Your way will work, Bruce but you are talking to a guy that used to flip coins for $1K per flip. It's better odds than you get in Vegas. My handle, $Bill, refers to the $100 per game I always wanted to crank it up for whether it be 9 ball or any other game. If someone wont flip a coin for the final break he hasn't got enough gamble that I would want to play him in the first place.
Remember what Freddy said about playing Keith banks at N. Shore? Phil tossed him either 2 or 3 barrels and hauled ass to the track. That is the reputation Chris' and N. Shore had, very nitty and if you could get a game for $100 you better be shooting one or two barrels at um because that's all you could win.
No transplants were needed at the King And I and other bars around town. I ask you, what would have happened if I had come to N. Shore and beat one of the better players there out of 3 or 4 games? The next day it's all over town and I get no action in the city. Smart players knew this and wouldn't go to N. Shore, Chris' or the Cafe unless it was to watch and get lines on people.
Artie, lived by this rule. Why play tough action where you couldn't win anything when you could be elsewhere, stealing money, in a place where they shook your hand as you were walking out the door?
I am talking about players who lived in Chicagoland. Road players who had lines on people would go in and take their shots and were out of town the next day. Boston Joey, certainly didn't make N. Shore his first stop in Chicago. The King And I, was his first choice because of the easy action there. The fact that he caught Rocket Man in dead stroke and went busted is just part of the gambling aspect of the road player.
If you have any gamble whatsoever about you,,,,,,,,,,,,, flip the damn coin.