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.So that accounts for Dummy's absence, I thought.The idiot was the offspring of the Rand Clan.His mother was known buthis sire was veiled in obscurity.No one knew whether an itinerantdrummer or the girl's father or brother had sired him - the Clan practisedincest, at least, so the gossips had it.Chic grabbed me when I came in.'Hey, kid, we saw Monty in NewYork.Saw him at Rector's.''How in hell you get in there?''Walked in.Sold two hundred dead chickens to those goddamned Jerseyhucksters and thought we'd celebrate.Knew Monty made that hisheadquarters.''If Monty'd seen you he'd have thrown you out on your tail,' I said.'Don't get so fresh.Guess what.He bought us a drink.' 'I don't believe it.''Sure as hell did.You should see that red-headed whore he was with.''That's a hell of a remark about his mother,' I protested.Chic laughed.The idiot made a funny noise in his throat.'Mother, my ass,' said Chic.'She was only twenty, if a day.''Then that must be his actress friend,' I said.The idiot was talking some gibberish.'What's he say?' I angrily askedChic, who could understand him.'He says the red-head ain't no actress.She's a whore.She didn't have noclothes on around her tits.''Monty will break your goddamned necks,' I cursed at them and walkedaway just as Monty entered the back way.He greeted us cheerfully and comerred with Sandy a few moments, thenasked me to come back to his study.'Any trouble?' he asked.'Nothing to bother about.''Sandy tells me you won around four hundred.Here's half of it.Okay?''Gee, this goes in my college fund.''Got financing from my mother.'That's fine.I forgot to tell you to try to attend the Thaw murder trial.''Being played up big in the New York papers.Reminds me of my casewhen I killed my wife's lover, only Thaw is pleading insanity and I pled theUnwritten Law.''I'd sure like to become a criminal lawyer.I hope Thaw gets off.''Well, he won't,' Monty said."There's an important difference in ourcases.''How so?''My wife's lover was fooling around with her after she was married.White did it before marriage, not after.'III glanced at the clock on the wall in Monty's study.Jack Kelly and I hadbeen working the poker room in four-hour shifts, catching a bit of sleepwhen the opportunity offered.I had another hour to loaf before relievinghim.I said to Monty, 'I'll scribble some combinations of cards on this pad.You told me before you went to New York, you stay for the third card instud only when you have two face cards, including the ace or ten back toback; such as:J10JJJQJKJAand those combinations reversed:10JJJQJKJAJ'That's correct,' Monty said, 'but for one point.Suppose you hold Q J.You do not stay if your opponent holds two of these face cards exposed,either two queens, two jacks or a queen and a jack.If they hold only one ofthe face cards exposed, either one queen or one jack, you stay.''But,' I said, 'you do fold after the third card unless the third card is a 10 or better, such as J Q 10.''That's right,' he said, 'only it's more important that the high card be inthe hole.If you hold' (and he took out his pencil to demonstrate) 'A Kand hit the ace, you have A K A.This is a lock unless one or more ofyour opponents have an open pair such as ? 4 4.''You also said you play A x and K x.' [x indicates any card below a 10.]'Yes,' said Monty, 'but if your opponents hold either the ace or kingexposed, you fold.''Also,' I said, 'you fold unless the next card is a 10 or better such as Ax Q.Now,' I asked, 'suppose you hold J Q 10 and one of youropponents holds ? 4 4 and bets on the pair? What do you do?''I fold of course,' he said.'Suppose you matched your hole card J Q J on the third card and youropponent holds ? 4 4.What do you do ?''I hold two jacks concealed, and the opponent holds two exposed fours.Ican beat what I see on the board, so raise him if he bets.If he checks, Ibet.''Suppose after you raise him, he raises you back?''Now the plot thickens,' Monty said smiling.'Caution should tell me tofold.If he's a sucker he has three fours and is too anxious to expose hisholding to wait for higher stakes.If he's a strong player, look out.He maybe trying a bluff to run you out, pretending he has three fours, especially ifhe judges you a simpleton.''Am I?''You're learning,' Monty said.'Now suppose', I said, 'you hold after the fourth card J Q 10 7.Thefourth card is below a 10.''I stay regardless of the size of the fourth card, with one exception.If Ihave only one opponent and he has a king or an ace over me I am beat insight unless I make a pair or catch an ace.I would fold if I'm beat in sightat this point of the game; that is, if the opponent bets.If he checks, I stay,of course.''To be repetitious,' I said, 'you fold holding A x x or K