“I rais’’d him.”
Coriolanus. Act V., Scene 5th.
After the discarding comes the betting. Primarily the bettor, or the player on whom the duty of betting or “passing out” first devolves, is the second to the dealer’s left, C. He bets first or goes out, and each player, after him, has the privilege of either “seeing” what C has bet, raising it, or passing out. When in this way the turn of the age is reached, he may raise, up to the limit, or simply “see” the highest bet already made, or, if C’s bet is the highest, he has the advantage of position and may “call,” his “call” requiring a “show-down” of hands.
That form of betting known as bluffing, which by some is erroneously supposed to so characterize the game of draw poker as to give it, actually, the name of “bluff” in some localities, is a necessary part of the game as best played. But it cannot be denied that many poker players do get through an evening without once resorting to it. The fact that they pretend to bluff, or bluff at bluffing, has, however, the desired result, in producing an erroneous impression on the minds of their companions at table - producing such impressions being indeed a sine qua non to success; for the player known never to bluff is never “called,” except on some hand shown by experience to be probably superior to his. Successful bluffs are almost impossible in jack-pots, which see later.
When the last bet or bluff has been made, and there is a “call,”
the hands of all those who are still in the game should be shown face upward
on the table. The highest hand takes the pot. Where two hands are exactly of
equal value, the pot is divided between them.
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