Here We Go. Gamble vs. Non-Gamble Story

My thoughts exactly. This wouldn't happen. When the guy says "I can't wait to play you some for anything..." that's the time to establish the game and stakes. Then if he starts to crawfish you can just ask him to leave.

Two things:

1) Crawfish ain't lyin'.

2) I've seen this exact scenario several times. Somebody is trying to make themselves look good and says "I'll play you for anything." or "I'll play you a hundred a game" and then you jump on it too quick or take them up on it and they backpedal faster than a midget at an oversized wooden mallet convention.

~rc
 
Just like we've been talking about. I'm hitting balls with friends and just fu#$ing around. Brian (BP3000) and Mark (No Clue) and me were literally ......................

If you don't play for money, then don't. But, keep your funny talk to yourselves if you won't play. Talk to me now.

So how much you wanna play for big guy?

I'm getting some vbucks coming in the Friday after the month after next and I am up for a big game!

Oh, and how much weight can I have?

:D
 
Two things:

1) Crawfish ain't lyin'.

2) I've seen this exact scenario several times. Somebody is trying to make themselves look good and says "I'll play you for anything." or "I'll play you a hundred a game" and then you jump on it too quick or take them up on it and they backpedal faster than a midget at an oversized wooden mallet convention.

~rc

I'm sure crawfish ain't lyin' but maybe he's been out of action so long, working at his carpet store business, he's losing his edge. :D

JoeyA
 
Go to North Carolina, usually goes like bet $50 and the other guy pulls out $2k and then you get your money together and then the guy wants the 7.
Doesn't seem any different from responding to someone's ad for a car and saying, "I'd like to buy your car" and then proceed to negotiate the terms. Nothing wrong with trying to get the best deal you can.
 
I'm sure crawfish ain't lyin' but maybe he's been out of action so long, working at his carpet store business, he's losing his edge. :D

JoeyA

Look atchoo instigating you rebel you. Dontcha know crawfish is a bad mofo?

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Go to North Carolina, usually goes like bet $50 and the other guy pulls out $2k and then you get your money together and then the guy wants the 7. People do stuff like this all the time. Most of the time they don't want to play they just want to show you they have enough money they can care less about yours.

This happens just about every where
 
Just like we've been talking about. I'm hitting balls with friends and just fu#$ing around. Brian (BP3000) and Mark (No Clue) and me were literally banking every other ball and just drinking and laughing and talking about useless shit, when this guy with a big case comes in and sits at the bar. He's watching and giving that "I would love to play these clowns" look. So, I can't help myself. I ask him to play some if we can get a table. "Sure, I can't wait to play you some for anything, any game. Just get us a table." I'm getting excited, with a "win or lose" situation ahead of me. So, my friends and I end our game early and I approach John Rinko. I'm pretty sure that was his name. "Let's play, table's open. Break out your wallet." "Why you gotta gamble?" I knew where this was going. NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. But, he was cracking jokes and talking while I was banking every third ball, and two railing every fourth one. "You could play me any time for any thing. I gotta go right now, though. I'll come back some other time."

See, this is why people that WILL match up don't like guys that won't. If you won't, that's fine. But, this is very indicative of the "big talker." I talk too. But, most of the time, I'll even make a bad game to play some. I don't have much of a choice around here. This guy wouldn't bet fatback is greasy. Next Tuesday? That's what he said. Next Tuesday. I'm holding my breath. If you don't gamble, say so. Don't get shitfaced and then come up with this kind of shit. Sorry, but this is SO appropriate for the forums right now. Talk to me.

If you don't play for money, then don't. But, keep your funny talk to yourselves if you won't play. Talk to me now.

Maybe he heard about the knife.
 
I'm sure crawfish ain't lyin' but maybe he's been out of action so long, working at his carpet store business, he's losing his edge. :D

JoeyA

Aw hell. He probably is lyin' but I just said that so he wouldn't stab me.

~rc
 
The environment in a pool hall is a microcosm of society.

When you complain about someone talking trash and then not backing it up, you are simply saying 'This guy did not do what I wanted him to do'. Get used to it, people in society rarely do what you want them to, and even less often in the pool society.

Let me translate some pool hall phrases to plain english:

"Want to play some ?" ---> "Give me your money"

"Want to play some cheap ?" ---> "Give me a little of your money, I'll get more of your money at another time"

"He is a nit" ---> "I've put all my time and effort into becoming a great pool player, and he won't give me his money? I'm flabbergasted."

