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Things he did , no matter how adventitious or spontaneous , struck the popular imagination as remarkable . And the latest thing he had done was always on men 's lips , whether it was being first in the heartbreaking stampede to Danish Creek , in killing the record baldface grizzly over on Sulphur Creek , or in winning the single-paddle canoe race on the Queen 's Birthday , after being forced to participate at the last moment by the failure of the sourdough representative to appear . Thus , one night in the Moosehorn , he locked horns with Jack Kearns in the long-promised return game of poker . The sky and eight o'clock in the morning were made the limits , and at the close of the game Daylight 's winnings were two hundred and thirty thousand dollars . To Jack Kearns , already a several-times millionaire , this loss was not vital . But the whole community was thrilled by the size of the stakes , and each one of the dozen correspondents in the field sent out a sensational article . -LSB- 6 -RSB- To copper : a term in faro , meaning to play a card to lose .