Why can he be both a painter and a pool hustler
?When did you play Archer? Before he went corporate? Must have been madness to be in the box with a 20yr old Archer or Strickland.
Secrets of pool hustling.
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Why can he be both a painter and a pool hustler
?When did you play Archer? Before he went corporate? Must have been madness to be in the box with a 20yr old Archer or Strickland.
Jamie keep posting away, and asking question. Some are funny, some make up happy people, more unhappy, and upset.
They need to go to a VA hospital sit in the main hallway 20- 30 minutes, then they will feel lucky. Count you arm & legs if all are normal, your lucky.
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Disregard, OP on vacation.
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Disregard, OP on vacation.
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It was obvious jamie's_lyin thought the 'hustler' would suddenly start playing like a pro, instead of letting the victim keep it close.
I think that comes from watching too much TV and spending too much time on the interweb, you begin to belive its all true, not fiction.
PS I like the lyin for lion, just caught that.. :clapping::clapping::clapping:
Wonder why Jamie got AZHousePro's boot?
Crazy, right?
And his rep points were all green.
How could it be? his rep points were all green.
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I watched it with the sound off but I'm 99% certain the hustle had to do with watering down the paint they used.
Can be of course
A person can be of course but painting is a strain on the arms and you use the muscles unevenly. At the end of the day muscles on one side of your arm are sorer and stiffer than the muscles on the other side or maybe the triceps are fine and the biceps are sore. This plays hell with your stroke as does most manual labor. Very few people work hard all day and play decent pool afterwards, too many kinks here and there in their body.
I think George Breedlove(sp?), the Widow's husband, builds furniture full time. He used to have a standing offer to play anybody even that would work with him all week first.
I played Archer back when he was a kid. He was known as a bar box monster even then and might have won some big events. I was in a little backwater and too busy playing pool to watch it. The only pool I ever saw on TV was mostly by accident in these days before cable. The internet was in it's infancy too. I played fairly well and wasn't afraid to bet so I had made it into some road players journals and had a moderately steady stream of road players passing through. I was less than ten miles from Greenway also, a hub of the pool world back then. Somebody was steering road players at me there which several road players admitted after playing but they clammed up when I asked who so I never discovered if the person at Greenway was my friend or enemy!
Johnny introduced himself and waited for my reaction, expecting one I could tell. Never heard of him so I just said "I'm Hu, break!" I was very tough on my home turf. I benefited from not knowing the level of players I was playing sometimes too. Hard to be intimidated by someone you never heard of and I had only heard of maybe a half-dozen or so national class players, mostly older guys that had been at it for decades.
I have seen similar happen with friends. Walk in a place and see they are way over their head. Guys I really like, I am trying to figure out how to ease them out of the mess they are in. As I watch awhile waiting my chance I realize something funny. The person I know is playing a mile over his head and winning! If somebody had told them the real name of who they were playing, their arm would tighten up and they wouldn't be able to make a ball in the ocean!
You have been around enough to know things can be very funny and odd in gambling situations. While I very rarely gave a spot, I never took a spot. I had a decent income in the real world and there were no bragging rights when you beat someone taking a spot. The way I felt anyway.
I miss the old days of small time hustling. Truth is, like most old farts I miss the old days when pool was still pool and Hu was still Hu!:thumbup:
Hu
Why can he be both a painter and a pool hustler
When did you play Archer? Before he went corporate? Must have been madness to be in the box with a 20yr old Archer or Strickland.
A person can be of course but painting is a strain on the arms and you use the muscles unevenly. At the end of the day muscles on one side of your arm are sorer and stiffer than the muscles on the other side or maybe the triceps are fine and the biceps are sore. This plays hell with your stroke as does most manual labor. Very few people work hard all day and play decent pool afterwards, too many kinks here and there in their body.
I think George Breedlove(sp?), the Widow's husband, builds furniture full time. He used to have a standing offer to play anybody even that would work with him all week first.
I played Archer back when he was a kid. He was known as a bar box monster even then and might have won some big events. I was in a little backwater and too busy playing pool to watch it. The only pool I ever saw on TV was mostly by accident in these days before cable. The internet was in it's infancy too. I played fairly well and wasn't afraid to bet so I had made it into some road players journals and had a moderately steady stream of road players passing through. I was less than ten miles from Greenway also, a hub of the pool world back then. Somebody was steering road players at me there which several road players admitted after playing but they clammed up when I asked who so I never discovered if the person at Greenway was my friend or enemy!
