This guy's either tougher than Chuck Norris on 'roids or he is a complete idiot. I don't know what rooms he's speaking of but if he pulled that " i'm not payin 'cause you hustled me" in my neck of the woods it would be on like Donkey Kong. Look, we're not in church when it come to gambling at pool. Buyer beware is the motto of the day. Just 'cause somebody is too dense to know he's a mark doesn't allow non-payment. Some of THE worst fights i've ever witnessed started over this. Some butt-hurt loser wants to go out in the parking lot. Some things never change.i guess you are an obvious target.
Pool Hustlers, Tell us the Truth
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^ what he said.^
(I, for one, don't believe a word of his post.)
People who don't pay off on bets, no matter what the 'reason', don't live very long.
He's just being rhetorical.
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I had to stop going to play pool with my best friend cause he was always picking fights, the last time earned him a trip to jail, the guy he fought earned an early set of dentures
Over 10 bucks :frown: , I personally would have just paid up. It was that silly trick shot where you bump the table so the balls spread and the cueball hits the hidden ball (two balls frozen on rail, one ball is on top of the rail behind the two and the target).
nobody but a moron fights anymore
Only a moron or somebody that has nothing and doesn't expect to have anything fights anymore. Used to be you could kick somebody's ass that deserved it and be right back in the same place the next night if you even left the night of the fight. Now you get police, criminal charges, civil suits, taking care of all of this impacts your job. Medical bills for you run into thousands, tens of thousands for the other person's medical bills.
People aren't as tough as they used to be so doing somebody real damage and paying out real bucks or doing pen time are real possibilities. I know of somebody doing eight years for self-defense, they defended themselves too well.
Hu
Only a moron or somebody that has nothing and doesn't expect to have anything fights anymore. Used to be you could kick somebody's ass that deserved it and be right back in the same place the next night if you even left the night of the fight. Now you get police, criminal charges, civil suits, taking care of all of this impacts your job. Medical bills for you run into thousands, tens of thousands for the other person's medical bills.
People aren't as tough as they used to be so doing somebody real damage and paying out real bucks or doing pen time are real possibilities. I know of somebody doing eight years for self-defense, they defended themselves too well.
Hu
This^! It's amazing what people who PLAY pool don't know about PLAYERS. And hustlers and hustling. Try and explain it to one if you like to be exasperated.
What you wrote is 100% true. I had to stop hanging around with a guy because every time we went out, usually to shoot pool, he was trying to start fights. I kept telling him exactly what you said, it's just not worth it.
About 3 months after I stopped hanging around with him, he is at our home bar playing pool. He hugged someone's wife, the husband didn't appreciate it. Said so. And my ex-friend hit him when he was walking away.
The one punch was bad enough, because he knocked him out cold with the first one, but the surveillance video provided to the police indicated that he then got on top of him and hit him 16 more times, breaking his jaw, and putting him in a coma.
He got jail, years of probation that didn't even allowing him to go into a bar, let alone drink. He then tried to commit suicide. And he still owes that guy $50k in medical expenses that he is still trying to pay via a monthly installments.
I had a guy try that ‘gotta bump the table’ gaff on me years ago...
...he was a pretty good player from a small town and thought he knew stuff..
...we just bet $5....so he sets up to hit whitey....I move in close....
...as soon as he hit the cue ball, I tackled him like a foot ball player....heh, heh
As he’s going backward on his ass, he kicked the table at the last second.....
...I couldn’t stop laughing....:killingme:
I paid him his fin and told him to order whatever he wanted from the lunch counter...
...that was quick thinking.
I love the story in Cornbread's book.
He said he would walk into a new place and ask, "Who's the best player in this town?"
After they answered he'd say, "Well you better call him up and tell him he's the SECOND best now!" Lol
No hustling. Just balls. Haha
He said he would walk into a new place and ask, "Who's the best player in this town?"
After they answered he'd say, "Well you better call him up and tell him he's the SECOND best now!" Lol
No hustling. Just balls. Haha
Two of my favorite Alex comebacks, one was when a he was asked what his favorite game was, he said "the one with the most money on it" haha and one time on the subject of luck he said "you got to know HOW to get lucky". Love watching him play and his enthusiasm for the sport. St.
My favorite Lion line....when questioned about how good he was...
...”I might not be the best....but I’ll gamble with the best.”
At the poolhall I'm a regular at, the bangers are pretty much never harassed by the action players. Most of the action stays among the gamblers at the front of the room. On the rare occasion a banger will bark, but hardly ever is it the other way around because It's mainly a waste of time and effort. The hacks are not going to match up.
The poolhall is recently converted to a bar grill and still has over 30 gold crowns. So it get's way more bangers then regular players, still... they are left alone because it's an exercise in futility.
Dang let people do what they do , Let gamblers gamble , let non gamblers not gamble , let watchers watch and finally let haters hate ! If u have a great life live it people and if some pool players out there wanna be broke , get staked and chase the 9 ball let them do it .... It's a free country and some of my best buddies are pool players and so am I !!!!!! I was in tons of trouble as a teenager and pool saved me and gave me something to do instead of hanging on the streets. 30 years later I'm still playing pool once in a while and retired from working the same job . Y'all worry bout wives and shit , let us pool players worry bout pool cuz we got this ! Judging people lol....
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about!
No one can make a living playing in pool tournaments.
Bill S.
Dang you guys know all about Hustling huh! I'm not asking I'm saying you guys know everything there is to know about everything. Bet you guys are the ones hanging around the pool room at 11:00 am sharp to get the best table in the room and hog it all day while spending 50 cents on coffee and don't tip your server a dime . Meanwhile gripe about PayPal 8$ for all day pool and just talk about who is in town and when the pool player walks in you say hey how are you can I stake you or you can stay at my house and I'll tell you who the score is and we can split it !!!!! Every pool room has pool players and wanna bees .... I like everyone, pool players , wanna bees , haters , heartless pool players , heartless wanna bees and most of all I like me . let this world keep going around the way it is and enjoy it or get a table at home and be a hermit. I enjoy watching action and participating in it some people like it on the wild side man . Are you not entertained lol
No, it isn't "obvious"at all. Suppose I say the same to you...that it's obvious you don't know what You're talking about.
That'd make a lot of sense, wouldn't it ? Yea, surrrrre it would.
He makes some good points about being pestered by pool room bums who "just want to play some cheap". They do very little to further the business or the public impression of pool.
Just because you possibly like to ambush someone, doesn't mean most people want to put up with it.
I'm well aware that you're a big time hero in the pool world, but there are others of us who are not. And we have legitimate feelings and concerns about the game too.
And we spend a lot of money........in the environment that suits us.
As for "no one can make a living playing pool in tournaments"................then get a job. (or join up with the democrats and protest about something. I hear that pays pretty good.)
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