What's the best hustlers move you've ever seen?

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markgw

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I've known many pool players over the years and many will go to great lengths to empty someones pockets. Jimmy Mataya had a funny video on some of his hustles, but the video was a bit of a joke, almost as if it was a hustle in itself. When I say that though, I'm sure he's gone to great lengths to get the dough. I've known players that have worn glasses to look geeky, playing with house cues is big, going to rooms where you are almost sure to be unknown, dumping on purpose to bring up the speed when the bet is raised. It's basically endless but I was just curious to hear any amazing hustlers stories that worked well and got the $ without giving anything away except a gentlemans handshake with a kind separating of his dough :-).
 
The Hustler Got Hustled

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One weekday I had just opened, and was practicing on the billiard table when this guy walks in. He was over six-foot tall and dressed in painters clothes and walked with a limp. He smelled of cheap wine. He watched me play billiards for a few minutes before he asked if I wanted to play for two dollars a game and loser pays for the time for the table. I told him it was slow now and I could play but if I got busy I would have to quit. He said he understood and we played. I played him two games of a race to fifteen points wins. I beat him both games easy. The score was four to fifteen and six to fifteen. He paid me and paid for our time on the table and thanked me for the games and left.

The next day this same guy came in at about the same time dressed the same and smelling the same asking if I had time to play a few. I said yes. We played two games and again I beat him three to fifteen and six to fifteen.

He came in everyday for the rest of the week and we played with the same result. I didn't see him on the weekend and had forgotten about him by Monday. Sure enough at a little after one in the afternoon on Monday in he comes. He said he had hit the daily double at Belmont Park Saturday for four hundred and sixty dollars. He said he always played the one-two combo in the double and it came in. I followed the horses in the paper so I knew that the one-two had come in like he said and paid four-sixty for a two dollar bet.

He said he was on a lucky streak and would I play him for twenty a game instead of the two dollars we had been playing for. I felt a bit guilty. But said I would. I figured I would beat him for twenty or forty dollars and he would quit and that would end it.

The first game I beat him eleven to fifteen. Before the next game he asked if I would raise the bet to forty a game. I said yes and beat him ten to fifteen. The next two games he won thirteen to fifteen and twelve to fifteen and said he was getting use to the table now. He then asked if I wanted to up the bet to eighty a game. I said why not make it a hundred a game? He agreed and we played five more games with him winning four of them. Then we played another five games and he won four of them.

By now I am a little rattled that I am letting this chump beat me for some serious money. At this point he says today is his last day painting in this area and would not see me for awhile. Thinking I wouldn?t get a chance to get even after today, I say how about making it two hundred a game. I figured he would say no, but he said sure.

We played five more games at two hundred each and he won them all. I said I was broke then.

He then says to me. I will play you for your stick against my three hundred. Well my cue was a nice one, but not worth three hundred to me. In fact I won it in a pool game for payment of fifty-five dollars. I said yes and we played. He won nine to fifteen. I gave him the cue and we
said our good-byes and he left.

About two minutes after he left one of my regular customers came in as I was sitting at the counter licking my wounds. He says, "I hope you didn't play that guy that just left with the limp."
"Why?" I asked.
"Because he was the New England Three Cushion Champion not too many years ago."
What a fool I felt like at that moment. Johnnyt
 
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Some where this happend with some people knowing.:grin-square:

A guy plays like a C or B player. He plays at a new hall where he is unknown for a week or two. He then starts to find everyones speed at this new hall maybe gambling cheap or for drinks.

After knowing who has money and how well certain people play he lets his friend the road player come into town. They set it up The C player shows up first and takes his table. A while later in comes the house cue using road pro. After an hour or so of playing they break even with the c player playing his heart out, it helps if your R.P. can shoot left handed.:eek:

They agree to play some cheap sets and after some very close victorys the C player looses all of them. For safty this is where the C player should leave and never go back!!! The R.P. who is now loud and proud seems to walk himself into trouble with comments like, but not limited to.
I beat the best guy here there isnt anyone else.
No these guys beat cheap no one has money here.
I wanted to go for 50 a set but I didnt want to scare him.

Now the fun starts, as the A players notice this and decide to pick on our poor little C playing left handed chump. LOL

After wards you meet up and take your money back as well as your 30% finders fee. Good times with great friends who happen to be great players.
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The best hustler movie I ever saw was 'The Hustler', with Paul Newman, Jackie Glea...what? He said moves? Hustler moves? I gotta get this hearing-aid fixed.
 
back 10 plus years ago !

When i was really into pool & the whole road thing...I almost got a refrigerated truck & get established seafood routes to different parts the country...me being from South Louisiana...& bring my different road dogs i use to run with & put a seafood company shirt on them as well...The old days when a stranger walked into the room..and i don't care what room or what state...they would always send a pool detective outside to see what plates you had on ur vehicle then start calling around to try and get a fix on you..Can you imagine how much money you coulda made having a real seafood truck & flashing a big bankroll saying you had just delivered a big load of shrimp ? playing da part of just a couple of dumb coon@sses...Wish ida followed thru with the idea back then before the internet & picture cell phones killed the road action...probally would have made more with that hustle than the actual seafood business.



