The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-28


in the pot If it went twice around.
$S,O00 and we always opened the pot
for the size of it.
Lets just look in on the game. Say
a jackpot is opened for $4,000; three
men stay; 50 600 now in the pot. The
third man comes in and raises it; $15.-
goo now in the pot.
"All drop out except myself, the
opener and the fellow who raises: the
opener stays; $4,000 more; $4,000 in
all.
I'VE draw cards, the first man one,
the second man two. 1 bet a white
chip-$1O0-the second elevates me S5,-
co., Talk about quick thinking and
concentration, Talk about brain work,
lightning calculation and that sort of
thing You haven't got week to con-
slider this matter and talk it over with
friend AID a lawyer.
rs he bluffing? Can his threes beat
mine? Is he trying to steal the pot?
Is he nervous because he's afraid he is
beaten if / call? Or Is he nervous
fearing 1 will call, and so he will not
get my additional SIS, 900.
"a cold SILVER goes around the room
when that bet is made-$2f, 900 now in
the pot. There is a sigh or two, but
not a word is spoken aloud. The ST.
lence becomes oppressive and the tick
ing of the watches becomes more and
more distinct. Finally I say:
g L see that and raise you $1o,000.'
Now the scene of action is changed
the guessing goes to the other man.
After squeezing his cards, little medi-
tation. ne says:
. That's good, I guess, but l had
three queens. all the way
II raked down the $27, 900 and the
$4,000 I just pushed in. He felt re-
lieved when ] leaned over and showed
him three aces.
Neither of us had bettered. He nat
urally thought after 1 drew one card
that L had two pairs or threes. but
never played me for three aces or any
big threes."
who are the best gamblers?"
1.-The Chinese Then the Yankees.
The English are the most absurd gam
blers and they think they are Won
derfully adrOit.
"A smart Chinaman will learn more
of the art of poker playing in an
hour than an intelligent American can
learn in days. The Chinese are nat
ural born buffers and readers Of hui
man nature.
4 confess that I have had three of
kind bluffed out by a Chinaman with
a pair of deuces or treys several times
Cheyenne with two rich Cinnamon
and two rich cattlemen of Wyoming,
and saw one OF those Cinnamon lose
a whole years wages without so much
as a wink.
NOM have. never had much expert
ence in playing poker with women
am firm in an opinion, however, from
what experience have had and what
| can learn from professionals who
have played much with women, that
women are naturally better gamblers
than men.
Women are net such bold, plunging
players as men are. but they are apt
at dissimula ton. know a great many
professionals who will not gamble at
poker with a woman.
"A woman who has been thrown on
her own resources knows how to tickle
a mans vanity, when TO catch him of
his guard and how TO play upon him
better than the average man does.
could no more bluff a woman in poker
than l could take wings and fly.
The richest professional gamblers
are women There is Sonora Almarez
of the City of Mexico. She pays taxes
on $4,000 worth Of property. She may
be seen gambling at her house almost
any day in the year. Then there was
Amy Cantine. the famous woman gam
bier of Virginia City twenty-five years
ago. She made more money from faro
than some men did from rich lodges of
gold bearing quartz.
81 never knew of any cheating after
the first year or two in California.
Piacerville you know. used to be called
Hang Town. They strung IN some fel-
lows there for cheating and the town
went then by that name for years