Ask me about hustling dummies at the pool table and other forms of gambling

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manyak: Jan 26, 2006

Captain Monkey posted:

i dunno, whats the point of coming into a thread that's full of obvious bullshit that doesn't even hang together and begging for more stories?

its almost like this forum is for discussion, and we're both participating just from different sides.........

You dont know what youre talking about at all but you cant stop posting about how fake the thread is lol. Why dont you tell us all the dead giveaways that its fake so that we can discuss them in the discussion forum (your last attempt was to laugh off the idea of the cops investigating a robbery at a home poker game, something which happens all the time)

The OP has been posting in the voice of a guy who knows a decent amount about poker, billiards, sportsbooking, prop betting etc, posting about lines and posting his bet slips, and so on, for like 8 years so its pretty easy to believe the stories are real, if exaggerated

If youre incredulous about the entire concept of a guy gambling a few hundred bucks in a night, you probably havent spent any time at a casino, pool hall, poker room, sports event, race track, anywhere people are drinking and have money,

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manyak: Jan 26, 2006

Captain Monkey posted:

I dunno, I guess I'd rather just watch Rounders. Plus it's kind of fun to see just how gullible goons can be.

For every gullible person on the internet theres like 20 nerds who have to show everyone how smart they are by 'calling bullshit' on everything even though no one cares

You also dont know anything about this stuff so you should just chill and take your hardened Gamer Skepticism to the reddit thread or whatever

# ¿ May 29, 2016 17:35

manyak: Jan 26, 2006

Captain Monkey posted:

I dunno, I played pool and poker and such for a number of years, and while I have a story or two that are pared down (read: realistic) versions of a couple of the stories, the sheer volume and the over-the-top nature of some of the stories just makes them seem really childishly ~*cool dude*~.

I realize that for people like Earwicker who haven't ever played pool in a pool hall or been to a poker game (illegal or not!!! some home games are illegal bro!), it's cool to think that there's a REAL LIFE poker-and-pool master version of Saul Goodman wheelin' around out there. But that just doesn't really happen. Life is a lot less wacky than that. Sorry.

That said, if you don't like my posts, they are easy to scroll past, and there is an ignore button too (just for your future reference, in case you ever have your feelings hurt by a big meanie poster again) I figured you'd be aware of it, considering your experience with the forums, but since you didn't seem to be, maybe you can take something positive from this experience and learn something new, aside from the fact that these stories are p. badly done.

I'll let you guys go back to fellating this dude for transcribing every old drunk dude in a pool hall's stories about how cool they are onto the forums for you though.

Your superior, cool-guy attitude in this post is more transparently fiction than anything the op has posted

# ¿ May 30, 2016 20:05

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