A SOCIETY FOR THE REFORMATION OF POKER PLAYERS by ROBERT BARR

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short Stories and Tales. This is your host John Hagadorn.
0:36.3	Today another story from one of my favorite and newly discovered writers Robert Barr.
0:42.4	This story titled A Society for the Reformation of Poker Players.
0:47.0	O unseen hand that ever makes and deals us and plays our game. That now obscures and then
0:56.6	to light reveals us. Serves blanks of fame. How vain our shuffling, bluff and weak pretending.
1:04.0	Tis thou alone can name the final ending.
1:09.0	The seductive game of poker is one that I do not understand. I do not care to understand it because it cannot be played without the putting up of a good deal of the coin of the realm.
1:20.0	And although I have nothing to say against betting, my own theory of conduct in the matter is this, that I want no man's money which I do not earn, and I do not want any man to get my money unless he earns it. So what happens in the matter of
1:34.8	cards? I content myself with Euchre and other games which do not require the
1:39.9	waging of money. On board the Atlantic steamer there is always more or less gambling.
1:46.3	I've heard it said that men make trips to and fro merely for the purpose of fleecing
1:50.6	their fellow passengers, but, except except in one instance I never had an experience with this sort of thing.
1:57.0	Our little society for the reformation of poker players, or to speak more correctly correctly for the reformation of one
2:04.2	particular poker player was formed one bright starlit night latitude such a
2:09.5	number and longitude something else as four of us sat on a seat at the extreme rear end of the great steamer.
2:17.0	We four, with one other, set at a small table in the saloon.
2:21.0	One of the small tables on a transatlantic steamer is very
2:24.7	pleasant if you have a nice crowd with you. A seat at a small table compares with
2:29.6	a seat at the large table as living in a village compares with living in a city. You have some
2:35.3	individuality at the short table. You're merely one of a crowd at the long table.
2:41.3	Our small table was not quite full. I had the honor of sitting at the head of it,
2:46.4	and on each side of me were two young fellows, making five altogether. We all rather prided ourselves on the fact that there were no ladies at our little table.
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