I'm not rooting for names to kill action, but I'm curious about something. Have any of you witnessed a road agent snap off a professional player in a gambling match where the two were playing even. I'm not really interested in roadmen who are now professionals and their names are well-known; I'm interested in the masked men who come in and leave with the cheese after beating higher-echelon pros and are still under the radar. Stories anyone?
Road agent question.
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Dude came into our pool hall and stayed there for about 2mos. Played OK when first arrived, dropped some 50s and 100s and then started winning a bit. Then started winning some more and More and MOre and...you get the picture. By the time he left, he was giving the best guy we had the 8 for multiple 1000s and IIRC, did get the cheese. Damn that dude learned fast
good start to the day!
I laughed out loud at your final line. It's amazing how much some people learn in a single night much less a month or two.
According to what I have observed betting big dramatically shortens some people's learning curve. Maybe all beginners should start off betting big so they can learn fast.
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I laughed out loud at your final line. It's amazing how much some people learn in a single night much less a month or two.
According to what I have observed betting big dramatically shortens some people's learning curve. Maybe all beginners should start off betting big so they can learn fast.
Hu
Black-Balled said:Dude came into our pool hall and stayed there for about 2mos. Played OK when first arrived, dropped some 50s and 100s and then started winning a bit. Then started winning some more and More and MOre and...you get the picture. By the time he left, he was giving the best guy we had the 8 for multiple 1000s and IIRC, did get the cheese. Damn that dude learned fast
I rember a little guy comming into a pool hall here in town and playing one of our better players for a couple of 1-2 hours @ $5 a game and he was down 6 games, he got angry and asked to bump it to 10, our wise older player says nope it 5 or the highway for you. He said he can't play for 5 a game and got ready to leave. I jumped at the chance to see a good roadie play so I pointed him to PRO-BILLIARDS in Orlando and got into my car and followed him and his backer into town.
This guys jumps on a big black guy named COOP and they go @ $20 a game on a shimmed GCIII that the roadie never played on before. Well, after watching COOP get beat out of $600. straight and never win a game I told Jimmy to cut him loose before he went broke. The roadie never missed a single shot when he had to play a safety it was nutted up tight behind a ball with no spaces.
Playing on the table next to him was another player Adam W. who wisely chose not to play this guy (who by the way was starting to woof, and you gots to have some brass gonads to woof in there).
Next he tries to jump on Charlie Williams and Charlie would only play even, he did offer the last two, but that guy told him that was crap and that the last two isn't weight at their level. Charlie said he knew him from Boston and that he wasn't going to give any.
That would have been worth sitting up all night to watch.
This guys jumps on a big black guy named COOP and they go @ $20 a game on a shimmed GCIII that the roadie never played on before. Well, after watching COOP get beat out of $600. straight and never win a game I told Jimmy to cut him loose before he went broke. The roadie never missed a single shot when he had to play a safety it was nutted up tight behind a ball with no spaces.
Playing on the table next to him was another player Adam W. who wisely chose not to play this guy (who by the way was starting to woof, and you gots to have some brass gonads to woof in there).
Next he tries to jump on Charlie Williams and Charlie would only play even, he did offer the last two, but that guy told him that was crap and that the last two isn't weight at their level. Charlie said he knew him from Boston and that he wasn't going to give any.
That would have been worth sitting up all night to watch.
Sounds like Tony Ruberto was in Orlando? He has been in South Florida some lately. TR was in action down here and it didnt go so well from what I was told. TR lost the first night, came back and won back just under half of what he lost the first night and the locals quit.
Just saw the "little guy" reference. Thats probably not Ruberto. Was it Chris Bartrum?
Just saw the "little guy" reference. Thats probably not Ruberto. Was it Chris Bartrum?