Who Knew Benjamin Franklin Was Such a Funny Guy

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There is a story "circulating" here of a player who recently passed through town a couple of times and payed off at least one loss in counterfeit monies. That's probably not something most of us think or worry about, though a few years ago a phony $100 showed up in my bankroll after playing a well-known Russian immigrant. Just wondering if anyone has any pool related "funny money" stories.

Lou Figueroa
 
lfigueroa said:
There is a story "circulating" here of a player who recently passed through town a couple of times and payed off at least one loss in counterfeit monies. That's probably not something most of us think or worry about, though a few years ago a phony $100 showed up in my bankroll after playing a well-known Russian immigrant. Just wondering if anyone has any pool related "funny money" stories.

Lou Figueroa
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1990 or so, friday afternoon, heading home. stopped at a small bowling alley/pool room in eastern ky.a friend was playing a young guy who had(supposedly) won a bunch of money playing poker. $200 8ball games ended up being $2700 worth of funny money for my friend.
apparently a pool room on the ky/wv border had a great copier but not great lawyers. the guy came back to my friend the next day and told my friend he had to get the money back; it wasn't any good. "Too late", my friend said. he had already deposited it. guy passing the money went to federal prison.
 
lfigueroa said:
There is a story "circulating" here of a player who recently passed through town a couple of times and payed off at least one loss in counterfeit monies. That's probably not something most of us think or worry about, though a few years ago a phony $100 showed up in my bankroll after playing a well-known Russian immigrant. Just wondering if anyone has any pool related "funny money" stories.

Lou Figueroa
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I don't have a money story, but I have a Benjamin Franklin story. I just found out last night, doing an ancestry search, that my great-great grandfather from my biological mother's side was from Boone, Wilkes County, North Carolina, was named Benjamin Franklin as his first and second name. He was a confederate private in the Civil War, 58th Regiment.

Names were so differenet back then. My grandfather's real first two names were Ambrose Filmore.

Interestingly, when I was on the road playing pool with Geese in the '80s, we ended up driving this very steep mountian in North Carolina to Boone in North Carolina. The transmisison in Geese's car was grinding up that mountain. I'm not sure why I wanted to go there, but something was pulling me in that direction. I loved that little town, and they had a small pool room, which was more like a recreation center. The people were so friendly, and as it turns out, many of my ancestors lived there and I never knew it. :)
 
I have received funny money in Vegas from cab drivers. I now carry a lot of $1s, 5s and 10s to give cabbys so they give me change. Be ware of those cabbys in Vegas.
 
Saw funny money and was expecting to see Bill Murray :)

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At the Ultimate Ten Ball Championships in 2011 in Frisco the organizer accepted cash for entry fees. He wound up with over $500 in counterfeit money that he had to make up out of his pocket. At the next UTBC no cash was accepted for entry fees.

Selfish, crooked folk do not consider that when they crap the bed the problem lingers long after they have dressed and left.
 
I got a phony 100 from a pool player in queens- I still have it-waiting for a chance to give it back to him

and i dont see how a bank would accept 27 phony 100's that were "bad" and btw for those not thinking straight a bank will not make you whole on a bad bill..They take them from you, stamp them 'counterfeit' and that's that. You may then receive a follow up visit you dont wan't.
 
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The closest thing that ever happened to me with fake money was in Eastern Colorado in this tiny pool room. I had matched up with a guy who wanted to flip for the break, he said he had a quarter in his pocket and when he flipped it it was really a nickle.

After that I did not trust him.:embarrassed2:
 
Jerry Forsyth said:
At the Ultimate Ten Ball Championships in 2011 in Frisco the organizer accepted cash for entry fees. He wound up with over $500 in counterfeit money that he had to make up out of his pocket. At the next UTBC no cash was accepted for entry fees.

