Anyone want to match up and play.....

JoeyA

JoeyA

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I see this request on some of the social mediums and it makes me wonder if the meaning is similar to the way that the word Nit's true meaning is quite different than the traditional accepted meaning by so called gamblers.

"Anyone want to match up and play" means "Let's make up a game, where you can't win, but I call it gambling".

Another one: "Anyone want to match up and play, because I am too lazy to practice and improve my game, but I still want to rob you?"

A "Nit" is someone who won't let you steal their money.

Got any others?

JoeyA
 
Interesting definition of a nit. If a nit is defined as a guy who won't let you steal his money then what is a guy who will let you steal his money? A sucker.
 
alstl said:
Interesting definition of a nit. If a nit is defined as a guy who won't let you steal his money then what is a guy who will let you steal his money? A sucker.
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Joey is poking fun at the people. I see players that want to match up, call someone out, and run away when the game isn't in their favor. My favorite is this scenario:

A player: "Let's play 9-7 one hole, race to 3, $100 a set."
B player: "Give me 9-6 and I'll play"
A player: "You don't need more weight!"

I want to jump and say "Dummy you are giving him weight, you can't gamble on one more ball?" It's all about the nuts these days.
Playing a stranger for $5, $50, or $200 is gambling. He/she's a stranger. You don't know them or how they play. Calling out the guy you've been watching and know his speed, that's not gambling. That's matching up, using a bet to bring out the true player's speed. I know guys that play lights out with no pressure, put a $5 sweat bet on it and they freeze.

There's a local guy I'd like to play some barbox 10 ball for a few pesos, but he has no gamble. Playing for "fun" and he'll beat me 4 out of 5 sets. With even $20 on the line, I can give him the 7 and out.
 
DAVE_M said:
Joey is poking fun at the people. I see players that want to match up, call someone out, and run away when the game isn't in their favor. My favorite is this scenario:

A player: "Let's play 9-7 one hole, race to 3, $100 a set."
B player: "Give me 9-6 and I'll play"
A player: "You don't need more weight!"

I want to jump and say "Dummy you are giving him weight, you can't gamble on one more ball?" It's all about the nuts these days.
Playing a stranger for $5, $50, or $200 is gambling. He/she's a stranger. You don't know them or how they play. Calling out the guy you've been watching and know his speed, that's not gambling. That's matching up, using a bet to bring out the true player's speed. I know guys that play lights out with no pressure, put a $5 sweat bet on it and they freeze.

There's a local guy I'd like to play some barbox 10 ball for a few pesos, but he has no gamble. Playing for "fun" and he'll beat me 4 out of 5 sets. With even $20 on the line, I can give him the 7 and out.
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You've got it DaveM.

I love the players who sit and watch someone practice until they have their "mark" perfectly clocked, then ask them to play. (But they won't let the mark see them hit one ball) To me, that's not gambling either.


JoeyA
 
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I just have to share this one. Ok, I am a B player at best. There is this guy that almost every time I play him in an 8 ball tournament, he beats me, and that is the only time we have played each other. I am pretty sure he plays a little better than me, but I like to gamble at pool once in a while. This guy's wife runs the tournament. So I say to him " Any time you want to gamble, I like to gamble." "At what?", he says. "Even?" I say, " Sure." "What table?" he asks. I say," Any game, any table, 8,9,10 ball or 1 pocket. " So a little later I am standing around cause I am out of the tournament, and I see him leave with his wife. I guess I got my answer.
 
Second story. Now this is probably pretty dumb of me, but anyway, I retired a couple of years ago at age 61 and got to start playing a lot of pool which is my main interest as far as hobbies goes. I could never see that good, I was extremely farsighted, but I got cataracts and got new lenses put in my eyes. Well this jumped me from a C player to a B player lets say, and I was wanting to see how much better I could play against some of the guys that had the best of me in the past. My only stipulation was we had to play for something, and something to me meant we both post up a $1000. Never got any takers. I even dropped it to $500. and still got no takers. I stopped betting the $$$ in my pocket against what these guys have in theirs a long time ago, but wanted to see if anything had changed. It hasn't.
 
I doubt I'm even a c- when it comes to any kind of rating ... except maybe on the stink-o-meter. I have yet to win any kind of tournament (although I play) and I tend to be that annoying "fun" player .. so yeah, you guys would walk around me to get to another table.

