Every Played a Drug Dealer for Money?

It had been around 6 years after I had left the road. I had gone back to school and gotten a degree , married and with a small new born. Great job making good money. One of my old friends that was
a mentor growing up , called me out of the blue. He wanted me to get back into action a little. My wife had girls night out, so I started taking off for a Guys night out. After about three weeks , I was getting

back in gear pretty good , and on a Friday afternoon , right after work , my friend calls me. My wife is out of town with my son,,so it's off to the room I go. I'm playing my friend Burk and after about

20 mins or so, this gent walks in carrying a breif case , and asks if anyone plays for money. Burk tells me to play this guy for what ever he wants to play for. We start out at 40 a game. After about 4

hours I have him stuck almost 3 grand. The room is closing and the gent asks if I would come to his town about 40 min away , the next day and we could play some more.

I had a sales meeting with the people I work with on that Saturday , and told him I could play about an hour after that was over, so we meet up around 2:00 on Saturday and start playing. Stakes

are higher this time. We start out at 100. After I get him down about 1500 more bucks he raises it to 200 ,,little later 300 and little later 400 a game. We have beat the guy out of about 9 grand when

the action got queered by some one who recognized me. When that happened, it got real quiet in that room. The owner who knew me and wasn't the one who knocked the action , told me what had

happened,,that I was alright,,but best head on home. This guy was dealing and the brief case was full of money,,I could smell it, but we only got just a good taste of what was in there.

We beat him out of almost 10 grand said and done,,I had most of the money in big bills in my pants. After returning home from this match I stripped down to take a needed shower and while in

getting clean, my Wife came to the door and asked if I had money for a Pizza she had ordered. The she said , Oh I sees your pants and wallet,,,,then I heard a loud scream ,,and realized that I lost

all of my winnings,,she can give me the

seven any day:eek:
 
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Get_A_Grip said:
EVER Played a Drug Dealer for Money?
Reading some other threads today made me this of this topic.

Only one time did I knowingly play a drug dealer for money, at a bar that I frequented all of the time. I guess I figured that it would be "safer".

I had been drinking since noon that day, and it was around 5pm when we started playing.

We started playing for $20 per game. I won all three at $20, but just barely (I was drunk after all).

He then asked to play for $100 per game. He left the bar and stopped at home (must have been close by) to get more money.

After I won the first game for $100, he commented that, I was shooting "better" now than before. The first warning sign.

During the second $100 game, in come 2-3 of his "friends" that proceeded to watch us play.

I seriously was drunk and at one point I literally shot at the wrong balls! Everyone started hollering and saying I was cheating and rearranging the balls!

I then started asking the "friends" if they were interfering with the game, if THEY wanted to play.

I really didn't realize what I was getting in to. My mechanic stopped in the bar and later told me that they were all going to beat the sh!t out of me.

I won 4 games at $100 per game and then the guy quit. I think what saved me is that the owner vouched for me that I had been there since noon and was drunk.

Every time that guy came in the bar and saw me, he always commented that I had hustled him that day....but he didn't seem too upset about it.

Anyone else have a good drug dealer story?
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They might have been simply looking to roll you for your cash. They don't have to be drug dealers to do that, just thugs. It happened to me once non-pool related but when I asked them for a couple bucks for bus fare they figured I was broke and let me walk out of the place - and gave me bus fare.
 
If it weren't for drug dealers, 95% of the high $$$ pool action, would have never happened in the past 30 years.
The other 5% is broken down into 4% pimps, and 1% regular rich people.
 
When I was in the Air Force stationed in Stuttgart Germany for 2 years, I made more money playing pool than my pay.
One of my regulars was a black Army man that was a gambling addict.
He sold drugs and anything he could to support his gambling.
He would win a ton at dice and loose it at cards and pool.
Every weekend he would come looking for me.
I would loose about 1 in 5 games,
When he went broke, he would borrow $200 from me.
Usually paid me back in about 2 weeks then loose another $100.
This went on until he left owing me $200. :)
He had left a 10 speed bike in storage so I sold it for $100.
I transferred up to the Weisbaden area for 6 years.
About once a month I would head down to Stuttgart for some easy money.
About 2 years later, I ran into him again.
Boy was he surprised. :)
I collected my money and beat him out of another $200 :)
 
I used to play on, probably beat him out of2-5000, over a couple years.

