OCR Text |
Show !1 sv 8KY LINE THE LIMIT. Bank Notes by the Handfull Figure In X Poker Game. $ Col. Frank Bosworth took a fresh j grip on his cigar, straightened out his f long legs uuder tho table at tho Boss- M moro, and quietly remarked: Y "Talk about poker! I think I figured 1, In one of tho swiftest games on tho fej Ohio river, some years ago, that has over corao undor my observation. : i "The'ro wero four of us in tho gamo, and wo wero out for blood. Tho scono M j . -was ono of thoso old-fashioned house- r l,oats and wo played all night with I practically no limit. "To glvo you on idea: It was a Jack pot and I oponod it tor a thousand on '' a pair of Jacks. Tho follow opposlto f mo boosted it a couplo of thousand more, nnd by tho tlmo it camo around to mo again I had to put $5,000 in to : draw cards. 1 ' "This was pretty stcop, but I socked In tho $5,000 and drow threo cards. "No I didn't 1)rtter my hand, nnd ono of tho party, with a $10,000 bet. il got tho pot on a pair of kings. I "Aftor a whllo It was getting prot- I ty lato or rather early In tho morning i m another Jackpot enmo up, and It was 1 f-ff opened for ?500. I had only icing high. 1 '' but I whooped it for about $5,000. I "Everybody camo In, ns It was to bo if M tho last pot for tho night. Well, there was about $25,000 In tho center before we drew cards. "I didn't draw. "Theso aro good enough for me,' I said, and hot $10,000 on my 'monkey straight.' "Well, to bo brief, I cleared up $50,-000 $50,-000 on that bluff. As wo got up from tho tablo I borrowed half a dollar from ono of tho players to get my break-fast, break-fast, with. "You see, this was Just after tho. war and I had found a trunkful of Confederate Confed-erate money. That's what we wero playing with. "Yes, thanks, plain water on tho side." Now York Tolegraph. |