The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-12

J concluded to chuck the system for q
minute and just chip in, calling the SIC
| without raising 1t.
THE man on his left looked sad and
( skinned his cards over kind of dubious
/ like, but finally put up the ten, and
! they all started to draw cards. the three
/ of them being naturally most interested
| in the man that had raised it.
! The age took three papers. Jimmy
/ got a pair Of queens with his aces. The
sad-looking man on his left drew one
/ and the fellow that raised it took two
and reached for his stack without
/ even looking at EN-. Now. what's the
answer"
Meaning what's Jimmy up against, I
| suppose? p" demanded the baTkeepeT,
thoughtfully.
The Walker System.
"Sure! If Jimmy is going to play the
Walker system he's got to be ready to
have the man on his left stay i'm until
the third man raises both of them on
| that tWO-CaTd draw. Even if the age
drops it will be up to Jimmy to drop
or raise-accOrding to the system-and
that sad-eyed duck setting there with
a One-card draw ready to boost it
again if he has filed. Is Jimmy going
to put up thirty before he gets it
through his head that he's in wrong or
is he going to lay down those aces up
now?"
The colonel looked at the barkeeper
almost fiercely as he asked the ques-
ton.
Il calculate he'd better lay EN-
down." replied the baFkeeper. meekly
Seems to me that fellow on the left
that didn't raise and drawed only one
card has worked up the play better'n
the Walker system would have done, if
he's got anything"
Jimmy couldn't just bring himself to
lay down aces up without having re-
served the right to have a look-in in
case any one dropped, so he threw in
a dollar 70 see what would happen.
which was just another dollar thrown
away
Next day he asked Walker what he
should have done, and Walker told him
right off he should have laid down his
pair Of aces before the draw as soon
as the first raise was made. Walker
said Jimmy's judgment should have
told him that the man what raised the
ante SO would raise any bet made
after the draw, and Jimmy should
have considered what he was up
against right then. 1t was to 1
against Jimmy's getting a third ace,
and he was putting SO in against $50
at that time to try for it. That was
betting TO 1 against himself, Walker
said, which showed bad judgment,
cause Jimmy knowed right then that
he wouldn't stand any raises unless he
improved"
But it's only about five to one against
getting another pair with the aces" was
jhe barkeepeT's comment.
That's right too; but as Walker said,
he wouldn't be willing to call and raise
on aces up against a man that had
raised the ante SO to start with, would
he?"
Then you mean to say that if a fell
lows got aces TO go with and some fell
low raises the ante you should lay 'em
DOWN. demanded the barkeeper, in as
constituent. Why, that's the doll-goru-
dest game Of poker I ever heard tell Of"
That was Walkers idea of the game,
Jimmy said, and it sounds kind Of rea-
sonable TO me when you come to COnsid-
er the surrounding circumstances.
'Cording to Walkers theory, he
wouldn't put up a dollar unless ne was
willing to raise as well as call and as it
was to 1 against his getting a hand
that would justify calling, to say moth
ing about raising. and the pot offered
him only to I. it was up to him to drop
those aces right at the start"
We'll" said the barkeeper. with a
smile of contempt. that may be Mr
Walkers game. but I'd like to see the
poker player that would lay down a pair
of aces just because one man boosted
the ante. If that's the toughest propO-
sition Jimmy ever bucked up against. /
he should be rich"
Why that fellow Walker would stay
out Of almost every pot. All you'd
have to do would be TO raise him and
he'd fly the coop if he didn't have a
straight flush"
All ! know dTawled the colonel. ''is I
that according TO what Jimmy observed, I
that fellow Walker was a big winner, /
and Jimmy said II was what he saved 1
that did the trick and also the way his /
system scared the other fellows out /
They was all the time calling Walker /
and playing his game, but when ne |
thought he had the best Of it he never /
called them. and half the time they |
never knowed what he had being afraid /
It would cost them too mcuh to find out. 1
Walkers Judgment.
4 calculate from what Jimmy told me /
Of some Of the plays that Walker made /
that his judgment was trained down /
pretty fine. Jimmy had to pass up the