Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-09
STUFF" THE NEW GAME.
Social Success in Arizona No Longer De-
ponds on Ones Ability to Play
Draw Poker

The Prescott, Arizona, correspondent
of the st. Louis Post Dispatch, says:
Social success in Arizona no longer de-
ponds on ones ability to play draw or
stud poker and that from Prescott to
Bisbee it is stuff, morning, noon and
night.
Where the game came from. who in
trodueed it and what its antecedents We're
no one seemed 10 remember For two
years stuff has been growing i'll popular
ity every day, and the man who cannot
play it leads a lonely life
Stuff is cheaper for the stranger than
poker, for. as a rule, it is not played for
money. Drinks for the crowd is the
usual penalty for losing & game. and
strangers are supposed TO buy the drinks,
in any event. Like all card games which
attain sudden popularity, stuff is easily
explained and quickly learned In spite
of its simplicity great skin can be de-
veloped, aud Arizona holds crackerjack
players.
Ordinarily a game takes about fifteen
minutes. In Pearce, where it is now the
fashion to drink whisky with beer chas-
ers, four drinks an hour are regarded as
none too many.
When experts get at the cards stuff
IS Liable to be long drawn out PROPOSE
ton. At Tucson they have a record of
Il S'tDtG NANNil 1dHItu steven hours.
One must not think. however, that the
players waited that long for Il round of
drinks. Every fifteen minutes or so they
cut the cards and the low man bought
Ii is not possible to lay hands on Il
written or printed set of rules OF the
game. but half the men in the territory
can tell one how to play. The rules diff
fer i'll minor particulars in different
camps. but this is the way it is generally
played:
Stuff calls for deck of thirty-six
cards, the cards from deuce to five spot.
inclusive, being thrown out.
There are 100 points in the game.
Aces count II, tens 10, kings 4, queens
3 and jacks =.
Two, three or four may play. but in
any case only three full hands are dealt.
The dealer remains out when four play.
The cards are dealt one at time in
four hands until after twelve are so
dealt after To three hands To the end Of
the deck. This gives three hands of
eleven cards and a widow of three cards.
The deal passes after each hand.
The player to the right of the dealer
has the say, and may frog, solo, solo
grande or pass. ii lie frogs. hearts are
trump; the widow is shown and taken TO
hand by the maker.
If he solos the trump must be dia.
monds. clubs or spades. p - the widow
is not looked at until ,ue conclusion Of
the hand. when the maker adds any
counters it may contain in his hand. If
he solo grandes lie has the privilege of
calling the trump.
If the player TO the left of the dealer
frogs the Others may solo over him. The
original maker then solo grandes or
passes.
At the beginning of the game each
player receives chips worth 100 points.
L.. al o,,l (.
When one player loses his stack the
game ends and the penalty of buying a
round of drinks is exacted
The maker must win sixty points to
make good. For all under that he must
pay; for all over sixty he is paid by each
Of his opponents. If four are playing
and the maker loses he has to nav the
dealer as well. but if the maker makes
good the dealer does not pay.
In a frog each point pays one: in Il
solo, two in solo grandeS, three
Any card If any suit may be led One
must follow suit if possible. II ont Of
suit trump is required.
If ont Of trumps one should stuff if
playing third in hand. and ones part
ner holds the tricks. Sluffing means to
play on's highest counting card.
As a rule, when one against the maker
has the game in hand and takes Il trick
second in hand. he throws his card on
the table as though he desired to break
it. and calls. Now, - YOU. sluffr'
When player is out of suit that suit
is called his dink. When one of the
players can force the maker TO trump a
suit it is called having his dink.''
Arizona people take the game seriously
and play as carefully as if the stakes
were high. 1t is thought bad form to
be garrulous during the play. but after
the hand is played the plays are care
fully analysed