New Nickname for Pro Player Chris Gentile

JoeyA said:
No, you got that wrong. NITRO isn't "forced". NITRO doesn't "sound out of place" for this player and it is very much on the mark. While YOU and Hungarian might want an explanation now, it might be shared at a later date or not.

Until then, you'll just have to be patient. Trust me. :wink: It's a good one and so is the name NITRO. :grin:
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Ah, I see, another marketing technique. That is, announce something to the masses, keep it ambiguous on purpose, and do the As The World Turns-esque seque to the announcement of next week's episode... "Will the purpose of Chris Gentile's new silly-sounding nickname be explained? Tune in next time!"

<yawn>
-Sean
 
Joey, I usually enjoy reading your posts, but I'm kind of confused about this one. You're talking about a new nickname for Mr. Gentile, yet you're not at liberty to reveal the story behind it. I'm confused as to why you wouldn't wait until you could reveal the "big story behind it"...
 
sfleinen said:
Ah, I see, another marketing technique. That is, announce something to the masses, keep it ambiguous on purpose, and do the As The World Turns-esque seque to the announcement of next week's episode... "Will the purpose of Chris Gentile's new silly-sounding nickname be explained? Tune in next time!"

<yawn>
-Sean
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I'm really not trying to keep you or anyone else interested but your help is sincerely appreciated. :rolleyes:
 
Elwood said:
Joey, I usually enjoy reading your posts, but I'm kind of confused about this one. You're talking about a new nickname for Mr. Gentile, yet you're not at liberty to reveal the story behind it. I'm confused as to why you wouldn't wait until you could reveal the "big story behind it"...
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Elwood,
It was a spontaneous thing, announcing Chris's nickname and afterwards I thought about the story behind the nickname and thought it might be better to share the story after I have permission to do so. It's a good one but that's just my perspective anyway. Others might go ho-hum but that's ok too.

That's all there is to it, although listening to my pal Sean, you might think that I have a whole slew of boiler room marketeers backing me up, devising one marketing plan after another. :smilewinkgrin:
 
How NITRO came to be.

Ok,
I received the permission to provide the story behind the nickname "NITRO" for Chris Gentile.

Chris had been looking for some higher dollar action at Buffalo Billiards and was interested in playing some banks, when another pool room called with an offer to play some high dollar bank pool.

While I didn't see the match, I was regularly being updated with text messages and phone calls etc about how the match was going. But wait, let me go back a bit. The match was for 25 balls ahead playing bank pool for $4500.00. Chris Gentile against Jamie Farrell, the Red Rifle. Jamie is known for his solid bank pool game and has been known to break even with guys like Tony Fargo playing banks so there was a lot of local interest in seeing Jamie play Chris Gentile. Chris is a top player from Chicago, Illinois and we all know how many bank pool players come out of that area.

Anyway, they agree to a maximum of 10 hours of play at Jamie's pool room in Kenner, LA. At the end of 10 hours they would pro rate the amount of money that was due.

I was playing pool at my pool room Buffalo Billiards but was receiving text messages left and right, Jamie up 6 games, back to even, Chris up 4 games, etc all evening long. It sounded like it was going to end in a draw the way each player kept fighting back.

After 9 hours of play the players were dead-even. Now the match would be over with if either player reached 25 banked balls AHEAD but with only 1 hour and 15 minutes left, that was highly unlikely based upon the two players past 9 hours of play. Anyway, that when Chris let loose a barrage of banks that was not seen for the entire previous 9 hours. In fact one of the spectators said he has never seen anyone play banks at that level. In the last hour of play, one of Jamie's backers said Chris was "RAINING BANKS" from everywhere. It was like he couldn't miss a bank. The last hour was a torrent of banks with Chris getting 25 banks ahead in little more than an hour against a VERY solid bank pool player in his own pool room. I was thinking about Vin Diesel in one of those racing movies Fast Five or Fast & Furious when he driving a Mazda RX-7 and he opens up the nitrous oxide and the car takes off like a rocket, when I donned the nickname NITRO for Chris.

That is how Chris Gentile became known as NITRO. BTW, he and Scott Frost like the nickname for Chris, so if you want to make Chris smile, just call him NITRO. :smile:
 
Eric. said:
You might as well save it, instead of trying to force feed it to the forum.

I'm guessing that this is the nickname that *YOU* made up for Gentile? :rolleyes:

Eric
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JoeyA said:
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The last hour was a torrent of banks with Chris getting 25 banks ahead in little more than an hour against a VERY solid bank pool player in his own pool room. I was thinking about Vin Diesel in one of those racing movies Fast Five or Fast & Furious when he driving a Mazda RX-7 and he opens up the nitrous oxide and the car takes off like a rocket, when I donned the nickname NITRO for Chris.

