An Interesting Experience at a Bar Last Night...

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I rarely drink these days. When I was in college, I used to drink beer alot. Now on rare occasions I will go to a bar with some buddies and have a couple beers to talk and relax.

Yesterday we visited a bar I have never been to before. It's a small noisy place with an 8' bar table in the middle. There were a few guys on the table, playing for beers and having fun. This one guy was constantly beating every player who was next on the list to play. Pretty soon, everyone started betting this guy to play for $5 a game 8-ball. After beating about 5 people, the guy, who was obviously drunk, started asking everyone who walked by him to play him 8-ball for money. When my friends noticed this, they nudged me, knowing that I could easily beat the guy. I decided it was not a good idea to take money from a drunk. A little bit later, after I was tipsy, the guy started walking around the room asking each individual person to play him for money, being really cocky.
When he came to me, for some reason he was even more rude, and when I declined to play him for "any amount", he called me a chicken. Well that got me a little bit hot, so I immediatly stood up and told him to choose the amount. He must have thought he had a fish, so he said $50 per game. He wins the coin toss, breaks, runs a few balls, plays a few good safetys, and runs out. I payed him the $50, and he asked me if I wanted to double. I told him to bet $200, since I was a little drunk and annoyed at him trying to hustle me. He seemed to get a little nervous when I flat out told him I wanted to play for $200. He agreed, and I won the next game easily. He reached into his pocket, pulled out my $50 along with $30 in 5 dollar bills, and told me that was all I would get since I hustled him. I got upset, and started arguing with the guy because he didn't have any more money. The owner of the bar who was also the bar tender promtly kicks myself and my 3 friends out, because I tried to "hustle" his son.

What a bunch of jerks!
 
Looks like your initial feeling to steer clear of this bozo was the right one. I doubt though, that I could have contained myself either.
 
Sounds like a typical night in NorthCentral
West Virginia to me. I went into a bar
in Clarksburg once so drunk I could
barely stand. Some guy in there had
lost $200 & was looking for somebody
he could back to get his money back.
Igot talked into it & we played $50 a game.
I was so drunk that I had to shoot
real fast or I would fall on the table
trying to stroke the ball. Somehow
I won 4 straight games. I looked over
at him bleary-eyed & said" You want
to jack it to $200 a game? I ended
up winning $300 a piece for my backer
& me & got home without a DUI or
getting my ass kicked! Friday nights
in West Virginia!!!




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non gambler that i am, i'm thinkin' you let your ego get the best of you. is all that cr^p worth it?

gamble with friends,,,,that way, if you lose, you won't mind as much as losing to a j^ck^ss stranger, and if you win, you can buy your friends dinner and everyone is happy.
 
a relatively experienced pool player can walk into almost any bar and find similar situations. Hit one good stroked shot and the drunk figures out immediately what he's in for, then you have trouble collecting and or more trouble. isn't worth it to me......
 
Hell, if you have a close bridge, you might be classified as a hustler. I kid you not. My uncle beat a drunk for a glass of beer.
The ahole did not pay up.
Really, it's not worth playing big money in bars unless you're playing some lawyer or doctor.:D
 
A guy I know likes to play pool with me because I am a challenge. We play $5/rack straight-8. I don't think he cares about the money because after three or so hours I am up 20 games with the average game lasting 3-4 total shots. We are both drinking and having a good old time and he tells me when I get to 20 up he'll clear the tab. So he goes out to his car and gets a hundred dollar bill and hands it to me and we keep playing. This has happened three times so far. However I might not play him again because the next time he might bring in a gun. I might tell him to stop playing me for money cause even though he is a decent shot he will never come out on top. I like the guy but don't want to get popped over a hundred buck either.
 
I learned the hard way on this same topic. Got my thumb broken while gettin the snot kicked out of me after I lost AND PAID $40. Lesson learned...if you're a decent player at all, don't play in bars, it's not worth it. These days, I only play in pool rooms. Oh yeah, and not when alcohol is involved. Like I said, I learned the hard way, but I did learn.
 
You should have posted the money on the light. When he refused to pay you, you should have whacked him across the forehead with the butt end of a house cue. I know this sounds drastic, but sometimes you just have to BOP them. I've had this happen a number of times over the years and always BOP them when they don't pay off and I still have all my teeth. Most of them are in a cigar box in the middle bedroom and I think that the rest are in that old tobacco can on the shelf in the closet. I think it's the punch in the face that makes pool a sport.....
 
Smorgass,

Wouldn't it be a shame if you whacked someone in the forehead with the butt of a house cue and:
A. He keels over dead, or
B. He just blinks and comes after you.
 
That was funny Rick....blinks and comes after you....I totally envisioned a brute like the hulk going "RRRRRRR Make Hulk Angryyyy" and go after the guy. LOL.:D
 
I would like to apologize for my post last night, it not only was misleading, but was clearly wrong. It seems that the remainder of my teeth were not in a tobacco tin on the top shelf of my closet, they were mixed in with my 2/0 hooks in the tray of my tackle box. Whew ! I feel much better,now......imo
I think I'll go gum some Wheaties and Bailey's Irish Cream... (for brunch,of course)
 
Rickw said:
Smorgass,

Wouldn't it be a shame if you whacked someone in the forehead with the butt of a house cue and:
A. He keels over dead, or
B. He just blinks and comes after you.
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.... I think it would be much worse if:
C. He keeled over dead and THEN came after me
 
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