[Penguinfan]

Canada Bill Jones if memory serves.

As far as hustling someone goes all I can tell you is I have played with/for some of the best pool players this area has to offer (which is not Vegas standard by any stretch) and the key to continue getting a players money is to never give him any clue he is being hustled. He has to leave thinking he just got unlucky or one shot would have changed things. I have heard guys paying out big bets to friends/partners of mine while saying something on the lines of "If I had made that 7 ball you would be paying me".

Thats the beautiful part, they think one shot cost them the race when in reality they never had a shot, none, period.

I was at CJ Wileys bar in Dallas a few years back (several actually) and saw the worst/best hustle ever. This guy was playing horribly hoping to get action from another guy, I mean he was bouncing balls off the table in an obvious display if incompetence to get action. Well, the guy he thought he was hustling agreed to play with him and the original guy just played his absolute solid best game he could play and worked the guy over and took his cash. What was really going on was the second guy just used that as set of games to size up his competition.
When he offered to play the guy again for 10 times the original bet the first guy though he found the sucker of all suckers when in reality it was him who was the sucker.

I know thats not what you asked about, but think about it before you get in too deep in a game you think your a lock, "The balls roll funny for everyone now and then"