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Have you ever gambled with the rent money?
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Cured me.
I hate losing and I hated the feeling of losing money I didnt really have even more. I looked around and saw that the guys who bet over their head always end up busted in the end. They may run good for a minute but if they keep going back to the well they all end up broke.
I have been lucky to see many different types of gamblers. IMO there are "healthy" gamblers and "sick" gamblers. Doesnt matter how much or what they bet on it all comes down to the reasons they bet and the effect it has on their life as whole.
I've never seen a truly happy person who consistently bets over their head.
We actually settled for $300 a couple of days later. He was a character. I loved playing against the guy. But that was the last time we played. Not because of that, but just life put us on different roads.
Bob
This was back in 1973 and I was about 20 years old. It was about 2 days before I was going to get married.
My wife to be had made me quit playing pool because she had decided that she didn't want me gambling and losing all of our money. The problem back then there was nobody in our home town or around that could beat me. it was almost like free money.
We had been dating for about 6 months and i had popped the question to her. The last 2 months I hadn't played any pool because like I said she didn't want me gambling.
2 days before we were getting married this guy shows up in town at one of the bars and is looking for a game. I just happened to be at the same bar. I really needed the money. I was really broke. Not playing any pool for the last 2 months had really dwindled down my bankroll. I had been working at Kentucky Fried Chicken as an assistant manager and the pay wasn't all that good. Plus what money I did have had gone for the wedding stuff.
I had about 200 dollars on me and we started playing for 20 a game. I was a little out of stroke and this guy just was kicking my ass. Now the bar was closing and I was down to nothing.
I got an idea. I could go to KFC and borrow the money out of the safe. There was about 950 there if i got the quarters too. I asked the player if he would want to go over to my dads house and continue t play. He said sure.
I quick went over to KFC and cleaned out the safe. If I would have got caught doing this they probably would have thrown me in jail right away for stealing when all I was doing was borrowing. I had no money to replace it if i lost but I was sure my mother would borrow me the money if I lost it. At least that's how I looked at it back then?
We got down in the basement and the guy continued to do what he was doing at the bar. Kicking my ass. I was hoping I could get in stroke. I knew this guy couldn't beat me if I was even playing close to how I could.
Pretty soon I was down to my last 200. All of a sudden someone comes walkng down the basement steps and she was not happy at all.The girlfriend. The first words that came out of her mouth was , I thought we were all done with that pool stuff.
I went outside with her real quick and explained that I was stuck about $1000 and I had to win the money back. She asked me where i got the money and I told her KFC gave me a loan. Now she was really pissed.
She told me the marriage was off and I could stick me pool cue you know where and she left. Now i knew if i lost i wasn't getting married for sure.
It was 5:00 in the morning now. I'm tired,almost out of money and now I probably am not going to get married. Not a great situation to try and make a comeback with.
We started playing again and it started to happen. I was finally starting to shoot better. I won enough back to bet $500 on one set. I won. Then we played another and I won. I not only won my money back but i beat the guy out of about $1500.
Now i had to move fast. KFC was going to open at 11:00 but I had to get the money back in the safe by 10:00 and be out of there. just made it. As i was leaving KFC, the manager, his name was Howie, was just driving up. I didn't have to work that day so it would have been kind of hard to explain what i was doing there?
I made another B-line to our apartment that me and my future wife had together and snuck into bed. I placed the $1500 in the bathroom sink hoping if th girlfriend saw the money she might not be too mad at me.
It worked. She got up to use the bathroom and saw the money and never woke me up or try to kill me.
I talked to my mom at the wedding and just for kicks I asked her if I needed a loan for a few weeks if she could do it. She told me that her and my dad were really broke from all the money they had spent for the wedding. A loan would be out of the question.
Good thing i won.
And guess what else. Me and my wife. We didn't live happily ever after, or I should say at least not together.
You know the old joke about the fishermans wife that said if he didn't quit fishing that she was going to leave him. And he told his friend the next day, I'm going to miss my wife.
She never did like my pool playing.
My wife to be had made me quit playing pool because she had decided that she didn't want me gambling and losing all of our money. The problem back then there was nobody in our home town or around that could beat me. it was almost like free money.
We had been dating for about 6 months and i had popped the question to her. The last 2 months I hadn't played any pool because like I said she didn't want me gambling.
