Queer Luck
by David A. Curtis
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About this eBook
- Author
- Curtis, David A., 1846-1923
- Title
- Queer Luck: Poker Stories from the New York Sun
- Credits
- Produced by ellinora, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Poker players -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57751
- Release Date
- August 23, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Queer Luck
- 2.Contents
- 3.Why he Quit the Game THE EXCITEMENT OF A PHENOMENAL STRUGGLE TOOK HIM TO THE VERGE OF DISHONOR
- 4.Freeze-out for a Life AN OLD GAME UNDER NEW CIRCUMSTANCES
- 5.A Gambler’s Pistol Play ENDING OF A POKER GAME IN FLOOD TIME IN ARKANSAS CITY
- 6.Queer Runs of Luck VARIOUS YARNS, INCLUDING ONE OF THE MAN AND THE OPAL
- 7.Storms’s Straight Flush IT CAME NEAR COSTING HIS LIFE AND ANOTHER’S
- 8.For a Senate Seat A POKER GAME IN MINNESOTA THAT HAD POLITICAL IMPORTANCE
- 9.The Bill Went Through THE USE THE LOBBY USED TO MAKE OF POKER
- 10.Poker for High Stakes A BOUT WITH CARD SHARPERS ON A MISSISSIPPI BOAT
- 11.“Overland Jack” HOW A WESTERN CROOK HAD FUN WITH SOME SHARP NEW YORKERS
- 12.His Last Sunday Game HE WAS BETTING ON A JACK-POT WHEN THE YACHT UPSET
- 13.Foss Stopped the Game ONE OF THE DUTIES OF AN OLD-TIME MISSISSIPPI RIVER PACKET CAPTAIN
- 14.He Played for His Wife A FREEZE-OUT GAME BETWEEN A HUSBAND AND HIS RIVAL
- 15.The Club’s Last Game IT TAUGHT AN INTERESTING MORAL ABOUT RAISING THE LIMIT
- 16.Transcriber’s Notes
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