I have played a chess hustler in Chicago a few times when my parents took me to the air and water show when I was in high school. Note that these chess hustlers

I have played a chess hustler in Chicago a few times when my parents took me to the air and water show when I was in high school. Note that these chess hustlers were playing at around $1 dollar a game. I would say that the average person doesn't even understand how to get into checkmate (even fools / scholars mate). So the game against most people is much less than five minutes. But, I was rated in my prime around 1000 ELO. The hustle has to conclude within five minutes or less. If you get past that state they basically either won't play with you or let you use one of their boards. The easiest way to do this is to lock the board and don't get into any situation where a piece is capture and don't capture the their pieces. In Chicago the hustler was playing multiple people I believe (simul) which their rating would be at minimum 1000 ELO