Ever been accused of being a Hustler

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TooManyCues

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Was playing a bar tournament last week for the second time in the3 same bar, and again I was not doing well.

Guy comes up to me and I know he was not joking, but accused me of being a Hustler.

No I was not playing up to speed, and was totally not focused on the tournament.

But hell it was a 80 dollar prize pot, and I still can not get over this guy accusing me of Hustling anyone.
 
nope

Nope! Never in my entire life. I just led the parade out of a bunch of places because I was so popular. :D :D :D

Hu
 
i was playing 8 ball partners in the local bar. my partner was in a neck brace, screws , clamps, etc., literally broke his neck in a car accident, and was finally out of the hospital and able to walk around. the rule was standard losers buy beers, draughts at maybe 50 cents each.

we were beating on two big guys i didn't know with mullets. one of them says to me, you both are wearing glasses and we're not. i should stomp on your glasses to even it up. i looked at him to see if he was kidding, but i think he was just thinking out loud.
 
yup, many times, until I learned how to stall, only against bangers not players. I dont need to stalll against players I need to play. for better or worse being on the lemon is one of the best parts of my game.
 
I have yes and usually it's well before I've asked anyone to play for anything. My standard response is that I'd be a horrible hustler if I never played for anything and if I did ask them to play for something it'd be for the gamble, not the hustle. That usually scares them too so it's a lose/lose situation.
 
Sometimes a pool player will suffer from paranoia worse than a crack addict that hides in his basement with a fly swatter and a shotgun.
 
TooManyCues said:
Was playing a bar tournament last week for the second time in the3 same bar, and again I was not doing well.

Guy comes up to me and I know he was not joking, but accused me of being a Hustler.

No I was not playing up to speed, and was totally not focused on the tournament.

But hell it was a 80 dollar prize pot, and I still can not get over this guy accusing me of Hustling anyone.
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Many times. Now that I have everybody in Texas trapped, I don't have a clue as to what to do.
 
I stopped off in Kentucky at a local joint and there was a ring game on the front table. $1.00 - $1.00. I asked if I could get in, and I'll never in my life, forget this fella's response. I don't know Hooo yoo arrrrre, but I know whaaat you arrrre. I ain't givin' you no gaase money. Wish you could have heard this dialect. Hell, I am from the mountains, and I found it hysterical. I thought the guy was joking with me, it was so stretched out and slurred.
 
crawfish said:
I stopped off in Kentucky at a local joint and there was a ring game on the front table. $1.00 - $1.00. I asked if I could get in, and I'll never in my life, forget this fella's response. I don't know Hooo yoo arrrrre, but I know whaaat you arrrre. I ain't givin' you no gaase money. Wish you could have heard this dialect. Hell, I am from the mountains, and I found it hysterical. I thought the guy was joking with me, it was so stretched out and slurred.
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I've heard that dialect before...it's called drunk. :D
 
For me, it seems to always happen the same way.

Someone that doesn't know me will ask me to play for money and when I beat them, they accuse me of hustling them.

Go figure!

Stones
 
Seems the common thing here is "I was in this bar and..." :D

The most recent time I've come close to being accused of such a thing was just a few weeks ago, at (here it comes) a local little bar tournament. Of late I tend to win it more often than not.

So one night, a few weeks back, after the tournament was done, this one woman - someone not even playing in the tournament - stomps up and starts giving me an earful about "taking everyone's money". This is a whole $5 entry tournament, mind you.

The best bit was when she said after I win it, I should take "two or three months (yes, MONTHS) off" so others have a chance to win.

MONTHS? Har :D

At the time, it was the second-to-last week of this particular tournament - two weeks later they were going to be starting up their in-house league again on that night, and they just run a tournament in the gaps between leagues. Told this gal that, plus the fact that I'm going to be moving out of town soon, but such things did not appease her.

Amusingly, I went up and played again last week - and sadly only took third, thanks to a couple of hangers that cost me both matches (to the same guy, no less). That same gal was there, and didn't utter a peep when she saw me (which was prior to my going out).
 
Many times and I still have a lot of the scars to prove it. The deep South was tough on us poor New Yorkers that came down there to hustle in the late 1950's:mad: . Johnnyt
 
LOTS of times. Mainly because my good game and my bad game are miles apart. They don't know who is going to show up. Gary the player or Gary the banger!!


Gary<needs to work on his game>
 
Ever been accused of being a hustler?

No, but I've been accused of a lot of other things, one about me being an a-hole just recently. :cool:
 
yup

ScottW said:
Seems the common thing here is "I was in this bar and..." :D
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I worked a lot of very short one day to one week jobs in small town and rural America. Often the only table was in a local bar or the one twenty miles up the road. It didn't matter how well you stalled, if a stranger was leaving a winner he was a hustler even if it was the local hotshot that had been doing the hustling and gotten burned.

If I was going to be in a place a few days or a week I might go in and drink a few beers and break even or lose a little to a few people for a night or two before coming in and playing different people a tougher game. That way I had some locals that thought I was a good ol' boy. Sometimes it was a one night stand though and I just waded in and let the chips fall where they may instead of my usual bit of a dance. Then it was pretty much guaranteed that I would lead the parade to the door. A twenty to the bartender to cover the broken house cue and out the door I went.

I never kept a count but I broke dozens of cues just to get to the door when I was alone and in a tight spot. I always played with house cues. Aside from screaming "player" there often wasn't time to be picking up your own cue and case when the poop hit the fan. The house cues were disposable and half a house cue held chest high in both hands was a serious deterrent to the folks at the front of the pack. I rarely actually used it.

Hu
 
LOL at the "in a bar" part....

Late teens, early twenties, would go out and chase tale, and if there was a pool table, my buddies and I were on it....we hit every bar at least once a month, so we were pretty regular and there was always games for beer or like $2-5 a game, really small potatoes.....we'd stay on the table a while, win a few dollars or some beers, have a good time, and make some friends...

At least monthly, the local cowboy who is in there 3 nights a week....the same guys money we took last month.....the big 6'4" real cowboy, the guy that actually works on a ranch and built like a truck....well here he comes again, wanting to beat us....and sometimes he does....but mostly, he loses, and every single time - "you guys trying to hustle me".....well sure idiot, we play to win, beat almost everyone all night, tell you we are going to beat you, and then you get disappointed when we win???? :confused:

I think most bar idiots like that confuse the term winner with the term hustler.....I guess they figure if you are better than them, then you shouldn't play.....:rolleyes:
 
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