Show WHAT WHAr THEY KNOW ABOUT POKER It is only when a man Is confused about the details that he appeals to the newspapers newspaPers for information It is only after atter he has acquainted himself with the general rules and has practiced practiced practiced the generally accepted method that he encounters a new and unexpected unexpected unexpected phase So that when a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York man appeals app ls to the Sun for advice as to a point in the practical application application application tion of draw poker It will be understood instantly that he has exhausted the general and common fund of Information Information information tion We speak of ot this because in a recent issue of that excellent paper we find some man soberly putting up this point for decision A opens a Jackpot with a pair of jacks and B stays with a A draws three cards and atH B draws one and neither helps It Is Bs first bet and he bets the limit A calls cans him and B contends that be he cannot lose or that A cannot take his hie money because he B did not have open openers openers ers Can he lose All gentlemen west of the Jersey line Une will sit more comfortably when they know kno that the Sun replied B n can lose 1088 anything and everything he puts up If he be cannot beat the man who calls him As jacks are legitimate open openers openers ers and they certainly beat a The first I sensation was one of fear fe r that something new ne and terrible had been injected Into the laws controlling the th game That tremor passes with the clear clar and conclusive lve statement of the Sun But back of or it is the disquieting con oon conviction conviction that the man who wrote the letter Jetter asked something which his as associates associates could not answer In other words the general voice of New York was at least divided on the subject Evidently a considerable portion of that community held to the opinion that a man caught bluffing have haye to lose Jose the pot We have noted with regret on sev several several eral era occasions occa that the civilisation of ot the far east is deteriorating Nothing N in current reading has so strengthened the sad conclusion A place where any portion of the people play that kind of poker becomes a menace to the peace and a muddling of or the traditions of a great and glorious republic |