The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-02-03
STUFF TAKES PLACE
OF POKER
Lovers of the American Game
of Cdrds-Have Found a
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depends on ones ability to play draw
stud poker. From Prescott to Bisbee
IL is stuff, morning, noon and night.
Where the game came from who In
troduced it, and what it's antecedents
were no one seems to remember. For
two years stuff has been growing in
popularity every day, and the man
who cannot play it leads lonely lire.
Stuff is cheaper for the stranger
than poker, for, as a rule. 1t is no.
played for money. Drinks for the
crowd is the usual penalty of losing
a game, and strangers are supposed
to buy drinks in any event. Like all
card games which attain sudden pop
ularity. stuff is easily explained and
quickly learned. In spite of it's SIM
plicity great skill can be developed,
and Arizona has many crackajack
players.
Ordinarily a game takes about fif-
now the fashion to drink whisky with
beer chasers. four drinks an hour is
considered none to many.
When experts get to work with the
cards, stuff is liable to be long drawn
out proposition. At Tuscon they have
4 record of game which lasted seven
hours.
One must not think, however, that
he players waited that long for the
ound of drinks. Every fifteen minutes
or so they cut the cards and the low
man bought
1t is not possible to lay hands OIL
a written or printed set of rules of
he game. but half the men in the ter
itory can tell one how to play. The
rules differ in minor particulars in
different camps, but this is the way it
s played at Pearce.
Stuff calls for a deck of thirty
six cards, the cards from deuce TO
Eve spot inclusive being thrown out.
There are 120 points in the game.
Aces count IL; tens. 10; kings, A.;
queens 3; and jacks. 2.
Two, three or four many play, bur
In any case only three full hands are
dealt. The dealer remains out when
four play.
The cards are dealt one at a time to
four hands until twelve are so dealt,
then to three hands to the end of the
d. ok.
This gives three hands of eleven cards
and a widow of three cards. The deal
passes after each had.
The player to the right of the dealer
has to say and may frog, solo, solo
erande or pass. If he frogs, hearts
are trumps, the widow is shown and
taken to hand by the maker.
If he solos the trump must be made
diamonds, clubs or spades, and the
widow is not looked at until the con-
elusion of the hand. when the maker
ldds any counters it may contin to his
hand If he solo grandes he 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
)r passes.
At the beginning of the game each
player receives chips worth 120 points,
usually eleven blues and ten whites.
When one player loses his stack the
game ends and the penalty of buying
a round of drinks is exacted
The maker must win 60 points to
make good. For all under that he
must pay; for all over 60 he is paid
by each of his opponents. If four are
playing and the maker loses he has
to pay the dealer as well, but If the
maker makes good the dealer does
not pay
In a frog each point pays one, in
solo two and in solo grande three.
Any card of any suit may be led
One must follow suit If possible. II
out of suit a trump is required
If out of trumps one should stuff II
playing third in hand and ones part
ner holds the trick. Sluffing means to
play ones highest counting ca d.
AS a rule when one against the
maker has the game In hand and takes
trick second in hand he throws his
card on the table as though he de-
sired to break it and calls Now hang
you. stuff"
When q player Is out or SUIT, thd'
suit is called his dink. When one oi
the players can force the maker tC
! trump a suit it Is called having his
dink."
( Arizona people take the ga ,oe seri-
ously and play as carefully rs though
| the stakes were high. 1t IS consid
| ei ed bad form to be garrulous during
the play, but after the hand is played
the plays are carefully analysed.
| When In ueru or stationery you VII
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