"You are a nit" ---> "You are a sucker, and you owe me MONEY because you walked into the poolroom that I am in"

The secret to thriving in the pool society is to let those things roll off your back, to forget them immediately. Coming onto AZ to complain that someone won't do what you want is pretty lame in my opinion.

If you can't get any action where you are, go somewhere else. Scott Frost just bought an airplane ticket last weekend to fly to Mobile to play Cliff.

There are nits in every corner of society. The banking industry comes to mind. They won't bet unless they are stealing, and even then, might ask you to post 18 sets in advance. ;-)
 
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I like the idea of translating some of this stuff into reality-speak, but I think your translation program is broken. This isn't crawfish complaining a guy didn't do what he wanted, it's more like he's complaining the guy talked trash but then couldn't back it up.

This is what I get when I run it through the translator.

Guy: "You can't play for shít. My pool díck is bigger than yours and I'm willing to take it out and prove it."

Crawfish: "OK, let's compare." [starts unzipping]

Guy [backpedaling rapidly]: "Oh, hey, I didn't mean it like that. Uhhh... my zipper's stuck. Let's do this some other time."
 
Guys, this happened EXACTLY the way I'm talking. I was even winking at Bryan while I dogged the nine ball straight in about a 3 foot shot with the nine six inches from the pocket. I knew he was watching. Love a little show.

I'm just saying that this is kind of what instigates the hostility towards the (I call them "yellers"). He yells, I yell back. He has to go, and he truly believed he was stealing and still wouldn't play. Funny.

Don't get me wrong, I'll BS with the best of them when it comes to trying to get, or get got. But, this was just comical.

Stop PM'ing me. He is still alive and NO I didn't cut him.
 
I got one for ya Craw...playing 1P with a buddy who is TOTALLY new to the game, so every once in awhile I'd stop him before his shot, and have him look at other alternatives, and explain a move, and so forth. Fella by the bar watched about 15 minutes of this before my friend has to go. While putting away my cue he comes and asks if I had to go or if I could play a little 1P with him....cheap - $10 a game (the wager was HIS idea). I say sure. Win the first 2 (one 8-3 him breaking, next 8- -1 on my break)...he gets flustered, and asked why I wasn't helping HIM play the right shots??? LOL Weird things happen in this game....

next time I'll be sure to tell my opponent what shots to shoot against me to get my money.....SHEESH!
 
I got one for ya Craw...playing 1P with a buddy who is TOTALLY new to the game, so every once in awhile I'd stop him before his shot, and have him look at other alternatives, and explain a move, and so forth. Fella by the bar watched about 15 minutes of this before my friend has to go. While putting away my cue he comes and asks if I had to go or if I could play a little 1P with him....cheap - $10 a game (the wager was HIS idea). I say sure. Win the first 2 (one 8-3 him breaking, next 8- -1 on my break)...he gets flustered, and asked why I wasn't helping HIM play the right shots??? LOL Weird things happen in this game....

next time I'll be sure to tell my opponent what shots to shoot against me to get my money.....SHEESH!

if you're winning that easily it wouldn't kill you to throw him a bone every now and again. basically he thought he was paying for advice. he should have come out and said i'll play you 10 a game if you tell me what i'm doing wrong (he wins you don't pay) or something like that.

he could have just asked too
 
if you're winning that easily it wouldn't kill you to throw him a bone every now and again. basically he thought he was paying for advice. he should have come out and said i'll play you 10 a game if you tell me what i'm doing wrong (he wins you don't pay) or something like that.

he could have just asked too

I didn't know the guy, and didn't know that he wanted advice from me at all, just thought he wanted to play me. Like I said, my friend and I were playing for fun, and I was trying to show him a move or two....I figured this guy saw that and thought maybe he could take me by the advice I was giving or something. lol. If he'd said, "I'd like to learn some 1P like your buddy who just left", I'd have gladly stayed and played a bit with him, but when he wanted to PLAY for $10 a game.....I figured he thought he'd beat me.

Ya never know :o

btw, in the first game he did play a nice little trap shot on me and got a couple of balls out of it...so, the 2nd game I laid the lumber to him. lol He knew enough to pocket my 2nd to last ball and scratch (hence his -1), but that didn't work out too well either.
 
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