That is how Chris Gentile became known as NITRO. BTW, he and Scott Frost like the nickname for Chris, so if you want to make Chris smile, just call him NITRO. :smile:
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Ahhhh, so now the purpose for all the marketing is clear -- it *was* Joey who came up with the nickname and donned it match-posthumously on Chris. Eric's crystal ball was dead-on.

I thought you said this is a "deep" story, Joey? That there were a lot of details that would concretely pin the new "Nitro" moniker upon Chris's character? Unfortunately, this was just one match. One match, where at the end, Chris caught fire. We've all had matches like that -- I have, you have, ...most anyone. We look back upon those matches with satisfaction, and they might even be talked about for a short bit. But do we deserve American Gladiator-motiffed nicknames for the rest of our pool careers because of them? I think not. It's the character-based nicknames that really and truly stick, Joey. Not nicknames that are applied just because of one match's performance.

However, if people get their rocks off with National Enquirer- or New York Post-esque headlines and stories, so be it.

-Sean
 
So you give a guy, who is visiting from out of town, a nickname based off of play that you didn't even see?

Sweet.
 
It's all silly to me. Getting texted right and left, the getting permission to say someone made a bunch of banks and someone called him a name, now I can share to the world. The whole deal of making a name and trying to tell that person maybe we should call you this name I thought up for you.

Guess I'm just not into all that silliness. To each their own but that's where I stand on it.

But really all the drama to tell the story is way out there though.
 
Wow.

So, lemme get this straight...you got some second/third hand info on a match you didn't see, then decided to give that player a nickname based on info that your brother's cousin's neighbor text'd you and you want to sell that nickname (that you made up) to the forum, even though you didn't see any of the match first hand??

Well, if I did the same I could say that even though I nvr met JoeyA, but have read his posts on a couple of forums and have received PM's about him :grin:, I could try to force feed a nickname for Joey, to the forum?

Hmm. How 'bout "The Bishop"?

You know, bishops love to be revered, love to hear them selves preach and generally have a holier-than-thou attitude.

Nah, it would never stick...:wink:


Eric >no disrespect to Joey Bishop
 
Eric. said:
Wow.

So, lemme get this straight...you got some second/third hand info on a match you didn't see, then decided to give that player a nickname based on info that your brother's cousin's neighbor text'd you and you want to sell that nickname (that you made up) to the forum, even though you didn't see any of the match first hand??

Well, if I did the same I could say that even though I nvr met JoeyA, but have read his posts on a couple of forums and have received PM's about him :grin:, I could try to force feed a nickname for Joey, to the forum?

Hmm. How 'bout "The Bishop"?

You know, bishops love to be revered, love to hear them selves preach and generally have a holier-than-thou attitude.

Nah, it would never stick...:wink:


Eric >no disrespect to Joey Bishop
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Good material there dude!!
 
Plus one other thing unrelated to the whole nickname thing. You say they're playing 25 banks ahead, then say someone is up so many games, then go back to where Chris got up 25 banks.

If they're playing x banks ahead it doesnt matter who won a game or not. If someone won the first game 10-5 then they're up 5 banks or if they won 8-7 they're only up 1 bank. If someone said someone was up 6 games that could mean they're up 6 balls or it could mean they're up 90 banks or anything in between :D
 
Edit, thought the room they were playing in was Buffalo Billiards in Philly, not down South..
 
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"CaliRed". said:
Plus one other thing unrelated to the whole nickname thing. You say they're playing 25 banks ahead, then say someone is up so many games, then go back to where Chris got up 25 banks.

If they're playing x banks ahead it doesnt matter who won a game or not. If someone won the first game 10-5 then they're up 5 banks or if they won 8-7 they're only up 1 bank. If someone said someone was up 6 games that could mean they're up 6 balls or it could mean they're up 90 banks or anything in between :D
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It was balls up not games up. My bad.:boring2:
 
It's just a nickname guys, nothing more and a good way to get the word out. If me telling the story that way gets you so bent out of shape, you should just put me on ignore. :lol:
 
JoeyA said:
It's just a nickname guys, nothing more and a good way to get the word out. If me telling the story that way gets you so bent out of shape, you should just put me on ignore. :lol:
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Eh. As you can see, it's not like most really hang on your every words anyway.

Oh, for the sake of argument, the stuff Vin Diesel used was "nitrous", which is very different from "nitro".


Eric >:rolleyes:
 
Eric. said:
Eh. As you can see, it's not like most really hang on your every words anyway.

Oh, for the sake of argument, the stuff Vin Diesel used was "nitrous", which is very different from "nitro".


Eric >:rolleyes:
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Well you sure do. :grin:
 
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