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Hustling

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Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing. [1]

52 relations: Basketball, Billiard hall, Carrom, Confidence trick, Cornbread Red, Cue sports, Cue stick, Danny Basavich, Deception, Drake & Josh, Duets (film), Emmy Award, Freddie Prinze Jr., Gambling, Game, Jackie Gleason, Karaoke, Keith McCready, Kingpin (1996 film), Luck, Mars Callahan, Match fixing, Misdirection (magic), Paul Newman, Pool (cue sports), Poolhall Junkies, Quantum Leap, Ricky Schroder, Robert Byrne (author), Rudolf Wanderone, Scott Bakula, Shooting Gallery (film), Sport, Stickmen (film), Striker (2010 film), Supernatural (U.S. TV series), Ten-pin bowling, The Color of Money, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Hustler (film), The Hustler (novel), The Steve Harvey Show, Titanic Thompson, Tom Cruise, Trick shot, Turn the River, Ving Rhames, Walter Tevis, White Men Can't Jump, ..., William Kennedy (author), You Don't Mess Around with Jim. Expand index (2 more) »

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Billiard hall

A billiard/billiards, pool or snooker hall (or '''parlour'''/'''parlor''', room or club; sometimes compounded as poolhall, poolroom, etc.) is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards.

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Carrom

Carrom (also spelled karrom) is a "strike-and-" tabletop game of South Asian origin.

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Confidence trick

A confidence trick (synonyms include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust.

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Cornbread Red

Billy Joe "Cornbread Red" Burge (December 17, 1931 – February 13, 2004), was an American pool player.

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Cue sports

Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.

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Cue stick

A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically pool cue, snooker cue, or billiards cue), is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards.

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Danny Basavich

Daniel (Danny) Basavich (born September 25, 1978) is an American professional pool player from New Jersey.

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Deception

Deception is the act of propagating a belief that is not true, or is not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission).

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Drake & Josh

Drake & Josh is an American television sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon.

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Duets (film)

Duets is a 2000 American road trip film co-produced and directed by Bruce Paltrow and written by John Byrum.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Freddie Prinze Jr.

Freddie James Prinze Jr. (born March 8, 1976) is an American actor.

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Gambling

Gambling is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money or material goods.

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Game

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.

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Jackie Gleason

John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor, writer, composer and conductor.

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Karaoke

Karaoke, is a form of interactive entertainment or video game developed in Japan in which an amateur singer sings along with recorded music (a music video) using a microphone.

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Keith McCready

Keith McCready (born April 9, 1957) is an American professional pool player, nicknamed Earthquake.

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Kingpin (1996 film)

Kingpin is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly and written by Barry Fanaro and Mort Nathan.

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Luck

Luck is the experience of notably positive, negative, or improbable events.

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Mars Callahan

Mars Callahan (born 1971) is an American actor, film director, producer and writer.

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Match fixing

In organized sports, match fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law.

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Misdirection (magic)

Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist.

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Pool (cue sports)

Pool is a cue sport played on a table with six pockets along the, into which balls are deposited.

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Poolhall Junkies

Poolhall Junkies is a 2002 drama, thriller, and sports film co-written, starring, and directed by Mars Callahan.

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Quantum Leap

Quantum Leap is an American science-fiction television series that originally aired on NBC for five seasons, from March 1989 through May 1993.

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Ricky Schroder

Richard Bartlett Schroder, Jr. (born April 13, 1970) is an American actor and film director.

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Robert Byrne (author)

Robert Byrne (1930 – December 6, 2016) is an American author and Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame instructor of pool and carom billiards.

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Rudolf Wanderone

Rudolf Walter Wanderone Jr. (January 19, 1913 – January 15, 1996; originally spelled Wanderon) Includes three photos of his grave marker; provides birth and death dates, and legal surname spelling.

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Scott Bakula

Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor, singer and director best known for his lead roles in two science-fiction television series: as Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap (for which he received four Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award), and as Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise.

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Shooting Gallery (film)

Shooting Gallery (also known as Pool Hall Prophets) is a 2005 film directed by Keoni Waxman and starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. The plot consists of a young hustler (Prinze) who meets his match in a veteran pool player and small-time gangster (Ving Rhames).

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Sport

Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.

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Stickmen (film)

Stickmen is a 2001 New Zealand film directed by Hamish Rothwell and starring Robbie Magasiva.

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Striker (2010 film)

Striker is a 2010 Bollywood action-drama film written, directed and produced by Chandan Arora.

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Supernatural (U.S. TV series)

Supernatural is an American dark fantasy television series created by Eric Kripke.

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Ten-pin bowling

Ten-pin bowling is a sport in which a player (called a "bowler") rolls a bowling ball down a wood-structure or synthetic (polyurethane) lane and towards ten pins positioned at the end of the lane.

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The Color of Money

The Color of Money is a 1986 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Richard Price, based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis.

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The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to June 1, 1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons.

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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996.

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The Hustler (film)

The Hustler is a 1961 American drama film directed by Robert Rossen from Walter Tevis's 1959 novel of the same name, adapted for the screen by Rossen and Sidney Carroll.

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The Hustler (novel)

The Hustler is a 1959 novel by American writer Walter Tevis.

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The Steve Harvey Show

The Steve Harvey Show is a sitcom that aired on The WB from August 25, 1996 to February 17, 2002.

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Titanic Thompson

Alvin Clarence Thomas (November 30, 1893 – May 19, 1974) was an American gambler, golfer and hustler better known as Titanic Thompson. He was a major witness at the 1929 Arnold Rothstein murder trial in New York City.

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Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer.

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Trick shot

A trick shot (also trickshot or trick-shot) is a shot played on a billiards table (most often a pool table, though snooker tables are also used), which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill.

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Turn the River

Turn the River is a film that was written and directed by Chris Eigeman.

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Ving Rhames

Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American actor of screen and stage known for his roles as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series, as well as Pulp Fiction, Don King: Only in America, Rosewood, Con Air, Dawn of the Dead, and Bringing Out the Dead, as well as the voice of Cobra Bubbles in the 2002 film Lilo & Stitch.

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Walter Tevis

Walter Stone Tevis (February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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White Men Can't Jump

White Men Can't Jump is a 1992 American sports comedy film written and directed by Ron Shelton, which stars Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson as streetball hustlers.

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William Kennedy (author)

William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist.

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You Don't Mess Around with Jim

You Don't Mess Around with Jim is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1972.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustling

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