How it feels trying to get a nit to bet!
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Silly, and don't BET on much.
OK, but which one is the nit? 
Both.OK, but which one is the nit?
There should be a gambling forum.
The one being dishonest.OK, but which one is the nit?
Why?
So issues like these can be clarified before they can harm someone. Just like the Aiming Forum.
Harm someone? I'm lost.
Ok sacrasm but ^case in point^, what is the lesser of two nits? Can this trap be avoided and if so how? Is doubling down a viable alternative etc... ?
There is only one nit.
The guy being dishonest.
The guy being dishonest.
It is always hilarious. The guy is a smart gambler for getting what he wants. The other player is a nit for not giving him what he wants.
I watch two guys negotiate for two hours at the counter to play pool for thirty minutes. They aren't there to play pool. They are practicing for debating class or tuning up to go into politics. Meantime, pool players spend five minutes negotiating and the rest of the two and a half hours playing pool.
Calling somebody a nit is just trying to manipulate someone into giving you your way. People that are influenced in the slightest by being called a nit are something else, suckers.
Hu
I watch two guys negotiate for two hours at the counter to play pool for thirty minutes. They aren't there to play pool. They are practicing for debating class or tuning up to go into politics. Meantime, pool players spend five minutes negotiating and the rest of the two and a half hours playing pool.
Calling somebody a nit is just trying to manipulate someone into giving you your way. People that are influenced in the slightest by being called a nit are something else, suckers.
Hu
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Frosty
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The very notion of this has always bothered me a bit. I’ve known many like this that love to call themselves “smart gamblers”, players that will NEVER offer or accept a truly fair game, that will only get in the box if they have the lockdown Hungarian nuts. The very notion of the word gamble is to take a chance, to decline or never offer a fair game isn’t being a smart gambler, it’s being a lock artist which is just a different form of nit. My opinion of course, your mileage may vary.
My mileage doesn't vary a half inch! However, you will see nits all over the place on here, in pool halls, talking about what smart gamblers they are and calling everybody else nits. That was my point. You either get things somewhere close in a few minutes and get in the grease or you spend more time trying to set up a match than playing. I was stunned when I came back to pool and watched people at the counter jawing for hours then pleased with themselves for playing for thirty minutes. You would think they would have a starting point next time they met up but they still did two hours at the counter for thirty minutes on the table! The worst part is that this was one of the finest action pool halls in the country. Lord only knows what they do other places.
Then there are the people that always give up the nuts and always outrun them. Having to play hard to win isn't outrunning the nuts, it is a fair game. If you find yourself outrunning the nuts more than once or twice in a dozen tries, you aren't giving up the nuts. Even those are high rates. When you really give up the nuts you are a ridiculous long shot.
Hu
I was known as the action guy in my area…..never had a problem with nits…there are lots of people who like to bet.
…had a lot of people claim they wanted to just make a fair game….I would tell them keeping your money in your pocket is fair.
I’ve had seven centuries at snooker where I lost the game…so I had the rep for giving up the nuts….told one of my friends…”If they were in with me they would be showing a profit so how is that giving up the nuts?”
…had a lot of people claim they wanted to just make a fair game….I would tell them keeping your money in your pocket is fair.
I’ve had seven centuries at snooker where I lost the game…so I had the rep for giving up the nuts….told one of my friends…”If they were in with me they would be showing a profit so how is that giving up the nuts?”
I played everybody even. With local gamblers it was kinda understood I would give them one or two chances a game. Road players, still played even but it was root hog or die!
I miss the days of being able to find twenty or fifty a game action every night. Funny thing, in many years of gambling I can only remember playing thirty or forty a game once. You played for a beer or drink, three a game, five a game, ten a game, twenty, fifty, one hundred once in a rare while. The california kid came through town and I was chasing him for five hundred or a thousand a game but we never caught up with each other. I always wanted to play by the game and once the bet was raised I kept it at numbers that prevented someone from getting back to even. Too many quit when they got back even. Too many people wanted to quit after losing a set or two also. When they were winning a little, losing a little, by the game I could usually nurse them along until they had an empty wallet.
No time for handicap tournaments either. "I beat Shane!" Of course he was having to give three games on the wire and the lemon crush! If I do something I like to be able to brag about it. No bragging rights come with spots and handicaps.
Hu
True, but it kills a lot of action when lesser players are so scared, they think they couldn’t win no matter how much weight you gave up. Some are so game though, they won’t accept a spot from anyone, but still, losing can get old. I would rather play a lot, and a closer contest is just more fun.