“Your lordship is the most patient man in loss.”
Cymbeline. Act II., Scene 3d.
In a gentleman’s game, by gentlemen and for gentlemen, there ought to be as little possible question on such matters as penalties. However, there are some sins against the code of poker so grievous that their commission should be discouraged in every possible way; and against them penalties have been at times made. This, however, should be largely a matter for mutual agreement at the time.
The penalty for opening a jack-pot without openers is sometimes enforced by requiring the offender to make an extra contribution to the pot. The penalty for taking up a six-card or other foul hand from the table is that the offender must not play in that hand. If a foul hand is bet, the offender loses the pot. If a player miscalls his hands, innocently, and on the show-down has enough to win the pot, it remains his. Miscalling a hand, however, knowingly, with the expectation that the error may escape detection in the show-down, is one of the grossest violations of fair play. Any hand which is not properly dealt is a foul hand.
STRAIGHT POKER
Straight Poker was played before Draw Poker, and is the original game. It carries out the true spirit of the game, and is almost pure bluff. The essential difference between Straight Poker and Draw Poker is that in the former you play with the original cards, there being no draw. Each player puts up a certain amount before the deal, and there is no ante.
STUD POKER
Stud Poker is played in negro clubs and in the West. The deal is of no value; one position is as good as another. Each player puts up a certain amount, to form a pot. The dealer throws down two cards to each player, the first face down, the second face up. The first is called the “down” card, and is seen by the recipient only. The player with the highest “turnup” card can make a bet or pass and. come in again. If he passes, the player next him can bet, or pass; and so on, around the table. When a bet is made and the other players have either seen or passed out, or when all have passed, another card is dealt around, face up, the player with the highest shown hand having to bet, or pass, first, and so on, until each player has received five cards, four face up and one face down. The betting and raising are as in regular poker, the highest hand winning at the call. If the game be played with a draw,’ then cards are drawn which are not exposed.
WHISKY POKER
In Whisky Poker each player puts up a certain amount; this forms a pot, which is not increased; there being no betting. Five cards are dealt around, with an extra hand in the middle of the table; this hand is called “the widow.” The player, next the dealer has the choice of retaining his hand or taking “the widow.” If he retains his hand he passes, and the player to the left has the privilege, and so on all around. If “the widow” be taken, the player taking it places his original hand in the middle of the table, face up, and the other players in turn take one or more cards from the exposed hand, replacing them with cards from their own. This goes on until one player declares himself satisfied; those after him may continue to exchange cards until it comes round to him again, when the hands are considered called and the highest wins. Any player may consider himself satisfied at any time, and so indicates by rapping on the table with his knuckles.
The game originated in the mining-camps, no money or chips being used, but
the lowest hand being obliged to pay for drinks.
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