The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-01-20
POKER PLAYING MACHINE.
Connecticut Yankee Invents Device
Sure to Become Popular.

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Sure to Become Popular.
There is nothing too abstruse or diff.
licult for the inventive genius of the
Yankee to grapple with. 1t conceives
appliances to scale the heights of an
or sounds the depths of ocean; II
builds the ponderous machine that
picks up a locomotive like baby ana
constructs the dainty thing'um'boh
that deftlv spreads the powder on my
lady's nose.
And now even the sacred and mystic
rites of the poker game have been
probed into and improved upon by a
man from Connecticut. who has recent
" filed in the patent Office nj Washing
ton an automatic poker PLAYING machine
that does all but rake in the pot for
the lucky PLAYER II deals the cards,
skins them over to see what You We got,
discards for you, and draws to your
hand. Then ii throws the bad hand
in the discard and shutlles for new
deal-and all by pressing button-an
electric button, of course. There 5
mighty little worth anything these
DAYS that hash I got an electric button
somewhere about it,
The machine consists of drumllke
cylinder about six inches long and the
same in diameter. On this are set hve
rows of cards. each row encircling the
cylinder like a band. Each row con
tains Is cards.
Around this cylinder is n casing which
conceals all the cards, saving one IN
each of the five rows; these are seen
through slot in the casing Just the
length--or width, rather--of the caro-.
There is thus always exposed through
this slot poker hand of five cards:
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of a collar box, has four squat legs on
which it sits in front of the player.
Each plaver has one. On top of the
easing there are five buttons, which
control each one of the five rows OF
cards on the cylinder. At one end IS
n master button which operates all the
rows collectively. The game com
mences in the ordinary way, the IN
ventor, feeling that nothing could i'm.
prove that, forbore fooling, with 1t.
Then each player presses the master
button on his patent automatic, poker
playing machine, whereupon each OF
the FIVE rows of cards revolVes at
varying speeds.
When they cease to revolve there IS
shown to each player through the slot
: cards lust as he would have got them
had the cards been dealt in the old
fashioned slow method of hand dealing.
1t is to be observed that the cards are
protected from the gaze of inquisltlve
PLAYERS to the right or left by shields
that bar out all sight of them saving
from the seat of the one playing that
particular machine
Bets are now made in the ordinary
way. When this ceremony is complet-
ed the man to the left of the age man
announces how many cards he Will
h1
buttons above those which he means
to discard
Thus, if he has a pair of kings, one
of them king of diamonds and the
other three cards consist of the four,
FIVE and nine of diamonds, he may
announce that he draws three and press
the buttons above the four, five and
nine. causing the cylinders these. cards
are on to revolve and, on coming to
rest, exposing three new cards, lust as
he would have gotten in the time.
honored "draw.' Or, he may break. "
and draw to his diamond flush by dis
cardino the odd kinu. A mechanism
prevents the card which is discarded
from showing up on the first revolving
draw, following closely the result of
FS Ss dsearded cards eng
away. it would be impossible for the
PLAYERS to get any of them in the draw.
After the draw the play continues
as in ordinary poker, bets being made,
raised and called in the regulating
manner. When the final call is made,
the players left in the. game show their
hands by merely swinging their ma
chimes around to the gaze of the. in
terested persons. A new hand is then
started, even while the winner is rak-
ing in his chips, by merely pressing
the master button and thus causing the
whole five rolls of cards to spin.
The advantages claimed for this ma
chine are:
That all delay in dealing the cards
is saved, the same result being accom-.
plshed merely by the pressure OF the
master button.
draw, in like manner by the player
merely pressing the button above the
cards he wishes to discard.
That the litter of the discards gen
erallv scattered all over the table, is
thus obviated.
That the combined litter and delay
of gathering up hands and dlscards
for a new deal, together with the time
lost in shutting, is also eliminated. =,
Lastly, and what may be, considered
by some as the greatest advantage or
the new method-although it will prob
ably appeal to no professional player,
west of the Mississippi, at least-the
chances of cheating are. reduced to q
minimum. The cards being encased
in solid metallic cover, all possibility
of substituting or holding out a card,
bringing in a cold deck. crimping,
bending or otherwise manipulating a
card for sinister PURPOSES, using. a
"bug." "lizard," or other evil device
whereby to defraud the unwary; IN
short, all opp?rtnnitya to cheat Mhat Will ee of
this publication of methods will have
upon lovers of the game remains to be
seen.-Exchange.
Green-1 understand his wife has
money! :,