RE: [ba-poker] RE: poker in German-speaking countries (was: learning by doing)

["Uncle Roger" <rogerc22(deleted the rest)>]

> You know, not in Hamlet, but in "All's Well that Ends Well" I did read 
> about that method for protecting poker hands when one player had to go out 
> to replenish his chips.  When the next similar confrontation occurred, the 
> other players would continue short-handed, unless folks wanted to play over 
> the temporarily absent players, with the understanding, of course, that 
> they would relinquish their seats when the absent players returned.  
> Sometimes the house safe would be crammed full of sealed envelopes, each 
> representing the hand of a player out seeking funds, each marked with a 
> deadline time for return.  Things sometimes got tricky when they tried to 
> match up decks with sealed hands.  On one famous occasion, Lafew and 
> Parolles both ended up with royal flushes in spades.  It all ended well, 
> though.  They split the pot.

I got some good chuckles out of that reply -- thanks.

One  the Wild West poker stories  takes place on board ship. A group of gold 
miners, having mde their fortunes, are returning via ship around South 
America.   They're playing poker on the deck and there's a lot of gold in 
the pot.  A gust of wind blows the hero's hand overboard.  He dives in and 
retrieves it, then comes back and bets the rest of his fortune on it.  
Naturally it's a bluff.  Confused by the fake tell, the other player folds.

I don't know whether the ships had big  safes or what the rules were for 
blown-overboard hands.  I defer to Micheal on that.