The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14
KNEW ALL ABOUT POKER.
She Sat In While They Taught Her
the Game.

the Game.
A few nights ago couple of voung
Manhattan men living uptown exDeri-
enced a simultaneous wave of SWIM
pathy for former chum and class
mate, who iS now married and Iiv
ing in Brooklyn. So thew went over
the bridge to call upon their one-time
pal and his wife
After they had talked over the whole
thing, domestic and foreign. prettv
thoroughly, the married mans delight
tui young wife thought that a game
OF cards would be about right to FIJI
IN the evening. The usual question.
What'H we play?" was gone over and
thrashed, whist being voted too hard
work, casino too simple, euehre too
stupid, and so on, until at the end one
of the callers said:
What's the matter with draw"
Draw? What's that?" asked his
friends wife.
= Why, poker" was the reply.
oh. surely, poker" she said. ct
didn't know you called il draw, though.
Why do you call it draw"
Usual explanations here.
I've always been perfectly crazy to
learn how to play poker" she said
then.
You're going to learn how right
now said her husbands chum. Got
any money!.
'Um-ye-es," she replied, feminineIy.
HAnyhow, Jack viii lend me enough to
start on; won't you, Jack?'
Her husband nodded and made the
usual husbands remark about ''hav-
ing dead one in the game" and
then they went ahead. after all three
of them had got themselves rather
hoarse in explaining to her just how
10 handle her hands, what her hands
we're worth. what bluffing meant. what
not . do if she only had eight high,
and so on.
''Ok. you needn't tell me any more"
she said, after they had explained all
together for a while; Il know what TO
do"
1t was to be scent ante. Decent lin
IT. The married man took the bank
er's end. and all hands took a dol
lars worth OF scent chips. The chips
were DarlOr matches.
The banker had the first deal, his
wife sitting on his left anteing. All
three of the men seemed to have
caught something worth while, for they
all stayed
The man who had suggested the
game sat next to his friends wife and
he took two cards. The other two men
took three cards each. The young
married woman didn't want any.
stood pat. and she smiled back at
them triumphantly.
Pretty early to begin blufing." they
all said to her. but she only continued
smiling at them
Then the betting began. The mar
who had only drawn two cards went
the limit-a dime. The other two men
appeared TO have filled, for they came
back with the LIMIT in their turn.
The hostess came back at all three
of them when it got around to her
Then they all put down their cards
and expOstulated with her.
you're making a break" they said
20 her You don't understand what
you're doing. Stop that bluffing You
don't have to bluff all the time. you
know; only when you've got something
10 bluff on. you understand. We don't
want to put you in the pOOrhouse. We
don't want to have yom person at
t8ched for debt. Better come off the
perch and lay down your hand. Wen
let you reconsider"
She merely tossed her head airily.
You needn't waste your sympathy
on me, any of you" she told them. II
know just what I've GOT
Whereupon the three hulking male
persons proceeded 10 get scared to
death and laid down their hands 10 a
little. woman who doesn't weigh more
Than 30 pounds She raked in the pot
with a thoughtful smile
Now. you don't have to show what
you've got in you hand unless you're
called by somebody. you know" said
one OF her husbands pals, but. out of
curiosity, let's see what you've got,
viii you, please?"
I've gOt--what did you call it?-a
full house" she said. VIGOROUSLY, and
she showed up three clubs and pair
OF spades.
The three men gazed at each other
in a disguised sort. OF a way.
Nothing but a lallapaloosa." said
they to each other. "and a seven-high
lallapaloOsa at that, and she soaked
the three Of US with it."