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	YouTube - Johnston City Pool Hustling
		Fatts was ok, but the truth is he was more of a personality than he was a pool player.
		Those were the golden years when pool was displayed in all its glory!
		TV Feature of Johnston City, Illinois in 1972, where pool hustlers used to meet yearly before the authorities raided the event.
	www.youtube.com /?v=ekyLXFehvvk (318 words)

	Billiards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In eight-ball, straight pool, and related games, sixteen balls are employed: fifteen colored "object balls" and one white "cue ball." In most parts of the world, object balls 1 through 7 are solid-colored, and are respectively colored yellow, blue, red, purple, orange, green, and dark red or brown.
		Pool halls tend to have 9-foot tables and cater to the serious pool player.
		Circular pool — played by the crew, and even a robot, on the starship in the film Silent Running; the table was circular, with a single pocket in the center of the table, and played with normal pool balls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billiards (3152 words)

	Hustling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone into gambling with them, as a form of confidence trick.
		It is most commonly associated with billiards (pool) but also can be performed with other sports and games.
		Pool hustling was the subject of the films The Hustler (1961), The Color of Money (1986) (both adapted from novels by Walter Tevis) and Poolhall Junkies (2002).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pool_hustling (214 words)

	Billiards
		Most pool tables are known as 7-, 8-, or 9-footers, referring to the length of the each long side.
		Spin is not always placed on the cue ball by the shooter; spin is naturally imparted to the cue ball from contact with pool cloth on the bed of the table and on the table's rails.
		Whenever a pool ball is struck with any degree of english, and with a cue that is not perfectly level, a curve results.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/billiards.html (5115 words)

	Pool - 999 Pool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some balls used in televised pool games are colored differently to make them distinguishable on the images of the television screen.
		The length of the pool table will typically be a function of space, with many homeowners going for an 8 foot table as a compromise.
		For example, in many pool games you cannot shoot into a ball which is in contact with a rail when playing a safety.
	www.999pool.com /news (3133 words)

	Electric Playground
		Pool room physics are of the simplest, straight line, energy transfer sort.
		In the story mode, you begin playing in the popular pool halls of the city and by winning make a name for yourself and move on to better pool halls where the better hustlers play.
		Players may learn a new game or two to use at their local pool hall and get a better understanding of the rules of billiards than they had before.
	www.elecplay.com /reviews_article.php?article=101 (1199 words)

	Articles - Billiards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A rack is the name given to a frame (usually wood or plastic) used to organize billiard balls at the beginning of a game.
		The cloth of the billiard table is typically green reflecting its origin (and thus the name of the pool movie ´´The Color of Money´´--adapted from the Walter Tevis novel of the same name--referring to the color of American currency notes).
		As stated by George Fels, ´pool´s poet laureate´: "The mere pocketing of a ball isn´t that hard; in fact, it´s relatively simple.
	www.bowling-balls.net /articles/Billiards (4945 words)

	POOL HUSTLER - Review - ABSOLUTE PLAYSTATION
		Pool Hustler is about as realistic as a game could be regarding the seldom heard of sleazy world of pool hustling.
		Your goal is to hustle all comers, advancing from each city to become the ultimate pool shark.
		Pool Hustler is a simulated pool game using realistic geometry to hustle each player out of his or her money.
	www.absolute-playstation.com /api_review/rpoolh.htm (886 words)

	physics - Billiards
		High quality pool cues are generally two pieces and are made of a hardwood, typically maple for billiards and ash for snooker.
		Cheap pool cues are generally one piece cues made of aluminum or wood with inferior tips of various materials.
		Meucci Archive - An archive of photos of pool cues made by Meucci, a renown cue manufacturer, from the last thirty years.
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Billiards (2607 words)

	Pool Cues, Pool Cue Cases, Billiard Supplies ::
		Pool for me is fun.When you put money in the picture it isn't fun anymore....It's work.
		That will never happen as long as we glorify the gambling aspect of pool, which is what reporting on it does, regardless of the intent of the writer.
		Reporting on gambling simply reinforces the sterotype of pool, which is that we're drinking, smoking, cussing, gambling degenerates who hustle kids and grandmothers for money.
	www.insidepool.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=21&POSTNUKESID=791b42063eeb8eb0129482ffe83e9907 (1582 words)

	The BEATRICE Interview: 1996
		Playing Off the Rail is the story of that hustle, which took them from one end of the country to the other, in a world where men have names like Bucktooth and Cornbread Red, bond with each other by swapping insults, and take their billiards seriously.
		The thing about pool hustling, if you're good enough at it, is that whatever else you're doing, you know that it's always an alternative.
		Pool is something of a Never-Never Land, and it's very addicting.
	www.beatrice.com /interviews/mccumber (1323 words)

