Similar Situation
I played a guy about 25 years ago sort of the same situation , was playing $20 9 ball and I was spotting the guy the 8 , I was stealing no doubt. I had the guy stuck a 100 and we were settling up after every game .
I figured soon he would pull up but he stayed with it , his wife and kid were there watching, baby was probably 18 months old , I had him down 180 and his wife is there crying begging him not to gamble their last 40 dollars away. He wouldn't quit kept telling her I can beat him I can beat him, needless to say I broke him 2 games later . his wife is in tears the baby is crying , he is sitting there stunned with that WTF just happened to me look on his face. I guess I am soft hearted I couldn't take the money I gave it to his wife 200.00 of the 220.00 I won and used the other twenty to pay our time. I hope that old boy learned from that lesson but I doubt it . All I know is I slept better for making the choice not to take all their money
I was on the road playing about 40 years ago, I beat a guy out of $600 and as we were finishing his children came in dressed like orphans in bad need of new clothes and shoes, I thought for a second that maybe it was a setup but they didn't make a scene, they were dragging their dad home with them... that $600 I took from that guy was way more than enough to properly dress his children and put food on the table for them... I asked the bartender and he told me he had a very bad gambling problem and was known around town for putting the rent money up at all times... the pool player in me wanted to say that was his problem, but the human being told me I couldn't do that, so I stopped the kids and gave them the money and pretty much stopped playing at that point... I only started coming around when my nephew took up an interest in the game, and to this day I haven't been able to get the image of those children out of my head.
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I played a guy about 25 years ago sort of the same situation , was playing $20 9 ball and I was spotting the guy the 8 , I was stealing no doubt. I had the guy stuck a 100 and we were settling up after every game .
I figured soon he would pull up but he stayed with it , his wife and kid were there watching, baby was probably 18 months old , I had him down 180 and his wife is there crying begging him not to gamble their last 40 dollars away. He wouldn't quit kept telling her I can beat him I can beat him, needless to say I broke him 2 games later . his wife is in tears the baby is crying , he is sitting there stunned with that WTF just happened to me look on his face. I guess I am soft hearted I couldn't take the money I gave it to his wife 200.00 of the 220.00 I won and used the other twenty to pay our time. I hope that old boy learned from that lesson but I doubt it . All I know is I slept better for making the choice not to take all their money