Best Moves for a Hustler To Use

ChrisinNC said:
1) Racking the balls at the wrong end of the table.
2) Asking the house man for a 9 ball rack.
3) Chalking your cue tip while holding it directly over over the table surface.
4) Placing the chalk upside down on the rail.
5) Grabbing the chalk and chalking your tip after missing a shot, when your opponent will be needing to use it.
6) Asking the house man if you have any talc/hand chalk.
7) Standing right next to the table while your opponent is shooting.
8) Breaking the balls as soon as they’ve been racked, before the racker even has time to place the rack on the hook and get out of the way.
9) Dumping the tray of balls on the pool table surface, as opposed to carefully removing them and placing them on the table.
10) Asking the house man for a rack of balls as opposed to a tray of balls.
11) Setting your drink on the rail of the table.

Just for starters - Any others you guys can think of? If I witnessed a perspective opponent doing any two or more of these, I know either they are trying to hustle me, or there is absolutely no way they can beat me!
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These sound more like dick moves than Hustler moves.
It frustrates me anytime someone abuses the equipment or their opponents.
 
Back in the day my buddy would find a bar and start hanging out there, he was really good at becoming everybody's friend really fast... so he would go in and beat everybody. He would usually play for beers or a buck a game and guys would be happy to lose to him. After a couple of weeks I would come in and start taking shit wanting to gamble... well the guys would tell my buddy to play me. My buddy would say he had no money... but someone would always want to back him to play me. We would go back and forth a little and then I would start to pull away and we would have a nice little payday.
 
ChrisinNC said:
1) Racking the balls at the wrong end of the table.
2) Asking the house man for a 9 ball rack.
3) Chalking your cue tip while holding it directly over over the table surface.
4) Placing the chalk upside down on the rail.
5) Grabbing the chalk and chalking your tip after missing a shot, when your opponent will be needing to use it.
6) Asking the house man if you have any talc/hand chalk.
7) Standing right next to the table while your opponent is shooting.
8) Breaking the balls as soon as they’ve been racked, before the racker even has time to place the rack on the hook and get out of the way.
9) Dumping the tray of balls on the pool table surface, as opposed to carefully removing them and placing them on the table.
10) Asking the house man for a rack of balls as opposed to a tray of balls.
11) Setting your drink on the rail of the table.

Just for starters - Any others you guys can think of? If I witnessed a perspective opponent doing any two or more of these, I know either they are trying to hustle me, or there is absolutely no way they can beat me!
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Those are moves? My ex-wife's relatives did all of those things every time that played on my home table......
 
Question is; what kind of person are you trying to hustle and for how much.

Eight of these are pitiful amateur attempts at sharking or making anyone with any skills, sense, and/or money to avoid you like the plague.

Add talk incessantly and interrupt your opponent while they are shooting.

And here’s more:

 
Sandbagger said:
Back in the day my buddy would find a bar and start hanging out there, he was really good at becoming everybody's friend really fast... so he would go in and beat everybody. He would usually play for beers or a buck a game and guys would be happy to lose to him. After a couple of weeks I would come in and start taking shit wanting to gamble... well the guys would tell my buddy to play me. My buddy would say he had no money... but someone would always want to back him to play me. We would go back and forth a little and then I would start to pull away and we would have a nice little payday.
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Well done.

I did that in the 80’s more than a few times.

Fun times!
 
Sandbagger said:
Back in the day my buddy would find a bar and start hanging out there, he was really good at becoming everybody's friend really fast... so he would go in and beat everybody. He would usually play for beers or a buck a game and guys would be happy to lose to him. After a couple of weeks I would come in and start taking shit wanting to gamble... well the guys would tell my buddy to play me. My buddy would say he had no money... but someone would always want to back him to play me. We would go back and forth a little and then I would start to pull away and we would have a nice little payday.
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Im am assuming your buddy didn't dump, you could beat him. Either way as they say "A dog never shits where he eats". I hope you lived many miles from where this took place and never went back. I know of at least one incident of a player being shot in the face in a parking lot over dumping somebody. Things like you describe is best left to the movies, not real life.
 
middleofnowhere said:
Im am assuming your buddy didn't dump, you could beat him. Either way as they say "A dog never shits where he eats". I hope you lived many miles from where this took place and never went back. I know of at least one incident of a player being shot in the face in a parking lot over dumping somebody. Things like you describe is best left to the movies, not real life.
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If your customer service dept is solid, never have a problem. It’s how you lay it down.

You know you really pulled it off when you beat someone and they pay for your dinner afterwards.

Fatboy<———just a beginner trying to get better….
 
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I agree with Fatboy, hustling is over. Of course there are situations and circumstances where it will be happens, but compared to the past, it is essentially dead. People are scared to death to risk a nickel on the table. Today, I rarely see anyone gamble anymore who aren't seasoned players. I used to gamble all the time and never had problems finding small games. Maybe I have killed most of the action around me, but I don't see others ever matching up like it was in the past either. Personally, it just isn't even worth it to me anymore. I gamble occasionally when the time is right, but usually just work a few people for drinks and entertainment anymore.
 
ibuycues said:
Right on the back of his jacket, like a big sign!
I’d really like to own his jacket, a piece of our history!

Will Prout
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When I knew him he always was dressed like a waiter this was in Miami. The great thing in Miami was, it was a tourist town. You could hit all the same bars over and over with a different crowd every night. It was endless easy action. They were always playing for something. All it took was to put a quarter on the rail or a name on the board and see how the night goes. For a small time grinder it was the best job in town and didn't pay that bad either. At a time when a guy could raise a family on $5.00 an hour, a scuffler made more a week then many working men. It was in fact, a pretty good job.
 
I recall a fellow who referred to a shot in which the CUE ball was on the spot as a spot shot, saying "I hate spot shots." You had to figure he was a fish, but it turns out he could play some.
 
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