Bait Words: For Gambling

Recently, another poster wrote me in a rep comment about Bait Words. I liked them well enough to start this thread.

NIT & HEART are typical bait words often used to coerce someone into taking a bet that they might not do otherwise.

This is how I define these two words.

NIT: You are a "little nothing" because you won't do what I want you to do. :grin:

HEART: I am more of a man than you are and have more resolve than you to wager big money bets over a long period of time (primarily because I have the nuts over you in whatever we wager on because I can open up your noseand make you bet on something that you have no chance of winning at and I have "Help" to handle the long sessions if you would be so lucky as to last longer than a short while).:D

I would love to hear some other "bait words" or bait phrases if you've got them.

Maybe you've got some bait words for Internet Forums instead of gambling. I like to out the bait words in gambling at pool but I'm open to be entertained.

If you want to take a shot at redefining NIT & HEART, be my guest. :cool:

Well, I guess you can call these as you see them, but at one time heart was the ultimate compliment and one that has gotten lost.
Wehn someone gave u[ the nuts, say the 5-9 and outran it and won That was considered big heart.
When the ball was in the middle of the table in a hill-hill set and he stepped up and fired it in to win the set, that was heart. many have exhibited such and some even today.
The nit was one of those always in on the conversations and talk of big scores, owned and carried the fancy cues, had the pool watch and talked the talk and wanted to play $20 sets and took offense to someone wanting to bet more. We all know at least one of these.
 
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Overall, pool players talk waaaaaay too much. A never ending quest to seem cool. Sadly, the majority of the stuff you hear is cringe worthy.
Fish and nit are poker terms, but since pool is broke, it's obviously going to need to borrow things...

That being said, JoeyA is awesome. So for you, Joey, Jockstrap. Only plays when it's holding the nuts.

For what it's worth, I grew up in a pretty nasty place. Most of the things I've read here would have resulted in the speaker being stabbed. If he was lucky. =)

Release the linguistically challenged lynch mob!
 
One I have never heard.

Overall, pool players talk waaaaaay too much. A never ending quest to seem cool. Sadly, the majority of the stuff you hear is cringe worthy.
Fish and nit are poker terms, but since pool is broke, it's obviously going to need to borrow things...

That being said, JoeyA is awesome. So for you, Joey, Jockstrap. Only plays when it's holding the nuts.

For what it's worth, I grew up in a pretty nasty place. Most of the things I've read here would have resulted in the speaker being stabbed. If he was lucky. =)

Release the linguistically challenged lynch mob!

Ahhahahaha, that seems new and original and quite funny.
 
A dry break...the guy set up like a gorilla and then eased off....
...hit 'em about 11 mph.:rolleyes:
A guy on the side handed him his open cell phone...
..he said "It's for you, your grandmother wants her break back."
 
Overall, pool players talk waaaaaay too much. A never ending quest to seem cool. Sadly, the majority of the stuff you hear is cringe worthy.
Fish and nit are poker terms, but since pool is broke, it's obviously going to need to borrow things...

That being said, JoeyA is awesome. So for you, Joey, Jockstrap. Only plays when it's holding the nuts.

For what it's worth, I grew up in a pretty nasty place. Most of the things I've read here would have resulted in the speaker being stabbed. If he was lucky. =)

Release the linguistically challenged lynch mob!

Fish and Nit are not poker terms... They are gambling terms period. They have been gambling terms for a LONG time.
 
Well, I guess you can call these as you see them, but at one time heart was the ultimate compliment and one that has gotten lost.
Wehn someone gave u[ the nuts, say the 5-9 and outran it and won That was considered big heart.
When the ball was in the middle of the table in a hill-hill set and he stepped up and fired it in to win the set, that was heart. many have exhibited such and some even today.
The nit was one of those always in on the conversations and talk of big scores, owned and carried the fancy cues, had the pool watch and talked the talk and wanted to play $20 sets and took offense to someone wanting to bet more. We all know at least one of these.

Lewis,
You're right of course but your definitions are the definitions used by the successful gamblers of the past. Time, unfortunately has moved on and those terms and others like them have been morphed and now they are primarily used to incite a person to gamble when they would otherwise not want to. It's really all about how the word is used.

It will never be out of vogue to say that someone has heart when they pull out a tough victory from a hard-fought match.

However, the attempts by some of today's so-called gamblers to incite a "fish" to gamble, the word heart is more commonly used like this: "You win a set and I win a set and you want to quit? You have no heart."

Or, "You should see that ***** back down when a player that plays at his level, asks him to play."

Or, "YOU QUIT ME AFTER ONE SET? I knew I shouldn't have played you. You have absolutely NO HEART!"


And it will never go out of sport when one of the pushy, gamblers barks at one of his prospective "fish" offering a game that the "fish" can't win and t

As to the word Nit, it has never been a kind term.

Nit is intentionally used by so-called gamblers to ridicule a person. Most of the time the word Nit, is used to make the "fish" angry enough to go off for his cash. Calling someone a Nit is a pathetic way of trying to get them to gamble. Half of the time, when I hear one of these so-called gamblers calling another person a Nit, it is for their own perverted ego stroking, hoping to make themselves look like the big-time gamblers that they really aren't. Sure, there are still some big time gamblers out there that command respect for gambling but they are few and far in between.

Anyway, this is just a fun exercise for all of us to reflect on the terms that are used to bait others into gambling at stakes that they might not otherwise do so.

One more thing that I REALLY think is ULTRA-PATHETIC, is when one of these so-called gamblers remarks about a champion pool player who simply doesn't gamble and calls that champion a NIT.

I've used both of those words in their demeaning sense and it reflects on me the same as it does on everyone else. Most of the time, I use them in jest with other pool room acquaintances but on occasion I will use them on so-called "gamblers" (and rather loudly I might add) mostly so, for the benefit of those who come behind me. Most of the vocal so-called gamblers of today are not interested in a game that they are going to break even on. They always have to have an edge and if they can get the other person angry, they know that the angry person will not be able to play their best game and that they will have the person "locked-up".

Getting the other person to become angry before or during a match is a pathetic tactic used every day in every pool room and even in major pool tournaments. It's sad really.

"Heart" is a great word when used in the context that you suggested.

"Nit" more often than not, is a base word, that sadly comments more about the character of the person using it than it does the amount of gamble that the "fish" has.
We've all used it in jest but most of the time we use it with the intention that it most often carries (demeaning someone & inciting them to change their mind so that we can have our way with them) but that doesn't mean it is a good word for any of us to use, unless we really don't care what others think of us.

I know that there are people who play at my level or better but are reluctant to gamble. Most of the time the reason why they are reluctant to gamble is because they simply can't afford to lose the money OR they simply can't justify the risk. I still respect them and would never dream of inciting them to gamble by calling them a nit or telling them that they have no heart. "That" would be heartless and pathetic.

I get a kick out of some of the so-called gamblers, when they play a fish and the fish somehow manages to win the first game and the so-called gambler quits and tells the fish, "This game is out of line". :p

There's still a few players out there who have "gamble" and who aren't "nits" calling other people "nits" and there are a few people who gamble but don't have to resort to telling their opponents that they don't have any heart because their "fish" pulled up after breaking even. Those guys still have my respect and admiration.
 
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