problem i see is all the socialists wanting everything to be = or fair , i dont want to live in that world, and thats what the world is becoming....
a-freaking-men
problem i see is all the socialists wanting everything to be = or fair , i dont want to live in that world, and thats what the world is becoming....
No. No...!
Its this crazy a$$ Carnies.
Wow, are some of us here suckers at the fair?
Just probably. Still mad 'cause you couldn't run 3 or 4 balls on those gaff tables to win your woman a stuffed animal, LOL
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Lol I beat that game so much they barred me from it. Then I beat the silver dollar out of the circle game too but not the first time. I had to learn the secret on that one from a book first.
All the while, everyone is waiting for the next "The Hustler" or "The Color of Money" to come along, even those not in the pool world.... I'm sure those two movies are purely disgusting to you.
i see nothing wrong with a "Competitive advantage" in anything in life.
Problem I see is all the socialists wanting everything to be = or fair , I dont want to live in that world, and thats what the world is becoming....
And in both of those movies, Fast Eddie ended up leaving hustling behind in order to show he was the best.
The last game of pool you ever see Fast Eddie shoot in the TCOM is the match which he forfeits against Kennedy.
You know that he dumped a match so that Vincent would lose money.
What you don't know is whether or not he had a shill put money on Kennedy so that he would win money.
Besides the entire moral lesson from the first movie was completely lost. Eddie hated Bert so badly that he never would have become him in the first place
If Eddie wanted to prove he was "THE BEST", winning the '9 Ball Classic' would have been a good place to start.
But he didn't want to prove he was " the best ". He wanted to prove he was better than Vincent
Both at pool AND at hustling.
The last game of pool you ever see Fast Eddie shoot in the TCOM is the match which he forfeits against Kennedy.
You know that he dumped a match so that Vincent would lose money.
What you don't know is whether or not he had a shill put money on Kennedy so that he would win money.
Besides the entire moral lesson from the first movie was completely lost. Eddie hated Bert so badly that he never would have become him in the first place
If Eddie wanted to prove he was "THE BEST", winning the '9 Ball Classic' would have been a good place to start.
But he didn't want to prove he was " the best ". He wanted to prove he was better than Vincent
Both at pool AND at hustling.
I know what you're getting at here, Brian (at least I think I do). If you are thinking like I am, then you're thinking, "Hey, nobody INVITED all those guys to come around my table and try to take MY money" (speaking from pt109's point-of-view).
Am I correct? IMO, I do not feel like pt109 did anything disgusting. Really, it wasn't even necessarily "hustling". The action was all on the other players in the room. If they would have just kept to themselves and minded their own business, they could have went home with their own money in their wallets (unless they lost it to someone else :wink.
Maniac
Deception is a big part of a lot of sports and games.
Poker, football, baseball, basketball and on an on.
When it becomes sleazy in pool is when high level players play low level players and just keep stringing them along to milk them for every dime.
Don
These threads are always pointless, for one simple reason:
Nobody ever gets hustled who was not first trying to hustle someone else.
They stepped up to play someone they thought they had the nuts against and would be robbing, and surprise...the predator became the prey.
I disagree. Some people have horrible gambling problems and don't need to think they will win easy money to want to play. Some people are drunk or high and dont know what they are getting into. Some people think a cheap set is a cheap set until it gets doubled up a few times.Exactly, a hustle only works because the mark thinks he's going to win some easy cash.
The easy way to avoid getting hustled is to never play for more than you can afford to lose.
Sleazy. Analogy: Sliding an ace up your sleeve when card gambling.I am curious to know how fellow azers feel about "hustling", whether or not it's sleazy or if it's clever or possibly even a combination of the two.
To be clear, you can be a money player without being a "Hustler" but almost always a "Hustler" plays for money or some other tangible prize.
For the purpose of this poll we will define "hustler" as someone who hides their true speed, hides who they really are by disguise or other means, or says or does anything else that is not true in an attempt to give themselves some kind of an edge.
It will be a straightforward 3 option poll.
Thanks in advance for your votes and feel free to add your thoughts and comments in the thread.
best,
brian kc