Billiard and Pool Wagers

Pool Fishing Provides Winning Path

He’s a hungry fish. He’s gonna bite. Give him time to feel out the situation before he commits himself to the inevitable. This will make him more comfortable and then easier to reel in.

Let’s say that he gets real comfortable and offers to play you a race to seven for fifty bucks, heads up. For shits and giggles tell him it’s too steep for you. I guarantee you he’ll offer you the eight for your trouble, possibly the seven depending on how bad he wants your money. The spot should be the other way around, but he doesn’t know that.

Congratulations, you just made fifty bucks. For set two, he wants to play you straight up for a hundred (getting his original $50 back, plus the $50 he planned on winning the last set). Reel him in! Without doing anything fancy, beat him. Chances are, that’s all he has in his pocket.

Now remember, that you were just minding your own business when HE approached YOU. I’m not going to feel bad about that, and neither should you. I’m not going to lose any sleep over it either, Now the other guys in the room are watching all of this. The Pond Scum will eventually try to bankroll him to try and get him out of the hole, but that’s okay, we want that to happen. More on that later, just concentrate on keeping the sucker in check. You have just won the sucker’s money, and the Pond Scum knows that.

Now, remember I told you that when scouting the room you need to know "how the room works" so that you can "work the room"? I told you to find out HOW and HOW MUCH money changes hands. This is where that becomes important. That information is going to tell you when to stop with the little fish. There is a magical amount of money that I call the "lure". This "lure" attracts the Big Fish over to your table. Let’s say that you’ve just won $250 off of the sucker who gave you the spot. That’s $250 that the Big Fish was hoping to win, but you got to it first. Well, don’t kid yourself, he still wants it. This is where you want to wave it under his nose while at the same time keeping him clueless. All we do is repeat the process. Let the Big Fish approach you.

More than likely, the Pond Scum is bankrolling him too, so the possibilities are endless. You want the guy to be begging you for a game. If he offers you a spot, by all means take it. If he doesn’t offer you the spot, don’t press for it. You don’t want to sound stupid, but you don’t want to sound too smart either.

If you are a visiting player from out of town, he’ll be wanting to defend his territory and he’ll want to start out big for starters, hoping to scare you away. Whatever he offers you, DON’T BACK DOWN!!! This is the guy you wanted all along. The Pondscum is more likely to bankroll the Big Fish down to their last dime, and if we walk away from this guy we get none of it. That’s brings us to Blackjack’s fifth rule of fishin’: Never forget who is reeling in who.