This took him to poker.
"I didn't do that thing right the other day," he thought, referring to his loss of sixty dollars.

"I shouldn't have weakened.

I could have bluffed that fellow down.

I wasn't in form, that's what ailed me." Then he studied the possibilities of the game as it had been played, and began to figure how he might have won, in several instances, by bluffing a little harder.
"I'm old enough to play poker and do something with it.

I'll try my hand to-night." Visions of a big stake floated before him.