But that's only because I haven't been serious about anything except for the past 6 months or so, I have the excuse of "lack of experience" and "fundamental consistency problems." I'm working on it, no worries there.

How ever, I am the type of guy that used to run around places a cockroach wouldn't go. I have seen many types of people and I can tell when someone is trying to size me up. I used to watch out for fights or getting rolled, but now I have retired from those places that make a hole in the wall look like the Ritz.

A couple of weeks ago a guy comes into the place I hang out now, small hall with no real riff-raff. He is in there for a while just banging balls around and fending off the regulars typical 20 questions when a new guy comes in with his own stick.

Anyway .... after some "time" of him watching me, watching him, watching me he walks over and asks if I want to play a friendly game of anything for $1 a ball.

After a bit of "oh no I can't gamble" and "I'm no good" he offers up the 7, 8, and 9 and I get first break in 9ball! We go to table 2 and begin play. I won of course ...

There's more to the story though... I can't play as well as I would like, my shape "zone" is more like a shape direction! but ....

Table 2 has two dead rails, one crooked rail, chips in the slate in a couple of places, and two pockets wickedly under sized, and balls that stick like Velcro. And guess what table is always available?

Something to be said about home field advantage... and to hustle a hustler just seemed like a notch in the belt.

Does this make me a "nit?"
 
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DTL said:
"He showed a lot of heart" often times will mean he had a pumped up stake horse that let him fire a lot of barrels with the worst of it.
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Hahahaha! I like that one!

(That can also suggest in a roundabout way that he may play the same way, one more time, even though he lost OR at least the player who got the stew is willing to play the same way, one more time.) :D

JoeyA
 
Scratch~ said:
I doubt I'm even a c- when it comes to any kind of rating ... except maybe on the stink-o-meter. I have yet to win any kind of tournament (although I play) and I tend to be that annoying "fun" player .. so yeah, you guys would walk around me to get to another table.

But that's only because I haven't been serious about anything except for the past 6 months or so, I have the excuse of "lack of experience" and "fundamental consistency problems." I'm working on it, no worries there.

How ever, I am the type of guy that used to run around places a cockroach wouldn't go. I have seen many types of people and I can tell when someone is trying to size me up. I used to watch out for fights or getting rolled, but now I have retired from those places that make a hole in the wall look like the Ritz.

A couple of weeks ago a guy comes into the place I hang out now, small hall with no real riff-raff. He is in there for a while just banging balls around and fending off the regulars typical 20 questions when a new guy comes in with his own stick.

Anyway .... after some "time" of him watching me, watching him, watching me he walks over and asks if I want to play a friendly game of anything for $1 a ball.

After a bit of "oh no I can't gamble" and "I'm no good" he offers up the 7, 8, and 9 and I get first break in 9ball! We go to table 2 and begin play. I won of course ...

There's more to the story though... I can't play as well as I would like, my shape "zone" is more like a shape direction! but ....

Table 2 has two dead rails, one crooked rail, chips in the slate in a couple of places, and two pockets wickedly under sized, and balls that stick like Velcro. And guess what table is always available?

Something to be said about home field advantage... and to hustle a hustler just seemed like a notch in the belt.

Does this make me a "nit?"
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No, you'sa a hussla! :grin:
JoeyA (looking for the Like button)
 
Aw geez Joey. I thought that was an invite for me to come down and you taking me out to some of those fancy crawdad eating places in NO.

I was just about on Air Canadas web site before I realized that it wasn't an invite.
 
the thing with pool, tennis, golf, bowling, and many other sports is that you can see who you can beat or not in a few minutes watching. so if you match up and lose any decent amount of money you really are a sucker as you should quit after a game or two if the game is bad at all.

and most times if the other guy wants to play bad enough he will eventually take a bad game. so why not wait and win and then you have room to adjust next time. thats about making money.

if its about stroking your ego thats another thing. so go play even and see who wins.
 
ok...you got me!

I'll play you some at DCC if you are there!

I know you and Jay have an on-going rivalry but I will step up and sweat it for Jay to get a read on you! :grin:Although I understand on here you are a 1p specialist, I haven't played more than 50 games in my life so I will play rotation 9 ball or 10 ball or 8 ball or bank.