2 days before we were getting married this guy shows up in town at one of the bars and is looking for a game. I just happened to be at the same bar. I really needed the money. I was really broke. Not playing any pool for the last 2 months had really dwindled down my bankroll. I had been working at Kentucky Fried Chicken as an assistant manager and the pay wasn't all that good. Plus what money I did have had gone for the wedding stuff.
I had about 200 dollars on me and we started playing for 20 a game. I was a little out of stroke and this guy just was kicking my ass. Now the bar was closing and I was down to nothing.
I got an idea. I could go to KFC and borrow the money out of the safe. There was about 950 there if i got the quarters too. I asked the player if he would want to go over to my dads house and continue t play. He said sure.
I quick went over to KFC and cleaned out the safe. If I would have got caught doing this they probably would have thrown me in jail right away for stealing when all I was doing was borrowing. I had no money to replace it if i lost but I was sure my mother would borrow me the money if I lost it. At least that's how I looked at it back then?
We got down in the basement and the guy continued to do what he was doing at the bar. Kicking my ass. I was hoping I could get in stroke. I knew this guy couldn't beat me if I was even playing close to how I could.
Pretty soon I was down to my last 200. All of a sudden someone comes walkng down the basement steps and she was not happy at all.The girlfriend. The first words that came out of her mouth was , I thought we were all done with that pool stuff.
I went outside with her real quick and explained that I was stuck about $1000 and I had to win the money back. She asked me where i got the money and I told her KFC gave me a loan. Now she was really pissed.
She told me the marriage was off and I could stick me pool cue you know where and she left. Now i knew if i lost i wasn't getting married for sure.
It was 5:00 in the morning now. I'm tired,almost out of money and now I probably am not going to get married. Not a great situation to try and make a comeback with.
We started playing again and it started to happen. I was finally starting to shoot better. I won enough back to bet $500 on one set. I won. Then we played another and I won. I not only won my money back but i beat the guy out of about $1500.
Now i had to move fast. KFC was going to open at 11:00 but I had to get the money back in the safe by 10:00 and be out of there. just made it. As i was leaving KFC, the manager, his name was Howie, was just driving up. I didn't have to work that day so it would have been kind of hard to explain what i was doing there?
I made another B-line to our apartment that me and my future wife had together and snuck into bed. I placed the $1500 in the bathroom sink hoping if th girlfriend saw the money she might not be too mad at me.
It worked. She got up to use the bathroom and saw the money and never woke me up or try to kill me.
I talked to my mom at the wedding and just for kicks I asked her if I needed a loan for a few weeks if she could do it. She told me that her and my dad were really broke from all the money they had spent for the wedding. A loan would be out of the question.
Good thing i won.
And guess what else. Me and my wife. We didn't live happily ever after, or I should say at least not together.
You know the old joke about the fishermans wife that said if he didn't quit fishing that she was going to leave him. And he told his friend the next day, I'm going to miss my wife.
She never did like my pool playing.
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I can remember betting not only rent money but going to the pawn shop for cash for that nights game.....when I was 18-22 and in collage my wife then girlfriend hadn't come to hate pool like she does now....she would wish me the best and always support me.....well the local collage bars were a fishing hole filled with rich collage frat boys....catch them with a girl on there arm and the rent got paid. There was always a ring game going and I paid my bills many times off that one table....behind my son being born and the usual milestones its the fondest memories in my life.....leaving the house with 20 dollars to my name and it was make it or break it.....the rush haunts me to this day. I have never felt the same since my son was born.....I miss it some days....I was a bit younger then and I felt like I couldn't lose....I felt no fear....even when I lost I felt no fear......I will probably never get that rush and feeling again.....after you realize you can lose not only the game but much more important stuff it goes away....never to return
Great pool story Gene,that was a ton and then some pressure on you,your HEART got that money!
Great story Geno. By the way, if you had been a little older, you would have known how that marriage thing was gonna work out with that one!
Bob
Bob
OK Cleary. Here is the deal. Your rent is $1500. You have $800. You are already 30days late and your landlord is knocking on the door hourly looking for his money. If you don't have it tonight he has said you are getting an eviction notice. You have nowhere else to turn. Your relatives are all laid off and don't have any money. No one can help. Your credit cards are maxed out. There is nowhere else for you to go. Except......
Fred walks in. He has $800 that is burning a hole in his pocket. You have known him your whole life. You know he will blow it in a poker game. He says, "you want a set of 9 ball? We can play even." Now you play Fred in the weekly tournament and you have to spot him 5 games on 7 and he has never beat you.
Well???
Bob