Road Trips-What was your hustle ?

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I was scrolling through the posts and saw a post from someone about his road trip .True to the fact its not the glammer and glory people think . Its gotta be the hardest times you ever have . In fact there are a few times that stand out in your memory though that give a little chuckle and reinforce your confidence .I would like to know what the best hustle the people that have been on the road used .I do not recomend anyone try any posts that are place here as they all have reprocussions and sometimes they are not pretty.

My hustle was I was to have my circut buddy (road partner )take my cue a $1000 cue might I add into a bar and sell it to raise us a couple bucks .He had to let it go cheap as we were desperate but he had to keep the itsgeorge case because that was my fathers case :) I would come into the bar and he would loose the money to me but on all dump shots . Yes the guy with the $1000 cue lost to me. Just about everytime we pulled this we could get the guy who bought the cue to get into a game.Most the time we always won my cue back plus a nice steak for us to go on .If I did not win my $1000 cue back we would just hit the next town find a another 5 and dime buy a $10 pool stick and 3 cans of spray paint 1 white of coures for Ivory and 2 cans of clear some masking tape and bam another $1000 poolstick. Pop it in the Itsgeorge case .Those $1000 pool sticks with the almost wooden tips they had back then sure were nice.Wonder why nobody really could shoot against me with them and I only used a house stick?Oh and yes you guys thinking of this . We had someone pickup on this one time and remembered us from another place and it was not pretty.

Note : This was when we were kids and a Local Pool hustler showed us this .
 
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Sorry, but I think your story is bogus.
I don't believe that you bought cues at the "five & dime" and then spray painted them and convinced ANY players that they were $1,000. cues (unless you were playing at "The Lighthouse For The Blind"). In your dreams, maybe. Nice try, though...
 
Wow, I'm not sure I even understand your story, let alone believe it. Your story might fly on a bowling forum, but I don't think so here. :D
 
My best hustle is Wonder Dog, walking into a bar and betting you the dog can jump up on the table and run a rack with his nose in 15 seconds flat. Fade that one dudes.:D
 
I don't know if I believe the story with the spray paint. I don't think you would get the detail needed. Maybe if you airbrushed it, providing the buyer was either an idiot or tanked.
 
fast larry said:
My best hustle is Wonder Dog, walking into a bar and betting you the dog can jump up on the table and run a rack with his nose in 15 seconds flat. Fade that one dudes.:D
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My dog would be good for jumping up on the table and removing the old felt prior to refinishing. :)
 
fast larry said:
My best hustle is Wonder Dog, walking into a bar and betting you the dog can jump up on the table and run a rack with his nose in 15 seconds flat. Fade that one dudes.:D
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Hey Larry do you remember Jerry the Greek with King the Wonder dog
 
Oh yes it is true .

First you take the masking tape and run it about 1/8th of an inch inside the the wooden piont . you spray your black.
Then you hit it with clear .Plenty of newspaper to protect against over spray .Then you take very lightly a pencil and draw in your grain . You clear coat again .while at the same time you put four boxes in black on the bottom and 5 small dash rings just below the joint all in black penciled (pencil make it look like grain .Second step the off white you bought .You place inside the black points in the black boxes diamond shapeds in white white.
you let this dry .You put the 1/2 can clear coat on the whole thing . You let it dry . Then you take cigarette ashes and rub down the whole cue with it making sure not to make obvious area . The biggest problem with the paint is it looks new so the ashes make it old . After it had another clear and dried you pop a hair from your head and take the white paint spray it into the paint cap dip the hair into the paint and start your Ivory grain but ever so small and lightly .let it dry /A few coats or clear coat and cigarette ashes and then some more and more and more and whala it is done . Dont forget to strip off the name on the butt also .You may unbeleave this but I can tell you for a fact it did work and you can ask any of the cue makers from the old school as they have run across these cues . Id be willing to place a very nice size wager that we could pass one off inside a bar today even .This is a hustle alot of people used in the old day .Its not a lie or a good try .
 
I am willing to put my money where my mouth is on this . We may have to hit a couple places but it will fly . I can still do it I think . Maybe take 2 days instead of one of playing around but I can do it Im sure . Only problem is the cues now days have all junk butt caps but If you guys would agree we can take an older plain junk cue and do it I would put it where my mouth is .It would be a good thing anyhoo but I would let the guys know we were proving a point .There are 2 ways we could do this
1 vidio the making of the cue and or anyone that lives close as a witness
2 I could make up one of these cues take great pictures and we could list it on e bay ( very close up pictures showing the ivory and all ) and we could stop the auction right at the end and tell everyone it was just to see how easy you can be scammed on the Ebay . If anyone wants to call me on the Im sure we can get an agreeable middle man to hold the $ . Any takers ?
 
