Pretty cool 6 minute contest! You guys were pretty fast and Jim Gagnon was surely impressive with his clairvoyant entry! Well, I had a blast!

Answers found in the book The Education Of A Poker Player by Herbert O. Yardley copyright 1957. I’d heard of this book and found it on eBay paired with The Cincinnati Kid. The seller was Mr. Leonard Schneir and I was transported back in time to the poker tables of Covington, Newport, St. Louis and even WWII Haiphong and Chungking. Kid was a real surpise for a fan of the flick and I figured I’d learn 5-card stud in case Lancey ever swings through this way so I read Yardley’s tales. “Stay’. “no stay’, simpletons and suckers, the anachronisms in these books that were used when some of the chips we have in our collections were on the tables