Judge — February 10, 1923 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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"Lete play— A Page of Indoor Sports for Indoor Sports Conducted by Norman ANTHONY THIS WEEK'S GAME POKER-BRIDGE I by Poker-Brince all bidding and scor- ing is done with chips. There is no point score for rubbers or honors. Each player buys an equal number of chips, but as the stocks are mutual he divides with his partner at the end of each game, or pivot, and it makes no difference which pile the chips are taken from. If one player runs out of chips he draws from his partner's pile. When both stacks are exhausted partners may buy again in equal amounts. Before pivoting, the part- ners divide their combined chips. The new partners start again with equal amounts, each with the number of chips of the partner havin t. For example if A, with 100 chips, and B, with fifty, become partners, they start with fifty each, and A puts his extra fifty to one side. If both run out of chips, A uses his extra fifty and B buys fifty. At the beginning of each hand, each player antes five chips in the pot. In bidding, one chip is anted for each trick bid, no matter what the suit, and one chip for passing. If all pass, the pot re- mains for the next hand, and there is no re-ante. Our Own Bridge Examples Hearts are trumps. Y leads with the it question, keeping — the dal of the Brown divorce cas ntry. Bo describes the it that afternoon, and follows with the Jones weddi Zs cocktails have begun to go dead on him, A wants four odd, Can he make it? ~Answer—No. serv M She makes a lot of dough. Now his bank roll’s out o! than never to hay game of Pung Chow. W. O. R. of Newark, and harken to Mr. ler “pungin, " Here is an example of play: (anteing one chip), B bids one club, by announeing his bid and anteing one chip. C bids two diamonds (anteing two chips), D bids two no trump (anteing two chips). A, B and C pass, each anteing one chip. D makes three no-trump, winning the pot, and one chip from each of his oppo- nents for each extra trick over his bid. A bonus of five chips by each opponent is paid for a little Slam and ten chips each for a grand Slam. If D is set, the op- t the pot, and a chip each set. If D ponents from B and D for each t is doubled and set he pays each opponent two chips for each trick set. Redoubled four. If D is doubled and makes his con- tract he gets two chips from each opponent for each trick over his bid. If redoubled four chips. To double, a player ante chips in the pot saying “I double,” the player doubled must call the double by anteing the same amount. To re- double the same rule applies. The same rule also applies if a player wishes to change the bid after a double. He must first call the five chips and also-ante for the bid he makes. Any questions that come up on Poker- lad to answer. Mother Goose A “Bridged” Edition ary had a little siam She fleeced them white as snow t everywhere that Mary goes Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, Playing a cent a point; Bid five no trump, like an awful chump, joint. r * . You can lead a card to dummy but you cannot make him finesse. Tis better to have bluffed and lost bluffed at all. * Listen in on This! Paging Pa and Mah Jong! Have you a little radio in’ your home? — If wu have, get out the old card table every sday and Thursday night and start a Then tune in with L. L. Harr, who will go to great wave ths © you a personal lesson in and “chowing. 1s /WAROLD Vou TURN THAT LIGUT RIGHT ONS —_— “Game called on account of darkness” Judge's PUNG CHOW Column Also known as MAW JONG ° (ee*] By LL. Harr, t Q' gestion continued from last week— “How to play a skillful hand.” 3. It is poor policy to ‘chow a Tile” at the beginning of play, in order to make a sequence, as a sequence has no scoring nd through your eagerness. to you may miss the chance of draw- iles from the wall that would im- » your hand. However, if you are it is well to opportunity. of If East Wind wins he going Mi gets paid dout t. Do not “collect” dragons, just. be- cause they are doubling honor pieces, especially when you have 1 hand that is hard to improve. Discard single red, green or white dragons, because the longer you cling to these honor pieces, the stronger the probability that’ your opponents will “Pung” when you do make up your mind to discard them. Question—If two players “chow” the same Tile, which one has the precedence Answer—The player nearest’ the dis- carder in counter clockwise direction. Question—If a player has three of a kind exposed can he “pung” to make the fourth? Answer—No, comichooks.