:D:D

I got quite a kick out of your post.

I'd like to see one of these beasts.

Please post a picture of your latest work! Let us give you a bit of a critique :D

:D :D
 
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I can do it

Its been a few years but Im sure I can do it . You gotta make it worth my while though .Ill kicK around this weekend and find a junk cue to do it to . I did say I would put my money where my mouth is but I think it only fair that the doubting Thomas should in turn do the same .I mean if I have to take the effort to prove I am right the oposition should take the effort to prove I am wrong Right ? I find it great that the same old stupid hustle will even work today as I know I can win this bet !!!! I should not come up with the loss and I have nothing to really prove as I know for a fact the truth If it was a challenge and worth my while I will do it no problem. Also to edgicate a few on this I would be willing . What do you propose ? It is so easy for the big money people to say it will not work but there is an art to hustleing and its not all just place your money on the table and bet . I can tell by the replys who has been on the road for a long circut and who has not.
 
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As I stated in my book, "The Green Felt JUngle", my partner and I would go from town to town with a line on guys we knew I could beat and the partner would get up and play the mark for $10 a game and lose a quick $100. I would then tell the guy he plays too good cheap but I'd play him some for $100 a game. He would figure right away I was a better player than my partner but almost every single time he would say he'll play me for $20 a game and lose the hundred back. Then, EVERY SINGLE TIME they would look at my partner who they just beat for 10 quick games and say, I'll play him for $100 a game if you'll really looking to gamble. Needless to say my partner was a better player than me and he would bust the guy who just couldn't get out of his mind how easily he beat the guy earlier out of 10 games. Works every time on even the smartest of players and stakehorses.;)
 
Top Spin said:
:D:D

I got quite a kick out of your post.

I'd like to see one of these beasts.

Please post a picture of your latest work! Let us give you a bit of a critique :D

:D :D
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you talklin to me, talkin to me or what?
Calling my dog a beast, my boy, my baby. When I brought Max in the house and he soon grew to 135 lbs, my wife who had 3 toy poodles quickly named him the filthy beast, she did not like him then. The poodles are now in dog heaven and she's slowly adjusted to Max and no longer calls him the filthy beast, her name for him now is the big bozo.

Go into my web site under
The Power Source Traveling Pool School. to see my web page come alive click http://www.fastlarrypool.com
Open the wonder dog link and there all 4 wonder dogs are. :D
 
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jungledude said:
As I stated in my book, "The Green Felt JUngle", my partner and I would go from town to town with a line on guys we knew I could beat and the partner would get up and play the mark for $10 a game and lose a quick $100. I would then tell the guy he plays too good cheap but I'd play him some for $100 a game. He would figure right away I was a better player than my partner but almost every single time he would say he'll play me for $20 a game and lose the hundred back. Then, EVERY SINGLE TIME they would look at my partner who they just beat for 10 quick games and say, I'll play him for $100 a game if you'll really looking to gamble. Needless to say my partner was a better player than me and he would bust the guy who just couldn't get out of his mind how easily he beat the guy earlier out of 10 games. Works every time on even the smartest of players and stakehorses.;)
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Hey what book . Never heard of it . Whats the link ? I would be interested in hearing about it . The 2 brothers hustle always was great but never would pass off in the smaller towns . I always stayed from the Stake Horses and kept my eye on the game and I never beat my own nor would I even attemt to . I definatly would be 6 ft under if I played with my bankroll and tried to hustle him.
 
Hey larry where did all the Golf games go on the snooker tables ? I can not find but one place and it is about 8 hours from here in charlston WV . Do you know any spots ?
 
Foxtrott

Dude you should have said all that in the beginning. I thought you just took spraypaint to a cue and called it good. Anyway, nice post.
 
fast larry said:
No, please tell me more. Roy Rogers I think had a wonder dog, it's a name used many times in the past.
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Jerry Used to be a old time hustler. Diliberto knows him. King would get on the table and role balls in the hole. He would pick the nine ball out of the rack. Jerry would say wheres the money King and King would dig it out of Jerrys pocket. Jerry could really play too. This was in the 60's
 
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