The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-12

AS to Backing Four Kings
Some Cases Where Safely in Playing Draw Poker


. the deck thatI beat it, aud while I
believe i'm backln' your cards, same as
every pOkeT player does, there's a good
deal goes accordin' to luck"
Now, IL I'm playiH' i'm g0Od luck I'll
play as heavy as anybody if 1 have
the stuff 20 play with but if the luck
is rUuuin' the other way, I'd play care
lul, even with four kings. o. course,
now, If man was to happen to have
an ace along with the four kings-'
But this was drawing things a tride
TOO me for his hearers. They refused
TO listen TO him further, and Bassett
said somewhat impatiently:
What was it, sam? Tell us about
Wei, I had 'em beat" said Sam.
mOrOsely, "an' it cost me all I'D won
m two weeks ON the river, an all I
took with me besides. If I hadn't
struck the barkeep on the boat for a
uVe an sat into "a small game the next
night, u ha' come home broke, but I
made Wlnnlu' on that an did tOTabIe
well alter that.
But this here hand were q cOrker
an no mistake We was playin' five
on u.s. all Jack pots no limit, an the
play was gettin' t0TabIe heavy.
II had about eighteen hundred with
me- am there was some on iem had
4
want none afraid o. none on en- for
I'd watched their play for a couple o.
days an they hadn't no trick I didn't
know, an they knOWed I ku0wed 'em.
Then come a big jack pot thatd
been sweetened four or five times, an
a Teller they called LeNis opened it on
my deal There was two others stayed,
maxim near $50 in the pot by the time
it comes to me.
IL looked at my cards an seen I had
four kings pat, so histed it twenty,
thinkin' that wouldn't scare none on
em out, but Lewis come back at me
with fifty more am the others dropped
out o. course, 1 wanted to coax Lewis,
so i just lifted him fifty, am he stayed.
ION the draw he took two cards, an
I stood pat, hggered If I took one,
he'd size me up for foUrs, an If I stood
pat I'd set him guessin' whether I was
Dluhin' or not.
well, he bet a hundred, so I knowed
he'd either filed, or thought I was
RELY blufiu'. If he'd filled he'd either
caught his fourth, or made a FULL an
III he'd made his fourth / want much
scared, bein' as mine was kings. So
I put up two hundred.
He p'teuded to study a bit, am then
be put up two hundred an we see
sawed each other along, a hundred at
afraid % bettin' too high for fear o.
scsrin' the other teller out"
"Well. said Joe BassetC, impatient
~ seeing that sam had paused and
appeared TO be lost in thought. Well
what did he haVe2'
He'd caught the other ace said
sam sadly,
AN YOU dealin'," said Bassett, re-
prOachfully Il wouldn't ha' believed
IL of you"
.Oh, told you L was vatchin'
them" said sam. They was Watchin'
me, too
cit was sure hard luck" said Jake
WinterbOttom, but 7 don't see what
else there was for you 10 do"
NO" said old man Greennut, who
had listened inteutly, but said nothing
hitherto NO. there wasn't nothin'
else TO do under the circumstances. 1t
were the act o. providence. the same
beln' intended for a lesson TO we, not 10
90 rampagin' UP am down the river
lQphln' for suckers instead of waiting
for suckers TO come lookin' for you.
"But there's been some consid' able
said about backin' four kings, like it
were the on'y thing there was TO do
when you had 'em. Pears like YOU
all don't understand the game o. poker
none too well I've saw a man lay
down four kings On one raise
This amazing statement was received
with open-mOuthed establishment BIZ
his hearers. one or two of them whis-
tied softly but nobody spoke. tin at
length Joe Bassett veutured the re-
mark;
-He must ha' been a jim dandy play
en-"
"He sure We're" said old man Green
hut .imperturbably. AN what's more.
that same play was the best poker
ever see.t
Then the old man paused and looked
around with a slight smile on his face
enjoying their amazement
Pres entity he lighted q fresh cigar and
walked around TO mis- laY0rite seat by