The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-03
WHAT BEATS KINGS ORASUIT
INTRICATE POINT IN EAST SIDE
POKER LEFT UNDECIDED.
IT'S . Combination Rarely Seen. and Pickle
Pedier Pfnsky Was Declaring 1t Tn
beatable When the Police Came In.


In a dimly lighted room In the rear Of
the saloon at rs Ludlow street an exciting
poker game was taking place Just before
daybreak yesterday. There were five play
ers and eleven bewhiskered men watched
with bated breath.
The limit was two cents. and luck had
been about even all night. although Isaac
Pinsky Of 10 Essex street. who peddles pick
les from q pail, had been accused Of sur
reptitiously taking money from his pile
and hiding II In his shoe to give the impress
sion that he was a loser, and then suddenly
having an attack OF cold feet. He hadn't
been allowed to withdraw. and soon after
5 o'clock a jackpot had been passed by
air but Pinsky and Jake Ingoldsby, the
Hester street salt herring dispenser, and
interest In the game was aroused to It's
highest pitch.
Pinsky opened the pot for one cent.
Ingoldsby stayed and raised him two cents.
Pinsky raised Ingoldsby in turn for the
same amount.
'Ach. bud I hade to do dis, Mister In
goldsby.- remarked Pinsky. Tell me.
yes. no, hat you god your fab boughdt for
Tomorrow
yin buhld dCt hbut iAbhy a yOu
god your piglss In der said undt vinegar?
Maybe II you aindt, you viii be chust a.
sour as dey vas py der morning. / chust
raise you der limid.'
They kept on raising until there were
90 cents In the pot. Beads Of perspiration
stood on the foreheads OF the onlookers,
but the players each felt 8 o confident Of
having a sure thing that they only stroked
their whiskers and grinned at each other.
Finally Pinsky said:
.Aoh. l hat nod der heardt to pud you
ouid Of pizness. I don't vandt to ruint
your family, Ingoldsby, so ! viii gall you
The two threw down their cards and
simultaneously grabbed for the money
on the table. The excited spectators pulled
them apart and left the money where 1t
was. while all hands began 10 jabber and
gestlculate. Pinsky had three kings OF
hearts: Jngoldsby had another king OF
hearts, one Of clubs and one Of diamonds.
vat you mean by tryin' to taig dot pod,
alreattvi- shrieked Pinsky.
Il hat dree kings undt so baf you yelled
Ingoldsby. I'D vas a misdeal, undt as you
dealt der cardts you lose der money for
maiging der mistaig.-
"Ha, ha, hal Ach, vot a choke laughed
Pinsky. -Don'd you know vot dot hand
issi We're didt you efier learn TO blay der
game? Go way pack undt sid init your
sells all alone In a room init nopoddy In I'd
but you: las Id possible, lngoldsby, dot
o don'd know vat mein handt issP'
I'D vas a mizdeal,- cried I~ngoldsby.
'Ach. vat iss der matter nit you?" an
swered Pinsky. IVY, don'd you know dat
dat handt candt pc blad by fife azes? Dot
ISIS a -misafnashema flush. You eldom
zee id In a poaker game-nod vounce in a
hundredt years. ] vas a buggy mans TO
holdt Won OF dem. amt id?'
-Mizdeal! mizdeal!' shouted Ingoldsby's
friends.
Flush! fushl fushl a misamashema
fushl" shrieked the partisans Of Pinsky.
About this time Policemen Curran and
Baxter happened TO pass the saloon and
.Begorra'' said Curran. .OI think they
do IL playin' cards in there. IA do
they name by misdales an Pushes, Charleyi'
-Oithink It's forty-foives, replied Ba xter.
but. anyway, IL do lie %gaInblin', an not a
half block from Florrie Sulivan's club
room. Wen stop that
They called several other policemen and
rushed the place just as the argument
within became n whisker-pulling match.
In the excitement the table was overturned
and the stakes were scattered The police
locked everybody up In the Eldridge street
station.
When they were arraigned in the Essex
Market police court Pinsky and lngoldsby
glared at each otlEr, but under advice Of
kept quiet The policemen could
not swear that they saw gambling actually
going on. although they repeated tho con
Olmsted discharged all the prisoners for
lack 81 evidence They went away still
gesticulAting. and tie dispute over the pot
hAh not as yet been Sttled.