heard lady eX-
claim. oh. how glad I am to see you.
perfectly charmed. don't you know
and then in s. few minutes you wan
dered away to a secluded spot and
wondered whether she really meant 1t
or was blufing. It has happened TO
YOU and the chances are that you
guessed it wrong.
well. YOU encounter the same prop
ositjon with women in a. poker game.
only YOU haven't got the time to take
the secluded walk by yourself and med
itate and determine whether She is
bIuffIDqc or not when she says With a
hewitchinS. coaxing little gmile, arch
ing her eye brows and glancing siyly
yet almost innocently at you out OF the
corners of her eyes: 1 think my hand
is worth $500 more
'eNow. there's poser for you Ever
been there? No? Well I've been in
good many tight places, where L had
to think quickly, but I'm free to con-
TESS the woman in poker game is
tco much fer me.
Nov, I've always made it q point to
study nv adversary, to watch his &C
tfoos and the expressions of his face
watched two Cinnamon and three white
men playing a game in Frisco once
You could CLEAN about as much from
the expression of a mud fence or the
side ce an adobe building as you could
from the expressions on those China
mems faces No. [ never played with
any myself.
There are two ways in which to win
at poker, which ought always to be
borne in mind. One is TO have the
coura ge-I say courage, DOR it takes
courage and lots of ito lay down q
hand when you feel that you are
beaten and the other is when you've a
poor hand or only fairly good one.
and you feel that your opponent is
blufnng never call, always raise; raise
till YOU raise him out.
..Tne man who can push $500 into q
big pot and say, Boys, I'll have TO raise
that a trihe,' with the air and manner
which, though he speaks nothing more,
by his very action says. They'll call
that. YH bet g. 500 only they W0uldn {
cali that much when he actually has
only a busted flush, is on the high
road to becoming an artistic success
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