Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-29

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ont Of the left hand corner Of his eye
10 the cards he was dishing to his
mate, who on his part picked the
cards up one by one as they were
dealt-2n emery practice even for a
square player-so that the man deal I
ing them could get the right kind |
of a peek.
Now it's pretty easy TO fiji anoth-
err mans hand when you're playing
with stripped deck if you've got the
mechanical sleight of hand to get |
away with it after you see what your
companion in crime has got in his |
fist The man who was accidentally
on purpose showing his hand to the
dealer kept up a great line OF con-
versation, directed at myself and my
Kentucky friend, while the play
was watchful for came off, but it
didn't serve.
"He discarded one, and the dealer,
in discarding, made lightning flick
of a card from his hand on to the
top of the main pack. That was the
card to fill his mates flush, and with
the stripped deck flush beats s.
full house. l didn't say a word, but
gave my Kentucky friend kick
on the leg under the table.
He was so immersed with the ace
full that he wholly ignored my kick
and went ahead betting himself
black in the face on what looked to
be the splendid papers in his hand,
until gave him kick that made
him vince, and then, gazing at me
with surprise and mute reproach, he
took the big heap of chips in the cen
ter and just then all hands in the
card room got up to go to dinner and
we followed suit. The two crooks
went ahead of us, and / got the ma
| jor pinned to stanchion.
It's my fault, said to him, I'm
responsible. / am perfectly willing
that you should put it up to me. But
we play no more with those two fell
lows. They're thieves. / caught
them in the act in that last deal
| AT first he looked astonished, but
as | gave him the details of what
had seen he began to look mourn
full.
And so, / concluded, your
poker playing on this voyage is at an
end.
He gazed out in a sort of disap-
, pointed way at the heaving sea, and
then turning a pleading countenance
upon me, he said
Kunnel, don't yo' all break il
up, fo' God sake. Why, man, there
amt airy other game that we can get
! into, sub, within 1900 miles o. heah,
subj"
f Then Tom Middleton of South
i, Carolina and New York told one
, about a poker player who'd got re-
j ligion.
"Met him at Asheville last winter,
said Mr. Middleton for the first
, time in a number of years, Back
, yonder in the sos and '90s he GER
! tainly had something on all the poker
) players of Charleston, and there were
t and are some great ones in Charles
: ton.
Year in and year out in Charles
ton he was wont to clean up. HI
: knew the game backward, and ! rec
4 kon he'd forgot more about the fine
{ Etruscan tracery that's only to b.
: made out by microscope on the in
side of the shell of the game of draw
I than any of the rest of us had eveI
t known.
4 but he was sure a changed MAI
t when met him at Asheville last win
K ter. I'd heard from somebody O.
{ other that he'd got religion, but
o didn't know that it had hit him rea
h bad. But when, one rainy evening
l was shopping around trying to herr
V up about seven to sit into a littl
i game of the IS kind and asked thi
. old friend of mine who'd got religion
if he was going to make one of u
z he staked me to gaze that was bot
II sad and sweet.
c My boy he said. I though
. everybody knew that / had mende
Y my evil ways. | don't play poker an
d more | am member OF the church
!. | am not averse to an occasiona
It game of cards by way of amusement
st but no poker--no, siree-no
poker. Poker, sir, is a game of de
a ceit. 1t is game that enables
k man to deceive his friends out Q
n their money!
lie "'Grand, said l. ] wish | ha
Ie two bits for every time YOU deceive
g me back yonder in Charleston whe
lie / was
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