A GREAT POKER HAND.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 71, 22 August 1874, Page 3

A GREAT POKER HAND.

[From the “ New Orleans Picayune.”

The best poker hand we ever heard of was held by old Weasel the other night. Weasel didn’t know much about poker, but he wanted to learn, and every now and then —the party was playing euchre—he would show his cards and ask if that wasn’t a good hand. Guce or twice he bet, but somebody always beat him, because he knew so little about the game. After a while, as Weasel was dealing, and when he had thrown three cards around to each one, he stopped and looked at his three. He looked a good while. Then he got excited. “ Now I know this is a good hand. I’ve learned something about poker in the last two hours, and I’ll bet 25 dols. on these three cards; It’s just the best hand I ever saw.” Jones had beaten Weasel on this sort of banter already, and so he took up his cards. He had three aces—a pretty good hand for three cards. Nobody could have a full or fours, and so his three were the biggest in the deck. He bent a pitying smile on old Weasel and said, “ I think I’ve got something pretty good here, but I couldn’t bet less than 50dols on it. We’re not playing poker, you know, and these outside issues are irregular. I bet 50dol.” “ Done !” said old Weasel; “what have you got?” They put up their money, and then Jones showed his hand. “ Here’s three aces, you old muttonhead ! You can’t beat that with any three cards on earth. You ought to know better than to—“ Hold on !” cried old Weasel, throwing down the king, ten, and seven of hearts. “That’s a flush, ain’t it? When you’ve got all of a suit that’s a flush, I believe ; and a flush always beats threes. I don’t know much about poker, but it seems to me I’ve got the best hand out of jail.” Jones had forgotten about flushes, In fact, the whole party rather underrated old Weasel, because he was a religious man, and not supposed to know anything about cards. But they kept a very watchful eye on him after that, aid when he spoke of poker hands they all insisted on sticking to the game they were playing.