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Queer Luck: Poker Stories from the New York Sun

David A. Curtis · Short_Stories · 16 章

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Queer Luck Contents Why he Quit the Game THE EXCITEMENT OF A PHENOMENAL STRUGGLE TOOK HIM TO THE VERGE OF DISHONOR Freeze-out for a Life AN OLD GAME UNDER NEW CIRCUMSTANCES A Gambler’s Pistol Play ENDING OF A POKER GAME IN FLOOD TIME IN ARKANSAS CITY Queer Runs of Luck VARIOUS YARNS, INCLUDING ONE OF THE MAN AND THE OPAL Storms’s Straight Flush IT CAME NEAR COSTING HIS LIFE AND ANOTHER’S For a Senate Seat A POKER GAME IN MINNESOTA THAT HAD POLITICAL IMPORTANCE The Bill Went Through THE USE THE LOBBY USED TO MAKE OF POKER Poker for High Stakes A BOUT WITH CARD SHARPERS ON A MISSISSIPPI BOAT “Overland Jack” HOW A WESTERN CROOK HAD FUN WITH SOME SHARP NEW YORKERS His Last Sunday Game HE WAS BETTING ON A JACK-POT WHEN THE YACHT UPSET Foss Stopped the Game ONE OF THE DUTIES OF AN OLD-TIME MISSISSIPPI RIVER PACKET CAPTAIN He Played for His Wife A FREEZE-OUT GAME BETWEEN A HUSBAND AND HIS RIVAL The Club’s Last Game IT TAUGHT AN INTERESTING MORAL ABOUT RAISING THE LIMIT THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE