The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-23

( something terrible. Then something
remarkable happened. It went around,
| the pot being Sweetened for a dollar all
around each time, eighteen times, with
out a man of the four of us getting so
much as a pair-not one pair for eigh-
teen times. Then the meat man served
them out. The salmon man decided to
stay and to draw three cards.
FOUR SETS OF THREES.
" What's the color of your jacks?' in
quired the jetty man. and he, too, stay
ed AID took three. l had pair Of
kings, which l thought were good
enough to draw to, in view of the
abominabIe waythecardshad been run
ming, and the meat man stayed and
took three himself.
Let's make this for five a throw,
said the salmon man. who had opened
the pot. Usually such suggestions are
received with vituperaticn and ScpTn by
other players, but this time we were
singularly unanimous in agreeing tC
raising the limit to So. 1t was agree
able myself, because / had caught an
other king in the draw.
when there was close on to $500 in
the pot the salmon man. bit scared by
our determination, called, showing his
three jacks. The jetty man said some
thing about getting money in a letter
and placed his three queens so we all
could see them. | hail q remark or two
to make then about an Eldorado, where
folks pick up money III the streets, and
carefully spread my tkree kings out.
one by one
When you see a good thing. re-
marked the mear man, hit it with an
AK and he tantaizirSly laid down his
three aces also, one bJ- Gne, and hauled
down the pot.
We declined 20 play any further with
cards bought in The hotel and sent
boy down the street 10 get a dozen
packs at another hotel. Then after we
had all walked ar+unf our chairs back
ward, each discI1imng any supersti-
tiouS bediefs, by the way, in doing so
we resumed the game
i had the deal. I shuff1ed and riff1ed
the cards until there wasn't any more
neWnes7s TO them than there is to a last
years hat, and then handed them out
in sets of five. caught a deuce full
and, Of course, Stood / at when it came
my turn. The oth5r three also stood
pat. We had. by the way. increased the
ante to 81, and the limit had been raised
permanently to s. We laid our hands
face down on the table and looked each
other over.
There's some thing devilish and I'M
canny about this. sand the salmon man
finally. Now, 1 don say It because I'm
bluffing or because I'm not well fixed
but what do YOU all say 20 having
show down right now. lust for curiOs-
ity, that we may all see What these
weird hands contain AID have some
thing to go by for future play?
THE jetty man and the meat con-
tractor kicked over this, and SO did I
[ was sorry that 1 had later. So was
the jetty man. We bet on those four
pat hands UP to 5000 for the whole pot
and the meat man tlcE it down with
nine full. The Jetty man had a flush
and the salmon man had a six full.
This was a bit too much, and we
unanimously decided TO pass the game
up.
. There's something wrong about
this, said the salmon man. rs a hoo
doc. I'll bet my Astoria cannerieS are
burning up, or something
" Let's have one more hack at this
thing" said the jetty man, ruminantly,
and if anything like what's been going
on happens again, We'll have something
to swear off on for the rest of the year.
1t didn't look exactly right for the
three OF us to leave so much of our
money in the meat mans hands, and SO
we decided to try the same once more.
We decided to cut for deal again, so
that in case anything remarkable hap
stood, and we took a new pack of cards.
L took the first cut. 1t was a seven Of
spades. The meat man dug down ten
Or fifteen cards deeper and cut the
eight of spades. The salmon man cut
the nine OF spades, and the jetty man
just turned what remained of the deck
over. and we looked at the bottom card.
It was the ten of spades. We all look
ed around to see blue fire and sulphur
fumes coming out of the floor, the
thing looked so devilish in view of what
had been happening from the begin
ming of the sitting. We were d bit too
Clustered to comment on the thing.
however, and the jetty man dealt the
cards out, after shutting and reshuf-
fling them and giving each one of us a
cut at them.
FOUR STRAIGHT FLUSHES IN ONE
DEAL.
ut was my ante, and so the meat
man had the first say. He said he'd
play. but not for any 81. The limit was
about the value of his hand. The sal
mon man remarked that he couldn't
waste his valuable time playing for any
Sc all around, and so her aised it TO the
limit himself. The jetty man did like
wise. So did / Who wouldn't have
with a straight flush of clubs, from ace
TO five. as 1 had? The jetty man asked
me how many | wanted, and / told him
TO help the others and himself; that L
mad all I needed just then. The meat
man told him likewise; so did the sal
mon man.
:" I don't know how 1 could improve
On these" said the jetty man, and he
loot sicymusexzfihfffi zfffiffffi ffifhfifH
stood pat himself. There we were
a. gain the four of us standing pat
. There are some hands in poker I
old them, which L believe a gentleman
s not supposed to bet on, because Of
heir sure-thing character. Now, 1 feel
'ather guilty for having gone thus far
IN this deal, for I believe 1 have one of
hose sure-thing hands myself"
Why don't you call, then?' they
asked me together.
g That's what I'm going to do and I
lid. There was close on to s., 90 repre-
;ented in the pot by this time. 1 put
Town my ace to five straight flush of
,lubs with considerable feelings of con-
idence, which was Immediately pune
ured by the jetty mans laying down a
straight flush of diamonds. from deuce
% six. There was a heap of quiet
around that table when the salmon
nan impressively laid down a straight
lush of hearts. from three to seven
The man that beats that said the
neat man, scrutiniZing the salmon
mans spread-out cards, takes the pot.
lon't hep and then he suddenly spread
| royal flush of spades down on the
able.
We didn't count on the thing at all.
We touched the button and got
rink. and then we repaired to our re-
pective rooms and went to bed We
lidn't afterWard make out any affidav-
is as to the way those cards went like
he four British army officers 1 mem
toned. but 1 know one man of that four
Who didn't mingle with poker any for
i af