Hustles and Cons

[Side Pocket Kid]

Any of you out there like to share any hustles and classic cons, I'd like to know a few to get a free drink or two off friends... I cant win them off anymore... since they always lose and wont play anymore

One of my favorite and a classic too is where you put a hat over their drink and tell them you can drink it all without touching the hat. Go under the table and make some slurping sounds and tell him thanks for the drink. When they dont believe you tell them to look themselves. When they pic the hat up, take the drink and walk off.

 

[caedos]

Any of you out there like to share any hustles and classic cons, I'd like to know a few to get a free drink or two off friends... I cant win them off anymore... since they always lose and wont play anymore

One of my favorite and a classic too is where you put a hat over their drink and tell them you can drink it all without touching the hat. Go under the table and make some slurping sounds and tell him thanks for the drink. When they dont believe you tell them to look themselves. When they pic the hat up, take the drink and walk off.

Look up Chef Anton.

Carl

 

[LastTwo]

There's a great Hustle by Steve Buscemi in the movie "Trees Lounge".

He bets a girl that he can chug two full pints of beer before she can finish a single shot of bourbon.

The rub is that she can't ever touch either one of his pint glasses and she has to wait until he starts drinking the second one before she can touch her shot glass.

After he finishes the first pint, he places the empty pint glass over her shot and chugs his second pint.

Classic.

BTW - the bet was if he wins, she has to come to his place, if she wins he goes to hers.

Poolhall junkies must have ripped it off, I think that is in the beginning of the movie.

 

[matthew]

I've never seen Poolhall Junkies, but Trees Lounge pre-dates it by 6 years, so you'd be right. BTW - highly recommend the movie. Steve Buscemi at his finest, (and creepiest).

As far as Poolhall Junkies, worth a rent?. The trailers looked pretty crappy to me, and I'll rent anything with the man himself, Christopher Walken.

Walken made that movie in my opinion. The story was a little weak, lighting, script, acting, were also sub par. Walken was great though.

 

[Bruce S. de Lis]

There's a great Hustle by Steve Buscemi in the movie "Trees Lounge".

He bets a girl that he can chug two full pints of beer before she can finish a single shot of bourbon.

The rub is that she can't ever touch either one of his pint glasses and she has to wait until he starts drinking the second one before she can touch her shot glass.

After he finishes the first pint, he places the empty pint glass over her shot and chugs his second pint.

Classic.

BTW - the bet was if he wins, she has to come to his place, if she wins he goes to hers.

Like it....

 

[LastTwo]

I've never seen Poolhall Junkies, but Trees Lounge pre-dates it by 6 years, so you'd be right. BTW - highly recommend the movie. Steve Buscemi at his finest, (and creepiest).

As far as Poolhall Junkies, worth a rent?. The trailers looked pretty crappy to me, and I'll rent anything with the man himself, Christopher Walken.

I am a self-proclaimed film critic, and the only redeeming factor in this movie was Chris Walken. I don't know if that is enough to make the movie worth watching. If you are a pool player, you might be offended from some of it's content (i.e. the @#13th in the world "pro" plays with a graphite cuetech, and his bridge and stroke are that of a D or even F player, no exaggeration). Mars Callahan rates in my list of top 10 worst actors I've ever seen ("Did I stutter?" comes to mind, LOL)....in fact, Mars is such a poor actor that I felt embarassed for him. Aside from Mar's acting, what annoyed me almost as much was the acting of Chazz Palminteri. I have seen some fine performances by Chazz before (nothing exceptional, but pretty good), but his acting in this movie was like a broken record. He's got the same damn attitude in every movie- an arrogant mobster-ish personality who at dinner probably stands up and makes a toast "To evil!". Nothing remotely different from him, and he has never even been convincing as a mobster, not in movies, tv shows, or even that stupid ass coca cola commercial. As you can tell I really hate this movie LOL.

 

[TheBook]

I like the one in "Grifter" He tells a guy at the bar that he will give him a dime for every quarter he can stack in a pile. The guy stacks a bunch of quarters about as high as he can. The con counts the quarters (lets say there are 20)scoops them off the bar puts them in his pocket and gives him twenty dimes.

 

[Side Pocket Kid]

Poolhall junkies must have ripped it off, I think that is in the beginning of the movie.

Actually that hustles been around for a hundred or so years...

And, I think I will look up chef anton... shouldn't there be an article lying around here somewhere?

 

[Colin Colenso]

I am a self-proclaimed film critic, and the only redeeming factor in this movie was Chris Walken. I don't know if that is enough to make the movie worth watching. If you are a pool player, you might be offended from some of it's content (i.e. the @#13th in the world "pro" plays with a graphite cuetech, and his bridge and stroke are that of a D or even F player, no exaggeration). Mars Callahan rates in my list of top 10 worst actors I've ever seen ("Did I stutter?" comes to mind, LOL)....in fact, Mars is such a poor actor that I felt embarassed for him. Aside from Mar's acting, what annoyed me almost as much was the acting of Chazz Palminteri. I have seen some fine performances by Chazz before (nothing exceptional, but pretty good), but his acting in this movie was like a broken record. He's got the same damn attitude in every movie- an arrogant mobster-ish personality who at dinner probably stands up and makes a toast "To evil!". Nothing remotely different from him, and he has never even been convincing as a mobster, not in movies, tv shows, or even that stupid ass coca cola commercial. As you can tell I really hate this movie LOL.

I'll agree with all of that save Walken being a redeeming feature. His character was supposed to appeal to the audience as intelligent, strong and insightful.

But almost every word and expression that spewed from him reeked of know-t-all, tough guy with a big mouth and no brain.

In real world pool life, the people I've met who remind me of that character are frustrated losers.

I didn't find any of the characters likeable.

The pool is mediocre at best. If I remember rightly, Mars makes a bank shot in the center that deflects of the CB to go in...a total stuff up / fluke...followed by a shot of his smug superman swagger. urghhhh