I still think the best..not really a hustle but when 2 road players that don't know each other get to playing each other & both or dogging it & graduately raising the bet till they get in so deep that it's too late to try & lay down that they betting too much now & both are having to play lights out..they both thought they were stealing in the beginning...now they know the other can play too but they don't know if they can beat the other guy now but got to let the stroke out to try and get the money now...hilarious the times when i witnessed it.
 
The best hustle I've ever seen? I probably didn't see it. Meaning, I probably didn't have a clue it was a hustle...
 
I was about 12-14 years old and this guy comes walking in the tavern I grew up in. He brought a case with him the nicest one I had ever seen at the time.

So he asked if he could get a game with anyone. I was the local favorite so I played him...We played for 100 a game. I won the toss I hit him with a 5 pack then I left him staight in (my test)... He walked up to the table and froze dead in place like a statue. Almost five min pass, and I am thinking hey this guy is dead. I start talking to him and he started to vomit all over the table...He fell on the floor, and started having a siezure. I had never seen anything like it his friend came over and got him on his feet and out to the car where they drove off while we all waved them away.

I didn't lose but he did make it out without paying so I figure that I got hustled.
 
pwd72s said:
The best hustle I've ever seen? I probably didn't see it. Meaning, I probably didn't have a clue it was a hustle...
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Yep the best Hustle I ever saw was just that and no one knew any better. But it was Texas Hold-em not pool. The kid was a professional from Vegas but came off like a rich kid with the Golden Horse shoe up his butt. But there was no luck involved just plain talent and no cheating. The kid's Dad is a friend of mine and we were there for the show he put on. First he play stupid and loss big. Then he bought in again and everyone at the table was licking there chops until they went bust. But everyone of them wanted to play him again because his luck couldn't hold out.
 
JamisonNeu said:
I was about 12-14 years old and this guy comes walking in the tavern I grew up in. He brought a case with him the nicest one I had ever seen at the time.

So he asked if he could get a game with anyone. I was the local favorite so I played him...We played for 100 a game. I won the toss I hit him with a 5 pack then I left him staight in (my test)... He walked up to the table and froze dead in place like a statue. Almost five min pass, and I am thinking hey this guy is dead. I start talking to him and he started to vomit all over the table...He fell on the floor, and started having a siezure. I had never seen anything like it his friend came over and got him on his feet and out to the car where they drove off while we all waved them away.

I didn't lose but he did make it out without paying so I figure that I got hustled.
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LOL :eek:

No one leaves without paying! I don't care if a tornado is coming towards the building..
 
i didnt see it, but i heard this story about ronnie allen where he was matched up and his opponent shot for the wrong hole. yet ronnie didnt get a shot at his hole even though the guy was obviously shooting st the wrong hole. so ronnie purposefully shot at the wrong hole, so the guy shot at the wrong hole again, ronnie got a shot and ran out. lol, how is that for using your head??
 
Best hustle move by far I have ever seen is that a guy from the band great white hustled me into being his friend and constantly wiring him a bunch of money and then when I asked for a little bit of it back so that I could live because I fell on hard times, he quit talking to me and refuses to even return snail mail, email, phone calls, posts, etc.

Great job Mark Kendall you are the ultimate hustler.
 
u12armresl said:
Best hustle move by far I have ever seen is that a guy from the band great white hustled me into being his friend and constantly wiring him a bunch of money and then when I asked for a little bit of it back so that I could live because I fell on hard times, he quit talking to me and refuses to even return snail mail, email, phone calls, posts, etc.

Great job Mark Kendall you are the ultimate hustler.
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Bad beat for sure.
 
u12armresl said:
Best hustle move by far I have ever seen is that a guy from the band great white hustled me into being his friend and constantly wiring him a bunch of money and then when I asked for a little bit of it back so that I could live because I fell on hard times, he quit talking to me and refuses to even return snail mail, email, phone calls, posts, etc.

Great job Mark Kendall you are the ultimate hustler.
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Didnt he, or another guy from the band post on here?
 
Hi Charlie,

markgw = mark kendall so ya he posts here, I've called him out to play a game that he told me I had forever he just crawfishes away. I find a post generated by him on hustling is funny.
 
enzo said:
i didnt see it, but i heard this story about ronnie allen where he was matched up and his opponent shot for the wrong hole. yet ronnie didnt get a shot at his hole even though the guy was obviously shooting st the wrong hole. so ronnie purposefully shot at the wrong hole, so the guy shot at the wrong hole again, ronnie got a shot and ran out. lol, how is that for using your head??
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Thats funny , wonder how many games they played like that:smile:. Kind of like the guy in football who intercepted a pass and ran toward his own goal.
 
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