Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-10-05
.APOKER FAIRY TALE
QUEER CLIMAX OF THE WIND w
JACK POT OF THE GAME.

the Pool and saved His Opponent
the Amount of the Last Raise
~l1anxv was one of the best poker
n1avars I ever saw. He was good
winner and a good loser He played
bfs cords All the time for everything
4bav were worth and then some more
and he played a game that was simply
insoluble.'
The board Of trade man leaned PACK
in his chair and smiled reminiscenuy'
MANY not only had Hoyle down SO
Thar he could recite the poker rules
backward and say Sir after eacn
word but he rose to the higher science
Of the game. He made a careful STUDY
Of every man around the board, ana ne
oa,,a,. nIaved card but what he darted
o keen sweeping glance at every play
or and drew his conclusions as 10 what
thov were about to do. If a player had
anv little tricks or habits that asserted
themselves I'm spite of efforts to repress
them Manly knew them by heart.
,.T will! never forget the night he took
Carter into camp. Carter was a good,
cool naryv PLAYER too He was an ola
n1aver and possessed splendid Judg-
ment one night we had been playing
several hours. and as it was getting to-
ward daylight we agreed to have one
more round of jack pots and then go
home. We had our round Of jack pots,
three of which Carter won, and then
decided on one last consolation jack
not. with no limit but the roof and So
TO come in. Carter raised the come in
10 500. and everybody dropped out ex-
cept Manly and one other player.
Manly called for three cards, showing
that he had only one pair or nothing at
all: the other man took two cards, indi-
eating that he must have threes of a
kind or else he wouldn't have paid $50
for the privilege Of playing any longer,
and Carter stood pat
That looked bad. Carter had never
been known to stand pat on anything
but something that was worth while.
He must have had something pretty
good to raise the come in to $40, and
his standing pat argued that he either
had tours or else a straight or a flush.
He had betrayed a nervous start when
he first picked up his hand, and it
argued that he had seen something aw-
fully good. Now, Manly had seen the
start that Carter gave and knew his
style of play we'll enough to argue that
Carter had seen something even better
than a straight or a flush, and that was
a straight flush, something that comes
once in a great, long while in a poker
game. In fact Manly came to the
conclusion that Carter had a straight
flush, aG4~the fact of the matter was
that a straight flush in spades, king
high, was just Exactly what Carter had
seen in his five cards when he picked
them up.
Manly deliberated a long time De-
fore he came in with his $50, but he
was out S75 or 500 on the game, and
as it was the last pot he determined to
stand a good bit of money in the hopes
of making recoup. He drew to a pair
Of tens and caught one more. Manly
started the betting with a $40 bill. The
other man dropped out. and Carter saw
the $40 and raised SO. That looked as
though NanXy's sWmise about the
straight flush which he thought Carter
was holding was good. He deIiberated
for some time. Then he said:
Carter, I think and everybody
around here thinks you've got some
thing better than tours. was Dlaving
you for that But now III tell YOU.
Carter. what I'm going to do. I've no.
tced that your eycsiglt is bad and that
tobacco smoke when it is right in front
OF your face always interferes for
moment or two with Your vision. Just
as You picked up your cards I noticed
That you puffed a great cloud of smoke
out or your mouth and that the cloud
OF smoke was in your eyes when you
looked at YOUR cards. Now, I believe
mat you think you have q straight
1ush, but / don't believe that YOU read
your cards correctly. am going to do
something that may seem to be awfully
oau poker, considering the hand l have,
ouI am going to play you for your
poor eIeS.ght. I see your bet of $50
ana raise it $25 more on the ground
mat Your eyes deceived you. You'd
better study your cards before you see
my raise
We all waited in GREATNESS silence
Tor a moment then Carter quietly
tire" his cards face upward on the
table.
You're right he said quietly. Il
thought I had a spade straight flush,
King high, in my hand What 1 thought
was nine of spades was a nine of
cubs. l lose Chicago Tribune.
Tmpertinent.
1t is said that Sarah, duchess of
marlborough, one day remarked to her
grandson, Jack Spencer: Jack, you
must marry, and I will give you a list
Oh the ladies you may propose to-"