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Do pool hustlers still exist in 2018?

or has this gone the way of the skinny American?
frum national security agency
  09/21/18
my uncle was a snooker hustler in the 70s/80s. of course thi...
Vigorous Stag Film Immigrant
  09/21/18
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Purple thirsty locus rigpig
  09/21/18
Paul Newman and Uncle Phil led me to believe it was a viable...
frum national security agency
  09/21/18
It's like a pyramid scheme. All the money flows up. If the #...
glittery maroon trailer park
  09/21/18
Well, it all comes from social mores that were a lot looser ...
Vigorous Stag Film Immigrant
  09/21/18
yeah, it would be hard as hell to hustle a hipster in a bar ...
frum national security agency
  09/21/18
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Purple thirsty locus rigpig
  09/21/18
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Purple thirsty locus rigpig
  09/21/18


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Date: September 21st, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: frum national security agency

or has this gone the way of the skinny American?

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Date: September 21st, 2018 1:16 AM
Author: Vigorous Stag Film Immigrant

my uncle was a snooker hustler in the 70s/80s. of course this doesn't answer your question but I just felt like throwing it out there.

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Date: September 21st, 2018 1:16 AM
Author: Purple thirsty locus rigpig



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Date: September 21st, 2018 1:18 AM
Author: frum national security agency

Paul Newman and Uncle Phil led me to believe it was a viable career path as recently as the 90s, but pool hustling seems to have completely vanished from the public consciousness

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Date: September 21st, 2018 1:20 AM
Author: glittery maroon trailer park

It's like a pyramid scheme. All the money flows up. If the # of total pool players went down then the # of guys making it a career will shrink too.

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Date: September 21st, 2018 1:22 AM
Author: Vigorous Stag Film Immigrant

Well, it all comes from social mores that were a lot looser than what we have now. People have become really uptight, guarded, risk averse and just not very trustful in the past few decades. A whole constellation of (what are in hindsight related) behaviours have faded, like hitchhiking, haggling, door to door sales, etc. I think pool hustling is in that category. It's just not in the nature of the 21st century man to randomly start negotiating with strangers.

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Date: September 21st, 2018 1:24 AM
Author: frum national security agency

yeah, it would be hard as hell to hustle a hipster in a bar today, you have to go online and sell him artisanal deodorant and ETH

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082871&forum_id=2#36854880)



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Date: September 21st, 2018 1:25 AM
Author: Purple thirsty locus rigpig



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Date: September 21st, 2018 1:25 AM
Author: Purple thirsty locus rigpig



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