Comply with the bar idiot for the cash...

[barboxkiller]

I have heard a lot of complaining recently dealing with some posters on here going out to bars, playing for a few bucks, and getting pissed when the bar rat he is playing decides to slightly alter the rules mid-game when there is a few bucks on the line. Some of you may think I'm an idiot for this, but whatever happened to the old-school idea of the sucker being right? Believe me, it can pay off a lot!
I have played many bar rats over the past few years, and I have made a ton of cash from playing by their rules. If he wants to alter them mid-game, act lie you didn't know the rule, and that the new rule is fine. Just remember to gently enforce the new rule in the following games. That way, he can't argue about it later unless he is either totally drunk or a complete ass.
As an example, I was playing a drug dealer and his cronies at a dive bar in South Carolina last year, and the rules would slightly change for the first few games, and I apologized and adjusted. They were happy. At the end of the night I was about $700 winner because they kept jacking the bet because they were happy. I have made more and less than this before in the exact same situations.
If you never get mad about the small stuff when the bet is monumentally stupid, you never know what could have happened if you had just kept your cool. It pays off to go with the flow. Also, it shows that you are not too knowledgeable about the game. Who knows, the next time this happens and you blow up, you could have just cost yourself a few dimes from a stone-cold go-off!

 

[Beware_of_Dawg]

LOL, I must be becoming a power "repper" all of a sudden. I repped you for your post, you went from 3 bars to 8 immediately. YO.. A brotha got some clout round this joint now.... rolflmao.

Welcome to the board killa.

 

[supergreenman]

Just for the hell of it I repped him too, and bumped him a few more greenies.

Wow the power is making me drunk, I think I'm going on a repping spree.

 

[ShootingArts]

you are right

You are right. I always let the bar room heroes make their own rules. I reminded them of their rules and kept them the same once they dreamed them up but it never made sense to complain while I was winning. Their rules might cost me a game here or there but it was all going to work out the same before they quit.

Hu

I have heard a lot of complaining recently dealing with some posters on here going out to bars, playing for a few bucks, and getting pissed when the bar rat he is playing decides to slightly alter the rules mid-game when there is a few bucks on the line. Some of you may think I'm an idiot for this, but whatever happened to the old-school idea of the sucker being right? Believe me, it can pay off a lot!
I have played many bar rats over the past few years, and I have made a ton of cash from playing by their rules. If he wants to alter them mid-game, act lie you didn't know the rule, and that the new rule is fine. Just remember to gently enforce the new rule in the following games. That way, he can't argue about it later unless he is either totally drunk or a complete ass.
As an example, I was playing a drug dealer and his cronies at a dive bar in South Carolina last year, and the rules would slightly change for the first few games, and I apologized and adjusted. They were happy. At the end of the night I was about $700 winner because they kept jacking the bet because they were happy. I have made more and less than this before in the exact same situations.
If you never get mad about the small stuff when the bet is monumentally stupid, you never know what could have happened if you had just kept your cool. It pays off to go with the flow. Also, it shows that you are not too knowledgeable about the game. Who knows, the next time this happens and you blow up, you could have just cost yourself a few dimes from a stone-cold go-off!

 

[TXsouthpaw]

Thats what ive been saying all along.check my posts. beat em at therye own game, its always a sweeter win; when he changes the rules every other rack and you STILL win. :thumbup:

 

[2rgrbn]

What success I have had in pool has been mainly in bars and I would agree many that the mental game in a bar is no where near what it is in a pool hall. Guys that run out for $10 can't make a ball for $100 among the list of distractions. In a pool hall the mental distractions don't seem to have as much effect. Often the bar guy is thought of as a great player by the other bar patrons and is not accustom to a formidable opponent so a player shows up that plays his speed or greater and it causes distraction where in a pool hall it is a statement to be the best and in addition there are usually several guys in there that can be the best on any given day so it is common place to go up against a formidable opponent. I found it much easier to use intentional "sharks" from an opponent against them in a bar, usually by being patient. In the pool hall "Sharking" or mental sparring came from the sweaters more then the player. In my experience the player based his game on his skill -vs- mine in the pool hall and the bar guy had many angles most of which were easily turned around and used to my advantage after I had some experience dealing with them. My favorite spot was to give up the break this was great against most bar players skill set but would be catastrophic against an actual player.

 

[Rotarded]

As a long time Bar-boxer, I must agree. I've long been the "you don't wanna play him" guy in my local watering hole, and have some interesting "rules" proposed.

I'm not a big guy (5'8" 170), and usually by myself (even though at least 3 or 4 people in the bar have my back, including the owner) so I will play any silly game anyone proposes.

I always ask before breaking, or shooting anything other than an obvious shot. I find great humor in someone trying to give themselves an advantage by making the rules up as they go. It almost always backfires on them.

I LOVE when an opponent tells me I hit the rail, and didn't call it when pocketing a long rail corner shot. It seems they never make more than one ball per turn for the rest of the game, by their silly rule, if I don't run out on them on my next turn.

Hell, I remember one guy, I believe he said he was from Texas, who got in my face for "disrespecting him" because I put quarters in and racked ( I was next on the chalkboard) after he won the table, stating "where I come from, you are disrespecting me because it's my table and I pick who I want to play"

Yeah, after the pissing match. He broke dry and I ran out. His sister was holding him back, walking him out of the bar.

 

[cincyman]

I have heard a lot of complaining recently dealing with some posters on here going out to bars, playing for a few bucks, and getting pissed when the bar rat he is playing decides to slightly alter the rules mid-game when there is a few bucks on the line. Some of you may think I'm an idiot for this, but whatever happened to the old-school idea of the sucker being right? Believe me, it can pay off a lot!
I have played many bar rats over the past few years, and I have made a ton of cash from playing by their rules. If he wants to alter them mid-game, act lie you didn't know the rule, and that the new rule is fine. Just remember to gently enforce the new rule in the following games. That way, he can't argue about it later unless he is either totally drunk or a complete ass.
As an example, I was playing a drug dealer and his cronies at a dive bar in South Carolina last year, and the rules would slightly change for the first few games, and I apologized and adjusted. They were happy. At the end of the night I was about $700 winner because they kept jacking the bet because they were happy. I have made more and less than this before in the exact same situations.
If you never get mad about the small stuff when the bet is monumentally stupid, you never know what could have happened if you had just kept your cool. It pays off to go with the flow. Also, it shows that you are not too knowledgeable about the game. Who knows, the next time this happens and you blow up, you could have just cost yourself a few dimes from a stone-cold go-off!

I completely agree!!! You have to remember most are nits trying to steal from the bar players and then whine when the bar player cant remember rule 17.1 section 81 - b from the handbook lol.