The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-04-09


Auction Pitrh-H, ". says; In a game in which the
the dealer pitch the trump If he ia also willing to
bid fourf
Ifnoonc is selling. it must he obvious that no one
has the privilege of refusing. and therefore the high.
est bid must pitch the trump. As the dealer cannot
bid higher than four. he has nothing to say.
Crt6hasexd. o; NJ; Of Brtdgerort and =. s Of
handed game. After the go A plays u 4. d a It,
another y, announcing another run of = and last
card, c having ptgged b holes for his run and Is.
@. announcing a run OF ..
III both these cases, if the cards are laid out in the
order in which they are played. it will be found that
duplicates are encountered before the run is com.
plete. so that both announcements are wrong.
eide q t!e. Before cutting. A says ace IL low. - to
RRnIrn p "a, aGi S'rh 4 cute an y and D ~ upon which
the ace wa. simply that it should not rank above the
king in cutting.
When it is stated that ace ia low " in cutting. tire
lowest cut always wins. because there is no game in
which ace is low in cutting except that in which low
wins.
D.ce-A. r. says: A having thrown thre, aces, b
Who wins?
As n did not bet that he could heat A throwing
dice, but bet that he could beat a throw of three
aces, b loses. In a recent billiard match A bet
with i on the highest run. After A had run A.. b bet
he would beat it. He also ran A.. and it was decided
that the first bet was a tie. but B lost the second one.
W. T.. u. saws: Three men are in a game for A dol.
lar a corner on the understanding that there shall be
three games and that the low man on tue third and
game A and r tie for the money and G is low, bur in.
allow u hunk Il by putting in another dollar. on
this throw G wins out and then says he need not ay
for the drinks.
q nust nav for the drinks hpcauaa that mart ~ tba
arrangement was decided on the third throw. Let.
ting c into the tie was an after consideration.
Tokcr.-J. II. S. asss: II a card is faced in the
draw, does a PLAYER get the next card or wait until all
the others are helped
If the club rule is that he is to get another card. he
must wait until all the others are helped, hut many
clubs now insist on the players taking a card faced
in the draw. Just as he is compelled to take one faced
in the deal before the draw. and this arrangement
certainly simplifes matters in many ways.
C. d. asks IL the dealer is obliged to tell how many
cards he drew, u bet having been already made.
II the player asking the question has not made a
bet and is still in the pool. the dealer must answer
him.
y; p, s oSI;sJ ! opened , j"Gk 70, for hW the l,mi, and
To SHOW his whole hand. but only the cards sufficient
TO open.
The rule is that the whole hand must be shown IL
the opeucrh has not drawn cards. because he did not
va any iI'lc thdh hHN 'Nlltl w E't lnhl Hhnl, HIl
they have therefore a right to see it all. But If the
opener draws cards and bets on them. no one has a
right TO see what he drew unless he pays for the
privilege.
]. NJ. wants to know why three eights and a pair Of
aces viii not beat three mines and a pair OF fours.
Because it is the more valuable part Of the hand
which decides its rank, the less valuable only dccid.
ing ties in the higher value. As there can be no tie
between throes Of i kind, the higher triplet wins, no
matter what the accompanying pair may I've.
NJ. and others want to know why the decisions
on disputed points are not the same now as they
were srHc years ago.
As rules are found to hc unjust or unnecessary,
they are changed. and decisions must be made in ac.
cordance with the latest codes, How would F. NJ. NJ.
like to have a point in baseball decided by the 1889
rules?
found four SSsids cHHi1,, 1h 'iTlhHeaH he II" iRm M n1PH ann Hni
nounced. Can he play them. or Is he ont OF it?
The general usage is to allow the player to stand
on the short hand II he wants to, hut he cannot i'll
crease it to Ave cards in the draw aud cannot play
either a flush or a straight.
AFR tis dr s1yS and iH wS HpG not c al " la'f /. pT he m oSitrs a H to
show his whole hand or openers only.
openers only, and that he has I've cards.
IA; y. says: In a twohandcd game A melds
%pinochlc and scores 80. He gets Tho second p]iuochln
tall ani wants ncia Soo Tor me dcoaGlS pho.
chic, but Is says II Is worth only 40
BIS wrong. The lesser combination having been
scored fret does not prevent the player from scoring
the higher aftcrwarI.
Pinochlr.-G. II. says; In a tw0-hanlcd game A
won tn" lR-t trlrE and declared himself Oat, he hRy.
ing l,uOl points. Il then counted his cards and
found that Il" was out, aud therefore insisted that A
had no r2ght to count the last tlirk.
BluSs he game because Ia did not declare him.
self ont when he was ont. but allowed 4 t. announce
himself out ahead Of him.
+. {. say; In a siI. handed game only the dealer
came IN with taG AZ" and the az pruUus"d to make
II u Jack, t. which all agreed BY mistake the same
dealer dealt again. auh the "rroC WAS II II disc rvrrnl
until two men la passed OUt At a third had
opened II. Before tho 9th r two la. rpKcd at their
hands one of those VIII had passed out rrcollcctcd
that the same PLAYER had dealt before, What should
he done under such circumstances
lfa player has taken M his hand or looked at any
card in 1t, he ia not entitled to say 1t is a misdeal.
and in this case a decision would depend upon
whether or not it was agreed by all the players that