Talk:Titanic Thompson

Real name

Titanic Thompson's real nam was Alvin Clarence THOMAS!! -- 209.240.198.62 (talk · contribs) 16:57, 25 June 2003‎ (UTC)

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Agreed. Ti was a famous gambler who won and blew through an estimated $500,000,000 between 1919 and 1965. He was a golf hustler. He could golf as well right-handed as he could left-handed. He was an accomplished poker player, but he was also known to have cheated. He was a champion horse-shoe player and clay pigeon shooter. And he won most of the nine-ball billiards games that he ever entered. His hand-to-eye coordination was off the charts. -- 63.225.148.93 (talk · contribs), 02:28, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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Thompson stories

I am a gambler of a long time. I know of a few Titanic Thompson stories.

One was when younger he hustled some money in his hometown(of the time, also been told was not his original hometown take it or leave it) during tourist or vacation season. Some say he would walk his dog by the same shallow lake alcove everyday for a year. And he would take a few stones mark with identical as he could X on them and throw them in. the dog run out thought he was retrieving the same stone but wasn't. Came the season for out of towners. He made it a point to be around the alcove all day. Was near some popular attraction or hang out. Well these vacationers/tourists had lots of excess money. Thompson would be throwing a stone in the water dog bringing him back one. The guy would bite and say " Hey kid your dog is not bringing back the same stone." And Thompson say oh yes he is...and milk it on a bit. Somehow manipulate th guy into thinking he was daft and could easily take the kid for some money. And then the bet was on. Thompson say look here I will mark an X on this stone throw it out into the alcove and my dog will bring it back. Of course Thompson won. He been throwing hundreds of marked stones in the exact same spot for the last year.

Heard a guy tell of how his father or gran pappy was a city worker and got hustled out of a good chunk of shange. On a bet about a road sign saying how far till town. Thompson found out the guy was a bad gambler and that he did all the street and sign work for this little town he was hustling in at the time. So Thompson went out dug up the sign and moved it either closer or futher away I forget. Then found the guy drinking in his usual bar and set him up. Something like this " Wow that sign saying four miles to town is a little off." You know where it goes from there. Being that the guy planted the sign himself. He was the king of the propositional gaff bet. Someone said his story make a great movie. It would if down right. With lots of help from the gambling world and the hustlers who do this sort of thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.171.51.138 (talk) 16:49, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Please cite a reliable source; we cannot add information to the article without knowing whether it is verifiable. Wikipedia cannot use anecdotal stories. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 18:42, 23 December 2011 (UTC)