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Show If SLUFF SUCCEEDS POKER AMONG ARIZONA SPORTS I Social suoccss in Arizona no longer dc-, dc-, penda on ono'n ability to play draw r.tud poker. From Proscott to Blsboo It Is fluff, morning, noon nml night. Whoro the gnnie c.imo from, who Intro duced It, and wluit l( nntcreder.ts were no one seems to remcmher. Tor two years sluff haa been growing In popularity every day, and the man who cannot pluy It leads a lonely Ufa 'Sluff la chcapor for the stranger than poker, for, oa a rulo. it is not played for money. Drinks for the crowd Is'iho usual I penalty of losing- a game, and strangers I aro supposed to buy the drinks In any 1 event. Llko all card games. which attain 1 sudden populurlty, sluff Is easily explained I and ciulckly learned. In spite OL luj sim plicity great .skill can hn developed, ami i Arizona has many crackajack players. Ordlnavllv a gamo takes ubotil fifteen n.lnutes. In Perircc. where It la now tho fashion to drink whisky with beer chas-i chas-i rs. four drinks an hour is considered nono :' , loo many. , 1A, When experts get to work, with tho cards, sluff is liable to bo a long drawn out proposition. As Tucson tnoy havo a record rec-ord of. a frame which lasted seven hours. One must not think, howover. that the players waited that Ion? for tho round of drinks. Bvcry fifteen minutes or so they cut the cards and tho low man bought. . it is not possible to lay hands on a writ- !' ten or printed sot of rules of tho game, i ., hut half the men in tho Territory can tell . ono how to play The rules differ In mi- I nor particulars In different rnmps. but 1 thin is the way It Is played at Pearcc. Slutf calls for n deck of thirty-six cards. !h card3 from dcuco to five spot inclusivo being thrown out-. There aro 120 points in the game. Aces count 11, tens, 10; kings, 4; queens, 3; and-jacks. and-jacks. 2. Two, throe or four may play, but in any I case only threo full hand oro dealt. The l dealer remains out when four play. Tho cards arc dealt ono at a timo to ; four hands until twelvo aro so dealt, I then to thrco hands to tho end of tho deck. Lhls gives thrcj hands of cloven cards an.d a widow of three cards. The deal passes after each- hand. The player to the right of the. dealer has to eoy and may frog, solo, solo grondo or pass. Jf he frogs, hearts aro trumps, the widow Is shown and taken to hand by the maker. If ho solos the trump must ho made dla-i dla-i ionds. clubs or spades, and the widow !! not looked nt until the conclusion of tho hand, whfn tho niakr adds any counters It may contain to his hand. If ho solo randos ho haa the privilege of calling tne trump. If tho player to tho left of tho dealer frogs the others may solo over him. Tho original maker then solo grandes or passes. At the beginning of the. gamo each player reclvcs chips worth 120 points, usually eleven blues and ton whites Whi'n ono player loses his stack the game ends and tho penalty of buying n round of drinks Is exacted.. Tho maker must win 00 points li make good. For all under thni he intict pay; for all over he Is paid by each of his opponents. oppo-nents. If four avo playing and tho makvr loses ho has to pay tho dealer as well, but If tho maker makes good tho dealer does not pay. In a frog each point pays one, In a solo two and in solo grando throe. Any card of any .suit may bo led. Ono must follow suit If possible. If out of ault a trump in required. If out of trumpts ono should duff If playing third in hand and ono's partner holds thfl trick. Stuffing means to play one'n highest counting card. As a rule when ono ngulnst tho maker has tho gamo in hand and takes a trick second In hand ho throws his curd on tho lahlo as though ho desired to break it and calls "Now, hang you. sliiffl" "When a player is out of a suit, that suit Is called his dink. When ono of the players play-ers can forco tho makor to trump a suit it is called "having his dink." Arizona people take tho game seriously and play as carefully as though tho stakes were high. It is considered bad form to be garrulous during the play, but after tho hand Is played the plays aro carefully analyzed |