Selfish, crooked folk do not consider that when they crap the bed the problem lingers long after they have dressed and left.
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I've heard of lots of ridiculous behavior by players at major events, but this takes the cake. It's a miracle that anyone is left promoting pro events.:angry:
 
Jason Koopman said:
I've heard of lots of ridiculous behavior by players at major events, but this takes the cake. It's a miracle that anyone is left promoting pro events.:angry:
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Hookers-new ones- get phony hundreds all the time. In fact The Westies gang went down based on the boss-Mickey Featherstone dropping one on a Hooker/Madam who wasn't new. Investigation and curtains for the gang.

So now we know the second best place to drop'm. :smile:

PS-The past tense of 'pay' is 'paid'. :) (not meant for you JK)
 
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In 1973, I beat the owner of the Gulfport, MS pool hall out of several hundred dollars in his brother's bar in Biloxi, MS.

When he ran out of money, he went into the backroom of the bar and came out with a sandwich-size brown paper bag full of jewelry and wanted to use that against my cash to continue playing. I told him I didn't know a 10-cent ring from the Bob Hope diamond and I wasn't playing for anything but MONEY. He got some money from his buddies somehow and we continued playing until I won all that too. We started playing at around 8 PM on a Friday night and didn't stop until after 6 AM Saturday morning.

THEN the fight started...him and 2 or 3 of his buddies started kicking my ass for winning. I made a mad dash for the door and got away without serious injury but I had to leave a couple hundred dollars laying on my table with my cigarettes when I had to haul ass.
 
Nostroke said:
Hookers-new ones- get phony hundreds all the time. In fact The Westies gang went down based on the boss-Mickey Featherstone dropping one on a Hooker/Madam who wasn't new. Investigation and curtains for the gang.

So now we know the second best place to drop'm. :smile:

PS-The past tense of 'pay' is 'paid'. :) (not meant for you JK)
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Feel free to start a new thread elaborating on this. All ya have to do is say someone had a pool cue to make it main forum eligible. You're such a tease nostroke!
 
sjm said:
Actually, Ben Franklin was a celebrated humorist.
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Benjie did this prop bet as a result of being down 3 sets. Documented fact. He said: "For a hundo, I'll go outside in this lightning storm, fly a kite with some metal and I betcha I can power up the juke box for a week". The Supremes got their exposure from that. The rest is history.
 
Not really pool related but, I used to work part time in a friends Pawn Shop.

A lady came in to pay her bill, pulled a large wad of cash out and went to great length to shuffle thru all the bills to come up with a certain 100 dollar bill.

We had a black light under the counter that would show up the water spots. They weren't right at all.

In Canada, they started using a small gold type of stamp on bills. Real bills and you couldn't scrape them off. Phoney bills and you could scrape em off with your finger nail like a scratch and win ticket.

I showed her by scraping off a bit with my nail. To keep her from trying to pass it off on another person, I then scraped the entire stamp off. I could see in her eyes that she didn't like it that much. Too FKin bad.

She went out of her way to pick that certain bill and that set off my radar. Pawn shop employees aren't totally stupid. There are all types of scams out there.

She told me that she had received it from a bank that cashed her check. I told her that she had better take it back to the bank then and they would give her the money for it.
 
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Benjie did this prop bet as a result of being down 3 sets. Documented fact. He said: "For a hundo, I'll go outside in this lightning storm, fly a kite with some metal and I betcha I can power up the juke box for a week". The Supremes got their exposure from that. The rest is history.
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Larry Ross was backing him. :)
 
Blue Hog ridr;4514692 She told me that she had received it from a bank that cashed her check. I told her that she had better take it back to the bank then and they would give her the money for it.[/QUOTE said:
Hey BHR-I hope you were kidding her though. I cant imagine any bank anywhere making good on a phony. You'd have guys running fresh printed bills in there exchanging them for good ones all day :smile:

My dad took one to the bank here in the US-They stamped it 'counterfeit' and just took it. Period. Now they will try to refuse taking one at all and ask you for another bill. Dont argue. The ones they get in the night deposits? You'll get a note about that and no credit last i knew anyway.
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