The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-20
FREAK POKER
l IN THE WEST.
A Returned Victim Tells Of Draw
Stud and Variation Played
in Chicago.


as he looked up and saw who 1t was. Then.
after she TT pause, he continued: -Wotcher
think2 Dyer reckon the Tenderloin was
goin' to stop, for why you wasn't here to
wind 1t up every night?'
please don't get peevish.' said the hot
sport. I'D pine away and die II you was
to be unldnd to me. Jim. I've been tripping
IL for my health
Didn't know you was ever drunk. said
Jim.
May. nay. It wasn't the bugjuice this
time. There was a wild-eyed Southern
gentleman with four eyes. two guns and .
grievance. out lookin' for little Willie. an
little Willie had too much genuine regard
for the Southern gentleman to throw him
over the Fatiron. Couldn't think OF the
dull thud on the other side without qualms.
so he took tour to foreign parts a.
far a. Chicago. Say. there's happenings
In the gay and breezy West. from time to
time, II anybody ohoo-choos up In an auto
mobile to inquire. I've come back for
little peace and quiet
Didn't find your health. then1' asked
Jim With grin.
Deed did. The doctors been after
! mo for year to get me to take stimulant
for my heart. Said It didn't beat strong
enough. but told him was carrying about
all the stimulation could stand. That's
where I was wrong. can stand any
thing"
"Oh. I don't know said Jim doubtfully.
But / do. I've proved It. Had my
heart beating Lou Dillon time. an got over
it
.wot did it,"
| "Poker.'
-Was it a big game
well, yes it was big enough. But It
wasn't tho size Of it that fe zed me.
never saw the game yet that was too big
for mo il had the price o the chips 1t
was the game itself.
! "Say,I played poker quite while now,
an did reckon was on to all the wrinkles
| that the noble pastime was capable OF.
But say, there's people out West that sits
up nights studyin out new honors.
They tell me there's ono Hoosier down
indianapolis way that's got five applios-
lions in the Patent Once now for novel an
useful improvements in the game. Says
il he can work the kitty for royalties on
any three Of en- he's made man.
well, I don't know said Jim. Draw
poker don't strike me a. being the sort Of
thing that there's likely to be no improve
ments made on It.
Jim, the things you don't know would
make an encyclopedia look like si1 trans
fers, more especially poker. See here,
Draw poker 10 q tolerable warm game.
amt Il, s far a. excitement goes7'
'Surest thing you know. said Jim.
An. stud poker. no limit is a le't'' mite
Has it beat to froth.
well. how'd you like to play draw-stud''
Don't know. That's one on me-
Lets have the one. then. an III ex-
After tho ceremony tho hot sport con.
tinued:
. pipe in the ground for candle an cook
victuals on top Of it. I asked the hote
clerk II there was any excitement In the
place outside Of blowing up cook stoves
an he said there was some poker If cared
There was five Of 'em playing. an they
said it was table stakes, so I asked EN-
what they were buying, an they said fifty
apiece. That sounded well for expense
money an produced.
The man on my left, was dealin'. an
was twenty call a halt, an the flrst three
stayed That brought it to me: an founc
three kings, 30 I Inserted a dollar an q
half, thinkin' that would weed out some
O. the surplus population, but they al
Nobody raised. though, an was hlled
than three kings he'd ha' been sure T.
raise, was the way figgered it.
.Then the pirate that was dealing pickec
up the deck again, an looked to see wha
the age man would draw. He didn't ash
for any. but the dealer threw him one
face Ri Then s,d he b Kept on sh5oTn .
in front Of US.
Mine happened to be an ace, and TIT
dealer says, you bet.
Il didn't know what to think. I looked
around at EN-. an they all looked to be
reasonably sober. Then looked at thu
cards an they was just as tell you. *
, II don't want to delay the game bu
, ! understood we was playin' poker.
It's tiddlewinks, or old maid Gays, II
like to be told about it, because I've got
, pretty good poker hand here, an wouldn'
| an right bower putin me out O. business
, well, they laughed little, an benevo
lent lookin' buccaneer that sat opposit
me says:
2 There amt no bowers into the game
!, , an the Joker amt showed yet. It's poker
!, all right. an you'll get three more card
afore the hand ia closed. But while you +
: gettin' EN- we'll bet right along on eac
t round, same's you do in stud
well, I studied q little an then think
> to myself that three kings an an ace shown
ia a pretty good hand even on such Graz
proposition as that, so puts up IS.
: Say, you'd think some on en- d bee
Z likely to lay down at that, wouldn't you
. Or else raise, il they had anything goo
y enough to put up IS on7 Well, they didn'
Every mothers son OF 'em traiied.
u THAT put me studyin' again: I says
Il myself that these guys prob'ly knowe
;, what they was at. havin' played the gan
. before, an there must be somethin' IN
u that | wasn't wise to. The only way,
/, could size 1t up was that they was all hopil
8 to fill somethin' in the draw. But say
to myself II I can sec the draw that ever.
: body makes I oan size it up all right.
"0n the next round the buccaneer acro'
). tho way got an ace an caught q deuc
: That gave him first bet an he passed
" The next two men passed, an just to be
the fashion, passed. too. Then the othe
n trailed along, an the dealer give out Il
% next cards.
"a -This time there was a second-stoI
A. man away OF to the Loft made q pair
~ sevens, an he bot $40. The next two me
IL laid down, an I says TO myself If pair
70 sevens soares 'em like that, three KIM
d must be pretty good. hadn't better'
'em, but I made It ten more an the othe
h passed out, only him. an he made good.
It there was one more card comm a.