Pool hustling was part of growing up in our community
Boys took up pool not so much for the game itself but fot the
culture of gambling,excitement, and just pure fun
Fellas like Little Jackie Potter,Lucky Louie Harper,Tommy
Blanton and a whole host of others took up the game
It became our part time job and recreation.It wasn't really glamorus if
you compare it with something like being a major league baseball player,
or professional golfer,but then again some of us needed eating money or
clothes or tuition or enough money tobuy a car,get a date on Saturday night
and pay for a pizza
Sometime it was danderous out there,playing in bars with the type of people that
took it personal if helost and wanted to fight.You see this type on Az,they get mad easily
and angry words flow
Here is a little story you might enjoy about Lucky Louie and Tony abbott,they went into a bar
a ran into a semi tough guy who wanted to bully our heroes into a pool game for $20 but Tony
and Louie had $20 so they played and won and won again.
Soon, the bully cashed a few checks for $20 each until he had no more checks,he said
I will play one more for $20
Louie said "but how will you pay"
Bully says "then I will fight you for $20"
Tony was a nice looking guy ,like Travolta was in Grease,but he was
a very talented fighter as well,and he enjoyed a good fist fight,so he began
slipping his rings off his hands in peparation for the fight as they headed out side
But here Louie ,a very practical laid back kid says"hold on,how will you pay when you lose?"
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Cooler heads prevailed one the bully realized that the Oak Cliff boys don't fight without posting the money.
We were just kids
Funny how much you can grow to love each other at that age, we bonded together
,we never played pool against each other.It was us against the world,only Potter and
myself are around anymore ad we don't really play these days.
We talk about it,but we don't actually play,if we did it would have to be for money,
guys like us don't play for fun. People that do are hard forus to understand,
maybe they are the smart ones,Iknow I never wanted my boys to gamble.
Who would want that for their kids?
Maybe this iswhere my hypocrisy reveals itself.
Boys took up pool not so much for the game itself but fot the
culture of gambling,excitement, and just pure fun
Fellas like Little Jackie Potter,Lucky Louie Harper,Tommy
Blanton and a whole host of others took up the game
It became our part time job and recreation.It wasn't really glamorus if
you compare it with something like being a major league baseball player,
or professional golfer,but then again some of us needed eating money or
clothes or tuition or enough money tobuy a car,get a date on Saturday night
and pay for a pizza
Sometime it was danderous out there,playing in bars with the type of people that
took it personal if helost and wanted to fight.You see this type on Az,they get mad easily
and angry words flow
Here is a little story you might enjoy about Lucky Louie and Tony abbott,they went into a bar
a ran into a semi tough guy who wanted to bully our heroes into a pool game for $20 but Tony
and Louie had $20 so they played and won and won again.
Soon, the bully cashed a few checks for $20 each until he had no more checks,he said
I will play one more for $20
Louie said "but how will you pay"
Bully says "then I will fight you for $20"
Tony was a nice looking guy ,like Travolta was in Grease,but he was
a very talented fighter as well,and he enjoyed a good fist fight,so he began
slipping his rings off his hands in peparation for the fight as they headed out side
But here Louie ,a very practical laid back kid says"hold on,how will you pay when you lose?"
c
Cooler heads prevailed one the bully realized that the Oak Cliff boys don't fight without posting the money.
We were just kids
Funny how much you can grow to love each other at that age, we bonded together
,we never played pool against each other.It was us against the world,only Potter and
myself are around anymore ad we don't really play these days.
We talk about it,but we don't actually play,if we did it would have to be for money,
guys like us don't play for fun. People that do are hard forus to understand,
maybe they are the smart ones,Iknow I never wanted my boys to gamble.
Who would want that for their kids?
Maybe this iswhere my hypocrisy reveals itself.
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