The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-03-26
7 A Game of Poker.
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Ned Barnard, his bride, Tom Pendle.
ton and I sat down one evening at
Ned's house to game of poker. Susie
Barnard had never played cards, so
we agreed to help her. We couldn't
leave her out and only expected her to
bet low on the best of hands. The
game was penny ante with two cent
limit.
People who think they know things
are very hard to teach. Susie hadn't
played half dozen hands before she
Insisted on playing her own game in
her own way. She kept losing steadily,
and, although the stake was very small.
she was soon minus something like So.
Since I had won more than half of this
[ determined to get it back to her.
Having a pair of Fights in my hand,
when she and I alone were betting, l
made a great ado, daring her to bet
raised her, and she raised me until l
saw that there was a dollar in the Dot
for her, then called her To my dis.
comfiture she had only a pair of fives.
Instead Of losing dollar I had won
another dollar from her.
l proposed that we should play some
other game, but Susie could not be in
duced to give up poker, so we pro-
ceeded as we were Some one opened
with a jack pot, and the woman in the
case, after studying long while, asked
for one card. When it was given her
she looked at it and said, ooh, pshaw!"
It was plain that she had drawn to a
flush and had failed to fill. We were
all very much disgruntled when she
came in. Ned and were both anxious
to bet and didn't want to win her
money. Ned told her not to make
goose OF herself and to stay out. When
she refused he told her that she'd have
to stand the loss out of her private
fund. She paid no attention to this
and raised us both. Ned, very much
vexed raised the pot to top me, and
before we knew it we had several dol
lars on the table Ned and I showed
down, but the lady couldn't be pre-
vailed upon to do so. I had three
kings and Ned three aces.
Zone pair isn't any good, is it?'' ask
ed Susie.
NO. replied her husband. ''nor two
pairs"
But suppose there are two pairs,
with another card like one of the
pairs?''
Ned and looked at each other; then
he seized his Wife's cards and threw
them on the table face up. She had
full hand.
Susie was now slightly ahead Of the
game and quite proud Of herself. Ned,
foreseeing q plunging on her part that
might be embarrassing, proposed to
quit, but she had caught the gambling
fever and insisted on proceeding with
the game. She didn't come in for two
or three hands. Then we all knew
she'd got something handsome, for she
looked happy and said glibly that she
was going to bet" How many
cards:' "1s it any advantage to have
for instance?" eyes, if the whole five
run that way" She studied a long
While, then said well, you may give
me two cards." We all laughed, and
the game proceeded.
This time Tom Pendleton either had
big hand Or wanted to bluff, for he
raised the limit Ned, convinced that
he was Dluffing. raised him. I stayed
out what are you going to do, Su-
sie:' asked Ned. II don't know. I
can't tell whether these cards are any
good or not" Ned asked me to look at
her hand. but she laid it face down on
the table You say" she said, turning
her pretty eyes Oh her liege lord, that
the cards must all run up or down, and
if there IS one that doesn't fit it spells
the hand?'' Eyes, and they must all be
Of the same suit. You couldn't fill a
hand like that by drawing two cards
once in a hundred times"
She studied her hand till we all got
tired waiting, and Ned passed cigars.
BY the time we had lighted up Susie
had come to q decision. tits an aw-
full risk" she said, ''but there are three
cards in my hand pretty high. 1 may
win on those" She Clipped in, and
Ned groaned. Then he whispered to
me that he was going to teach her that
it's expensive to be stupid. He raised
her, and Tom and 1 both dropped out
She saw Ned and raised him. Then
he raised her again, with the same re-
suit, and the raising went on till there
was about $12 in the pot. 'That'n
just buy a bracelet saw this morn
ing that 1 want awfully," said Susie.
won't it be nice%' Ned looked at me
and smiled ';Can't we get it up to
| $15?'' Susie asked There's some
thing else for So 1 want too" every
WE'LL" said Ned, ':we'll take off the linn
it for this hand And they Clipped
in the required amount. "What you
got? a full O. kings here" said Ned.
He threw down his hand and was rak-
ing in the pot when his wife laid down
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