Dumping - caught

Paul Bell said:
AZBilliards encourages discussion and will allow even questions AZers can't answer. Many AZers are anonymous and could include Thomas Haas and Joao.

I'm guessing there is little money for players in Haas-Joao-like games except from gambling.

Viewing the Haas v Joao match on YouTube that lasted over three hours was underwhelming. There must have been a scorekeeper but was there even a referee? I didn't notice an audience and no one there likely paid an admission fee. I doubt YouTube paid them much if anything. I doubt Haas and Joao got money from a sponsor.

Gambling is a problem in sports but it is even more of a problem if players rely on it to get paid.
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Didn't read any of the inapplicable nonsense that followed the inappropriate insertion of forum defined.

You asked where they get their money.
 
lfigueroa said:
I think, amongst civilians, pool has a pretty seedy reputation, going back to at least when Eddie Felson got his thumbs broken.

But in all the years I’ve been playing I have see very little violence between players, sweators, and backers. The threat has often been there but virtually no motion. Has there been the ocassional drunken episode amongst bangers, sure. But between players I’ve seen almost nothing. Basically the money is too small. But one of these days one of these yahoos is going to go a little too big with the wrong guys and regret it.

Lou Figueroa
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The pool halls you hung in must have had carpet on the walls and served food. Where i grew up if you did that for ten dollars you would have feared for your limbs to stay intact.
 
In my day, dumpers who got caught got hurt......BAD! Some took beatings and one or two did not get out alive. A famous Filipino player from the Parica era (it was said he played as good or better than Jose) was executed for dumping the wrong guy.
 
jay helfert said:
In my day, dumpers who got caught got hurt......BAD! Some took beatings and one or two did not get out alive. A famous Filipino player from the Parica era (it was said he played as good or better than Jose) was executed for dumping the wrong guy.
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That would be the guy in the Grisham book?

While you're here, was Hollywood Billiards in the same building as a band rehearsal studio?
 
straightline said:
That would be the guy in the Grisham book?

While you're here, was Hollywood Billiards in the same building as a band rehearsal studio?
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Yes, same guy. Bing or something like that. I heard all about him. Supposedly better than Efren. Hollywood Billiards was downstairs in the basement of a multi story building. I don't know what all was on the upper floors. For a short period of time there was a second pool room on the ground floor. The house man (Bob) at Hollywood Billiards hustled me to play one time when I took my little daughter with me to teach her some pool. I was not a regular there, but lived not too far away. We played Eight Ball (his choice) for ten a game. When Seymour closed at about 2 AM we went upstairs and continued our game, my little daughter curled up asleep in a chair. I played this guy until about 5 AM when he finally quit. I must have beat him for 200 at ten a game. He was stubborn.

When I took my daughter back home the next day (I had visitation) she told her mom she watched me play pool all night. My ex went totally off on me for that one. I tried to tell her it wasn't my idea but the guy hustled me. I could never turn down a game!
 
jay helfert said:
Yes, same guy. Bing or something like that. I heard all about him. Supposedly better than Efren. Hollywood Billiards was downstairs in the basement of a multi story building. I don't know what all was on the upper floors. For a short period of time there was a second pool room on the ground floor. The house man (Bob) at Hollywood Billiards hustled me to play one time when I took my little daughter with me to teach her some pool. I was not a regular there, but lived not too far away. We played Eight Ball (his choice) for ten a game. When Seymour closed at about 2 AM we went upstairs and continued our game, my little daughter curled up asleep in a chair. I played this guy until about 5 AM when he finally quit. I must have beat him for 200 at ten a game. He was stubborn.

When I took my daughter back home the next day (I had visitation) she told her mom she watched me play pool all night. My ex went totally off on me for that one. I tried to tell her it wasn't my idea but the guy hustled me. I could never turn down a game!
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Somehow got it in my head you owned the place. Lol. Thanks for clearing that up.
 
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