The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-17

the opener was the second man from
Tenney on his right. The man next to
Tenney promptly showed in twenty-five
and said:
IN raise it twenty-five, just to make 1t
even betting.
Il looked over his shoulder and saw that
he had three jacks Then I looked at
Tenney's hand. He had pair OF threee
and pair of fours. BY all the rules Of
the game he ought to have kept out,
for him. figuring the probabilities, as there
was for me without any hand. But that
was just the particular time. every clip,
when Tenney drew cards. He cheerfully
showed in his twenty-five.
MY Arkansas man didn't like it a bit
He had been playing in what think is
about the hardest kind Of luck to endure.
An the evening he had been holding
bobtail fushes and straights. and to save
his life he couldn't fill one Of them. He
it got 80 that you could tell every time
that he had one, for he just as good as said
This was one of the times. When
Tenny came in the Major threw In In his +
was always the cash-and said
We'll. If you're going in. Tenney, l
sThen he drew one card. The minute
he looked at it he threw 1t down with such h
not filled. But Tenney did fill. That was
just his kind of luck. He never got anything
that he should have had, it was always
some outlandish thing like that.
THE three-jack man started on with
a bet Of twenty-five after the opener had
thrown 1t up, and Tenney raised him. The
rest of them had learned to know that when
Tenney raised it was time to call or run,
and that raise ended the betting. But 1t
was pretty good pot, one that would keep
Tappov 0otn0 for aorna time.
We'll the effect OF that raise on the
Arkansas Major was the queerest thing
ever saw in poker game. He set out to
raise Tenney twenty-five.
his life. He forgot all about all the rect OF
the players and got after Tenney alone
That is always a dangerous thing to do in
poker, but with man like Tenney it is extra
hazardous. for you never can bank on any,
thing he will do, or the sort OF luck he will
.The Major kept it up for a long time.
and finally struck hand where he could
make the raise safely. 1t was, big three
his turn.
.Ill raise you twenty-two.
1T was one OF the most foolish things
ever saw done. Ar 1t happened Tenney
hadn thing and he promptly, laid down
see the Major had not bluffed him out.
Then he said he hoped the Major was salts
fed. and the game went on.
THE Majors luck with the bobtais was
still pursuing him. One OF his friends sat
behind him and they fell to discussing
the hands and making side bets with each
other AZ to whether the Major would or
would not fill the next time he drew to
bobtai.
.There came hand after while when
the pot was pretty sweet. II had gone
around three or four times unopened and
was broken finally for SO, thought that
was cheap for such fat pot and suspected
somebody of making play. Tenney had
nothing but a pair of skies, but you bet
he came In. They couldn't have kept him
out with an injunction.
THE next man beyond him raised II
another ten. Then came the Major, l
had noticed when he picked up his
cards that he had another bobtail. He
evidently had come to the conclusion that
this was the time he was sure to fill. for
he boosted the price again. When it got
TO the opener he chucked in the twenty
that he had been raised and said they might
a. we'll play for good pot once In
while, 80 he would hike 1t another twenty
five, Just for luck.
Il thought Tenney would get sick Of hs
measly little skies by that time, but not he.
He poked out his money and was ready
for the next one,
THE Major weakened a little, I had
thought he would raise again, bus he con-