Don't want to spoil anyone's action

Harvywallbanger said:
:eek: I have been spelling that wrong for a while now. Thanks alot.:) Another one I have had difficulty with is accept. That one is right is it not?
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Accept is to agree to receive something. Example, I accepted the $100 my girlfriend offered me.
Except is excluding something. Example, I took all the marbles except the blue one.
 
If I'm in my home ph and someone comes in that no one else knows and is looking for action, I think it is wrong to approach others unsolicited and tell them what this player's speed is. However, I don't see anything wrong with responding to a question about the player if someone you know approaches you. Also, if one of my friends is in danger of being hustled, I would say something to that friend on the QT.

If this is wrong, please chime in. This seems to me to be the right thing to do.
 
Rick i believe yours is the right aproach. You wouldn' tbe a friend if you didn' ttell a friend when danger looms.

As far as the rest, insecure chumps want to be "in the know". these railbirds aren't good enough or brave enough to play well and for real money so they run around telling everyone in the room what they think they know.

Most of these chumps couldn't tell a good from a great player with a gun to their head. they are parrots. repeating stories, and spewing knowledge they have gleaned from others.

If asked i would answer, wuith a disclaimer. and unless it was a friend i would never volunteer the information. frankly i like to see good action games and great play. why try and kill that?
 
Again, I may be being misunderstood.

If a player I know of comes in, and gets a stealing game with a friend of mine, I'm going to side with my friend, and tell him what's going on. That's obvious. But I don't think it's fair to the guy that someone else, who isn't a friend of mine, doesn't even know me, ahead of time tells me that this guy 'plays like this'. It'd be great if I could just log on AZ and find out how any one plays, but it isn't fair.

Jesse is a gentleman, at least on the pool table. I have a respect for him.. his game, and his character. It really makes no difference to me if he makes money or goes for broke - I don't care about him. But my respect for him, and LOTS of other road players, makes me feel this way.

And another thing. My views on the whole "hustlers are evil people who just rob you" - I don't nessicarily feel that way. They are out there to make money, and find the easiest game to win, true. But you don't have to play anybody you don't want - and you don't have to play for more than you can afford to lose. If you get into a game, and you lose all of your money - that's YOUR fault. I don't care if you thought you had a chance to win and you didn't, you shouldn't have gambled more then you could take care of. Especially with somebody you don't know.

blah blah blah... I'm tired, and I've typed to much, I may have left in the middle of a thought but I can't remember. I don't care.. what's going on?
 
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I see both sides of the debate actually. The best thing to do is just keep your mouth shut unless it is a friend. I don't think hustlers are evil but I also don't think they have a right to get upset if someone spills the beans is all I'm saying. I don't know. I haven't really been around that kind of atmosphere all that much to be honest so I probably shouldn't be in this discussion. It was just my opinion and I'm not dead set on my opinion either...I guess. But we have to realize the internet could give action as much as it takes it away. Right?
 
^ You're right. Can't argue there. And now that you mention it..

Jesse plays REAL bad, and I play extremely horribly (T.A.P 1 and a half). :)
 
Harvywallbanger said:
I see both sides of the debate actually. The best thing to do is just keep your mouth shut unless it is a friend. I don't think hustlers are evil but I also don't think they have a right to get upset if someone spills the beans is all I'm saying. I don't know. I haven't really been around that kind of atmosphere all that much to be honest so I probably shouldn't be in this discussion. It was just my opinion and I'm not dead set on my opinion either...I guess. But we have to realize the internet could give action as much as it takes it away. Right?
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I understand, but some people call everyone they meet or know, a friend. Frankly, I have only a two or three, and only one plays pool. If he is playing, I am usually in on it. Everyone else in not a friend, for purposes this kind of discussion. Makes it easy.
 
i think the term hustler gets overused and misunderstood.

As far as i am concerned a great roadplayer/backer team are better odds makers than the so called "fish".
 
Grady, Jay and Freddy talked before about Denny Searcy and said that he'd go into a town and always want to match up with the best player there. He obviously wasn't hiding his game and just wanted to play the best. That is the kind of player that I really respect and admire. You can tell by the way the other players talk about him that they revered him.

You wouldn't have to worry about knocking Denny's game would you? Too bad he's still not around. I would have loved to sweat his action.
 
When road players come in, I like to see them match up with people I don't like in the room haha. Personally, I believe that there is a certain risk you take when you match up with someone you don't know and that you might be getting hustled but that is the way it is. That's why it is called gambling. A road player is not there to rob people, he is there to get into the local gambling where he thinks he has an edge. A road player is not stealing the money with a gun or forcing people to play him. If you match up with someone you don't know the risk is always there that you will lose and I think going online and trying to "expose" these hustlers is just wrong. Let the road players make their money and stay unknown, thats all they have. Playing detective and trying to kill someone's action is equatable to standing around a roulette table at a casino and telling all the people who wanna play that their odds are horrible and they can't win. O, and I saw Jessie play a few weeks ago in my town...he plays good, thats all I gotta say about it.
 
poolbiz420 said:
I don't want to spoil any ones action just looking for some info. on a road player. They came into town last night and they were back again tonight. They say they are from Florida the players name they say is Jesse O (didn't catch the whole last name) He's an older hispanic gentleman and his backer is a middle age caucasion man? His name they are saying is Craig? If anyone has any info that would be great
Thanks
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It seems if you read this, I never asked how he played, I could tell you how he plays he's on the freakin' road!! I just wanted a little back ground on the guy cause i myself have never seen him. I learn what i needed to know, maybe i should have titled the thread different.
Biz
 
Jessie

Jessie's cooking eggs right now in the house, if you ever want to contact him to set up a game or what have you, give me a shout.

Chesscaty
 
poolbiz420 said:
I over heard the backer talking about them playing Shannon Murphy, but he said it was a 10 ahead race. Two nights ago he played one of our young guns here in town Danny Smith they spit sets 2 and 2. Last night they played again jesse wins 2 sets. When i left he was playing another player from town some one pocket and Branndon was up one game when i left.
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Was this in Toledo?
 
The only problem here is when facing the typical road player, or someone who's done the exact same thing by asking about the people to find out who to play. What's the difference between the road player asking or the guy he wants to play? Sure, they may do "their homework", which sounds oh so studious and applaudible, but that's just the same thing in reverse. If you don't want people knowing who is who, just don't say, or be the road player and mislead them. If you're good enough and have shown your face in enough places to be known and to have word spread, that's your own fault. Pick up a bar cue from time to time, switch hands, do something if you don't want to be known, or else your just putting your own neck on the line and have nobody to blame but yourself. Loud-mouthed game-killers in the pool hall/bar are different.. they just want to think they matter somehow, since they don't have a game themselves.
 
Atlanta qualifier

I heard jessie was playing in the Atlanta qualifier this weekend. Good luck to him!:)
 
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