x x or J Q x,and stay holding A x 10 or K x 10 or J Q 10.I gather you stay if the fourthcard is below a ten and you're not beat in sight such as A x 10 x.''No, you're wrong with the last example.But I do stay on A x 10 J.Iwant three high cards to draw to.The only reason I draw to A x and K x isbecause if I hit I probably win the pot with two aces or two kings.''But you do stay,' I said, 'on J Q 10 7, if no pair is showing?5'Yes, I have three high cards to hit.''Now suppose you hold J Q Q and your opponent holds ? A 3 and youbet the two queens and your opponent calls.How do you judge the play?''If the opponent is a strong player he may be sucking me in with two aces.If he's a simpleton, he's probably betting that the hand is improved on thenext card.''Well,' I said, 'suppose you draw the fourth card, making J Q Q 4, andyour opponent draws a 10, making ? A 3 10.What do you do?''The answer is the same,' said Monty.'If he's a simpleton I bet the twoqueens again.Ordinarily the simpleton won't stand two bets unless he hasyou beat.If he's a strong player, I get cautious and check.If the strongplayer bets, he usually has me beat.Of course he may be bluffing.It's a goodplay to make.I'd have to judge my man.'Monty was the keenest player I have ever known.He trained like anathlete and seemed almost clairvoyant at times.It may be that somemovement on the part of his opponent, a tremor, a flicker of the eye,talkie-talk or what have you, even something unknown to Monty'sconsciousness, tipped the opponent's hand, telling Monty when to call, betor raise.Watching him play I was tempted to believe in thoughttransference, and I am not sure now that he was not clairvoyant.I do notmean this in the sense that he knew the card his opponent was going to draw before it left the deck - but once the opponent knew the card, I oftenfelt that Monty knew it too.IIIThat night I found seated at the table Hairlip Slocum, the banker's son;Salty, the horse trader; Chic Chillum, the chicken picker; Bert Wills, theland speculator, and Doc Prittle.Chic, Salty and Doc were small fry.Hairlip, if he could get the money from his dad, could be tapped.Bert wasland poor with extensive timber and farm holdings.Monty was cutting the game so I played extra cautiously because I had toante.The game had been droning along for a couple of hours whensuddenly it came to life [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.So that accounts for Dummy's absence, I thought.The idiot was the offspring of the Rand Clan.His mother was known buthis sire was veiled in obscurity.No one knew whether an itinerantdrummer or the girl's father or brother had sired him - the Clan practisedincest, at least, so the gossips had it.Chic grabbed me when I came in.'Hey, kid, we saw Monty in NewYork.Saw him at Rector's.''How in hell you get in there?''Walked in.Sold two hundred dead chickens to those goddamned Jerseyhucksters and thought we'd celebrate.Knew Monty made that hisheadquarters.''If Monty'd seen you he'd have thrown you out on your tail,' I said.'Don't get so fresh.Guess what.He bought us a drink.' 'I don't believe it.''Sure as hell did.You should see that red-headed whore he was with.''That's a hell of a remark about his mother,' I protested.Chic laughed.The idiot made a funny noise in his throat.'Mother, my ass,' said Chic.'She was only twenty, if a day.''Then that must be his actress friend,' I said.The idiot was talking some gibberish.'What's he say?' I angrily askedChic, who could understand him.'He says the red-head ain't no actress.She's a whore.She didn't have noclothes on around her tits.''Monty will break your goddamned necks,' I cursed at them and walkedaway just as Monty entered the back way.He greeted us cheerfully and comerred with Sandy a few moments, thenasked me to come back to his study.'Any trouble?' he asked.'Nothing to bother about.''Sandy tells me you won around four hundred.Here's half of it.Okay?''Gee, this goes in my college fund.''Got financing from my mother.'That's fine.I forgot to tell you to try to attend the Thaw murder trial.''Being played up big in the New York papers.Reminds me of my casewhen I killed my wife's lover, only Thaw is pleading insanity and I pled theUnwritten Law.''I'd sure like to become a criminal lawyer.I hope Thaw gets off.''Well, he won't,' Monty said."There's an important difference in ourcases.''How so?''My wife's lover was fooling around with her after she was married.White did it before marriage, not after.'III glanced at the clock on the wall in Monty's study.Jack Kelly and I hadbeen working the poker room in four-hour shifts, catching a bit of sleepwhen the opportunity offered.I had another hour to loaf before relievinghim.I said to Monty, 'I'll scribble some combinations of cards on this pad.You