Some people step up and take the win and some can't.
That a real truth and why pool is better than cards.
Playing for cash money in 2025?
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That a real truth and why pool is better than cards.
yea for fun. but for money, only a sucker and a complete fool plays matches that he does not have the best of the bet.
where do you fit in that span.
remember, it takes two to tango. if the other guy doesnt want to play he doesnt have to its totally voluntary.
some may think its chicken**** to give lessons to people for money that can get almost all of what you charge for free on the net.
and you are basically just a short stop.
maybe dont judge other people so harshly as you have to look at what you do as well.
lack of respect for money? money is a tool to use to get things you want. and you make it by getting a good deal you like. it can be a job, or an investment which is another form of gambling, or it can be just a simple bet with someone.
but a smart person makes each of those three only when they feel they get the best of the deal.
would you buy a stock that was equally likely in your mind to go up or down? only a fool would as there would be no return.
or a house that couldn't go up in value.
or a job that has no advancement.
many people do, like putting money in a bank account which pays 1% or less interest. when a money market account pays like about 4% now.
and does the same things a bank does for you, except more.
but a smart person makes each of those three only when they feel they get the best of the deal.
would you buy a stock that was equally likely in your mind to go up or down? only a fool would as there would be no return.
or a house that couldn't go up in value.
or a job that has no advancement.
many people do, like putting money in a bank account which pays 1% or less interest. when a money market account pays like about 4% now.
and does the same things a bank does for you, except more.
50 to 100 a rack if I know they won't quit me up a couple games
500 to 1000 a set if I know its a good game and they won't quit me up a couple sets....mimimum 3 sets
Hardest part of action is finding it.
People have no heart or are broke...
If you find someone who will play for decent money, do all you can to accommodate them. Increase the handicap if they can't win.
Pretty much have to travel to get anything decent for action. I drag myself to Super Billiards every year to play a few guys that I know gamble correct. Usually find a new one each year. If Derby wasn't such a long drive, I'd go again...best action I ever seen.
500 to 1000 a set if I know its a good game and they won't quit me up a couple sets....mimimum 3 sets
Hardest part of action is finding it.
People have no heart or are broke...
If you find someone who will play for decent money, do all you can to accommodate them. Increase the handicap if they can't win.
Pretty much have to travel to get anything decent for action. I drag myself to Super Billiards every year to play a few guys that I know gamble correct. Usually find a new one each year. If Derby wasn't such a long drive, I'd go again...best action I ever seen.
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If you don't bet high, it's like kissing your sister.
You don't get anywhere...or at least you shouldn't.
I would agree it has nothing to do with courage. I will also say that there are many that enjoy high stakes and have a hard time being motivated if the bet isn’t high enough.
I'm an old retired guy so I play cheap.
Love to play $20 short sets
I'll play for a few hundred, but it's not an often thing...
Tough to get money games nowadays.
You suggest cheap play to guys and they look like you've asked them to drop their drawers. 30 years ago I had a standing game with *anyone* who walked through the front door of the pool room. All I had to say was, "Get the balls." $25-$50 short 9ball races; $25 a man widows; or $100-$300 race to four 1pocket; and if all the pool tables where filled, $25-50 acton to 25 points on the billiard table. *No one* was playing for funnies.
Games that needed to be adjusted were. I gave up anywhere from 9-7 to 13-6 and would occasionally get 10-7.
Now that's all gone. Lucky to get $10-$20 game of 1pocket.
Lou Figueroa
I think it's roots and birthright - genetics. Rollers are a species. If they did their evolution right, then they have the deep and long capital to fade anything. Besides they're born to take - right?
I’m surprised to hear that. I’m not far from the StL area and figured it still a hot bed for 1-pkt.
I watch $20 - $50 games everyday. I don’t play 1-pkt well, so I don’t play but I watch.
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My comment is mainly directed at people who call other people "nits" for not playing for money, even though that person is pretty much a shoe in to win. However, that person won't "play up" themselves. I see it all the time. As far as paying for lessons, yeah people can access stuff online for free and its a great resource. But you don't get the 1 on 1 with the instructor and can ask specific questions at that exact time. Instructors offer a service. Hustlers just want to take your money.
Thats a common occurrence, to have the better player claim the worse one has no heart coz he wont take the short end of the stick.
Often accompanied by a side of 'bet some real money'.
Good moves, if he can get away with em
My gambling days are long past but try to play by the game or short races. By the game can be as low as five or ten bucks to get started with a stranger. As comfort levels rise so can the bet. I want to play five to twenty a game, twenty to fifty or a hundred a set. At one hundred a set you are probably one and done. The main reason I like short races or by the game. The same person that won't risk a knife in the gut will bleed out from a thousand small cuts.
Bet whatever will keep the other player on the table, large or small. I don't have but one answer to the amount bet or the spot, "OK". Got to get somebody on the table before you can make money.
Always liked something UJ Puckett said, "I give them what they ask for, not what they need."
A lot of ways to approach gambling. Once you become a known gambler things get easier for low buck action. I spent many an evening playing people that wouldn't play me for real money playing for three or five a game until something better came along.
Hu
Bet whatever will keep the other player on the table, large or small. I don't have but one answer to the amount bet or the spot, "OK". Got to get somebody on the table before you can make money.
Always liked something UJ Puckett said, "I give them what they ask for, not what they need."
A lot of ways to approach gambling. Once you become a known gambler things get easier for low buck action. I spent many an evening playing people that wouldn't play me for real money playing for three or five a game until something better came along.
Hu
"Nit" is just a name to call people trying to nudge somebody into a bad bet. I have never seen anyone calling other people nits that wasn't a nit themselves. Funny, when they did the same thing they were a smart better!
Hu
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Since getting back into pool after not playing since about 2006 I have been playing 8 ball races to 10 and 9 ball races to five with a friend at his break room and only dropping a 5 or 10 spot in his scratch kitty for him. I have played in two 9 ball ring games which I manage to win both simply because I can read carom shots and cue ball control with english efficiently. I have also played in 3 tournaments and slowly moved up to take 3'rd place in the last one. I only have 28 games listed at this point for Fargo rate which is currently at 505 and slowly going up. After falling flat on my face the first one I shot in I was quite a bit under 500. The last tournament I shot in and placed 3'rd I beat a couple people over 540 fargo rate.
When I stopped playing pool years ago we usually played 8 ball anywhere from 5.00 to 20.00 a game after league as well as friday nights in the taverns.
When I stopped playing pool years ago we usually played 8 ball anywhere from 5.00 to 20.00 a game after league as well as friday nights in the taverns.
Where we play, there's a lot of 10 ball, (yuck) being played as well as one hole for anything from 10 bucks to several hundred a rack. Short sets get played too, mostly for small coin. 20 - c note a set.
A few heavy hitters but they don't do well here, so traffic has lessened of late.
A race to 4 for 10 covers table time.