Have YOU ever fired an air barrel?
- Thread starter Cdryden
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Not once. But have been barrelled twice. Once resulting in fists, and both with guns - none fired.
KK9 <-- had a bb and pellet gun, t'wasn't me...
KK9 <-- had a bb and pellet gun, t'wasn't me...
Nope... Never...
When I was a kid 15 or 16 I played very good and there were many times I gambled with grown men and I did not have a dime in my pocket.
Makes you play real smart and good.
Makes you play real smart and good.
Is it still an air barrel if you win? It's like a tree that falls in the woods without someone to hear it not making a sound thing. Isn't it?
Idid the exact same as you,also when i was young and didnt have no fear or sence,i was very lucky,i never got caught,never lost when i played with out money in my pocket,as u say there is no more pressure then that,it will make u play better,but happy to say as i grew older n wiser,i didnt attemp that stuff anymore!
I keep trying, but I can't get a game!!
:grin:
:grin:
not back in stroke enough to gamble (took a couple of 18 - 20 years off) .. but refused to in college when I gambled a fair amount. Always got crap from the older players for not playing bigger money games. Just told them that I bet what I have to lose, nothing more.
Once
When I was very young two friends and I walked into a bar with a challenge table about 6AM after being out all night. Two guys were on the table playing barbox eightball a hundred a game. They were even drunker than I was, couldn't have fell down and hit the floor. About twenty in my pocket, my two friends had about another twenty or twenty-five between them. I told them if I scratched on the eight ball hit the door fast, I was going try to get in that game. I won a couple games and they quit so nobody ever knew I was on air.
I have been air barreled dozens of times. Couldn't post up where I learned to gamble without risking arrest and automatic confistication of whatever was on the light. Caused trouble for the establishment too so no posting. I was always a little spun to be airbarreled on the first bet, pretty much expected it after a guy was barreling off and ran out of money. No sense nagging for that last bet when you saw the guy again, you could usually get him back in play for cash so letting an occasional air barrel slide was just good business.
Hu
When I was very young two friends and I walked into a bar with a challenge table about 6AM after being out all night. Two guys were on the table playing barbox eightball a hundred a game. They were even drunker than I was, couldn't have fell down and hit the floor. About twenty in my pocket, my two friends had about another twenty or twenty-five between them. I told them if I scratched on the eight ball hit the door fast, I was going try to get in that game. I won a couple games and they quit so nobody ever knew I was on air.
I have been air barreled dozens of times. Couldn't post up where I learned to gamble without risking arrest and automatic confistication of whatever was on the light. Caused trouble for the establishment too so no posting. I was always a little spun to be airbarreled on the first bet, pretty much expected it after a guy was barreling off and ran out of money. No sense nagging for that last bet when you saw the guy again, you could usually get him back in play for cash so letting an occasional air barrel slide was just good business.
Hu
Never done it myself, but have had it happen to me a few times.
Been air barreled a few times. Once threatened to beat a guy down because I knew he had the money and he gave it up. I have never gambled without the money to pay. I played a guy one night who on a couple of occasions had taken a week to pay me. I knew the guy well and knew he would pay me. But it pissed me off that he wouldnt tell me up front he didn't have the money on him. So he beat me one night and i told him I'd have to pay him later even though I had the money in my pocket. I made him wait 2 weeks before I gave it to him. He has not pulled that crap again.
I do it all the time. I'll frequently walk into a pool hall with $6 in my pocket and play for $20 a game.
The nearest ATM is never more than about 100 yards away, anywhere I play. Pretty much everyone I play against has had to wait 2 minutes at the end of a session while I walk that 100 yards and back (except those few guys I never lose to).
If pool players took debit or credit cards, I'd never have to fire one. I just don't carry cash.
-Andrew
The nearest ATM is never more than about 100 yards away, anywhere I play. Pretty much everyone I play against has had to wait 2 minutes at the end of a session while I walk that 100 yards and back (except those few guys I never lose to).
If pool players took debit or credit cards, I'd never have to fire one. I just don't carry cash.
-Andrew
I don't see how you can feel comfortable sticking your banking/ ATM info in one of those machines...
Been doing it a long time. Never burned me yet.
The one time I left my wallet in the car overnight, on the other hand...
-Andrew
You are not using cards?
In Norway it is waaaay more common to use a debitcard to pay, even for chewing gum. No one, except criminals, have lots of cash on them. In average every Norwegian is using a card to pay goods for atleast 200 times a year, totalling over 75 % of all shopping.
Walter:
I work in information security, and it's much more common that your waiter/server at a restaurant is more apt to steal your ATM/debit/credit card through a very tiny device called a "skimmer."
Check this out -- make sure to watch the video embedded on that page. And yes, it really *IS* that easy!
http://identitytheft.info/personalsecurity.aspx
I'm often called upon to give talks at information security conferences, and I'd demonstrated the use of "skimmers" before. The looks on the audiences faces (and audible gasps) are priceless.
Theft from authorized ATMs is actually rare -- even via those small ones that you see in bars and poolhalls. Don't get me wrong -- it can be done, but the modifications are pretty sophisticated. Either someone has to wheel a completely fake "ATM" into an establishment (one that is rigged with a laptop inside that stores the ATM cards that are swiped when people walk up to use it, and then gives -- after people type in their PIN -- a generic "sorry, your card can't be read" or other innocuous message). Or someone has to modify the card reader slot of an existing ATM with a skimmer -- but that is a very sophisticated modification, because the skimmer has to be extremely tiny, and not noticeable to people using it. Here's an example:
http://consumerist.com/2009/04/heres-what-a-card-skimmer-looks-like-on-an-atm.html
It's easier to exploit a person's trust in people -- people have no problems handing over their credit / debit cards over to other people, when, funnily enough, the machines are more reliable.
Just FYI,
-Sean