I will be there Tuesday evening before 9 ball starts on Wednesday but don't prefer to play then as I'll be coming off a long day of work and a 3 hour drive to get there.

ps...I am not known to get off on an internet forum but I did sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night and feeling exceptionally good.


pss.I've never beat anybody in the known pool world...


Gary
 
DAVE_M said:
Joey is poking fun at the people. I see players that want to match up, call someone out, and run away when the game isn't in their favor. My favorite is this scenario:

A player: "Let's play 9-7 one hole, race to 3, $100 a set."
B player: "Give me 9-6 and I'll play"
A player: "You don't need more weight!"

I want to jump and say "Dummy you are giving him weight, you can't gamble on one more ball?" It's all about the nuts these days.
Playing a stranger for $5, $50, or $200 is gambling. He/she's a stranger. You don't know them or how they play. Calling out the guy you've been watching and know his speed, that's not gambling. That's matching up, using a bet to bring out the true player's speed. I know guys that play lights out with no pressure, put a $5 sweat bet on it and they freeze.

There's a local guy I'd like to play some barbox 10 ball for a few pesos, but he has no gamble. Playing for "fun" and he'll beat me 4 out of 5 sets. With even $20 on the line, I can give him the 7 and out.
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Bottom line, there are two types of gamblers. Guys who are willing to gamble and guys who are compelled to gamble.

They guys who are willing to gamble know more than just the speed of their opponents, they know which ones are addicted to the gamble - the guys who can't stand to have money in their pocket and not put it in action.

Or, the guy who won't let you steal his money -the nit- and the guy who will let you steal his money -the sucker.
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
Aw geez Joey. I thought that was an invite for me to come down and you taking me out to some of those fancy crawdad eating places in NO.

I was just about on Air Canadas web site before I realized that it wasn't an invite.
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You "northerners" are looking for any excuse to get out of that freezer right now.

JoeyA
 
Ky Boy said:
ok...you got me!

I'll play you some at DCC if you are there!

I know you and Jay have an on-going rivalry but I will step up and sweat it for Jay to get a read on you! :grin:Although I understand on here you are a 1p specialist, I haven't played more than 50 games in my life so I will play rotation 9 ball or 10 ball or 8 ball or bank.

I will be there Tuesday evening before 9 ball starts on Wednesday but don't prefer to play then as I'll be coming off a long day of work and a 3 hour drive to get there.

ps...I am not known to get off on an internet forum but I did sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night and feeling exceptionally good.


pss.I've never beat anybody in the known pool world...


Gary
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Gary,
The Holiday Inn Express beats some alternatives.

I doubt that I will be going to the Derby this year. I am considering other tournaments this year but you never know. I often make decisions at the last moment.

If you've never beaten anyone in the known pool world, you can come to Buffalo Billiards in Metairie, LA and sneak up on me. :D

The GingerBread Man (JayH) already has my number.

Thanks,

JoeyA
 
alstl said:
Bottom line, there are two types of gamblers. Guys who are willing to gamble and guys who are compelled to gamble.

They guys who are willing to gamble know more than just the speed of their opponents, they know which ones are addicted to the gamble - the guys who can't stand to have money in their pocket and not put it in action.

Or, the guy who won't let you steal his money -the nit-
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So is he really a nit or is he really the hustler? I haven't known any hustlers who would let you steal their cash.

Ken
 
Society sure isn't as tough as they used to be in the "ole days"

Yes, Joey, that's why it's tough to gamble these days, when you win you're done....and if you lose you can't get anyone else to play for weeks, or even months.....brutal.

I think it's funny how these days "knockers" take the position that they are "defending those that can't defend themselves"....back in the "ole days" they'd be defending a horrible case of diarrhea. :groucho: Society sure isn't as tough as they used to be, I guess from not being allowed to learn life lessons and mature as men and women.

I've always learned more from losing than from winning....and such is life.

'The Game is the Teacher'



JoeyA said:
I see this request on some of the social mediums and it makes me wonder if the meaning is similar to the way that the word Nit's true meaning is quite different than the traditional accepted meaning by so called gamblers.

"Anyone want to match up and play" means "Let's make up a game, where you can't win, but I call it gambling".

Another one: "Anyone want to match up and play, because I am too lazy to practice and improve my game, but I still want to rob you?"

A "Nit" is someone who won't let you steal their money.

Got any others?

JoeyA
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