“For more than 30 years, a group of city men met for cards and fellowship, but now only two remainForty-nine rare poker hands hang from the walls of Buzz Chalk’s North Baltimore basement. Each is framed and sealed under glass, splayed against white mats inscribed with names of the living and the dead. Some of the hands belong to Chalk. But most belong to his Hampden-area neighbors.
The oldest is a royal flush of diamonds dealt to Chalk on Jan. 23, 1976. One of the most recent is a straight flush of diamonds, nine high, that won George Lopez a pot of plastic poker chips on March 20, 1999…”