	Poolhall Junkies (2003) - Page 6
		The depth of the Johnny character is rooted in his desire to leave the shady world of cons and hustles, yet one moment he is delivering a laughable teary-eyed speech about how he never wanted to be a hustler, and the next he is gleefully hustling another victim.
		A familiar tale of a down-on-his-luck pool hustler coming back against great odds to protect a family member and at the same time, fulfill his dreams, is so cliche and overdone, Paul Newman must be smirking at this latest tired endeavor by Mars Callahan.
		Pool is a game that is associated with hustlers, booze and dank, smoky pool halls, and Poolhall Junkies embraces that ideal.
	www.ldsfilm.com /movies/PoolhallJunkies6.html (11366 words)

	Hustler, the SFW kind \| MetaFilter
		There seemed to be a pool renaissance around here a decade ago, and while some of the new places born during that renaissance have closed, a lot are still open.
		There is a pool table and dartboard too, but 95% of the people are glued to the boardgames of their childhood.
		Pool is a fascinating game of extremely high skill and many a casual player has crossed the line into addiction.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/46585 (3287 words)

	THE FRIENDLY GAME OF POOL - Another Billiards Story by Ace Toscano
		Unlike the pool rooms where I had grown up, where everybody, regardless of their skill level, was looking to play somebody for something, people frequenting Michelangelo's were, for the most part, afraid to death of gambling.
		I suspect that somewhere along the line someone took Marty aside and told him that he didn't have a chance of beating me and that I was hustling him, blah blah blah, because all of a sudden he stopped coming around.
		Pool playing choke artists with a lot of dough are quite a lure down here in Florida, especially in Pikkahuassa County.
	home.earthlink.net /~acetoscano/friendlygame.html (3089 words)

	Here it is, go ahead and sue me:
		The game was nine ball, and his shot verged on the impossible: a 90-degree "cut" to hit the 1 ball into the corner pocket, as the cue ball hugged the opposing rail.
		Then he would walk into the campus pool hall and deliberately fumble a stash of hundreds as he tried to buy a Coke from the vending machine, provoking taunts and giggles.
		Name a pool hall, and he knows not only the names of the money players there but also the order in which to play them.
	myweb.cableone.net /fargopage/danny.htm (5421 words)

	The Hustle: Detroit Streets (Xbox)
		Let’s face the facts folks, the thought of manipulating a pool cue around a billiards table with the use of an Xbox controller is probably about as exciting an idea as sitting through an all day Ben Stein marathon.
		The game features nine different pool halls including two, the alleyway and the storeroom, that are exclusive to the console version of the game.
		There’s still the generic pool cue that can be manipulated and contorted around the table to line up the perfect shot with the use of the usual targeting system that maps out the path of the cue ball as well as the trajectory of the ball.
	previews.teamxbox.com /xbox/1293/The-Hustle-Detroit-Streets/p1 (849 words)

	How to Hustle in Pool - eHow.com
		Being able to choose the right person to hustle is a big part of the hustle itself.
		I learned about a hustle (original from golf stories) that is always fun and usually pays well.
		A great hustle is to allow your mark the opportunity to take 3 of their balls off the table after your break.
	www.ehow.com /how_16485_hustle-pool.html (458 words)

	No Compromise - Pool Hall Junkies
		Pool hustling isn't everything it used to be, but Joe (Chazz Palminteri) a shady pool hustler well-past his prime, is obsessed with the game and is willing to use anyone to get what he wants - especially his young protégé Johnny (Mars Callahan).
		Central to the pool hall is his younger brother Danny (Michael Rosenbaum) who, along with an entourage of good-for-laughs-die-for-you best friends, is attempting to follow in Johnny's footsteps.
		In real life Mars Callahan is an accomplished pool player who met co-writer Chris Corso in a pool hall where each was trying to, hustle the other.
	www.onthebreaknews.com /PoolHallJunkies2.htm (1958 words)

	IGN: GameCube Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Most pool games failed to provide all the possibilities that pros take for granted on actual tables.
		Pool Paradise takes the familiar concept of pool hustling and moves it to a deserted island.
		Everything, from the pool hut to the undersea loan shark's office, is stylish.
	rr.cube.ign.com /rr/655828/045/045595.html (733 words)

	Poolhall Junkies - DVD Movie Central
		Watching it, I found myself being seduced by the art of pool hustling, which I can tell you is a seriously dangerous and tricky game.
		Poolhall Junkies achieves is a high level of entertaining and intriguing insight into the maneuvering of pool hustling.
		The many sequences of eight ball pool, in addition to the impressive usage of retro songs, most notably The Payback, which is played twice (can’t get enough of that song!), are indeed the high points of this impressive audio transfer.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/poolhall_junkies.htm (785 words)

