Coin lagging
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My "Surefire" Bets That I Lost, Kept The Bar In Stitches..........grrrrrrr
His coin rolled under the end rail and mine landed about an inch from the spot.......but it then bounced onto the floor.
DAMMIT !
The place where I hung out had gambling of all types and was open 24 hours a day. It had an oval bar and with cash registers, cups, napkin holders, drinks and such ON the bar, it also had an overhead rack that held all the glasses upside down.
Instead of pitching at the spot on either of the 4'x8' tables from the usual area(s), this guy decided that he wanted to throw from the other side of the bar and THROUGH the confined space above the bar and below the racks of glasses. you couldn't get any 'loft' on your toss, but I still thought that I had the best of it.
After he won the $1,000, he put it in his pocket vault and wouldn't bet on ANYTHING else. He didn't even pay for my drink. I didn't like him when he walked in the joint and I liked him even less when he left.
Doug
(I once bet a guy all the money that I had on me while playing liar's poker with dollar bills, that he didn't have (own) a dollar with eight aces (or 1s) on it...with him. He opened his wallet and produced it and scooped up all my cash and left........ I drank HIS drink when he left to get even with him....... it didn't ease the $300+ loss I suffered, though)
RoyL said:
His coin rolled under the end rail and mine landed about an inch from the spot.......but it then bounced onto the floor.
DAMMIT !
The place where I hung out had gambling of all types and was open 24 hours a day. It had an oval bar and with cash registers, cups, napkin holders, drinks and such ON the bar, it also had an overhead rack that held all the glasses upside down.
Instead of pitching at the spot on either of the 4'x8' tables from the usual area(s), this guy decided that he wanted to throw from the other side of the bar and THROUGH the confined space above the bar and below the racks of glasses. you couldn't get any 'loft' on your toss, but I still thought that I had the best of it.
After he won the $1,000, he put it in his pocket vault and wouldn't bet on ANYTHING else. He didn't even pay for my drink. I didn't like him when he walked in the joint and I liked him even less when he left.
Doug
(I once bet a guy all the money that I had on me while playing liar's poker with dollar bills, that he didn't have (own) a dollar with eight aces (or 1s) on it...with him. He opened his wallet and produced it and scooped up all my cash and left........ I drank HIS drink when he left to get even with him....... it didn't ease the $300+ loss I suffered, though)
Great story, John. I have to confess that I have lost my share of one-hole games needing one while my opponent needed 7 or 8.john schmidt said:
I Know, I'm A Sucker....
The barstools that I'm talking about have a sort of rounded top to them and you've got action that you can't get one quarter out of four to land (and stay) on top of one from 20' away. That's only 1 quarter out of FOUR.
I will need 24 hours notice in order to dig up the family fortune from beneath the old oak tree.
Doug
( and, I may even let you try from 10' eventually, if you'll measure off the 10', while I wipe the barstool off )
masonh said:
The barstools that I'm talking about have a sort of rounded top to them and you've got action that you can't get one quarter out of four to land (and stay) on top of one from 20' away. That's only 1 quarter out of FOUR.
I will need 24 hours notice in order to dig up the family fortune from beneath the old oak tree.
Doug
( and, I may even let you try from 10' eventually, if you'll measure off the 10', while I wipe the barstool off )
I Liked Me Some Action............Even 'Losing' Action
I played Buster Merchant in 1985 at The Triple Play bar. He spotted me the 7&8 playing nineball and busted me. I guess that's why he's named BUSTER.
I left with elephant ear pockets.
I didn't fare any better with Dan Louie.
Doug
(I wish this guys would have given me their address, so that I might visit my money sometime)
Fatboy said:
I played Buster Merchant in 1985 at The Triple Play bar. He spotted me the 7&8 playing nineball and busted me. I guess that's why he's named BUSTER.
I left with elephant ear pockets.
I didn't fare any better with Dan Louie.
Doug
(I wish this guys would have given me their address, so that I might visit my money sometime)
Coin tossing
Seems like if you hung around a pool hall long enough back in the day, a coin tosser would come through and try to steal some money. Back in the early 1960s at Cotton Bowling Palace in Dallas, TX, a coin pitcher showed up one night and tried to get someone to pitch coins with him. Well, none of the regulars had any skill at pitching pennies, so the coin guy just offered some proposition bets. He kept offering more and more extreme bets until finally he offered to bet even money that he could pitch a penny into a little sugar bowl from about 20 feet away. Now this sugar bowl had an opening about 2.5 inches in diameter, so it seemed like a ridiculous bet, right?
