The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-28
HE HADACINCH HAND
Paretic No. 10 Tells of an Exciting
Poker Game Upon Pull
man Car.
Four Aces Against Two Full Houses
and Three Kings in Big
Jack Pot.

when you can sit back in a poker
game with an absolute, iron-clad cinch,"
said Paretic No. 10, at the weekly meeting
Of the paresis club, land see four other
men humping up against your sure thing,
you get taste Of the delights of that
region which most Of will not visit in
the hereafter.
II had that experience once. You
knoy that generally when man picks
up a pat full house or better, everyone
else round the table goes to the deadwood
and he rakes in about thirty cents, or
possibly even less. Then when there is
a good big play, and a fattened pot, you
either don't get a hand, or you find the
other fellow has three ladies and a brace
of tens to your trio of jacks and pair of
mines. So 1t Is soothing once in while
to find your hand the best in lot of
good ones, and get good play.
"Of course. sometimes you think you
are the high spots when you aren't. I
held four deuces once, and let everyone
in cheap and some idiot stayed with two
fives and caught two more
But started to tell you about the
big pot pulled down in a game on the
Chicago one night. The game had been
progressing for two or three hours with
out incident, except that was cheerfulIy
and regularly contributing. Finally some
one proposed to make 1t all jacks, and
double the limit, as no one had any loud
objections, we did So" =..
What did you make the limit?' asked
| Paretic No. q. ..-.
"Soon after we raised the limit" con-
| tinued Paretic No. 10, I'VE started one pot
which was sweetened five times before it
was opened, SO that there quite a tidy
| little sum there. When it was finally
| opened I was sitting second man from
| the dealer, and the man under the guns
! broke it for the limit. nearly tainted
| when I spread out my cards and saw four
| aces pat. I merely stayed. I didn't
| raise because I knew the others might
want to play, and I didn't like to keep
them out. The man on my left, however.
had two pretty good-sized pair, and didn't
want any pikers along, so he raised it
the limit
What did you say the limit was orig
| ina11y.-- asked Paretic No. s.
| Next came a man who had three
jacks" continued Paretic No. 10, ''and
he gave it another boost. Somebody with
an embryonic flush dragged along on &C
count Of the percentage, and that brought
it to the opener, who had three kings, as
it turned out He took another whirl, and
saw everything and added notch on
! my own account. The three jacks came
back once, but the rest all got cold feet
and when I whooped 1t second time they
| just stayed.
Everybody drew straight TO his hand
except myself The two pair and the hectic
| flush took one each, and the three jacks
and three kings two. I stood pat, luck
lily, for the two pair caught full and
we got quite a nice play out of 1t. The
jacks bettered, but the bobtail didn't help.
nor the three kings. and the last two hit
for the tiInbers very shortly
| 001I16 ct fyroh hat al f,n-n fo~
full houses, and both of them thought I
had a flush or possibly full. The opener
bet one check, I boosted and so did the
two fulls. The bogus flush and three
| kings took to the woods. I saw the
raises and went the limit better, and both
fulls came back. It went round once more,
and the man on my left. who had only
three mines and pair, got wobbly in the
knees, and merely stayed. He knew he
was to the bad but had too much in to
let go without a fight. The 'jack-fulI stood
for another raise, however, and made
a bluff at studying my cards hard and siz-
ing up the other two men before sighed
lmournfully and whooped again.
s"That play coaxed the jacks into an
other bump, but when I came again he
just saw me. The smaller full had been
dallying along all the time, scared to stay,
but afraid to drop out. They showed down
l their fulls and spread out my quartet of
one-spots and raked in the money. That
pot put me well ahead of the game, and
the luck continued until I quit the only
big winner in the crowd rs we pulled
into Chicago after playing all night
Il Glow much was there in that pot?''
asked the Head Paretic.
! "The limit after we raised it, said
Paretic No. 10, with a faraway look in
his eye, twas 10 cents, and the big pot
held just $685.. At the finish I was
ahead"
| "The meeting is adjourned" broke in
the Head Paretic. land Paretic No. 10 Is
hereby sentenced to buy six rounds in
succession for conduct unbecoming a gen
tleman and member, Paretic No. z will
push the button