Secret to Success: Sharking and Hate

I think 'hate' is a strong word and this is not the way I want to play people. I like being friendly with them and making them drop their guard. If they drop their guard and feel like they are playing a 'buddy'. Then perhaps they don't focus as much on the table.

I haven't been on the shooting side of many bets but I've been on the backing side of hundreds. When the person my shooter was playing was off the table I'd chat them up and try to get their focus somewhere other than on the table that my cousin was running out on them.
 
"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children." - Mike Tyson

Now that's hate....or is it crazy? :confused:
 
lfigueroa said:
The "Life" article in question came out long before "The Hustler" and Fat's notoriety. And although they'd crossed paths before, Willie had barbecued Fats, so I doubt Fats entered his mind.

Lou Figueroa
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What may well have been overplayed in The Hustler and the Champion about Willie and Fats was Willie's disgust with Fats and his ilk as what was wrong (in his opinion) with pool.
 
Nine ... corner said:
What may well have been overplayed in The Hustler and the Champion about Willie and Fats was Willie's disgust with Fats and his ilk as what was wrong (in his opinion) with pool.
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No, I think Willie really hated Fats, not so much for what he stood for, but more for his blatant disregard for the truth.

There was Willie, who had worked and slaved to become the best in the world, winning world championship after world championship, and then there was Fats telling anyone who would listen that *he,* not Willie, was the best in the world and that if he wanted a trophy he'd go buy one.

If you ever watched those Willie v Fats matches you can see Willie seething most of the time. I still remember one match when Mosconi missed a shot and Fats comes to the table and, in that great WC Fields delivery of his mocks Willie saying, "You. The great Willie Moooooooosconi, missed a ball?!" You could tell Willie was about to burst a blood vessel.

Later on I think both of them mellowed in their regard for each other, but down deep...

Lou Figueroa
 
lfigueroa said:
No, I think Willie really hated Fats, not so much for what he stood for, but more for his blatant disregard for the truth.

There was Willie, who had worked and slaved to become the best in the world, winning world championship after world championship, and then there was Fats telling anyone who would listen that *he,* not Willie, was the best in the world and that if he wanted a trophy he'd go buy one.

If you ever watched those Willie v Fats matches you can see Willie seething most of the time. I still remember one match when Mosconi missed a shot and Fats comes to the table and, in that great WC Fields delivery of his mocks Willie saying, "You. The great Willie Moooooooosconi, missed a ball?!" You could tell Willie was about to burst a blood vessel.

Later on I think both of them mellowed in their regard for each other, but down deep...

Lou Figueroa
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I'm not bored enough to look it up but in one of those videos while they are talking to each other Willie winks at Fats and they smile at each other. At that stage of the game Fats and his mouth was the main reason Willie was getting paid to be on tv and he knew it.
 
alstl said:
I'm not bored enough to look it up but in one of those videos while they are talking to each other Willie winks at Fats and they smile at each other. At that stage of the game Fats and his mouth was the main reason Willie was getting paid to be on tv and he knew it.
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Yeah, Willie knew this was a good thing even if he did hate Fats. I read that these matches were his biggest payday.
 
alstl said:
I'm not bored enough to look it up but in one of those videos while they are talking to each other Willie winks at Fats and they smile at each other. At that stage of the game Fats and his mouth was the main reason Willie was getting paid to be on tv and he knew it.
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er, like I said: Later on I think both of them mellowed in their regard for each other...

Lou Figueroa
 
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