The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-20
-FOUR TYBEWRIDERS

came right out blatantly with the
statement that it I'D cost all hands
still another hundred to play cards with
him.
THE dealer pretended to look some
blank and angry over this, but he
finally broke out with the crack that he
wasn't going to be stampeded out of
any pot in which he had the top pair of
openers, and he made it still one more
hundred.
Now, I don't know, and nobody else
knows whether Jake the German shifted
a rodent right at that stage of it.
Jake isn't conversationalist, and ne
hasn't told anybody yet. the why and
the wherefore of his play just at that
juncture.
''Of course, he had a nice mess of
papers ard all that. but still he wasn't
very we'll acquainted with the people
he was playing with, and he may have
taken that fact into consideration. In
circumstances of that sort the ordi-
nary man playing poker with strangers
would have looked upon nine full as
something altogether too nice coming
pat, TO be true, and nine men out of
ten would have pulled out then ana
there under that fire of boosts from all
hands. But there wasn't anything or
| binary about Jake-never was.
He didn't do any more boosting
himself. on his pat hand. but he stood
the other raises and stuck along. The
rest of them contented themselves with
standing the dealers final raise, too,
and SO there they were. five men os-
tensibly intending to set up a claim
for the junk in the middle of the baize.
Now, it was one of the friskers who
told this story on himself and his pals,
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of it was peculiar.
Jake, of course, the under-the-gun
man, was the individual first required
to name the number of papers he want
ed and required.
but he was studying the moves of
the people on his left, waiting TO see
them making the initial sorting of
their hands before discarding.
but, seeing that the others to the
| left of him were going to stand pat
9nd all of the others except the dealer
had boosted it on nothing just to give
the dealer a chance to send it along
Jake. with the greatest elaboration on
earth, discarded his three mines and
drew to his pair of queens.
His dope may have been that his
| hand was topped by somebody, or he
may have been just a plug-but don't
| think that.
However. the amazement of the
dealer when Jake discarded three Of
| his papers and asked for three was
| something immense, | am told. He
| knew, of course, what Jake had, and
he knew what he himself had-four
| tens. But Jakes way of drawing GER
/ tainly spoiled a bit of the percentage,
at any rate. of what looked to be a iiv-
| ing cinch. For the dealer didn't hap
pen to know just what shape the cards
! that remained i'm the deck were in
] Yet the four tens that he'd given HIM
self i'm the deal looked pretty neat, and
there didn't seem to be much of a
chance of Jake beating that layout on
a three-card draw.
$50. covering up his astonishment
over Jake's queer way of discarding
and drawing, the dealer discarded
one.
Jake picked up his three, looked at
| them out of the one lamp, and bet a
hundred right off the coil.
THAT put the man next to him in a
| kind of stupor. He, too. with the 9TH
ers, was puzzled over Jake's draw,