Johnny introduced himself and waited for my reaction, expecting one I could tell. Never heard of him so I just said "I'm Hu, break!" I was very tough on my home turf. I benefited from not knowing the level of players I was playing sometimes too. Hard to be intimidated by someone you never heard of and I had only heard of maybe a half-dozen or so national class players, mostly older guys that had been at it for decades.
I have seen similar happen with friends. Walk in a place and see they are way over their head. Guys I really like, I am trying to figure out how to ease them out of the mess they are in. As I watch awhile waiting my chance I realize something funny. The person I know is playing a mile over his head and winning! If somebody had told them the real name of who they were playing, their arm would tighten up and they wouldn't be able to make a ball in the ocean!
You have been around enough to know things can be very funny and odd in gambling situations. While I very rarely gave a spot, I never took a spot. I had a decent income in the real world and there were no bragging rights when you beat someone taking a spot. The way I felt anyway.
I miss the old days of small time hustling. Truth is, like most old farts I miss the old days when pool was still pool and Hu was still Hu!:thumbup:
Hu
True about not knowing who your opponent is + playing on home turf= Perhaps surprising results. I beat a really solid player 30+ games ahead once with those conditions.
I can remember being offended when a guy told me the only reason I beat him was that I got all the rolls. I wanted him to admit I played better and it was not my lucky rolls that caused him to lose.
Then I got wised up by an old line scuffler. He told me that it was a good thing if people I played said things like this and I should just agree with them. From then on when someone told me how lucky I was and how I kept getting the rolls, I said they were absolutely right and I needed the rolls to beat them. As simple a thing like this was the reason several guys played me over and over again, each time with the same result.
Great!
That is great play in anybody's book when you win over thirty games ahead against tough competition!
Jay, I had a few guys play me for months before quitting me saying something like, "I am a better player than you but I just can't outrun your luck!" Suited me a lot better than somebody saying I was too good for them.
I almost always tried to claim I got the rolls after beating someone. More than glad to agree with them when they said it. A reason for my fondness for bar tables. Cue ball control was a little easier, especially when playing with the 800 pound gorilla. Too, in close quarters an inch here or there was likely to be a lot more meaningful, especially in the days before jump cues. Never played a game that lent itself more to rolls than barbox eightball though snooker came close with a lot of congestion on the money end of the table.
Hu
That is great play in anybody's book when you win over thirty games ahead against tough competition!
Jay, I had a few guys play me for months before quitting me saying something like, "I am a better player than you but I just can't outrun your luck!" Suited me a lot better than somebody saying I was too good for them.
I almost always tried to claim I got the rolls after beating someone. More than glad to agree with them when they said it. A reason for my fondness for bar tables. Cue ball control was a little easier, especially when playing with the 800 pound gorilla. Too, in close quarters an inch here or there was likely to be a lot more meaningful, especially in the days before jump cues. Never played a game that lent itself more to rolls than barbox eightball though snooker came close with a lot of congestion on the money end of the table.
Hu
He's known as Viffer in the poker world. Here's a story about him:
More stories here:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/great-viffer-storys-1621810/index3.html
Video of Viffer playing poker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LSogehZH6g
A lot of "hustling" in pool is a scam done in a pool hall LOL, it's all the same thing. If you lie/cheat to beat someone at pool it's a "scam" just in nicer wording. Saying it would not have happened if the other person was not greedy is just a nice lie people tell themselves to justify the hustle. I watched a guy stealing credit card numbers use the same argument, he said those banks were greedy taking money from us so he is just using stolen credit cards to make it even LOL.
Dippy Dave you will find in many posts on here, there is no need to prove things to you, no-one really cares about providing you details if you think something did not happen. Basically there were players with money but not much game setting up gambling matches with high level players for large dollars with spots.
Spot on Walter! Jaime_lion...You have no clue about pool, and no clue about pool history. You may get an occasional person give you a little info, but you have to learn for yourself how to find out information on this here internet!
Scott Lee
2019 PBIA Instructor of the Year
Director, SPF National Pool School Tour
Scott Lee
2019 PBIA Instructor of the Year
Director, SPF National Pool School Tour
EX husband, Hu! George does own an "unpainted furniture" factory, that ships all over. He's on the factory floor almost every day. Hardest working poolplayer I ever met! :thumbup:
The best poker video was where he sucked out on Hellmuth on Poker After Dark and Hellmuth imploded. I looked again for the video recently and couldn't find it unfortunately.
There is a pool video of him playing some One Pocket vs Scott Frost.