The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-02

young InSlOe OF nan an nOnr Cnere was
q hundred and fifty in chips on the table,
and that proved to be only the beginning.
After the first bad streak had tolerabfy
good luck, though made no big winning
and was well to the good throughout the
game. Zimmerman was rich and he lost
stack after stack without seeming 10 care
anything about the money, and his partner
was well ahead. Phillips lost and bought
and lost and bought till he was oyer. tive,
hundred In the hole, and then he declared
hundred more in the game Edwards
was losing steadily, but not heavily. and
Jerome was the biggest winner in the party.
After Phillips had declared hundred
Edwards followed his example, and Zim-
norman laughed and said he might az
well be in the fashion, so he declared a
hundred more in; This, with the smaller
hundred in sight, and felt that with forty
odd dollars in chips l was getting a big
run for my investment of fifteen. Even
that, however, though we hadn't had so
big game before, was not really startling.
y was startled, though, when Phillips,
having lost his hundred on flush against
a higher one in Dorner's hand, each
man having drawn one card, declared
five hundred more, and pulled out
the money, 1t was real gambling, such,
as we hadn't seen there, but az was natural
no one made any objections to a man put
ting more money in.
Zimmerman was the next to put in five
hundred, and that was no particular sur
prise, but when Edwards did the same thing
| was astOnshed. hadn't thought he
had the money TO spare, but he was getting
white, and his eye was cleaning viciously
and l saw he was desperately determined
to break his bad luck before it should break
him.
at looked at one time as il he might do
1t, too, for he ran up against jerome IN a
jackpot that Zimmerman had opened for
the size Of 1t. Every man at the table
stayed, so there was forty-two dollars in
the pot before the draw. Doner was deal
u drew first, having put in last, and
having chance to draw to a flush with
six to one in.the betting. | didn't fiji, but
| felt that my play was all right even though
| had lost. Zimmerman sat next and took
three cards without lettering his ACES Ed
wards stood pat. He had not raised before
the draw for fear Of driving the others out.
Phillips drew three and caught his third
king, Jerome took one and made an eight
full, and Dorner failed to better.
Zimmerman threw in white chip before
loo king, and Edwards raised it twenty-five
dollars. Phillips looked longingly at his
three kings, but had sense enough TO lay
them down. Jerome, however, with his
full house, felt strong enough to go back
at Edwards with fifty more, and that, OF
course, put Dorner and Zimmerman and me
out of the play.
Edwards looked carefully at his hand
as if considering how much it was worth,
and then suddenly pushed in his pile. 1t
looked like bluff, and Jerome could not
well do anything but call, since he could
not raise, it being table stakes.
-On the showdown Edwards won, hav-
inn incl full md haipo ",
ahead Of the game some three hundred
dollars, while Jerome. though he was still
a winner, was down below two hundred.
After that the hands ran big and the
changes were rapid. Phillips began to
win and soon pulled himself even, while
Edwards lost again. Jerome was in hole
In four or five more deals, and he, too,
declared another five hundred in the game,
pulling the money, as ] noticed ont of a
sealed envelope he took from an inside vest
pocket. Zimmerman, too, began to win a
little, but on a sudden turn got caught
between a flush and straight with only
three aces, and lost his pile again where
upon he gritted his teeth and flashed a
thousanddollar bill.
had no more than a couple Of hundred
left Of the thousand and odd he had taken
on his jack full. Dorner wasn't hurt much
and had pegged along without getting into
any Of the big plays, losing occasionally,
but keeping all the time from hundred TO
u hundred and fifty ahead.
Then on my deal there came remarkable
lot Of hands | have always wished that
somebody else had dealt them, for some
how it makes me feel in a way responsible
for what happened, though Of course had
no real responsibility beyond that which
we all had for playing in the game.
1T was Jackpot that had been sweetened
up to twelve dollars, and Zimmerman
sitting on my left, opened it for that amount.
Edwards stayed, Phillips stayed, jerome
raised it ten, DOrner stayed, and !, finding
a four-flush again, decided to take a chance
Zimmerman made it twenty-five more to
play, and again everybody stayed, Jerome
not raising.
son the draw Zimmerman stood pat
Edwards took two cards, Phillips took
two, jerome stood pat, Dorner took one
and took one. As it turned out, Edwards
had made four tens, Phillips had caught
and ] had each filed flush. And this
was against two pat hands. Of course,
such things do happen, but you don't see
them often
Zimmerman put in hundred dollars
and Edwards showed in all he had, which,
as said, was about two hundred. Phillips
made it a hundred more, which | think
was up. And jerome trailed, D0rner
studied awhile, but finally made good,
his flush being ace-high, and laid down,
my flush being only nine-high II was
a fairly good hand, but | realized that it
wasn't worth playing up against two raises
and two stayers with the opener yet to
hear from
Somehow / expected him to raise, and
sure enough he did so, pushing in his pile,
I'd vards was a III in before that 40 he had