The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-14

| POKER Will lheIn po benigdted rouSt-
| ers FIR nigh On to three weeks, payin'
| strict attention to business. an I'm fix
ed conf bic now. There amt one o.
them, though, that's got money enough
to buy drinks till the next boat comes
along
.sJust naturally that was interestin',
an SO s to draw him along / SAYS:
How did you manage it?'
He sort o. thought a little. an he
says:
First off, Z reckon it's cause I play
on business principles One o. the
things I noticed about poker was that
most every body quit loser. an I says
to myself that the best way to get
around that was not to quit. If you
| don't quit you can't quit loser
:. Then / seen there was heap de-
pendin' on how man plays his hand.
I amt one o them high-fiyir' PLAYERS
as is always tryin' FIR straight flush
or four of a kind
. My notion is. like the good book
says: "A pair in the hand is worth two
in the deck" So when / get a pair
don't gently try to do no better with it.
just set back an play EN- FIR all I'm
worth.
:. "A pat hand is most gently good fer
"a pot even if there amt no rnore,n a
pair into it. but if you go to drawn.
three cards you give yourself away,
like
.'Weli. it was easy to see t a man
like that was worth cultivatin,. He
had ideas of his own. even if they was
crude, about how to play, an that's a
blame sight more n the ordinary man
has. So I says to him.
"t That's a pretty good way, some
times, but how if the other feller,s got
better hand nor you have? It must
happen some times
HE kind o. laughed an he says:
Sure it does. But if / see I'm goin'
to get beat he says, I gently make
some kind of a move that gets the other
Teller thinkin' about somethin' else he
says. I may call him a liar, or say
it looks to me like he was cheatin'
amt no hand to fight but I'd heap
rather fight than lose.
There was a case like that the
other night. was playin' a freeze
out with a Teller named Goggins for
So, that bein' all he had, an it run |
along till he had on'y about dollar
left. an Their was jack pot.
" I opened it on pair o. queens, |
an he come in an raised me a quarter.
so I seen It he had sonepin' t we're /
likely betterin' queens, an T.
Sc Hold on there, Goggins,'' I says, |
whose deal was it?' An he says it i
was his'n so I tells him that's what I |
call tol'able poor play. He sort o. hung |
his head like an he says:
/" Well, Greenhut, I know there is
fine points o. the game that amt up
to. I'm on'y a self-educated player.
like. an can't study out all ther is |
about dealin' like I could If I was to
be showed how, an just has to take
the cards as they come.
:. Well, this Goggins he looked toll
lb1e confident, so didn't try no raise
afore the draw, on'y just come in. an
ne called for two cards, so I thought
I'd throw it into him toi'able hard, an
stood pat an bet a dollar. O. course
hat was more'n he had, but. he called
ne, an tf1rowed down his hand, face
lp. 1t were a ten full.
st 'O' course I seen somethin' had
o be did right quick, so reached over
m picked up his hand. afore shown
nine an tells him he's tryin' to cheat,
= two O. the tenspots is marked. Sure
enough, they was scratched on the
orner when I showed him the backs,
nut wouldn't swear t they was n ark
d afore picked 'em up.
:. Just naturally he started a rough
ouse, an I had to lick Goggins, but I
cot the pot
There want no use talkin' no more
With a man like that. I seen right
way t he was the kind o. man to do
lisself credit, an I al.ays made it q
1Io ms n ~ A. / !
ent, if he has good principles, to give
i'm a helpin' hand
TT pays. cause if you start 'em
light they're aPays ready enough to go
alves till you get your money back
nth a profit. So I took Waterman up
r. told him if he'@ study conscientious
d put him in thesway o. learnin' the ,
eel innards O. the game an stake him
1oderate FIR a percentage.
He 'peared to think t he'd ought to
ct half, but I explained to him It !
-as standin' all the expense an he was !
ettin' all the advantages an he final
r compromised on a quarter. Only he
tipulated as how he shouldn't pay
ack no more'n five times as much as
put in.
THAT didn't look like a mighty big
sturn for my money, but I'd took a
,rt o. notion to him an I come to his
rms. Then I took him in hand my
If an when he'd learned what I cd
ZACH him I turned him over to Harry
eeson, t. was under some. obligations
, me, an Harry teached him all
an need to know.
AN. sayl Bill Waterman skinned the
yer FIR the next four years. There L
amt a gambler on one o the boats a
/
wv it were bad for the gamblers every
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