Talk of Uncle George to His Nephew about Draw Poker / Containing valuable suggestions in connection with this great American game. Also, instruction and directions to clubs and social card parties, whose members play only for recreation and pastime, with timely warnings to young players.

CONTAINING VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS GREAT AMERICAN GAME. ALSO, INSTRUCTION AND DIRECTIONS TO CLUBS AND SOCIAL CARD PARTIES, WHOSE MEMBERS PLAY ONLY FOR RECREATION AND PASTIME, WITH TIMELY WARNINGS TO YOUNG PLAYERS.
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NEW YORK: DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS.
This pamphlet is issued for the purpose of inducing those who engage in this Great American Game of “Draw Poker,” to play only for amusement and pastime; and to expose those in our clubs and social card parties who are tricky, or disposed to cheat. Also to show to the American youth the dangers that beset their path when playing this fascinating game.
While we have treatises on this subject, by Blackbridge, “American Hoyle,” “Schenck,” and others,—all of whom teach the game, with the rules and laws that govern it ,—it has been left for “Uncle George,” in a familiar, conversational manner, to “lay open” and expose this game as it is too often played—with its “lights and shadows,” its bright parts, and “ways that are dark.”
Rather late, my boy, when I heard your footsteps upon the stairs last evening,” said Uncle George to his nephew, while sitting at the breakfast-table on the morning of the 22d of February last.
“I know! I know! my boy. It’s the same ‘old story.’ Those who are losers are playing for ‘hunk,’ as they call it, and those who are winners are too gentlemanly to quit and break up the party. It was the same with your Uncle George fifty years ago. I suppose you mean ‘Draw Poker,’ my boy?”
“Yes.”
“‘The Major-General was a man of smooth and courtly phrase,
Who had most charming manners, and winning little ways.
The hands he held were wonderful,—beyond all sane belief,—
As Colonel Randolph Snaughter found, to his exceeding grief: