The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-09

eyed man took one. The next man took
two, an Jake took two. Well, they all
filled. Sam made full, the crosS-eyed
man filled a flush, though it want the
straight flush he were after: the next
man made a seven full, Sans bein'
nine, an Jake caught fourth deuce.
90 course, all the bettin' was
amongst the other three, Jake on'y
havin' a show for the twentyfour dol
lars his six called for, but Sam raked
in considerable over a hundred on the
showdown.
THE next pot were a jack on the
tours, an Sam made it five dollars to
play. Neither one o the strangers
opened, so it were up to Jake, an he
busted it for nineteen dollars, bein his
pile. Sam stayed out an the cross
eyed man came in, but he failed to fill,
an Jake was on velvet with forty
eight dollars in front of him, havln
opened on two jacks.
There was nothin' doin' ON the next
deal, so that made it a dollar jack, an
Jake's first say. He opened it again
for the size o. the pot an got histed
twice, so it cost him twenty more to
play. When he come to the draw he
said he recokned he'd split his OPEN
ers, an he laid aside queen, holdfn'
up four spades.
"Well, that made a rippin' good pot,
for he filled his flush an bet all he had
before he looked at his draw. Just nat
urally, Pearsall an the cross-eyed man
both saw the bet, Sam havin' three
aces an the other man three kings.
by this time they was all gettln'
pretty sore to think they'd let Jake in
with his 81, but it were too late to kick
an when it come his deal again, as 1t
he hand n myself
that I'd just about make up my mind
accordin' to what he did with the
cards. If he was to lose, I'd consider it
O streak o. luck that he'd been havin' ,
but if he was to deal 'em as well as he
had afore, I'd conclude that he was a
learnin the game.
We'll, after that deal was over. I
never had no more doubts
about Winterbottom. O. course,
havin' as much money as he
had TO play with, 'twan't necessary
nor proper to look after Sans inter-
est in the pot, so he didn't deal Sam
nothin', but he gave the. cross-eyed
man three aces an the other Teller a
pat straight. takin' care to have a sew
EN- spot handy when II would just fit
into his sevens up ON the draw. An
the bettin' jist come sos't he had a
chance to give the second raise an he
scooped about hundred an forty dol
lars on that pot.
THAT left him winnin' tolable near
all there was on the table. but the two
strangers they both dug an Sam stay
ed along with about $50 he had left,
an the game went on.
But, Lord bless We, them fellers
didn't have no show. They couldn't
win, no matter what they did, an the
game broke up I'm about twenty min
utes with Pearsall $40 ahead an Jake
winnin' all the other money in sight
II asst him about II next day and
he told me that he'd been studyin' the
game ali the time since he'd first be-
gun TO play, an the way he sized II
up Il were no use for a man 20 bet
on any cards unless he had "A pretty
good notion what WAS out against him.
Some fellers seem 10 know II by in
stinct,' he says. an some has luck,
but ] never had no luck 10 speak Of.
AM when ] come 10 tryin' 10 Judge
Of another mans cards by Instinct 7
didn't never seem 30 strike 81 right,
50 I made up my mind that the only
Thing for me ~ do WaF 10 study the
cards an Ret so's't ! c'd tell 'em by
the feann' n takes "a heap o. work
lenrnin'. but J worked an II Do say
n. GFeenhut don't reckon there's any
man on the river that can come