Why do you carry so much GREEN? Single Guy?????:thumbup: "I will usually have 1500-3k on me"
What's your take on people that won't gamble?
- Thread starter poolplayer2093
- Start date
Why do you carry so much GREEN? Single Guy?????:thumbup: "I will usually have 1500-3k on me"
1 of the funniest pool stories i've heard was told to me by a New Orleans pool player named Downtown Eddie Brown...Eddie "A black fellow" said a well known Black pool player "Mark Tadd"comes to the sport palace in New Orleans years ago & Eddie recognizes him right off the back..Mark ask Eddie to play some $100 dollar sets...Eddie says sure..never letting on that he knew who Mark was...Mark loses 3 sets in a row & tells Eddie...I can't beat you but you got my nose open..U want to play for $500..Eddie breaks his stick down & says...You Mark Tadd,,,that Black guy from California...I don't want to play u nothing..Mark"being light skinned" says I aint black... I'm Mexican...Eddie spouts back..Man "U a n.gga just like me & u been HAD TADD...to hear Eddie tell the story is funny as hell.
That's a funny story
These days I'm sure someone would jump up and say "what! He can't quit winner, what a nit move!" I'm kind of a noob about this stuff but was the idea that he'd lose 3 $100 dollar sets and then win the $500? Seems like a lot of work for a $200 payday. I guess he figured even after losing the $500 set Eddie will want to play some more, as long as Mark lays down well enough to make it look lucky?
You sir, get it.......
I have just always had that much on me since about 1992 when I first started playing pool at Ft Benning Ga. I am always running across deals and dont want to hassle with going to the bank to get money. If it is more than what I have on me, I will just run home and get however much I need. People are always hurting for money and I have found if you have cash on you, you tend to get some pretty good deals from other people hurting for money.
I live by the old axiom - You can't lose what you what you don't bet. In this sluggish economy with children to feed it would be irresponsible (of me) to gamble. I generally stay away from the known gamblers while I'm playing, although when I'm done I will certainly go and watch. a match worth anywhere between a couple of hundred and several thousand dollars is usually pretty good and the people around it will bet on anything from from the next shot to the color of chalk the shooter will use. It's an education and fun to watch the the people with money down, it's a real study in human behavior and I learned early on to stay out of it. I wasn't blessed with the kind of luck it takes to gamble. I'd much rather know I'll be eating and drinking than wondering if I will, you know?
man this is a tough crowd. someone called me a nit because i don't like to play for free and someone else says i'm playing too cheap. can't win for losing here
Nah, brother, your not a nit at all...its your money, you use it however you see fit. Nobody can call you a nit for doing what you want with your money...
I do not gamble because I was married to a gambling addict and lost everything more than once due to the disease. I was also a casino dealer in NV and watched far too many people I knew lose it all...and one friend who lost everything and then took her own life, leaving her wheelchair bound husband alone and destitute. Until you have lived through it, you cannot possibly know.
Lisa
Lisa
That's right, he's not a nit. Nobody can call him a nit for doing what he wants to with his money, just like the non-gambler has the right to do what they want with theirs.
By the same token, he has no right to tell people to "bet something, play someone, or go the f*uck home" !!! Here is his quote from his original post:
am i the only one that feels people should bet something, play someone, or go the f*ck home!
I think this statement is what has most of the non-gamblers rankled. It was wrong of him (IMO) to have said those words in the context he used them. I don't have proof, but I bet most of the people he rankled are keeping this thread alive thinking he will admit that that part of his thread was written in error, that maybe it should have been worded differently. I don't think poolplayer is gonna do that though.
I will say this, I'd like for him to come up to me in a poolhall while I'm practicing alone and tell me to go the f*uck home if I wouldn't gamble or play him :wink:!!!
Maniac
gambling isn't a disease imo. that's just what addicts call it so it's easier to accept.
No offense; but, if you don't gamble, why are you offering someone to someone that will? Just leave it alone. You, being the "oh I gotta guy" are the exact person I'm talking about. If you don't gamble, fine. Say so. Don't offer action from OTHER people. Again, no offense, but lock me and you in a room and I'll make the game sound so good, you gotta play. Then, talk to me afterwards. If you don't gamble, don't even answer this "answer." How's that? And if there's a thousand people that will play me even in one state for the same amount each, I'll leave a happy mother fu#@er. Ten or twenty might win. (might, unless it's one poolplayin' fu#$in' state, then I'll admit to a few more) And the rest will pay off my boat. Line'em up for the Craw. Call me or PM me with your list of the thousand. I'll start from the bottom.
By the way, I have plenty of people here in the Carolinas that can't wait to get to you for free. Hey, if they don't win, they couldn't give two shits since it didn't cost them a dime.
Last edited:
See, that's a MAN's comment. Rep to you.
My buddy started as a Change Guy on the Slot Lines at Del Webb's Hi Sierra Casino in Stateline NV. He worker his way up to a suit job in the casino, he called customer relations. He told of many people who drove their cars to Stateline to make a killing, went home on a Greyhound after the Casino bought the Bus Ticket home, because they lost it all in the casino including their ride they pawn because they knew it all they need to win.
A good pool hustler will always keep you thinking next time you will win. Next time could be the next game, set, or the next time you cross their path.
did you quote the wrong post?
Simply a matter of semantics.
An addiction is often called a disease. I'm not a doctor and I don't play one one TV. But if you read a bit you will find that addictions need treatment, much like a disease does.
And there are gambling addicts. That doesn't mean that everyone who gambles will become an addict, no more than everyone who drinks will become an alcoholic. What it does mean is that some people are susceptible to over-indulgence where gambling is concerned, and that makes it distasteful to many.
You love to gamble. You actually seem to live to gamble, so you will think of it differently.