The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-12
The Point Was in the BLUFF.

! A poker story from the Chicago Tribune
which has been going the rounds as {
good one runs in part as follows:
Manly was one of the best poker play
ers ever saw. He was good winner
and good loser. He played his cards al
the time for everything they were worth
and then some more, and he played {
game that was simply insoluble.
Il will never forget the night he took
| Carter into camp. Carter was a gooC
cool, nervy player. too. One night as il
was getting toward daylight we agreed tC
have one last consolation jackpot. with nc
limit but the roof and s. to come in. Car.
ter raised the come in to $50, and every
| body dropped out except Maxy and onC
other player. Maxy called for three
cards, showing that he had only one pair
or nothing at all; the other man took two
cards. indicating that he must have three
of kind, or else he wouldn't have paid
$40 for the privilege of playing any longer
and Carter stood pat.
Carriers standing pat argued that he
had fours 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 awfully good
Now, Manly had seen the start and had
come to the conclusion that Carter had a
straight flush, and 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 lnem
up.
Manly deliberated a long time before
he came in with his $20 but he was out
$40 or 500 on the game, and, as it was
the last pot, he determined to stand a
good biz of money in the hopes of making
a recoup. He had drawn to a pair of tens
and caught - rfaA
betting with ten dollar bill. The other
man dropped out, and Carter saw the SIC
and raised $50. That looked as though
Manxy's surmise about the straight flush
which he thought Carter was holding was
good. He de.iberated for some time Then
he said:
Carter, | think, and everybody around
here thinks, you've got something better
than fours. l was playing you for that.
But now I'll tell you. Carter, what I'm GO
ing to do. I've noticed that your eyesight
is bad and that tobacco smoke, when it is
right in front of your face, always inter-
feres for moment or two with your Wis
ION. Just Is you picked up your cards ]
smoke out of your mouth. and that the
cloud OF smoke was in your eyes when
You looked at your cards. Now l believe
that you think you have a straight flush
But l don't believe that you read your
cards correctly. | am going to do some
thing that may seem to be bad poker, con-
sidering the hand l have. But 1 am GO
ing to play you for your poor eyesight !
see your bet of $25 and raise it $25 more
on the ground that your eyes deceive you.
You'd better study your cards before you
see my raise
We ali waited in GREATNESS silence for
moment Then Carter quietly thew his
cards face upward on the table
You're right he said quietly. I
thought had a spade straight flush, king
high, i'm my hand. What I thought was q
nine of spades was a nine of clubs.
lose "
That is the end of the story, that has
been copied and recopied, but: 1t will be
remembered that Manxy had three tens
and Carter, though he did not have q
straight flush, had certainly straight
tie could have seen the raise and called
and won which it seems that any mar
would do against a three-card draw with
so much of his money on the table.