Pool hustling
Pool hustling is generally defined as the art of playing pool for money, often times using deception. A pool hustler will often disguise their skill, pretending to be a worse player than they actually are. They may intentionally lose games to lure someone into gambling with them, as a form of confidence trick. Many of the top players in pool hustled pool at one time or another. Few players were ever able to turn pool hustling into a full time career. Most gave exhibitions, taught lessons, played in tournaments, or even had to get a non pool related job to survive. Pool hustling was the subject of the films The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986).
Books on real life hustlers McGoorty, by Robert Byrne, ISBN 1894963121 Playing off the Rail, David McCumber, ISBN 0380729237
|
|
