Gambling Theory

I think after reading all the posts, I like to play cheap sets IF, I feel like practicing or playing a while. Playing ahead is more of a, shootem down, get into his pocket thing for me.

On another note, I had a guy ask me to play at a pool room I've only been to 3 times. He sais, wanna play some cheap 9-ball, i said sure how bout 3 ahead for $20. He looked at me like I just walked out of a ship at Rozwell. Then he mummbled something and walked away.....too funny....from that point on, I let them offer the first game...Gerry
 
huh?..........
I guess you either

feel its too cheap?.....in which case, try to get a game for more than $20 where I've been playing!

or, 3 ahead takes to long to be worth $20........not if you can run racks

I was just trying to get him to play, and not scare him off.........do you go into a new room and ask to play $100 a rack?......you sscare everyone off, or get robbed in the parking lot........Gerry
 
gambling

Playing by the rules of today, benefit the lesser player and makes getting the "nuts" tougher than it was years ago. Therefore, the better game you have made, strtch the sets a little bit, giving yourself a better chance. With todays 9-ball, anyone can win the first three games which puts you down0-3 in a race to 5. So, in a race to 7, the better player has a chance of coming back, and if you happen to go up,3-0, he lesser player has less chance of coming back on you.
Playing by the game really is playing an ahead set, we often just don't know how far ahead we need to be. If I am betting a sustantial amount and feel I've made a good game, or course I want to play ahead and give myself the best chanc of winning.
Always remember," In God we trust, everyone else has to post"!
 
by the game

I play by the game on a 9 ball challenge table only,
which is hard to get anyone to play for anything
anymore. I have guys that want a spot for a $2 game.
It used to be that you didn't challenge a 9 table unless
you thought you had the skill and the money to do so.
It is irritating though to have a challenge table going
between 4-5 players for money, and some yokel
puts his quarters up, and wants to play for free, ruining
the money action already going. That used to be a
no-no in the old days. Spectators used to even step
in and tell the person to stay off the table unless they
wanted to play for table stakes.
 
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