Hed lose 3-10 1p games at 50-100 a rack every time. Then I didn't see him for a while and he got me for like 500...the spot i had been giving him was way out of line coz he got good.

He told me once, about the money lost: what am I gonna do with it? Put it in the bank?
 
Stumbled into a $50 game of eight ball on a bar box, after hours in the pool hall. In the course of playing, three people that I did not know came to me and said, "Beat this guy he is a drug dealer." I was out with my wife and I told her, "With as many people that just told me this guy is a drug dealer, he will not be on the street for much longer." I won $750, two days later he was in jail.
 
I was in the pool hall one day playing in a $20 ring game with three of the best players in our area. All pro caliber that quite often were cashing in pro tournaments.

Anyway, I'm not sure what I was thinking to get involved in that game because I had absolutely no chance of winning.

So now I'm in a bad mood because I'm stuck quite a bit. I was too stupid and stubborn to quit. Like I often would do back then, I'm sure I would have stayed until I was out of ammo.

This kid (early 20s) then walks in and sits right beside me. He watched these guys play for about 10 minutes and then asks me if he could join in.

I looked at this kid like he was a retard and told him were playing for 20s. Not only that, but those thieves I was playing against weren't missing anything. The kid said "that's fine, I don't care"

So I took a chance and worked out a game with him by myself (screw those thieves who had most of my money).

Our first game was a 100 point straight pool game for $100. I quickly learned the kid couldn't hold a stick. I beat him probably 100 to 30...and I stopped playing safe when I could see he couldn't play at all.

As I was running out my last few balls he was already at the table flipping his coin for another.

After a few double ups (his idea) we ended up playing $400 games. I can't recall how much I won now, but it was between 2k and 3k.

He was a complete gentleman and payed after every game. We never seen him back in the pool hall again. I always thought he was a dealer because who else would drop that kind cash so nonchalantly?
 
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Never played one but I've won a tidy sum from them putting players into the box and backing them against me. From my experience most of them don't seem to have the same regard for $ as normal people do.
 
Spent a couple years just playing pool for a living back in the late 80's. Back then every bar you went into had people willing to gamble for small stakes.

Never had to really become a "road player" to make my money. Had a couple soft drug dealers that enjoyed playing and losing to me several times a week. It was a standing ring game for $1 on the 5 and $2 on the 9.

Kept it fun and loose, small stakes. But just in those 2-3 times a week games I would rake in $200-$1000 a week between them and a couple others that would join in.

They would sell more and be back to donate. It's almost as if they were addicted to me.

Never hustled them, nobody ever got upset. Just had fun times.
 
bdorman said:
I won $20 from my pharmacist, but he's still waaaay ahead.
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The Pharmacist on our League is one of the best players
in the greater Sacramento area. He has played in every
BCA Nationals in Las Vegas since the very first one.
I believe he received an award for it a couple years ago.
 
I have played a few but one in particular stands out. I played this guy three or four times at different places in the course of a week. We always started at $40 a game playing nine ball and him getting the seven.
After a number of games it always escalated to higher amounts. In the times we played during that week he lost about $1000 to $1500 each time.

I found out where his home room was and traveled there to play more. He was there and when we got to the table he said he would play for $10 a game. I thought that he was low on cash and passed on the game since he had lost close to 4 grand in the previous matches with me. I didn't want him getting used to playing me by playing too cheap because he wasn't helpless getting the seven ball.

Anyway he wound up getting into another a game with someone else as I watched. I watched as he lost about $1200 to that guy. Dummy me, you never know.
 
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