Here's one I know I haven't told yet.
Harry "Poochie" Sexton, a great player but god love him, not the biggest money player around. Harry just loved playing 5-10 a game, 20-30-50 dollar sets and would run out for days. Harry was a bar table monster too, damn what a break.
Anyway he gets matched up with Bobby Hunter one night.
Freddie Salem is staking Poochie and I dont know who was staking Bobby. They agree on 5 ahead 9-ball and Freddie says to Bobbys' stakehorse how much? The guy holds his hand up with all fingers out and tells Freddie "How about 5?" Freddie says OK and they start playing.
Well Harry starts out just playing flawless and he's up 2 sets pretty quick, then Bobby wins a set, Harry wins a set back to go up 2 sets again.
Some guy Harry knows comes in and starts sweatin the game where Harry is sitting. He says "How you hittin em Pooch?" Harry tells him real mildly hes playing pretty good. Now the guys says "What are you playing for?" and Harry tells him $500 a set. We started laughing and someone told him "Harry, you're playing for $5,000 a set!"
Harry gets up and asks Freddie what they're playing for? Freddie says "5", Harry says "5 hundred?", Freddie says "No 5 thousand".
I think he was just stunned that he thought he was playing for 5 hundred and it was really 5 thousand but he actually started gettin pale looking and he asked Freddie if they could quit after that set cause he didn't feel good. Well everybody loved Poochie and Freddie said no problem.
Bobby wins that set and Freddie tells them Harry has to quit cause he isn't feeling good and they say no problem even though they're stuck one set. No bull or bichin about being quit winners, just class.
We were just laughing and Red kept telling Harry "You're probly not to sick to spend that money are yah?"
Harry "Poochie" Sexton, a great player but god love him, not the biggest money player around. Harry just loved playing 5-10 a game, 20-30-50 dollar sets and would run out for days. Harry was a bar table monster too, damn what a break.
Anyway he gets matched up with Bobby Hunter one night.
Freddie Salem is staking Poochie and I dont know who was staking Bobby. They agree on 5 ahead 9-ball and Freddie says to Bobbys' stakehorse how much? The guy holds his hand up with all fingers out and tells Freddie "How about 5?" Freddie says OK and they start playing.
Well Harry starts out just playing flawless and he's up 2 sets pretty quick, then Bobby wins a set, Harry wins a set back to go up 2 sets again.
Some guy Harry knows comes in and starts sweatin the game where Harry is sitting. He says "How you hittin em Pooch?" Harry tells him real mildly hes playing pretty good. Now the guys says "What are you playing for?" and Harry tells him $500 a set. We started laughing and someone told him "Harry, you're playing for $5,000 a set!"
Harry gets up and asks Freddie what they're playing for? Freddie says "5", Harry says "5 hundred?", Freddie says "No 5 thousand".
I think he was just stunned that he thought he was playing for 5 hundred and it was really 5 thousand but he actually started gettin pale looking and he asked Freddie if they could quit after that set cause he didn't feel good. Well everybody loved Poochie and Freddie said no problem.
Bobby wins that set and Freddie tells them Harry has to quit cause he isn't feeling good and they say no problem even though they're stuck one set. No bull or bichin about being quit winners, just class.
We were just laughing and Red kept telling Harry "You're probly not to sick to spend that money are yah?"