It might be helpful to some of you not acquainted with the terminology and etiquette of the gambling culture to define terms and customs .
When you are not involved in a game it is customary to keep your advice and comments to yourself,but alas we know how difficult that can be,
A certain personality finds that he lacks the skills courage and wherewithal to actually enter the arena of high dollar play and he finds a subtle intellectual satisfaction in displaying his knowledge and understanding of the game to anyone who is willing and often to many who are totally unwilling to listen.
This procedure has been around since time began and is never more cancerous than when the knocker takes on an investigative nature.He fancies himself a paragon of virtue serving the entire pool room with information about any and everyone's relative skill level and seems to smell out collusion,conspiracy and suspicion any time two people match up
For example if he has no information he loves to talk of the prevalence and frequency of one player to actually lose the stake horses money on purpose for the opportunity of splitting the money with his co heart.The effect of this talk is particularly insidious as it reduces the confidence level of anyone to bet on anything. It also tends to cast aspersions upon the integrity of anyone who is playing,whether or not he is or ever has been accused much less convicted of throwing the game.
This little fella tries to cloak his all too nasty knocking habit under the guise of helpful
information as if the right of full disclosure was everyone's right as an American citizen
The knocker might hold court and point out the decline and fall of the great game of pool in general and action pool in particular while he is actually the one guilty of killing the game for everyone
The knocker is often referred to as a pool detective,So Ronnie Allen comes in the front door and asks someone to play.the knocker tells B,'that is RA who beat player B in St Paul,and player c in Torrence and is a friend of our own DC who can't be trusted anyway after winning a few thousand last week before I got here to help you guys
As you can see this despicable knocker never plays without the nuts and then starts cheap but imagines that he is part of the in crowd of player and smarts.So he appears to be protecting player a from player B,next he protects player B from player A .All the time he is protecting his fragile ego or self image from coming face to face that he either has no talent or lacks the courage to risk his own money playing while maintaining the image of himself and hopefully others in his own eyes
The knocker might play $5 pool but he will bet say $100 on someone else and should they lose he will inform one and all that he is a dog,the player
This is the sad picture of the plague of the pool scene public enemy number one.the knocker.Samson slew 1000 philistines with the jaw bone of an ass,but this self appointed pool pontificate has slain many more with the same instrument Samson used
So now that we have given the general description of this character I have spent too much time to tell you the story of how to deal with this character that plagues every pool room in the USA
If a few of you are interested or find this idea of a thread interesting post up and I will continue,if not i will drop the whole idea
When you are not involved in a game it is customary to keep your advice and comments to yourself,but alas we know how difficult that can be,
A certain personality finds that he lacks the skills courage and wherewithal to actually enter the arena of high dollar play and he finds a subtle intellectual satisfaction in displaying his knowledge and understanding of the game to anyone who is willing and often to many who are totally unwilling to listen.
This procedure has been around since time began and is never more cancerous than when the knocker takes on an investigative nature.He fancies himself a paragon of virtue serving the entire pool room with information about any and everyone's relative skill level and seems to smell out collusion,conspiracy and suspicion any time two people match up
For example if he has no information he loves to talk of the prevalence and frequency of one player to actually lose the stake horses money on purpose for the opportunity of splitting the money with his co heart.The effect of this talk is particularly insidious as it reduces the confidence level of anyone to bet on anything. It also tends to cast aspersions upon the integrity of anyone who is playing,whether or not he is or ever has been accused much less convicted of throwing the game.
This little fella tries to cloak his all too nasty knocking habit under the guise of helpful
information as if the right of full disclosure was everyone's right as an American citizen
The knocker might hold court and point out the decline and fall of the great game of pool in general and action pool in particular while he is actually the one guilty of killing the game for everyone
The knocker is often referred to as a pool detective,So Ronnie Allen comes in the front door and asks someone to play.the knocker tells B,'that is RA who beat player B in St Paul,and player c in Torrence and is a friend of our own DC who can't be trusted anyway after winning a few thousand last week before I got here to help you guys
As you can see this despicable knocker never plays without the nuts and then starts cheap but imagines that he is part of the in crowd of player and smarts.So he appears to be protecting player a from player B,next he protects player B from player A .All the time he is protecting his fragile ego or self image from coming face to face that he either has no talent or lacks the courage to risk his own money playing while maintaining the image of himself and hopefully others in his own eyes
The knocker might play $5 pool but he will bet say $100 on someone else and should they lose he will inform one and all that he is a dog,the player
This is the sad picture of the plague of the pool scene public enemy number one.the knocker.Samson slew 1000 philistines with the jaw bone of an ass,but this self appointed pool pontificate has slain many more with the same instrument Samson used
So now that we have given the general description of this character I have spent too much time to tell you the story of how to deal with this character that plagues every pool room in the USA
If a few of you are interested or find this idea of a thread interesting post up and I will continue,if not i will drop the whole idea
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