The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27
Poker Shark Protests
AGAINST limit Game
Veteran Advances Very Sound
Argument to Prove Most OF
His Contentious.

vClCI all AuVQllONS WI SSNN
Argument to Prove Most OF
His Contentious.
Never again will play limit poker
where they can make more thar
twenty-five cents of me at one time
From now on I'm two bit lad"
This declaration from man who
has played poker more years than ne
will acknowledge came rs a surprise
to his associates and erstwhile com
panions. who, for several months. have
been missing him at their weekly SEES
slons. He had dropped in, he said
"iust to see whether the game was
still running" says the Washington
Post.
Case OF a small loss followed by ar
attack OF cold feet and rising tenn
perature, eh% said the banker. What
cha come around here for? This ain't
a kindergarten for seeds. We're play
ing poker. There's one seat left il
you want to try little dollar limit
but don't start any conversation about
two bits. Next thing you'll be pro-
posing is penny ante"
Game OF Matching Cards.
(Which is as much poker as a dol
lar limit" said the intruder. both
are games OF matching cards and one
offers as much opportunity to play
poker as the other. The advantage OF
penny ante is that you can't lose more
than a couple OF dollars, while In &
dollar limit you can be separated IRON
bankroll. Hereafter when pla!
poker it's going to be table stakes OF
nothing more than two bit limit
| make that reservation because somt
day may be hooked into one Of these
family games
whats your argument against q
dollar limit?" inquired the banker
Seems to me that for men who want
to play a friendly game dollar limit
is about right. or course, it wouldn't
interest a professional. but never re-
garded you as in that class"
MY argument against limit poker
is that to a man who understands the
game-and one who doesn't has nc
business in any sort OF a contest-l'
doesn't offer the same opportunity tc
win as it does to lose.
| Temptation to Take Chances.
There is always the temptation tc
take foolish chances just because II
doesn't cost much. A blue chip ap'
pears to have small value in the minds
OF most men, but twenty or thirt!
will help largely toward the purchase
of new suit or paying the rent. Then
after getting in the hole to this eX-
tent occurs the thought, How am
going 10 get even?' 1t can't be done
in one or two plays unless, with the
best hand. you are fortunate enough
to hook every player. Needles sto say
this seldom happens. In table stakes
F, there is the opportunity to recoup and
at the same time the chance OF put
4 ting over an occasional bluff. IN q
seven or eight handed poker game
there is always some bird with paii
OF lacks, when curiosity forces hin
TO call when 1t only costs dollar
When ii costs five he hesltates. Table
stakes can be played with small
buyout OF SIS or $40 and man who
( is playing it has the chance to play
poker"
Shortly thereafter the game ended
Ono man was $27 loser and another
s22.
No Chance to Get Even.
There's your answer" said the
man who has foresworm limit con
tests. Those boys had a fat chance
to get even when it was agreed tt
uuit at 1890 and they were more thar
$50 to the bad at 11:45, Bill on tho
last round wins Sc on an ace higi
flush with a small straight and three
aces against him. In a table stake!
game he'd have been even,
"A Saturday night experience las
August cured me. The wife was go
ing away Monday to visit her hom'
folks in Kentucky. Saturday was pa!
day and I brought home with me $l2'
for the vacation fund. Added TO thi'
was SIS which had been paid me OF
an old account so ] felt pretty vel
healed as well as lucky.
"A couple Of days before had re
ceiyed from a friend an invitation Il
attend a friendly session saturda,
night soon after dinner. told tn
wife that would drop around ant
gather up few shekels, but woul'
be home not later than 1890
Long years OF experience hav
taught me that when man is goinI
out to play poker he had better tel
his wife that he is going out to pla,
poker. OF course, he may not return
at the hour promised, but that Is no
: to be expected
Found 1t a 80 Limit.
~ had thought to play fifty cen
limit. When arrived | found 1t wa
50. However, with $135 in my kicl
! felt fairly confident. With any
thing like an even break says I, her
is where get the wife's vacation
money
ut was a seven handed game, al
J Jacks. The dealer anted dollar, an
came in with buck. With ~ or ;