The standard Hoyle; a complete guide and reliable authority upon all games of chance or skill now played in the United States, whether of native or foreign introduction . of ten, andbets ten more. C is intimida-ted. E believes he has the best hand, and may make another bet. Sayhe sees B, and on showing cards he loses. Innumerable combina-tions might be presented : as of D holding three Kings, and E C coming in with the ante, and D seeing the raise of ten, before^ards have been drawn, and raising it ten more. Two hands may each hold flushes, and standing * pat, that is havinggood ca
The standard Hoyle; a complete guide and reliable authority upon all games of chance or skill now played in the United States, whether of native or foreign introduction . of ten, andbets ten more. C is intimida-ted. E believes he has the best hand, and may make another bet. Sayhe sees B, and on showing cards he loses. Innumerable combina-tions might be presented : as of D holding three Kings, and E C coming in with the ante, and D seeing the raise of ten, before^ards have been drawn, and raising it ten more. Two hands may each hold flushes, and standing * pat, that is havinggood cards (a perfect hand, before a card is drawn), and raising eachother in the first stage of the game. In Poker, position has muchto do with the game, and the Age has only this advantage of posi-tion, for the chances of his having a good hand, so as not to lose the onechip he has been forced to put up, are small. He wagers his chip with-out having seen his cards, while the others know what they have before;><!V;y come in. It is in raising, entirely apart from such cheating as may arise from•*forcing a card, that fraud in Poker is possible, and a fraud exceed-. A DealerA flush to draw. DRAIF POKER. 133 ingly difficult to detect. A player may be forced out or raised out ^by a combinatioM of two players who have previously agreed to such arascally performance. Taking the diagram with the same players, Cand E, or any two players, may have agreed to combine and raise outother players. This conspiracy, as has been stated, is exceedingly diffi-cult to detect. Players have not the right to even say to one another inprivate, When I raise you, you may be sure I have a hand. It givesto each of them an undue advantage. It is a secret arrangement, and,being such, is nothing else than a fraud. Of Drawing.—If the player determines to draw to a pair, he drawsthree cards. If he draws to two pairs, he draws one card. If he holds three to begin with, he draws two cards, in order to havethe
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