Pool Hall Encyclopedia

SpiderWebComm

SpiderWebComm

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Since everyone is getting pretty good at Photoshop and Paint, I thought it'd be cool to start a thread with a photo encyclopedia of pool hall scenarios and terms.

Since I started it, I'll start with my personal favorite: The Nit


THE NIT

The pool hall nit is an intergalactic world champion until someone who can actually play walks through the door. Typically barking at APA level 3's until a short stop walks in, or maybe the nit will bark at a champion to impress a nit-friend and when called-out immediately asks for enough weight to sink "The Freedom of the Sea"......

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The nit will act like a marathon gambler and will ask to readjust after losing the first game or set. The nit will bark at someone to play, the player will start racking the balls and then look back just to find.... the nit crawled out of the window in the men's room.
 
SpiderWebComm said:
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Someone who can't do wrong. It's like they wipe their azz with magic fairy pixie dust. Enraging. Makes you wanna up the bet.
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LMAO on this one:D :D Where were you when I needed my photos edited?

S.
 
Wow I hope this thread takes off, it could be great. There are othe sites that have Photoshop contests-just for bragging rights, they take a picture and everyone modify's it they vote for the winner and start-up another one, its amazing how incredible their Photoshop creativity is. I wish I could do it but I just am not smart/creative enough.
 
sunnyday said:
LMAO on this one:D :D Where were you when I needed my photos edited?

S.
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Anytime! Just send the photos over! If I had pics of CUBC and OMG I'd make a REAL funny one
 
The Biter

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The biter... every pool hall has one, or in some cases...many. The biter is the best salesman in the world. As a matter of fact, they could probably talk you into anything. Only the biter has a combined yearly income of about $2000, and that's what he collects from people like you. They always have a "job" and they're always getting paid next Friday.

Maybe, in some cases, the biter is a HELL of a good pool player and needs your money to get into action. Never GOOD action.... always "slam your nuts against the wall, lucky to come out alive" action.... and they always feel like they can't lose. OR, they have an inside line on why the other can't win.

The biter never pays you back, never throws you a gapper, and always asks for more.

Sometimes, the biter won't even ask you for money - and they just look like they REALLY need it--- and would LOVE a hotdog--- and you can't help but buy them one, and a soda, and a bag of chips, and maybe a $20 for the poker machine while you're at it. Those are the jam-up biters. Hardened. Pool wouldn't be pool without the "bite."
 
The Woofer

Talks (woofs) to hear their heads roll. Usually tries to intimidate anyone within a fifty foot radius by offering to bet large sums at games that are unfamiliar, strictly luck based, or are so one sided in the woofer's favor that there is no possibility (or reason) that anyone would ever want to enter into a legitimate wager. Typically found to be a lap dog once a bigger dog enters the fight...
 

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The Loud talker:

Not to be mistaken for The Woofer. This man absolutely adores the sound of his own voice and his volume knob goes to 11. His friends are 3 feet away but he believes he is doing a public service by allowing the entire pool room to hear his (exagerated) story.

The headphones wearer:

Usually shoots alone and seems unaproachable. Is he listening to relaxing soothing sounds or music? Is he listening to a good pool instructional tape like "Overcoming Contenderosous"? Worse yet does he know something we don't know? The headphones wearer is the natural enemy to the Loud talker.
 
The Hard Hitter:

This banger has regularly played on crooked bar tables that roll off therefore he believes that his best chance of getting the cue ball to roll straight is to hit the cue ball at Mach 4 speed. This incorrect theory is the actual cause for the hard hitter to be literally incapable of making a ball. A player can only look at this for so long before he is forced to look away.
 
sunnyday said:
Seriously, what does it mean when said, "nose is wide open"?

S.
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Sunny-

If someone says their nose is wide open... that means they're going-off for whatever they have.... and whatever they can borrow.
 
SpiderWebComm said:
Sunny-

If someone says their nose is wide open... that means they're going-off for whatever they have.... and whatever they can borrow.
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Me need picture, me no understand...:p

S.
 
Thank's Brother

Spider, thanks for the laugh's that was some funny $hit. And the best of it all is that everything you said was 100% true..........Thanks buddy!!!

Frankie
 
"Nose is Wide Open"

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"Nose is Wide Open" is a gambling term that typically means something happened to someone....

i.e.
someone calling a player out in front of friends
a player trying to high-roll another player
a player losing a set he/she should win
one player "luckboxing" another player to death
a player going broke and having to hit-up the infamous ATM.....

that causes them to "go-off" (synonym of "nose is wide open"). Someone whose nose is wide open will send-in everything they have, everything they can get from the ATM and everything they can borrow. Sometimes, at the end of this cycle, this person can become a biter (see also biter).

If the right person's nose is wide-open, the money WILL come--- and when it comes, it comes HARD.

edit: I wish I had a good Fatboy pic. Eric, send me one and I'll add you in brother!
 
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SpiderWebComm said:
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"Nose is Wide Open" is a gambling term that typically means something happened to someone....

i.e.
someone calling a player out in front of friends
a player trying to high-roll another player
a player losing a set he/she should win
one player "luckboxing" another player to death
a player going broke and having to hit-up the infamous ATM.....

that causes them to "go-off" (synonym of "nose is wide open"). Someone whose nose is wide open will send-in everything they have, everything they can get from the ATM and everything they can borrow. Sometimes, at the end of this cycle, this person can become a biter (see also biter).

If the right person's nose is wide-open, the money WILL come--- and when it comes, it comes HARD.

edit: I wish I had a good Fatboy pic. Eric, send me one and I'll add you in brother!
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Looks like Mr. Gotti Sr. next to Bucktooth.......LOL
 
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