Some of you old timers remember a TV series about the old West called Maverick. In one episode, either Bret or Bart (I don't recall which one) told a story about some gambling advice he had gotten from his pappy. He said, "My pappy told me that if a guy you're playing cards with offers to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump up out of the deck and spit cider into your ear, DON'T BET HIM, cause if you do, sure as shootin' you are going to end up with an ear full of cider."
The coin tosser proved to several of us that he could toss that penny into that sugar bowl more than 50% of the time!
Seems like if you hung around a pool hall long enough back in the day, a coin tosser would come through and try to steal some money. Back in the early 1960s at Cotton Bowling Palace in Dallas, TX, a coin pitcher showed up one night and tried to get someone to pitch coins with him. Well, none of the regulars had any skill at pitching pennies, so the coin guy just offered some proposition bets. He kept offering more and more extreme bets until finally he offered to bet even money that he could pitch a penny into a little sugar bowl from about 20 feet away. Now this sugar bowl had an opening about 2.5 inches in diameter, so it seemed like a ridiculous bet, right?
Some of you old timers remember a TV series about the old West called Maverick. In one episode, either Bret or Bart (I don't recall which one) told a story about some gambling advice he had gotten from his pappy. He said, "My pappy told me that if a guy you're playing cards with offers to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump up out of the deck and spit cider into your ear, DON'T BET HIM, cause if you do, sure as shootin' you are going to end up with an ear full of cider."
The coin tosser proved to several of us that he could toss that penny into that sugar bowl more than 50% of the time!
There was a lounge in New Orleans named Maximillian's on Canal Blvd. across the street (about 100 yards from one of New Orleans cemetaries) and coin tosser Steve Beta happened into there one night while I was there and bet everyone that he could throw a football into the cemetary from the front of the lounge. They bet and he tossed it in.
He carried his helium filled football around in his vehicle.
This same lounge had a long sitdown bar and an equally long backbar filled with the liquor bottles. Above the backbar, was a well built type of wooden canopy and on this canopy was was small pitcher with about a 2 1/2 opening (the pitcher opening was up close to the ceiling). The deal was, if you tossed a coin into the pitcher, you got a Free drink, but you couldn't throw pennies.
George the owner, gave away alot of Free drinks over the years, but when he sold the bar, he removed over $8,000 from the canopy. That was alot of money back then, a glassful of Chivas Regal on the rocks cost $1.10
Doug
He carried his helium filled football around in his vehicle.
This same lounge had a long sitdown bar and an equally long backbar filled with the liquor bottles. Above the backbar, was a well built type of wooden canopy and on this canopy was was small pitcher with about a 2 1/2 opening (the pitcher opening was up close to the ceiling). The deal was, if you tossed a coin into the pitcher, you got a Free drink, but you couldn't throw pennies.
George the owner, gave away alot of Free drinks over the years, but when he sold the bar, he removed over $8,000 from the canopy. That was alot of money back then, a glassful of Chivas Regal on the rocks cost $1.10
Doug
I was told that Babe Ruth, when he was still in Boston and not really famous yet, used to frequent a speakeasy/brothel in my home town (hick town) about 30 miles from Boston. He'd bet people he could hit a baseball from the parking lot into the harbour. You can't see the harbor from the place in question because of an intervening hill. It is a long poke, but he'd pop the ball over the hill into the harbor and take the money.
Here's a google map of the hit. It would have been from the parking lot on the right into the harbor on the left.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=green+harbor,+marshfield,+ma&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title
Here's a google map of the hit. It would have been from the parking lot on the right into the harbor on the left.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=green+harbor,+marshfield,+ma&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title
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This always gets the cash! I know two people that can take a pill pool bottle an draw any # they want. The way it works as you draw high pill for the cash an if you don't draw #16 you can't win. The more they lose the higher they bet. I've seen this hustle bust a whole poolroom on several occasions.
Pinocchio
This always gets the cash! I know two people that can take a pill pool bottle an draw any # they want. The way it works as you draw high pill for the cash an if you don't draw #16 you can't win. The more they lose the higher they bet. I've seen this hustle bust a whole poolroom on several occasions.
Pinocchio
I know a guy that will pitch to the spot against pretty much anyone......I won't go so far as to say he is the best...but I am farily sure he will give the best a shot and a run for his/her money.
In the past he would routinly end up giving 2 or 3 pitches against his 1 and/or he would pitch from under his leg.
In the past he would routinly end up giving 2 or 3 pitches against his 1 and/or he would pitch from under his leg.