I assume of course you refer to Mosconi. While he didn't really like to gamble because he got used to a big paycheck from Brunswick on top of his tournament winnings, he did some gambling. There's a famous story about Fats hounding Willie to gamble playing one-pocket, which Willie never played. He was a exhibition & tournament player and one-pocket fit neither of those descriptions, at least back then. Fats went to Philadelphia and tracked Willie down in his local pool room. He started woofing at Willie, trying to egg him on. Finally Willie agreed to play Fats even one-pocket for $500 a game. Fats was getting staked at the game and after losing 4 straight games he was stuck the $2000 his stakehorse had sent him with. Fats got on the phone and called his stakehorse and told him to wire him another $2000. He said " Listen, I've got him right where I want him, Willie don't know shit from Shinolla about one-pocket. All he does is run 8 & out!"