told me before you went to New York, you stay for the third card instud only when you have two face cards, including the ace or ten back toback; such as:J10JJJQJKJAand those combinations reversed:10JJJQJKJAJ'That's correct,' Monty said, 'but for one point.Suppose you hold Q J.You do not stay if your opponent holds two of these face cards exposed,either two queens, two jacks or a queen and a jack.If they hold only one ofthe face cards exposed, either one queen or one jack, you stay.''But,' I said, 'you do fold after the third card unless the third card is a 10 or better, such as J Q 10.''That's right,' he said, 'only it's more important that the high card be inthe hole.If you hold' (and he took out his pencil to demonstrate) 'A Kand hit the ace, you have A K A.This is a lock unless one or more ofyour opponents have an open pair such as ? 4 4.''You also said you play A x and K x.' [x indicates any card below a 10.]'Yes,' said Monty, 'but if your opponents hold either the ace or kingexposed, you fold.''Also,' I said, 'you fold unless the next card is a 10 or better such as Ax Q.Now,' I asked, 'suppose you hold J Q 10 and one of youropponents holds ? 4 4 and bets on the pair? What do you do?''I fold of course,' he said.'Suppose you matched your hole card J Q J on the third card and youropponent holds ? 4 4.What do you do ?''I hold two jacks concealed, and the opponent holds two exposed fours.Ican beat what I see on the board, so raise him if he bets.If he checks, Ibet.''Suppose after you raise him, he raises you back?''Now the plot thickens,' Monty said smiling.'Caution should tell me tofold.If he's a sucker he has three fours and is too anxious to expose hisholding to wait for higher stakes.If he's a strong player, look out.He maybe trying a bluff to run you out, pretending he has three fours, especially ifhe judges you a simpleton.''Am I?''You're learning,' Monty said.'Now suppose', I said, 'you hold after the fourth card J Q 10 7.Thefourth card is below a 10.''I stay regardless of the size of the fourth card, with one exception.If Ihave only one opponent and he has a king or an ace over me I am beat insight unless I make a pair or catch an ace.I would fold if I'm beat in sightat this point of the game; that is, if the opponent bets.If he checks, I stay,of course.''To be repetitious,' I said, 'you fold holding A x x or K x x or J Q x,and stay holding A x 10 or K x 10 or J Q 10.I gather you stay if the fourthcard is below a ten and you're not beat in sight such as A x 10 x.''No, you're wrong with the last example.But I do stay on A x 10 J.Iwant three high cards to draw to.The only reason I draw to A x and K x isbecause if I hit I probably win the pot with two aces or two kings.''But you do stay,' I said, 'on J Q 10 7, if no pair is showing?5'Yes, I have three high cards to hit.''Now suppose you hold J Q Q and your opponent holds ? A 3 and youbet the two queens and your opponent calls.How do you judge the play?''If the opponent is a strong player he may be sucking me in with two aces.If he's a simpleton, he's probably betting that the hand is improved on thenext card.''Well,' I said, 'suppose you draw the fourth card, making J Q Q 4, andyour opponent draws a 10, making ? A 3 10.What do you do?''The answer is the same,' said Monty.'If he's a simpleton I bet the twoqueens again.Ordinarily the simpleton won't stand two bets unless he hasyou beat.If he's a strong player, I get cautious and check.If the strongplayer bets, he usually has me beat.Of course he may be bluffing.It's a goodplay to make.I'd have to judge my man.'Monty was the keenest player I have ever known.He trained like anathlete and seemed almost clairvoyant at times.It may be that somemovement on the part of his opponent, a tremor, a flicker of the eye,talkie-talk or what have you, even something unknown to Monty'sconsciousness, tipped the opponent's hand, telling Monty when to call, betor raise.Watching him play I was tempted to believe in thoughttransference, and I am not sure now that he was not clairvoyant.I do notmean this in the sense that he knew the card his opponent was going to draw before it left the deck - but once the opponent knew the card, I oftenfelt that Monty knew it too.IIIThat night I found seated at the table Hairlip Slocum, the banker's son;Salty, the horse trader; Chic Chillum, the chicken picker; Bert Wills, theland speculator, and Doc Prittle.Chic, Salty and Doc were small fry.Hairlip, if he could get the money from his dad, could be tapped.Bert wasland poor with extensive timber and farm holdings.Monty was cutting the game so I played extra cautiously because I had toante.The game had been droning along for a couple of hours whensuddenly it came to life [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]