If a man bets his clothes in a poker game he should take the precaution to have some way by which he could reach his home safely in case he loses. However, Pokes failed to take this precaution, so after having lost everything in the game he suddenly realizes his predicament and refuses to give up his trousers. When his fellow players insist on the payment of his bet, Pokes seeks refuge in flight, clad only in his undershirt and pants. Pokes steals a policeman’s coat and hat and wends his way back to the clubroom. When he bursts in on the players they are terrified at the uniform, and failing to recognize Pokes in his disguise, they dive pell-mell through the window, leaving all the money on the table. Failing to find his clothes, which have been removed. Pokes appropriates the money in payment for his lost attire and starts for home. On his way he passes a saloon, where Jabbs is engaged in an altercation. In the fight Jabbs’ new silk hat is knocked off his head and flies outside the saloon, landing on Pokes’ head, who wears it away in glee. He conceals the money inside the band of the hat and crawls through the window of his house, where he finds his wife awaiting him with open but far-from-loving arms. Hanging the hat on a burning gas bracket, Pokes falls asleep, but his wife smells the blazing hat and hurls it out the window. The hat fails on Jabbs, who lives next door, just as he is about to enter his home. Recognizing the hat as his own, Jabbs is delighted, but fails to find the money. The next rooming Pokes, on missing the hat and being informed by his wife that she had hurled it from the window, is in despair over the loss of the money. On searching for the hat he sees it lying on the table in Jabbs’ home, but is unable to reach it. He enlists the aid of a policeman, but Jabbs, entering the room at this moment, wrecks all the well-made plans of Pokes and his ally and routs them ignominiously.