The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-05

I pIOSIeSS OIL the game, ana JQey were
not, therefore, any more sober than was
necessary. In the very next hand Fee
ney took big hunk out of his rival
He had three deuces face up and Car
mody had three jacks ON top. Feeney
began TO bet 800 with so much natty
confidence that Carmody decided that
( his compatriot was adopting new tao
tics in bluffing, and. quite naturally
with MS three nice-lOoking jacks plain
ly in sight, ne not only stood every
raise, but raised back the limit every
time.
| figure it this way said Carmody.
/ aDStractly to himself, when there was
night onto $4,000 in chips in the centen
/ OF the baize: This Harp from Come
mara across the table can't turn two
of these tricks one right after the other.
The percentage of the game is against
| such thing as that And he's just
/ perky and sassy because he thinks I'm
on to his first exhibition system of bluff
| fling. Tim, another $100, if you want to
feast your Mulligan blue eyes on this
| other knave of mine in the hole
And $780, said Feeney, with all the
confidence in life.
ONE TWO-HANDED POT OF $1,000.
Thus they went on for fully fifteen
minutes, until the proportions of the
pot were really alarming, considering
that neither of the men was million
/ aire or anything like it. There was
/ 1920 in the middle of the table, when
/ Carmody wilted. He attempted to put
/ his wilt on philanthropic grounds
With a drink or two in you Tim
/ he said, you're an incautiOuS and I'M
4 wise citizen for a man humping along
toward 90 years of age'-Feeney wasn't
more than 4S, and didn't look that.
] And Mrs. Feeney's been telling my
wife for the past twelve years that
| shes aching TO have a look at the old
sod, but that her man Tim considers
himself too poor for the journey. So
won't be the means of casting gloom
around your household, Tim l see
your 800, and what's the color of that
cheap ten or eight spot you've got in
the hole?'
Feeney turned over his fourth deuce
and hauled down the money. That sort
! o took Carmody's nerve, and he had to
have several big drinks of the hard
stuff to set him right again. While he
was drinking Feeney took up the end
OF the stringing that ,Carmody had
abandoned
How much do you figure you'll pull
( down from those two contracts, Dan?'
he asked his rival in business.
About S75,000' answered Carmody
quickly, which is just $75, 900 more than
The Dalles fire has been worth to you,
I Ell, Tim?'
What's the use of depicting the
capital that you've already got in
DankE asked Feeney with a twinkle in
ms eye. Just play me stud for those
contracts. I'll say they're worth 500
600, and I'm good for that if I'm good
for cent
Carmody studied for a moment. He
was already out s11. 600 in this poker
game, and he wanted that money back.
me idea of his playing his contracts
against Feeney's hard cash rather an
pealed to his imagination, which was
not less active on account of the huge
quantity of stuff he had been drinking.
| GAMBLING FOR THE CONTRACTS.
+" Well. I'll tell you what I'll do to
give you start in life, Tim, said Car
mody, finally You've got my check for
II,OOO- Supposing you call these two
contratS worth $4,000, return me those
checks for $1,000, and say that the two
contracts I've got in my pocket are
worth $4,000 as they stand. Then I'll
give you chance to take as big a fall
out OF the contracts as you think you
can
That idea suited Feeney to a T, and
! 1 stood by to begin dealing again The
two contracts were pushed into the
center of the table by Carmody. and
1t was an additional part of my BUSH
ness, besides dealing, to make note Of
the changing value of the contracts as
the game progressed.
We'll, the game continued to go Fee
ney's way, and Carmody just looked at
his contracts as Feeney began to edge
them nearer and nearer to his end of
the table. CarmOdy, while he figured
that the contracts were so much velvet
didn't look happy when Feeney picked
$4,000 more cut Of them, leaving their
value to Dan only an approximate
$4,000, but he played on in the hope of
better luck. At last a queer hand came
around Carmody caught two queens,
and eight and a seven. So did Feeney.
This thing made CarmOdy mad.
of all the lingering out l ever saw
he exclaimed, this is the worst. But
it's about time 1 had the best of it
when it comes to pure bUll-headed
luck
F'EENEY WINS A HALF INTEREST.
so he bet the limit that he had a
better card in the hole than Feeney,
Feeney came back at him every clip,
and when L interpOsed a remOnstrance
over the heftinesS of the game, eX-
pressing the opinion that both of them
would probably be sorry they had gone
into the thing SO heavily when the gray
dawn came around, they said they
knew they'd be sorry, and went righs
ahead
e This is surely the hottest case of a
stand-off in a deal in stud that I've
seen yet said Feeney, and l shouldn't
be surprised if we had to split the pot
when the showdown comes. But I'm
as good as you. Carmody, on the four
that show, and I'm with you all night
if you're going to keep it up that long,
when my tab of the shifting value
of the contracts showed that CarmOdy'S
interest therein was only an even $780,
600, Carmody looked up at the ceiling
of the cardroom and reflected.
Here he said. is where 1 get ms
contracts back and break even, or
where / have to go into partnership
with a sIow-witted Irishman on thOs~>
buildings at The Dalles. Feeney, cali
YOU
"Feeney turned over six spot. Car
mody's card in the hole was a five.
Feeney was the possessor of a half in
terest in Carmody'S fine contract at
The Dalles, and that's how it happened
that these two builders, who had al
ways gone it singly and alone. built
up The Dalles in partnership. They got
along so we'll together at The Dalles
work that three years later they went
into q. general contracting partnership,
and they've been getting rich ever
since. But it was their stud game on
the Dalles boat that induced--me to
conclude that old-fashioned draw was
good enough for me-
Me-