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The value of the chips and the limit having been settled upon by agreement among the players, one player acting as banker sells the others as many chips as desired. The deal having been decided by cutting, the age places a blind in the center of the table and the cards are dealt. The players examine their hands, and in turn, beginning with the player to the left of the age, say whether they will come in or pass. If the first player to say decides to stay he must put in the pot double the amount of the blind. He has, however, the right to raise any amount not exceeding the limit. The next player must, if he desires to draw, put in his ante and also see the raise of the first player, if one was made. In turn each player decides to pass or come in, and each player who makes good the ante and the previous raise has the privilege of raising any amount he chooses up to the limit. Every such raise may be equalled by every other player, in turn, who desires to play for that pot.

If all the players should pass without putting up an ante, the age may take down his blind. When one or Men may play and men may win, But I lose on forever.

OFPOKER more players stay in, the age must, in order to stay, add to the blind an amount equal to the ante and the raises, if any have been made.

A player whose raise is more than any of the others will see, wins the pot without showing his hand.

Those players who have made good in the pot may play their original hands or discard from one to five cards and draw a like number, the age drawing first and the others in turn. If the age has passed out the first player to his left who is in the pot draws first. The cards discarded must be placed face down upon the table. Those drawn are taken by the dealer from the top of the pack. After all the players who have made good in the pot have been helped to the cards asked for the betting (after the draw, as it is called) begins. The player on the left of the age bets. If he fails to bet he passes out and relinquishes all interest in that pot. If he bets he may put up any amount not exceeding the limit. Thereupon the next player must see his bet, go better, or pass out, and so on to the left around the table, the age having the last bet.

Should no bet be made after the draw, each player passing out, the pot is won by the last player to say-the It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a "tightwad" to go in on a pair.

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