Here's a decent move...any player you face, have an agreement to pay after each game...try and win the first 3 games...if it looks good or lucky, it doesn't matter..then during this time tell your opponent that in order to make it fair that neither of you can just quit, you must play 3 games to give each of you a chance to get even...at this point you are already playing on his/her money and most will play at leat one or two more games before they say "ok three more games "...allows you to get the cash most often.
Best Moves for a Hustler To Use
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tomatoshooter
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A lot of people where I usually shoot place the chalk upside down. I have no idea why people do that. Many of these players are pretty strong. Chalking over the table? It's not a good idea, unfortunately, sometimes that's the only place where there is enough light. As far as dick moves vs hustler moves, a lot of those are rank amateur move. I don't know if anybody willing to bet much money would not recognize that a rank amateur who wants to bet is probably hiding their speed.
tomatoshooter
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I don't blame you for leaving.
It’s possible to play a guy for years and never show your true speed.
tomatoshooter
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So, what's that? A race to 5?
People are more risk averse these days in general. They are fearful of more things than ever, illnesses, flat tires, pollution, gambling the list goes on. It’s a social trend not limited to gambling.
Hustling or hiding your identity is over. Cheating is possible but that a con game and there’s a difference between hustling and conning someone. Big difference.
Milk drinkers have over taken the world and the gamblers are getting old and dying off. I gamble all the time with old men. I’m 55 and the young guy in the room.
Even poker players are less gamblers. They are using solvers to solve poker to take the gamble out of it. So while they are engaging in gambling they are doing so in a non-gambling mindset with a “solved” solution for any given poker hand to the best of their ability.
People won’t flip a coin for $100 even money.
The casinos still get action, that’s not really gambling. It’s a “experience” for drunk people or addicted degens who can’t help themselves
Fatboy<———just say “no” to milk drinkers….
Howdy All;
Back in the early 80' I was hangin' in my local bar "The Red Baron Inn" ,Va. Bch., Va.
About the same time as the Big 9-ball tourney was goin on at Q-Masters. The Baron was a
Beer & wine cooler bar, with 2 nice Valley Bar Boxes. Mostly sailors from NAS Oceana
hung out there. This guy walks in wearing a suite-n-tie fedora and shiney shoes, cue case
(suitcase style), walks in and asks in a loud enough voice "Who wants to play 9-ball for 100
bucks a game?" Bartender called one of the locals that lived near-by and told the guy to
wait 5 minutes and there'd someone to "play some 9-ball with."
Was told the next day that our local took 1,500 from the guy before he left.
Like the cowboy said in "The Big Lebowski",
"Some days you et the baar, and somedays the baar ets you."
hank
Back in the early 80' I was hangin' in my local bar "The Red Baron Inn" ,Va. Bch., Va.
About the same time as the Big 9-ball tourney was goin on at Q-Masters. The Baron was a
Beer & wine cooler bar, with 2 nice Valley Bar Boxes. Mostly sailors from NAS Oceana
hung out there. This guy walks in wearing a suite-n-tie fedora and shiney shoes, cue case
(suitcase style), walks in and asks in a loud enough voice "Who wants to play 9-ball for 100
bucks a game?" Bartender called one of the locals that lived near-by and told the guy to
wait 5 minutes and there'd someone to "play some 9-ball with."
Was told the next day that our local took 1,500 from the guy before he left.
Like the cowboy said in "The Big Lebowski",
"Some days you et the baar, and somedays the baar ets you."
hank
tomatoshooter
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Funny you mention this, a couple of poker playing friends were telling me that lately people throw money around the cardrooms like it's nothing, compared to 10 years ago. They aren't big action guys, but they buy in with 3-400 dollars and get pushed around by people buying and rebuying at 7-800 dollars.
That’s true in Texas. Here in LA poker is super strong now.
I hope that spirit to gambol spills over into other things.
Right now it’s a anomaly in poker it seems, not in other areas of life where action used to be normal.
Tails for $100,
Fatboy<———let me know if I won
Willowbrook Wolfy
Going pro
That can backfire too. Before a tournament, I walked into a hall once a little while back. Grabbed my balls. Racked up 8. My break was on-sounded like a damn jet fighter. Everybody obviously looked over(cause they were already probably wondering who I was when I walked in). Ran out to the 8 then missed the 8 on a bank(Back to the OP
Go rack the balls on the 3C table and break.
You’ll get lots of attention
Seen that happen lots of times, still always funny.
Fatboy
). Even with losing 3 tournaments badly im still yet to have anybody try to play me when I go in there. That’s how I like it anyway!
Boy George used to play that card in Sacramrnto and got into great games doing that. I didn’t have the bankroll to do that back then.
Willowbrook Wolfy
Going pro
Best hustler move these days is when you see a guy and girl together and the guy has a pool glove. Go hit on the chick. When he gets pissed tell him with that glove he’s wearing you thought she was just his friend. That oughtta get you a game!
Oh, you would be surprised at how much is still out there.
Hell last week I was at the bar, some guy walks up to me, asks me "do you like playing pool?"...Yes. I do.
"Would you like to play for some money?" Yes, yes I would.
"How about $50 a game?"..Sure, we can do $50 a game.
"Ok, let me go ask my wife"..."OK?"
He comes back, and says that it is Ok to play, but I have to play on the 7 footer.
I jump the bet. Tell him that is fine, but we have to play for at least 100 a game there.
His wife payed me. He left in shame. There is no art anymore, or diligence, and this kid had
no chance. Now just have to get his wife to stake me....
Hell last week I was at the bar, some guy walks up to me, asks me "do you like playing pool?"...Yes. I do.
"Would you like to play for some money?" Yes, yes I would.
"How about $50 a game?"..Sure, we can do $50 a game.
"Ok, let me go ask my wife"..."OK?"
He comes back, and says that it is Ok to play, but I have to play on the 7 footer.
I jump the bet. Tell him that is fine, but we have to play for at least 100 a game there.
His wife payed me. He left in shame. There is no art anymore, or diligence, and this kid had
no chance. Now just have to get his wife to stake me....
I like flipping coins...
Have been called a nit, by a nit. Was told I had no gamble. Took out a quarter and a c-note, and said call it.
He wouldn't do it. Locking a game isn't gambling, he plays better than I do, and moves at 1 pkt swell...but I have gamble,
just not throwing away money in an endeavor I have no chance at winning. I think I made my point though...
I asked a guy who does that, why and he said, "Dat's how you use." Mystery solved.