"is there anyone here who gambles?"
"is there anyone in this room who is NOT a nit?"
With that last line, you'd have the whole pool room betting against you.

"is there anyone here who gambles?"
"is there anyone in this room who is NOT a nit?"
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).
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.![]()
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!
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!
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.