Shuffleboard Hustling

Years back I used to play in shuffleboard tourneys. Just like pool, there are some guy and gals out there that can play. Horse collar was my favorite game to gamble.
 
i play (played) fairly well, so i thought.
I got "shustled " one time by a guy...this was the bet . If i win i get 100 usd. , if he wins i would have to go see his band play at a downtown venue that weekend . i figure im atleast getting 3 to 1 on the money. it was close (or was it?), but I lost.
The band was pretty good tho :embarrassed2:
 
i was at a bar one time with the owners daughter. she was very good at it, i was horrible. then i picked up a cue-they had a barbox there as well. with a cue I played much better. i could see it being a fun action game.
 
Cashman said:
In my experience, anything you can compete at (and if enough people compete at it), there will be some kind of gambling culture present.

Most shocking for me, was watching a few of my friends lose a good chunk, playing Magic the Gathering. Even nerds:smile: like to get it down.
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I used to make money playing Magic: The Gathering until the company (Wizards of the Coast) got so greedy they were cranking out a new expansion pack every three months. I sold all my cards for pretty close to what I had paid for them. Great game though.
 
The Rack

I remember playing pool at the Rack in Memphis in the 80's. A lot of great pool players hung around there then. They had a shuffleboard table shaped like a V. There were some guys around there that played the game pretty good.
 
watchez said:
Want to see some of the best, if not the best, shuffleboard players in the world - go to Volcanoes in Hurst Texas (just out side of Dallas). I believe akatrigger goes there from time to time.
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Knock,knock. Jut kidding!
 
Back when Oregon was primarily a timber industry state, Every tavern had shuffleboard tables. They were extrememly popular.
Not so today...it seems the state run lottery games have taken over. :confused:
 
pwd72s said:
Back when Oregon was primarily a timber industry state, Every tavern had shuffleboard tables. They were extrememly popular.
Not so today...it seems the state run lottery games have taken over. :confused:
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Still have a half-track shuffleboard where I go. Two pinball machines, two dart boards, 4 barboxes, an old school jukebox and 4 video crack machines. Oh, a cigarette vending machine if you like to play that game, too. Even has a touch-screen game.. always forget about that.
 
When I clicked on the thread I was picturing some guy in a leisure suit and white shoes playing shuffleboard outside at Del Boca Vista retirement home:grin-square:
 
Just about every bar in NY had them until the 1950's when the bar boxes started to hit the bars. A lot of moves in that game from the better players. Johnnyt
 
It was big out in west TX and NM in the 70's. I had a uncle who lived in Hobbs, NM that could really play . We use to make the rounds with him playing shuffleboard and me playing pool. They also make a great weapon, better than a cueball.
 
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