douglas
Your to late, at his wake I went up to view the deceased and say a quick prayer at which time I slipped a $900 check out of sight inside the casket.
wil..
hno:
PS. I don't mean to be irreverent, that is a punchline from an old golf joke. The bookie was like a mentor to me as I worked for him as a gopher for a year or so when I came home from the service and learned a lot about being a local.
He had maybe 50 players, was old and never left his house much so he kept me very busy. I should have never started betting with him but I was around 22 and you couldn't tell me anything.
He had bad emphysema (which he died of) and one of my jobs was to get one of his rotating oxygen tanks refilled every week so he always had a back-up. I missed him a lot at the time, $900 notwithstanding. He lived quite a long and colorful life.
Your to late, at his wake I went up to view the deceased and say a quick prayer at which time I slipped a $900 check out of sight inside the casket.
wil..
hno:PS. I don't mean to be irreverent, that is a punchline from an old golf joke. The bookie was like a mentor to me as I worked for him as a gopher for a year or so when I came home from the service and learned a lot about being a local.
He had maybe 50 players, was old and never left his house much so he kept me very busy. I should have never started betting with him but I was around 22 and you couldn't tell me anything.
He had bad emphysema (which he died of) and one of my jobs was to get one of his rotating oxygen tanks refilled every week so he always had a back-up. I missed him a lot at the time, $900 notwithstanding. He lived quite a long and colorful life.
Your to late, at his wake I went up to view the deceased and say a quick prayer at which time I slipped a $900 check out of sight inside the casket.
wil..
PS. I don't mean to be irreverent, that is a punchline from an old golf joke. The bookie was like a mentor to me as I worked for him as a gopher for a year or so when I came home from the service and learned a lot about being a local.
He had maybe 50 players, was old and never left his house much so he kept me very busy. I should have never started betting with him but I was around 22 and you couldn't tell me anything.
He had bad emphysema (which he died of) and one of my jobs was to get one of his rotating oxygen tanks refilled every week so he always had a back-up. I missed him a lot at the time, $900 notwithstanding. He lived quite a long and colorful life.
Knew many like this in the days of rotary phones an busy signals ......
The all seem to have coffee cans full of cash ............literally
I hear that, ive had some long nights with those scammed things. Im in college, and honestly if I wanted to I would have no fear in telling him to go fuck himself for it im just not like that. Instead I was just like listen, paydays a week from today, ill give you a G right now and we call it even. He didnt want to at first but ended up doing it.
This year I was down about a grand after saying I would never do it again, and somehow the big guy upstairs let me win it all back that night to the point where I was up 50 bucks. It was 5 am needless to say I shut the computer right away lol.
We're NOT The Only "Stiffers"
@ least twice I've had a book "go south". Once not for much$$, but the other time over 4 dimes. My fault for playing w/one I didn't know personaly. The guy that screwed me for the bigger amount left Mpls owing in the neighborhood of 100K! I later found this out, needless to say a few bad ass guys were looking for him. Over 25 yrs ago, never heard what if anything happened to him. It's stories like this that make some players have "fuck him if he can"t take a joke" type attitude. Haven't nor will I played w/a "local" for over 10 yrs. IF OS gets shut down, I'll just quit. At my age not as big a deal anymore!:toast:
@ least twice I've had a book "go south". Once not for much$$, but the other time over 4 dimes. My fault for playing w/one I didn't know personaly. The guy that screwed me for the bigger amount left Mpls owing in the neighborhood of 100K! I later found this out, needless to say a few bad ass guys were looking for him. Over 25 yrs ago, never heard what if anything happened to him. It's stories like this that make some players have "fuck him if he can"t take a joke" type attitude. Haven't nor will I played w/a "local" for over 10 yrs. IF OS gets shut down, I'll just quit. At my age not as big a deal anymore!:toast:
i used to play offshore or up in vegas. so i got hooked up with an agent for close to a year who collects on a about 50 people in my area. i've slow paid a few weeks but never stiffed. this guy always pays when i win like clockwork.
my account resets every monday so i have a chance to get buried all over again lol!
on another note, on tips when you guys win, whats a normal amount to tip lets say winning 5k to your agent?
my account resets every monday so i have a chance to get buried all over again lol!
on another note, on tips when you guys win, whats a normal amount to tip lets say winning 5k to your agent?
on another note, my agent is about 80 years old but he tells me the guys that don't want to work payment plans with him and flat tell him they don't want to pay for whatever reasons, he sends out the big guys to do the work. told me about a finance manager at a car dealership, the big guys went in and broke his legs right in the middle of the showroom and after that the finance manager called the agent to work out a payment plan.
i almost wanted to call bs on the story but figured i'd just pay my bill and not find out lol!
i almost wanted to call bs on the story but figured i'd just pay my bill and not find out lol!
Is he an Agent ? or Runner ??
Because it's really hard to say.....an Agent could be booking the whole thing himself, or he could have a Half Sheet.
a Runner....Could or Should be getting 25% of His own players
I'll tell you one thing, Not too many like yourelf...thinking on Tipping
I guess if you wanted, you can throw the guy $200-$300
Believe me, it doesn't sound like Much.....But They Don't get Tipped too much either !!