	The Hustler Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Grudges were held, but this was his comeback film, his triumphant return, so it's no wonder that winning and losing — or trying to understand what it means to be a winner or a loser — emerges as a predominant theme.
		The Hustler follows the rise and fall (or, the fall and rise) of a billiard player who makes his living by "hustling" in pool halls across the country with the help of his friend and manager (Myron McCormick).
		Perhaps he's too young to remember, but there was a rise in billiard interest, and people normally content to pull a cue stick off the wall were suddenly bringing their own sticks to billiard parlors, in hustler-cases.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=592 (1552 words)

	poolhalljunkies
		It's about pool hustlers, one of whom has the talent but feels unlucky because he can't get a break in life.
		After 15 years go by and Johnny is a pool hustler and not a pro, he gets wind of how Joe screwed him and always manipulated him to do whatever he wanted.
		He soon reneges on his promise to give up pool hustling, as he attends Tara's law firm party and gets into a big money pool game with her law firm boss Phil Stein.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/poolhalljunkies.htm (913 words)

	ConsoleCity.com \|\| Playstation - Pool Hustler (USC)
		Join them at their risky games, haunting the city and hustling at table after table-gaining money, skill, and underground status as you scheme to become the ultimate pool shark.
		It is a true-life sim set in the gritty gambling world of pool hustling.
		Pool Hustler allows the player to challenge and hustle a series of competitors to earn money and reputation as a pool shark champion.
	www.consolecity.com /games.php?action=game_info&game_id=2704 (162 words)

	SeriousPoker.com Book Reviews
		When you buy a book subtitled, "A Pool Hustler's Journey," you can reasonably expect to get some sort of insight into the sleazy underworld of pool hustling, and the lowlife lifestyle in general.
		The author staked a pool hustler to several months of pool and travel, and lugged his laptop around documenting everything they did.
		He feels obligated to document every pool stop in detail, even if nothing all that interesting happens.
	www.seriouspoker.com /reviews/0014.html (410 words)

	Yardley News - "How to Tip a Pool Cue" -- Lower Makefield author pens layman's guide
		In what may be the first book of its kind, "How to Tip a Pool Cue: The Laymen's Guide," Macioge covers in 114 pages and 100 pictures and illustrations everything from the fine art of how to properly chalk a cue tip to a half-dozen ways to replace it.
		That done, he's at last taken the mystery out of billiards in his book, clearing the smoke and misinformation from the smoky pool halls for the layman, novice and even the hustling pool shark.
		First off, it was more than hanging out in pool halls in his high school and college years, although "when you play pool from the time you're in high school and college and then in the military, you pick up a lot of things in a pool hall.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1683&dept_id=40873&newsid=10881645&PAG=461&rfi=9 (1258 words)

	Guide to The Bee: Book Club
		Through the window was a pool table with a surface as flat and green as the Indiana farm fields she ran through as a kid.
		The game of pool is in some ways like those women -- it's hard and you can't rush your understanding of it.
		Using pool as a framework for a novel also makes sense, he says, by allowing a writer to "take a sprawling subject like life and put it within boundaries where you can make sense of everything."
	www.sacbee.com /static/live/guide/book_club/kimmel_feature.html (1411 words)

	Shootout Pool
		The game which is housed in the Naomi Universal cabinet uses a miniature pool cue and an ergonomically designed control unit which gives the player the real feel of playing either 8 ball or 9 ball pool.
		The advantage to the operator is that it takes approximately 1/12th the floor space of a full size pool table and is hence ideal for smaller bars and Maximising Return per Sq.
		Even where there is a traditional pool table, players play Shootout Pool either to practise or whilst they are waiting for the pool table to become free.
	www.sega-amusements.co.uk /shootout.html (435 words)

	Amazon.ca: Playing Off the Rail: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The author is a reporter who hooks up with a pool player and agrees to put up the money to travel the country while gambling his finances on the hustler's skills.
		Befitting the smoky atmosphere of the pool hall, the language is strong...
		The great pool players say that the game is 90% mental, and McCumber devotes a lot of attention to the mental goings-on that make and break pool players.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0380729237 (666 words)

	PlayStation.com - Games & Media - Pool Hustler
		Join them at their risky game, haunting the city and hustling at table after table- gaining money, skill and underground status as you scheme to become the ultimate pool shark.
		Pool Hustler is a true-to-life pool sim set in the gritty gambling world of pool hustling.
		Featuring numerous gameplay options and realistic physics, Pool Hustler allows the player to challenge and hustle a series of competitors to earn money and a reputation as a pool shark champion.
	www.us.playstation.com /games.aspx?id=SLUS-00758 (166 words)

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