Whats the craziest thing you have seen on the Break shot

this guy used to come into the pool hall at lunch everyday just to watch some of the guys shoot. he always wore a suit and tie and drank coffee.
just as he was sitting down with his cup of java i broke the balls, the cue ball flies off the table and lands in his hot cup of coffee.
 
A friend and I were at Hardtimes in Bellflower, we were shooting on table #5 in the corner of the tournament room waiting for a friend. Hardtimes had a policy of only two people at the table at any time in the tournament room, so when our friend arrived he decided to get his own table to practice on. He picked table #10 that was next to us. A few practice sessions in, my friend breaks and pops the cueball off the head ball of the rack straight up into the table lights, shattering the fluorescent bulbs all over the table. The table light was completely out and the table was completely covered in shards!
 
Broke bad/made 6

9ball. Broke hard form side rail, bounced cb off 1, landed on edge of side rail, shot back into mostly intact rack,rebroke rack-made 6 balls-hooked-pushed out-lost.

Got new nickname-the Curse.

It's a Karma thing.

3railkick
 
During 8 ball league, a guy on my team miscued, barely hit the rack, and made 7 balls on the break, 6 of them were stripes, had a wide open shot, and of course he didn't get out.
 
one night back in the mid 90's, we were having our weekly 9-ball tournament. needless to say when it went to start we all heard a funny sound on the opening break in one match. When one guy broke, he shattered the 1-ball into a thousand pieces! No gimmicks, no trick balls, just a pile of chunks and dust!( to make it funnier the guy was 5ft6, and about 130lbs!)

Jeremy
 
Waiting to break , 9balls racked on the spot. Just as I'm about to lean into the break a CB (lost on the break) comes over my shoulder from a table behind me and hits dead in the middle of my rack making 2 balls including the 9.
 
RRfireblade said:
Waiting to break , 9balls racked on the spot. Just as I'm about to lean into the break a CB (lost on the break) comes over my shoulder from a table behind me and hits dead in the middle of my rack making 2 balls including the 9.
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that's great, definately one of the best 9-ball stories!
 
Newsheriffintwn said:
Many years ago a friend and myself were playing and he broke, the cue ball ramped off the one ball and flew about 25 or 30 feet to a table with someone on it playing. The guy playing nearly got hit in the head and was obviously upset on almost getting knocked silly. Once we get the cue ball back and apologized I rack the balls again and believe it or not the cue ball does the exact same thing this time coming within inches of the guys head. The guy a very good player flips his lid as he thinks we did it on purpose. It was a miracle a fight didn't break out, just freaky 2 breaks 2 near knockouts!

I also saw a girl walking by a bar table get hit in the face from a beak shot----------The poolhall called a ambulance she was out of it with a huge mouse above her eye!

Lets hear some stories.
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Like you many years ago when I was living in St.Louis I was out having a drink in a Bar and watching some bar box pool when a guy breaks and launches the cue ball off the table and hits another guy in the nuts:eek:. Back then most of the bar balls were the large size cue ball and the guy that got hit was just sitting in the wrong place at the wrong time. Needless to say there would have been a fight, but not that night, that dam cue ball took all the fight out of the guy who got hit, but it did make for some good entertainment.:grin:

Take care
 
My favorite break was when I was playing 8 ball at a bar. I broke from the side on the second ball to try to make the 8. The CB jumped off the table and scored a direct hit on my buddy's nuts as he stood at the bar. Dropped like a stone. Later I told him I'd called that shot...right ball in the hip pocket.
Another time my friend and I were at a room shooting 'em when this girl comes over and starts to bother my friend. She was all over him, but he asked her to go away. He didn't like pushy women. He starts to run the rack and she bends down in front of the side pocket with her face at table level. He goes to shoot a ball into the side, but there's her face! So, he jacks up a little and hops the 6 ball off the table. Right between her eyes.
Last time we saw her. BTW my friend writes instruction articles for one of the big billiard mags, so believe me when I say the ball HOPPED!
 
Was playing 9 ball on 7 ft valley at Hillbilly Heaven. Hunter Lombardo breaks and the cue ball screams into side pocket and balls scatter making 4 balls. I'm thinking I will have an easy out when all of a sudden cue ball reappears out of the pocket and rolls to the center of the table and spins for what seemed like an eternity. I've seen plenty of balls bounce back out of pockets before but this ball was gone for a few seconds.
 
If you are breaking from the head spot or directly behind it and the spot is dog eared the cue ball will get airborne.
 
I broke on an 8', CB landed on the side rail and rolled to the corner, around the edge of the corner pocket, and along the bottom rail to end up in the opposite corner pocket.

We tried for about half an hour to duplicate the CB's roll on the rail...

-s
 
for real

Hangar Inn, Manhattan Beach , Ca. Player breaks on a bar box , cue ball takes wing, hits the floor, out the door, down the parking lot, into the
street, which was a slight grade. The owner and another guy, neither are
sprinters, take off after it to intercept before it goes down sewer opening. They came back all huffing and puffing like they were going to die but
they had the CB. We were all out in the parking lot cheering them on and cracking up.:grin:
 
poolbreak said:
Was playing 9 ball on 7 ft valley at Hillbilly Heaven. Hunter Lombardo breaks and the cue ball screams into side pocket and balls scatter making 4 balls. I'm thinking I will have an easy out when all of a sudden cue ball reappears out of the pocket and rolls to the center of the table and spins for what seemed like an eternity. I've seen plenty of balls bounce back out of pockets before but this ball was gone for a few seconds.
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Obviously that is breaking at least one pretty firm law of physics_Would love to have seen it!. There's a youtube where the eight spits back out pretty late on Efren and the guy before him too on his shot in the same pocket but nothing close to what you are describing.
 
Just reading all these reminded me of Pat Flemings (Accu Stats) tapes years back about bloopers and such in tournament play, if you ever get a chance watch it, one instance that sticks out is Ron Rosas banking a ball long rail, but the object ball jumped up & rolled 9 feet along the top rail and ended up going into the corner pocket, also remember in Wichita at a tourney once, breaking the balls and a chunk (very old balls) came out of the area around the number and hit someone watching the match.
 
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I broke and the hurricane off the coast switched directions that night..

in reality just what others have mentioned seeing concerning the cb rolling along the rail except it avoided the scratch.
 
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