The sun., 1910-08-14

7 invested in a stack oI chip~. The white
ones were a quarter apiece. and I tnok
twenty Of them. IL was perfectly plain
Ia me that az least Ave ~ the players ~ere
there ~ house. employees. and was on To
some of their signals bsiore l sat N II
didn't look IKE a very promising pro-pect
even at that. but thought had a chance
and there was nothing else that knew 81
that promised even az much ~ that did.
The dealing WAS square enough. That
much I was sure of. and as the game
seemed to he 20 seesaw the outsiders, |
waited till | got pair back To hack ana
then ret.
4 was promptly raised, and then when
had made good after two others had
seen tho raise I was raiS'Nd again on the
next round Then ! was r"This~d 10y a
pirate who had an aC" showing NV
naiT wac kings and ] hadn I b"tt"r,Ni
on the third card hut was sur" from the
glgnallIng that the other man nth no,
hny, ACC. and my hand was tn" best out
80 far ~ put in all m" remainder
of nv stack without saving anything
That made y RAISE for me ot -. ana
tn. house players thought ! could 70"
cuaS.i along or frozen out. ~ was
rais'~i again and reralsHSi. on" "t IN"
othcr- dropping out
when IL came to my turn again simply
aid I was ali in and called for a show
Epr my stake They couldn't object %
that and IN. deal went on OF c"tirs"
| had two men drawing against mo. nut
tho luck came NV way and ] caught IA"
third king for the last card. beating tho
fellow who had got aces M
We'll the game went ON tnr an hour
| did not win all the time That WASH
10 u. eNpected. hut ! could a'H how they
played their game more and NOR" plainly
as We played along and by IN" end 81 tn"
hour had over Sinp IN front ot me ih"n
had cold feet
They pied - get m" ~ play more.
but only laughed ~ them. saying ! was
afraid NV luck would turn. And went
away with NV money
Lucky, Well. YES, IL was lucky IA
ono way. hut I'm just concelted enough
to think there was more skill than luck
as well as ! did my five spot woulin Z
have. been "A fv sp,Ack
Il never played stud poker hu' once
after that. though, and that one game
was the last ever played WIN WIN, tri"nds
play draw poker occasionally, but !
always 90 - professional game. They
tax. me for a sucker. but ! win IA often
a. ! lose .- ,,
and made me swear on PLAYING with
friends vas played in a clubhouse mp m
the Restigouche one summer nv" or -IH
years ago. There were only a dozen "f
us i'm tho club and our quarters were
particularly modest. but We had
LOT ~ fun there before the club broke up,
as II did after that game of stud.
There were only SIX pf us in the club.
hou-, that night for a long spell of bad
weather had driven the others home and
We were waiting for a lull IN the storm.
Meantime there wnS considerable poker
played
Garrison was the oldest ~ -. and ha
and | got N" better of III" others right
along AZ draw poker TIL Harris good
naturadly enough protested that h' had
no show at the gam" and proposed &"
chang. to stud Mcdonald and Savag"
--Conded IN" proposition and kari was
indifferent. 50 We played stud after thar
1t hadn't been a particularly steer
gam. while We stuck to draw. though
y = i,ia we'd table stakes and usually started
with five or ten dollars apiece. Their"
would sonnet lines he three or four hundred
on the table by the tine ws quit. bur that
was not often and nobody was likely To
~ troubled much II he lost IS much as
~ or even tlO AZ \ sitting with N"
chance ~ winning II hack tn" next tim"
We played
-Rut We started the stud gam. on tho
same basis. and anybody that knows the
two games knows that stud poker. table
stakes. ~ "A considerably faster and h-rc'r
gam. than draw commonly -
We found that out. those ~ us who
hadn't realized it before. the VerV Grst
evening We played. for Savage lost $50
IN the three hour session and Earl was S4OI
out Mcdonald and Harris broke sornp-
where near even. but I was s3OO ahead.
though | refused over and over again to