Worst experience playing?

Well, there was this one time that I ate Taco Bell before a tournament........ :thumbup:

Stayed in a drive up hotel with no door handle or locks on the south side of Chicago, had two beds that we searched for needles and we slid the dresser in front of the door so we would wake up if someone tried to get in. I don't think I slept 5min that night! It was because we forgot to book a room for apa challenge of champions tournament. From that point on I've booked the room before I pay my entry!

Practice by myself a bunch when the tourneys are over.Several run ins with drunks that come over and want to play.Mad if I beat them or insulted if I tell them I dont want to play.More stories when I have more time.

My $40 tip flew off after five shots.

Every time I play! It's regression.


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Hard to pick out a particularly bad experience for me....
...I went broke in 35 states, 8 provinces, and several shires.
:crying::crying::crying:


couple parishes, too

Never been in a fight over pool.

Never had a cue stolen.

Never went broke playing pool.

Guess my experience is pretty mundane compared to some people.

I did have an uncomfortable situation arise last Thursday playing apa 9 ball.

I am a 5 and was playing a 6 and we happen to be team mates on a tap team.

When I wound up winning he slammed his stick down on the next table over where he had been standing while I was shooting. He started complaining about my handicap. The thing is it would not have mattered if we were the same handicap as bad as I ran over him. I won 38-25.

Looking back I can empathize with his frustration due to the circumstances surrounding our match.

1. I was busy on the phone texting various people trying to get a team together for a big money tournament starting the next night. On the phone while he was at the table of course. I would shoot and then get back on the phone again while he was shooting. Now I want to make clear that this is not my normal modus operandi as I am always respectful of my opponent but this was an extraordinary circumstance

As the match progressed my scorekeeper says to me ...you need to put you phone down and concentrate on the match cause you are gettin your butt whipped. Just so happened that I was through texting anyway and went on a shooting spree.

I guess it really upset him to be 20 points ahead of me at the time and lose with me being 13 points ahead of him at the end of the match holding him to 21 points away from his required points needed to win.

I guess a beat down like that from a lower handicap player really pissed him off. After his tirade about my handicap he packed his cues up and stormed outa the pool hall. I blame it on the booze that was bought for me that night as it was my birthday.

Hope he cools off before we see each other Tuesday night when we play on the same team.

I got strong-armed for $13. $100 a game, no troubles, but win a couple bucks from the wrong people, and all hell breaks loose.


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I loaned a cue to a friend one night. Our Local Cue guy was wrapping theirs and they needed a cue for league. So I headed home and left my cue with my best friends wife. The left my cue by accident and some one found it took it home. It was a bad week. Never found the cue either.

I played with a girl one night and I swear she was only interested in having sex. She would touch my ass every time I bent over, stand in front of the pocket I was shooting at and she giggled constantly. It was obnoxious. I think sex was the only thing on her mind.

Totally uncomfortable...

garczar said:

My $40 tip flew off after five shots.

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:thumbup: Mine was 3 shots and that's the one and only time I'll try a layered tip.

worst

Back in the mid 80's the APA league rule was if you played in a bar that didn't have a bridge, you could physically climb right up on the table, (your entire body) to execute the shot. No feet on the floor or anything.
We were playing in this dive and I needed a rake and they didn't have one so I climbed up on the table and my opponent "Jethro" and his entire team came unglued. The *****ing was non-stop. I told them to call the league operator and went ahead and did the shot and won the match. That pissed them off even more so they protested the match. Thought I was going to have to fight my way out of the bar.
They later learned I was correct in doing what I did and they got a bridge in the bar soon after that. Dumb-asses..........

Had my car keys taken off the table where I had my stuff, and my car stolen out of the parking lot.

Baxter said:

Had my car keys taken off the table where I had my stuff, and my car stolen out of the parking lot.

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Yeah that's pretty brutal right there.

Baxter said:

Had my car keys taken off the table where I had my stuff, and my car stolen out of the parking lot.

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I now know what to not keep marking my pockets with

Was playing in a bar/poolroom in Richmond, IN a long, long time ago. They had a ring game, $1 on the five and $2 on the nine. If you made one out of turn it spotted up and you kept shooting. The first time I played the game I won over $50. It was only 30-40 miles from Dayton so I went back a few days later. This time I was winning again and it was my break. I set my cue (my first custom made cue - a Brunswick house cue that Pappy Winkler had put a brass joint in. Cost me $5!) on the table and went to the bathroom. There must have been a dozen guys watching the game (and three or four other players). I was gone for maybe three minutes and when I came back my cue was gone! I asked where my cue was and no one said a word. They all played dumb. I never got that cue back and I never went back to that bar. Lesson learned!