Who is on list, and should be removed? Who would you add?
Top 10.
Agree, or disagree?
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Who is on list, and should be removed? Who would you add?
Top 10.
Well I think Fats was to high, and should be down 3-5 spots.
Many of the greatest Hustlers, we shadow players. They move from place to place never being noticed.
Many of the greatest Hustlers, we shadow players. They move from place to place never being noticed.
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The best hustler ever is Jack Cooney .
CJ Wiley probably won more money on the road than any of those guys .
The best hustler ever is Jack Cooney .
CJ Wiley probably won more money on the road than any of those guys .
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I didn't bother watching the video, as I really don't have a romantic attachment to pool.
However I would think that if you made that list, you really weren't a very good hustler. Isn't the best hustler someone that wins all the money and no one ever realizes they've been hustled...?
However I would think that if you made that list, you really weren't a very good hustler. Isn't the best hustler someone that wins all the money and no one ever realizes they've been hustled...?
Number one on the list would be the Hustler who did not die broke
or dependent upon others to survive
or dependent upon others to survive
Kieth’s net worth could be “ 30 million dollars”, man I hope so.
I don't think Cocobolo was looking for fictional characters.Number one on the list would be the Hustler who did not die broke
The list is just author list, and 10 best.
Earl Shriver Was one of the best I ever saw. Cooney had more patience than anyone ! He would spend weeks/months to take down a big score. UJ Puckett was very unknown for years. My ex partner was on the road with him for 9-10 months. UJ went to a small town to trap the big money man. He took a job in the main gas station and waited until that guy gassed up. They talked and the guy told him to come to this bar. UJ played him for days ( in the 70' ). UJ left with over 10k ! Hustlin has been dead for 20+ years at least.
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The Puckett story was told to me by my old road partner. I can't vouch for the authenticity of the details.
Pushout forever
UJ hung on to his uniforms! A little grease from under the hood and you looked the role perfectly. It was funny when my mom was visiting and saw me come in, take a shower, and put on my dirty clothes showing a day working on cars or in the petro-chem plants. I prized my stained up jeans too.
Mom asked if I didn't have any clean clothes, "plenty, but I am going shoot pool."
Hu
I never dabbled in higher stakes gambling. However I was the master of the 'reverse hustle'. I never tried to con anyone, and rather opted to inform them that I was that much better then they were and would take everything they were willing to bet.
I think you'd be surprised how well a bruised ego will open a person's wallet...lol
I think you'd be surprised how well a bruised ego will open a person's wallet...lol
I heard Corey say that in an interview once (I think it was before a TAR match) that he would go into a place telling people how good he was. He'd say "you can't beat me", and always got action.
Unfortunately for me, I'm not in the catagory of someone like Corey, so although I would drum up action the difficult part for me was figuring out who to avoid....lol
The only catch with saying you are the best is that you have to be able to back it up. Had a guy come in a little bar with a hinged cue stick, proclaimed himself the greatest, of that there was no doubt! I beat him like a rented mule, then my friend did, then another friend did. He said what he was really good at was chess. I beat him, my friend beat him, the other friend hadn't came with us.
He also had told us what a great fighter he was. I wasn't in the bar but a good friend was when The Greatest got in a fight over a pool table with a couple guys. The Greatest started off by hitting one of the guys upside the head with a cue stick. The guy laughed and told him he "had done f__ed up now." The Greatest might have weighed a buck forty, my friend was smaller. I asked him if he interfered. "Nope, not with the greatest fighter in the world fighting, I just watched!"
I never made any claims. If somebody didn't realize I was aiming at points to save quarters while getting in stroke on a table it wasn't my fault!
Hu
He also had told us what a great fighter he was. I wasn't in the bar but a good friend was when The Greatest got in a fight over a pool table with a couple guys. The Greatest started off by hitting one of the guys upside the head with a cue stick. The guy laughed and told him he "had done f__ed up now." The Greatest might have weighed a buck forty, my friend was smaller. I asked him if he interfered. "Nope, not with the greatest fighter in the world fighting, I just watched!"
I never made any claims. If somebody didn't realize I was aiming at points to save quarters while getting in stroke on a table it wasn't my fault!
Hu
I saw an interview with Eddie Taylor. He had played Ralph Greenleaf in an exhibition when he was a kid and lost something like 150 to 18. He would walk into a pool hall and boast about how good he was saying he played Ralph Greenfield and ran 18 balls against him. He got action with reverse psychology. He told him he was good it a way that convinced them he was a banger. When they played him they found out he was indeed good.
I don't think anyone else is even in the conversation with Jack Cooney for #1. Bucktooth is probably among the top 10 hustlers of all time, too, if we're only talking about money won.
Of course, it's all subjective. Does best hustler mean the one who was in successful action the most often, the one who made the most money as a road player, or something else?
That was how a young Scotty Townsend did also. He would walk in a place and tell the whole room he was the best player there and if anyone does not think so to bet something.