Fred Ferris Poker

Fred Bernard 'Sarge' Ferris (December 1, 1928 – March 12, 1989) was an American professional poker player. In 1978, Ferris was considered among the top 12 poker players in the world at that time, as ranked by Poker Magazine. In the 1980 World Series of Poker, Ferris won a World Series of Poker bracelet in deuce-to-seven draw, winning $150,000. Ferris played poker and played it well. Realizing that some people play poker for fun and some played it as a hobby, few of them had what it took to play for a living. Fred 'Sarge' Ferris knew he did. Fred 'Sarge' Ferris grew up in the Great Depression and his father did everything to put food on the table. Fred 'Sarge' Ferris (December 1, 1928 – March 12, 1989) – Ferris won his only WSOP bracelet in the 1980 2-7 draw event. He defeated Doyle Brunson, who came in second, and 1980 WSOP Main Event winner Bobby Baldwin, who placed third. September 3rd, 2019 09:56. Every Poker player's ultimate desire is to get inducted in the prestigious Poker Hall of Fame. Located at Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, it was founded by Benny Binion in 1979 to market his casino as well as to honor world's greatest Poker players who demonstrated exceptional skills at the felt and contributed to the growth and success of the game.

Fred Bernard 'Sarge' Ferris (December 1, 1928 – March 12, 1989) was an American professional poker player. In 1978, Ferris was considered among the top 12 poker players in the world at that time, as ranked by Poker Magazine.

In the 1980 World Series of Poker, Ferris won a World Series of Pokerbracelet in deuce-to-seven draw, winning $150,000.^[1] He defeated some of the best professional poker players of that time to win the tournament, including two-time world champion Doyle Brunson, who finished the tournament in second place, and 1978 WSOP Main Event champion Bobby Baldwin, who finished third.

He won a tournament at the 1983 Super Bowl of Poker, organized by Amarillo Slim. Ferris was mainly a cash game player, but also had tournament winnings exceeding $240,000.^[2]

On April 22, 1983, Ferris gained notoriety as the Internal Revenue Service seized $46,000 during a high-stakes game at the Horseshoe Casino.

Ferris died in March 1989, and was posthumously inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in December of that year.^[3]

References[edit]

1. ^Hendon Mob database
2. ^Hendon Mob Database
3. ^Poker Hall of Fame inducteesArchived January 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Accessed March 2, 2008

Based on information from Bruce Herhenson, passed on by Don Smolen.

Introduction

Despite the name, this game is more like a Whist variant than a Bridge variant - there is no bidding and the play ends as soon as one of the two players has more than half of the tricks. The turnover format, in which new cards are turned up when the cards covering them are played, has been used to create two-player versions of many different card games. Unusually, this game found success for a while as a high stakes gambling game, as recounted below.

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Players, cards and deal

Either player may deal first. The turn to deal alternates. The dealer shuffles the cards and the dealer's opponent cuts.

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Each player is dealt 26 cards. The first twelve cards for each player are laid out face down on the table, the next twelve are dealt face up, on on top of each face down card. Each player can see the other player's 12 up cards. The remaining two cards are hidden 'hole cards' that each player keeps private, and can be led or played to any trick, subject to the requirement to follow suit.

The play and result

The non-dealer leads to the first trick. Thereafter the winner of each trick leads to the next.

When leading to a trick, you may play any of your face up cards from the table or one of your hole cards. The other player responds by playing a card from his or her face up cards or hole cards. If possible the other player must 'follow suit' - that is, play a card of the same suit that was led. If unable to follow suit, the other player may respond with a trump (spade) or a card of any other suit.

• If both cards in the trick are the same suit, the higher card wins.
• If one card is a trump (spade) and the other is not, the spade wins, irrespective of rank.
• If the cards are of different suits and neither is a spade, the first player's card (the led card) wins, even if the other card is higher.

After each trick, if either player has exposed a face down card by playing the face up card on top of it, the face down card is turned face up and becomes available to play.

The aim is to win the majority of the 26 tricks, that is at least 14 tricks. $25 slot machine jackpot. The player who does so wins a fixed stake.

There is no extra bonus for winning more than 14 tricks, so as soon as either player has 14 the play ends, the winner is paid, the cards are shuffled and the next hand is dealt.

If the players win 13 tricks each, the hand is a tie and there is no payment.

Tactics

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Generally it is a good idea to play your initial face up cards as soon as possible, both to see your hidden cards and be able to use them, and to make winners out of middle cards before your opponent can turn over higher cards.

It is clearly worthwhile to remember what cards have been played and the player who can do this accurately has a significant advantage in the long run.

Background Story

Bruce Herhenson writes:

'In 1974, when I was a professional poker player, I was really good at a two handed bridge game called 'turnover bridge' that the top poker players liked to play (I had played 'regular' bridge for several years before going to Las Vegas, and won many tournaments).

Like poker, it has a lot of luck in the short run, so a bad player could often beat a good player over a short time, and surprisingly it 'caught on' in the Dunes Poker room from 1973 to 1977 or so. I was a really great player at it, but there was one fellow, Dave Levine, known as 'Little Red' who was better than me. I played it for very high stakes against Puggy Pearson, Fred 'Sarge' Ferris, and others. Eventually no one would play me, but around that time they banned non-poker playing from the poker rooms.

Arnold Rothstein was the legendary poker player/gambler of the early Twentieth Century who is best remembered for 'fixing' the 1919 World Series. At the end of his life in 1928, he himself was cheated in a poker game of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and he refused to pay, saying he had nothing to fear from those he owed the money to, because 'they can't collect from a dead man'. Unfortunately once they realized he would never pay, he was brutally murdered. One of the players at that game was 21 year old Joe Bernstein, a really colorful poker player/gambler who lived until 1975.

One day in 1974 Joe Bernstein came in the Dunes Poker Room when there were no games, and I was playing turnover bridge with another regular, and Joe asked me to play with him instead. I had no idea who this distinguished white haired man was, but since I considered myself an expert I doubted he could beat me, so I readily agreed to play. We played for $20 a hand (I was still of modest means) and I won a couple of hundred dollars, and Joe quit, saying I was 'too good'.

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Later old pros came in and I learned who the man was, and I could not get over that here I was playing cards with a man who had played in that legendary last poker game with Arnold Rothstein 45 years before!'