Jack Pots: stories of the great American game

This is a collection of wonderful poker stories, some obviously pure fiction, some based on true facts, at least some of the actors are historical figures that did indeed exist. It reveals a good amount of how card sharps plied their trade, and illustrates many of the local differences in playing draw poker.

• CHAPTER I
  • What Is Poker
  • Its Origin, And Why We Like It
• CHAPTER II
  • The Early Days Of Poker
  • Steamboat Games
  • A Mammoth Raise
  • Bowie's Good Deed
• CHAPTER III
  • Poker In Washington
  • A Story Of Henry Clay
  • Cabinet Players
  • Mahone's Rule
  • When Reed Was Called
• CHAPTER IV
  • Poker In London And Paris
  • John Bull's Two Pair
  • A Game With The Prince Of Wales
• CHAPTER V
  • Poker And Jurisprudence
  • Various Decisions By Legal Luminaries
  • How The Judge Overruled The Motion
  • The Sheriff Took The Pot
• CHAPTER VI
  • All About Jack Pots
  • A $1,200,000 Jack
  • Didn't Know Greenbacks
  • Won On Two Deuces
  • A Boston Man's Narrow Escape
• CHAPTER VII
  • The Scheme For A National Jack Pot
  • A Jack Pot Without Cards
• CHAPTER VIII
  • Women And Poker
  • Arguments To Show That They Can't Play And A Story To Prove That They Can
• CHAPTER IX
  • Old Time Poker In The South
  • A Jack Pot Of Niggers
  • Colonel Rafael And His Honor
• CHAPTER X
  • Poker And Hypnotism
  • A Young Man Who Can Read Cards
  • How Five Aces Were Beaten: Callaway hypnotises his opponent to see four aces and a joker (five aces) as nothing but a full house, and Callaway's bobtail flush as four aces. Callaway takes the pot.
  • The Man Who Laid Down A Straight Flush
• CHAPTER XI
  • A Life-Long Game
  • The Great Morgan-Danielson Betting Match
  • Four Hours To Open A Jack Pot
  • Three Thousand Dollars For A Nap
• CHAPTER XII
  • About Bluffing
  • $200,000 On A Pair Of Tens
  • A Bluff That Turned Into A Flush
  • Major Edwards And The Tenderfoot
• CHAPTER XIII
  • Tom Custer's Luck
  • A Girl Makes The Best Draw On Record
  • How A Townsite Was Won On Two Deuces
  • Lucky Baldwin's Big Play
• CHAPTER XIV
  • Six Cards In One Hand
  • Two Games Wherein Six Cards Figured
  • What Became Of The Extra One
• CHAPTER XV
  • Poker In The Centennial State
  • Big Betting On Small Hands
  • How Three Klondikers Played Cards
• CHAPTER XVI
  • Children And Poker
  • Too Much Frankness
  • Daddy And Dinah
  • How The Tom Fool Had Them "All Alike"
• CHAPTER XVII
  • The Police And The Gamblers
  • A Down East Selectman
  • A Bunko Game At Los Angeles
  • Story Of The Short-Card Man
• CHAPTER XVIII
  • Superstitious Players
  • Queens And Tens
  • Louis Laid Them Down
  • Euchre And Poker
  • An Old Story
• CHAPTER XIX
  • Reminiscences Of William Hurt, Reformed
  • John Dougherty's Bet Of Arizona Territory
  • His Adventures In Persia
• CHAPTER XX
  • Now The Bear Spoiled The Jack Pot
  • Touching Tale Of A Dog That Tipped Off Poker Hands To His Master
• CHAPTER XXI
  • Practical Joking
  • How The Dentist Was Fixed
  • The Fresh Baseball Reporter And The Players
• CHAPTER XXII
  • Crooked Gambling
  • An Expert Explains The Mysteries Of Second Card, Paper Men And Hold Outs
• CHAPTER XXIII
  • Classic Tales Of Poker
  • The One-Eyed Man
  • Origin Of The Looloo
  • Four Kings As Bank Collateral
  • Jay Gould As A Philanthropist
• CHAPTER XXIV
  • The Poetry Of Poker
  • Ditties, Wise And Otherwise, About The Great National Game

1st edition 1900; 342 pages; PDF 187 pages.
word count: 75387 which is equivalent to 301 standard pages of text

Publisher: Jamieson-Higgins