Best Moves for a Hustler To Use

[middleofnowhere]

Isn’t it a odd coincidence that back in the day the pool rooms with the “No Gambling” signs by the cash register and front tables were the best action joint?

Funny how that worked

If you didn’t see one of those signs, dead room. Get in the car on to the next. Man I miss that adventure. Forever gone

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Fatboy <———chasing new adventures

Plausible deniability. No kidding. Because you charge for the use of the table you could be accused profiting from gambling. It's happened.

Toby Sweet was arrested because two guys were playing $10.00 9 ball In his place. I heard in court Toby talked his way out of it. They said he was hilarious.

 

[Fatboy]

Plausible deniability. No kidding. Because you charge for the use of the table you could be accused profiting from gambling. It's happened. Toby Sweet was arrested because two guys were playing $10.00 9 ball In his place.

He should have been arrested!!!

Anything less than $50 is a crime!

J/k

 

[middleofnowhere]

He should have been arrested!!!

Anything less than $50 is a crime!

J/k

That's funny, but in all seriousness they don't care about the players they go after the room owner.

 

[ShootingArts]

That's funny, but in all seriousness they don't care about the players they go after the room owner.

That is why we couldn't post the main areas I played in. Gambling was illegal. Nobody cared until you put too much on the light. Then some sorry SOS would call a cop friend and you were busted, often room owner too. Of course the money was confiscated for evidence. Like dope, most of the cash disappeared on the way to the evidence room if they even did any paperwork. Most of the time the cop and his buddy just split the cash. What you gonna do? Go complain they took your illegal funds?

Not being able to post caused some issues and you just expected the last bet to be air if you busted somebody. I quit even getting annoyed about the air barrel at the end of things. Air barrel at the beginning, different story!

Why are we still talking about this when there is this amazing resource:

I'm out of here, I have to go pay for my house!

First time I watched that I laughed until I almost hurt. All I really want to know is how did he catch Ewa?

Hu

 

[Fatboy]

That's funny, but in all seriousness they don't care about the players they go after the room owner.

Sounds like telemarketing raids in the 90’s.

The salesmen never caught much heat, the room owners did.

 

[WoodyJ]

Isn’t it a odd coincidence that back in the day the pool rooms with the “No Gambling” signs by the cash register and front tables were the best action joint?

Funny how that worked

If you didn’t see one of those signs, dead room. Get in the car on to the next. Man I miss that adventure. Forever gone

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Fatboy <———chasing new adventures

Yep, funny indeed. As someone else said -- plausible deniability.

Same when I was a bagboy as a kid in a grocery store. Big sign on the entry door saying NO TIPPING. When asked about it we always said that's just so the IRS doesn't try to rob us.

 

[tim913]

Sometimes I would stop by a local t-shirt shop and pick up a shirt for one of the local high school’s soccer teams, don’t know why but soccer always worked best, I just looked like a LOCAL soccer ‘DAD’

 

[tomatoshooter]

Is there some secret "look out for this hustler!" website, social media group, or forum thread that I'm missing?

Yes there is but it's a secret. Wanna play for some money?

Isn’t it a odd coincidence that back in the day the pool rooms with the “No Gambling” signs by the cash register and front tables were the best action joint?

Is it like every time there's a "no dumping" sign by the road there's always a pile of trash?

 

[tomatoshooter]

Toby Sweet was arrested because two guys were playing $10.00 9 ball In his place. I heard in court Toby talked his way out of it. They said he was hilarious.

That's so ironic considering he probably bought the place with winnings from money games. If his talking was as smooth as his pool game there's no way they could convict him.

 

[middleofnowhere]

That's so ironic considering he probably bought the place with winnings from money games. If his talking was as smooth as his pool game there's no way they could convict him.

Not really. Toby always made money including stock market. He had pool rooms in the past. One of those guys who always made money. He even used to live on a saleboat, flipped real estate. Pool was just something else he was good at.
I came in the pool room just a few hours after the gambling bust.