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Famous Hustlers, Gamblers and Pool Sharks

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Who were the greatest hustlers of all time? Who were the best pool sharks who ever picked up a cue? The two are not necessarily the same: a great hustler like Minnesota Fats may win tons of money but can't hope to play the best sharks even. Conversely, a pool shark on a roll can't hustle if he's making every shot in sight! A short list of the top ten 'pure' hustlers, con artists and proposition gamblers must include Minnesota Fats, Alvin 'Titanic' Thompson, and Ronnie 'Fast Eddie' Allen. But they weren't the great run-out kings, and couldn't compete at nine-ball with insane shotmakers like 'Saint Louie' Louie Roberts, Keith 'Earthquake' McCready, Efren 'The Magician' Reyes, Earl 'The Pearl' Strickland and Buddy 'The Rifleman' Hall. Furthermore, there are sharks in my top twenty list below that I rank higher than anyone named so far. Ironically the 'worst' player may be the best all-round pool shark of all time, while the best nine-ball player may have been the 'wimpiest.'
The Top Ten Pool Hustlers of All Time (based not on skill, per se, but on the ability to make games and win money)

#10) Buddy Hall aka the 'Rifleman' didn't bother to hustle anyone; in his prime he spotted top pros the seven and still beat them like drums!
#9) Ditto for Earl 'The Pearl' Strickland, except that it was patently unfair for him to pin up his long, flowing locks with bobby pins―looking like a dork―and then still drill his marks!
#8) Alfred 'Peter Pan' Frey was the first American pool hustler; his baby-face lured competitors to their respective dooms. Was it fair for him to play 'shape' before anyone else even knew what it was?
#7) Efren 'The Magician' Reyes disguised his identity as one of the best pool players on the planet when he first started robbing American pros.
#6) Vernon 'Burnie' Elliot has been called the best 'undercover' shark of all time.
#5) Don Willis was another legendary undercover 'monster' player.
#4) James Evans couldn't play in pro tournaments during the dark days of segregation, but he would challenge the winners, drill them, and still take the prize money!
#3) Titanic Thompson was a legendary 'proposition gambler' who claimed to have killed several people who objected to his 'propositions.' But he said they would have agreed that they deserved what they got!
#2) Ronnie Allen was (at least according to him) the prototype for 'Fast Eddie' Felson in the movie The Hustler.
#1) Rudolf 'Minnesota Fats' Wanderone helped generate immense public interest in pool; like Ronnie Allen he claimed to have been the basis for a character in The Hustler, and even stole the name 'Minnesota Fats' from the fictional character! Was that the greatest hustle of all time? Well, perhaps until Donald Trump hustled his way to the presidency!
Actors who played pool sharks: W. C. Fields made his acting debut in the 1915 silent film Pool Sharks; Paul Newman starred as Fast Eddie Felson in the 1961 movie The Hustler; Jackie Gleason starred as Minnesota Fats inThe Hustler; straight pool legend Willie Mosconi had a cameo in The Hustler; Minnesota Fats played himself in the 1971 movie The Player; James Coburn and Omar Sharif played big-stake pool hustlers in the 1980 movieThe Baltimore Bullet; pros with cameos in The Baltimore Bullet include 'Machine Gun' Lou Butera, Irving 'The Surgeon' Crane, Richie Florence, Allen 'Young Hoppe' Hopkins, Pete Margo, Ray 'Cool Cat' Martin, Jimmy 'Pretty Boy Floyd' Mataya, Steve 'The Miz' Mizerak, Willie 'Mr. Pool' Mosconi, Jim 'King James' Rempe and Mike 'Captain Hook' Sigel; Johnny Cash played a pool shark in the 1984 movie The Baron and the Kid; Paul Newman played an aging Fast Eddie Felson in the 1986 movie The Color of Money; Tom Cruise starred as the young hotshot Vincent Lauria in The Color of Money; Keith McCready (a top pro) played Grady Seasons in The Color of Money; Grady Matthews (another pro) played Dud in The Color of Money; Steve Mizerak (another pro) played Duke in The Color of Money; pros Jim Mataya and Howard Vickery had cameos in The Color of Money; Mike Massey (a legendary trick shot artist) played St. Louie Louie Roberts in the 2002 moviePoolhall Junkies, which featured Rod Steiger (in his last role) and Christopher Walken.
Pool Shark Jargon / Hustler Lexicon
Sneaky Pete: a two-piece or three-piece cue that looks like a house cue when assembled
Road Player: a shark good enough to go on the road and earn a living playing pool for money
Shortstop: a better-than-average player who is not good enough to beat the top pros and road players
Money Man, Banker or Backer: someone who puts up the money in return for a share of the winnings
Easy Mark: someone who is ripe to be taken for a bunch of money
Spot: a concession made by the (presumably) better player to get the (presumably) weaker player to gamble; for instance, spotting the eight ball in a game of nine ball
The Nuts: a spot that makes one player almost certain to win
Famous Hustler Quotes
Identifying the greatest pool hustlers of all time can be tricky, since the better they were at hustling, the less likely we are to know just how good they really were. But sometimes hustlers use reverse psychology, trying to make their marks believe that they overestimate their own abilities. Is this why Minnesota Fats said boastful things like ..

Beat me? King Kong couldn't beat me! — Rudolf Wanderone, aka Minnesota Fats, playing U. J. Puckett, another notorious hustler
It's interesting, I think, that two of the best-known hustlers of all time were entirely mythical: Fast Eddie Felson and Minnesota Fats. They were characters in the 1961 movie The Hustler, one of the very best 'dark' sports flicks. Rudolf Wanderone later claimed to be Minnesota Fats and even changed his name to the unflattering moniker. Ronnie Allen likewise claimed to be Fast Eddie. Were they really the prototypes, or were they doing what they did best―hustling? I suspect the latter, but at this point fiction may have trumped fact. Was Minnesota Fats' greatest hustle claiming to be Minnesota Fats? If so, it was undoubtedly his most profitable hustle.
Here's an interesting comment about how the real hustlers end up winning everything that isn't locked down:
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. — Abraham Lincoln, a self-described 'billiard addict' who was murdered by another billiards addict, John Wilkes Booth
Who were the best hustlers?One can never trust anything a real hustler says. But we can hazard educated guesses because the best hustlers win much more than they lose, and sooner or later the word spreads that they're tough to beat. So here are some plausible guesses ..
I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him. — Luther 'Wimpy' Lassiter, one of the best nine-ball players of all time
If I ever had to have someone else shoot pool for my life, win, lose, live or die, the man I'd want shooting for me is Don Willis. — Luther 'Wimpy' Lassiter (and yet Willis was trounced

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