Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-06-14
HOW fasteners
PLAY THE GAME
But THE WESTERN COLONEL
BLUFIED AND WON THE
POT.
new kind OF STRAIGHT
"Straight Around the Corner" l. the
Newest Wrinkle In Game of
DRAW"
SEATTLE Post-InteIllgencer.

Seattle Post-Inteligencer.
The SOCIOLOGY Of poker Is the same
whether the game is played in fash
lonable club or in the bunkhouse OF
logging camp" said Colonel Kirby
Of Butte Mont, at the Hotel Wash
ington. 1T is simply a matter Of pro-
portion. whether it is IA group Of mil
lionaires playing 500 an ante or the
umberjack who antes two bits. II re-
quires Just as much skin to win in
one game as the other
Il have no disposition TO hang med
ais on myself for clever plays at po-
ker, but | point proudly to the small
dent | put in the United States Sen
ate. | know of no organized body
which can point with pride to pro-
portlonately greater number OF skill
ful poker players than the senate.
Il met senator from New Eng
land who weighs in at 10 million dol
lars, another from the south who mad
the reputation Of being the coolest
buffer in the senate, New Yorker
who tears the lining out OF Wall street
every thirty days and senator from
the west. Jointly and seNerally that
bunch had so much money that they
could make the United States mint
look like "a child's bank.
\ straight Around the Corner"
1--WE played about half an hour
when the Western senator showed
down an ace, king duce, tray and
four. held three fives and saw no
merit in his hand whatever.
They explained to me that this
aroung the corner and that Its value
was lust above three Of kind.
Not that l wish to impugn any
senator's motives l said, somewhat
sarcastically sa but would 1t be asking
too much for this assemblage to take
n recess and explain TO me any other
freak hands which are likely to come
up?
at will be a pleasure, colonel.
said the New Englander. 1 know
your difficulty. You have been play
| ing poker so long In the west that
you haven't kept abreast with the
times. Now perhaps you don't play
"skips." big dogs" little dogs" and
"kilters' out there
1--WE play pairs, threes, straights,
/ full houses and flushes,' | said, and
| all other combinations of cards are il
legal void and a delusion.'
The senate Game Is Explained
Then they explained that a skip
was the duce, four six, eight and ten
and that a little dog was flve cards
from the seven to the duce without n
pair. The big dog was the eight TO
/ the king without pair
Let us not take advantage of our
western friend said the New YORK
capitalist. Call in one OF the senator's
and have him sit behind the colonel
and inform him when one OF these
strange hands appear.
80 II was arranged TO have a sem
utor sit behind me and tell me when
had one Of these freak hands,
81 waited until there was good
sized pot and everybody was IN |
raised $500. The New Englander and
the plutocrat from New York saw the
raise. but the southern senator was
unwilling to let matters go on in that
easy. restfu manner.
LET us make it $500 more said
he.
AT this point IN the game | turned
around to my mentor and showed him
my hand.
is that one of those things?' l
asked.
Yes, replied my friend without
batting an eye.
"'Then | shall tap myself | said,
showing In my pile,
That's good sighed the southern
senator, laying down three aces.
That's good echoed the New
Englander and the New Yorker.
The Colonel shows His Hand.
81 raked IN the pot and then spread
my cards
That's one OF those things, isn't
/ ITO | asked them.
"'NVhat things demanded the New
/ Yorker, glaring at my cards
/ why, one of those straights
around the corner, | replied.
/ Nothing like it, he said. 1T
/ doesn't come within mile of it,
The other senators looked over my
hand disgustedlys --,
"'What put 1t into your head thnt
a duce, five nine. ten and king was
! a straight of any sort, around the cor