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Here's a story from my youth..and ..
Posted By: neilkaz In Response To: Stick, do you have 43U43 rolled out? (Stick)
Date: Saturday, 23 August 2008, at 6:38 p.m.
I've seen Stick or someone post this rollout and 8/5x 24/20 is best and superior to fighting for both 4 pts. Double hitting is too loose noting it breaks the 8 pt.
Anyhow...nearly 30 years ago an older friend of mine who owned the place where we used to play T's in RI was pissed off to be continually losing to a guy he used to play at some other bar/club. He suggested that I show up there and teach this guy a lesson and told me that the guy almost always stops in after work for a couple drinks and a couple hours of BG. I asked what stake, and my friend said 5's or 10's. Noting that I usually played for 2's or 3's back then and was a poor college student, I asked my friend if he wanted a piece of that action, but he said, "nope..all I want to hear about is you teaching him a lesson.. he think's he's really hot shit at BG..and will be flabbergasted to lose to a "kid" like you."
OK so I get there a bit early, order my usual Molson in those days and set up a board and play a couple games for 1's with some random guy while mentioning that I was looking for higher stakes. Nice of the guy to tell me that my "mark" would play for 5's or 10's and was likely to drop in soon. OK "Mark" shows up and we agree to play for 10's rather than 5's once I showed him that I had about $600 so he wasn't worried that I'd stiff him if he destroyed me as he expected to. I win slowly but steadily and he is starting to steam more and more with the cube and is down 32 pts in about 2.5 hours.
He opens with 43U and I respond with 43 and couldn't resist hitting both which draws the cube from steamer, which I promptly Beaver. (Raccoons were unheard of them in my circles, not that it would have stopped my Beaver) "Mark" dances with boxes and I, while it is a big error especially vs a steamer send the cube back at 8 (hoping for some huge action..and to really steam him). He takes and I cover both and he dances again and I fill my 3 pt with nickels and G him hopelessly. I'm now up 48 pts and as I'm scoring my opp reaches into his pocket for his wallet and says "that's enough, you're way too good for me, here's half..$240 take it or leave it." Well I still am rather naive, but back then I could realize that I'd best thank him, take the $240, pack up my board and get into my '70 LeMans and drive home. $240 was good money to a college kid in 1980.
My opp then says, "blank (my friend) set me up didn't he ?" I replied, he told me that there were guys here who'll play for 5's and 10's since I told him I was looking for bigger action. ..opp replied.."yeah ..he set me up..I knew it" at which point with his $240 in my wallet and my board packed up I was quickly out the door and into my car.
A couple days later, at our next T, my friend asks me, "how did you do ?" to which I replied I clobbered him for 48 pts and then he quit. "Dimes, my friend asked"..nope "just nickels I replied.." knowing enough to leave well enough alone." Great that you taught the cocky jackass that he isn't God's gift to BG, Neil, your drinks and dinner are on the house tonite !".
It was fun being a kid at BG 30 years ago when almost no one knew how to really play ... neilkaz
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