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...Underwood: "A royal flush. But as times progressed and we reached modern developments and modern ideas, innovations have been introduced into the game. They now allow deuces to run wild. I believe that is the term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cloture Poker | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...have played the game of draw poker. I regret to say I am not an expert. That has been forcibly illustrated to me. The old game of draw poker has certain manifest rules and regulations as to what is the highest hand. I believe it is called a straight flush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cloture Poker | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

Several Senatorial Voices: "A royal flush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cloture Poker | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

Writing in the first flush of excitement, a reporter apparently can secure effects comparable to these of Poe's compendium of sudden death. Thus crime presents an attractive exterior quite concealing the sordidness beneath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PERVERTED ARIEL | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

...sons do we know it. And faro and monte are not unknown mysteries even in the modern and effete east; we have met the southern planter and the river boat gambler before, and still do we, their unworthy descendants, endeavor to fill on kings or bluff a bobtailed flush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Romance in Cocked Hats and Sbirt Sleeves | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

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