A good game, a night of playing, then two weeks of fast drinking and heavy horse betting, then another town and the same thing over again. And again - until you lost your stroke, or got too old or punchy to stand up to a pool table, or lost your nerve, or somewhere in a dark place got a knife in your chest because you had split up a bet and thrown a man when you needed the money bad enough to take the chance of losing a pool game on purpose.
excerpt from
The Best in the Country (short story)
Walter Tevis
Esquire
1954
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Sucker's Game
1958
https://classic.esquire.com/article/1954/11/1/the-best-in-the-country
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