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A buddy of mine is with me(my buddy is an A player) in a bar one night and we go to the table and ask if we can challenge it. The banger at the table says only for $100 a game. Which my buddy quickly replies by pulling out a quarter to flip and saying "You better mean it!".
 
OUSooner said:
A buddy of mine is with me(my buddy is an A player) in a bar one night and we go to the table and ask if we can challenge it. The banger at the table says only for $100 a game. Which my buddy quickly replies by pulling out a quarter to flip and saying "You better mean it!".
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Similar thing. My friend Howard and I were in our early 20's in the 1970's and we decided we were going to be barroom hustlers, so we randomly went to these lounge style bars in the San Fernando Valley looking for 8 ball games. We would carry 4 or 5 hundred on us each but almost never got more than $5 games.

When you really do want to gamble, it gets to be frustrating if you can't find any games. We walked into a bar in Sherman Oaks and asked around, finally a middle aged guy said he would play for $500. Howard said, "OK, 2 out of 3 for $500".

We were so excited, we couldn't believe our good fortune. We got to the table with the guy, put a quarter in, racked. The guy said he wanted to see our cash. So we each reached into our pockets and showed him the money. Just as the game was ready to start, the guy says "I quit". We said asked why. He said "I thought you were bluffing." We complained that we had a deal, finally he agreed to play for $100. Howard made short work of the guy. He quietly paid us and left.

Chris
 
Unless I'm mistaken, both Amar and Bryce have been seen playing in the Bay Area the last month or two at least.

I think Sactown Tom mentioned Amar practicing at Hardtimes, and both of them in action at California Billiards.

Straight shooters.
 
Best one I ever heard.
APA match. Two captains that are 7's. The one captain who thinks he's the greatest throws himself thinking for sure they are going to throw a 3 against him. The other captain throws himself. The first captain says to the 2nd captain...."I thought you were going to mismatch me". The second captain said..."We did!" Then proceeds to beat him 5-0.
 
I was playing, Eddie Tennaro, in Morrisey Blvd in Dorchester Mass. back in the early nineties.

Eddie asked me to play, two out of three races to ten for three hundred dollars.

I won the first set on the hill.

The second set, I miscued on the eight-ball at hill, hill.

Eddie, at this point asked, "Do you want to call off the bet?

I responded to Eddie, "Do you want to bet more?'

Eddie didn't understand my logic. I beat him 10-4 the next race.
 
I was playing, Eddie Tennaro, in Morrisey Blvd in Dorchester Mass. back in the early nineties.

Eddie asked me to play, two out of three races to ten for three hundred dollars.

I won the first set on the hill.

The second set, I miscued on the eight-ball at hill, hill.

Eddie, at this point asked, "Do you want to call off the bet?

I responded to Eddie, "Do you want to bet more?'

Eddie didn't understand my logic. I beat him 10-4 the next race.
 
Marie's husband said:
So I had this guy (we will call him Tim) come up to me at a tournament wanting to action up. I never really enjoyed being around Tim so I said no. Tim was constantly pestering me throughout the day asking to play, and I always declined because he was a much better player and I really just didn't enjoy being around him.

So at the end of the tournament me and another player that plays just as well as Tim were going to play cheap sets for like $20, well Tim comes running up to the table and starts getting into our business. I guess he thought I was his fish.

I got a little bit upset and with attitude asked Tim "Do you want to play a race to 7 for $200", Tim starts smiling and was like "yeah", so I turn to my opponent, "Do you want to play a race to 7 for $200" and he starts smiling and says "yeah". As soon as I hear that I start snickering, picked up my cue and started walking away while saying, "Well it looks like you two have a game, good luck".

Needless to say, they didn't play each other, I guess they just wanted easy money.
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Nice I like that one, never heard that before.
 
TATE said:
This is a story I heard.

Some crazy guys from LA were on the road, Buffalo Bill and a card and pool player named Jeff Mervis, a couple of real characters. Buffalo Bill was playing an old guy and had him stuck. The guy collapsed on the floor unconcious, apparently dead. Buffalo was running around saying "what should I do? what shoud I do?"

Mervis looked at him calmly and said "make him post next time because I think you just got stiffed."


Wow...cold.

Chirs
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This was a good 30 years ago, before poker players became rock stars. I just googled the name Jeff Mervis and there is a pro card player by that name in Las Vegas. I wonder if he's the same pool playing Jeff Mervis?

He played pretty decent pool too. He cleaned me and my buddy out one night playing straight pool at North Hollywood Billiards when we were 19 or so.

Chris
 
rayjay said:
This has stuck with me for a long time....was playing the house pro at Doc 'n Eddy's and he got a lucky roll. I said "good shot, Lucky". He said, "Yeah, lucky I'm playing you." Has made me smile every time I think about it.
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My all-time favorite pool comeback. A friend of mine got it put on him & I still laugh about it on occasion.
 
There is a guy that lives not to far from here that plays decent. He sadly to say has seizures all the time. Has them quite often while playing pool, due mostly to he plays pool 24 - 7.

He was gambling some sets with another player from out of town who we all knew as well. Low and behold he has a seizure. Falls to the ground and cuts his forehead on something. After a few minutes he gets up and shakes it off bleeding and all and continues to play.

3 hours later he has another one! This time falls onto the table and moves the balls all over the place, slides over and falls to the floor. Few minutes later he gets up and shakes it off. We are all like "WTF dude go home" lol. He wants to continue playing. He comes back to the table and the other player says hold on now it's my shot. Seizure dude says "huh Im still shooting".

Out of town player says without missing a beat "na when you freaked out you fouled the balls so I got ball in hand" and took it. True story!

cold lol
 
"hey, you need some cheese with that whine?"

"you couldn't run out with both doors open"

"that pocket has been there since 1845" (when someone scratches on a Brunswick table)



Eric
 
Guy who could spot me the 6 at least will only play me even. I say, "ok, I go talk it over with my back" as I walk to the bathroom. LOL
 
Here's a good one about a lady that played league about three or four times a week. Her instructor had worked with her for quite a while and finally she learned how to draw the cue ball.

After a few weeks had passed he met up with her and asked her how the draw shot was working and her reply was "it hasn't come up yet".
 
"Wanna play"
"Sure, what game?"
"14.1"
"OK, what's your high run?"
"I don't know, I don't keep track"
"How do you measure yourself against other pool players?"
"By height."
 
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My standard- Yes, I have a reply for you.The problem is ,I know you will not undestand it,and I am not going to waste my time explaining it.
After a friend made a loud smart ass comment to me,I asked "Are you sure you really want to do this?". His silence said it all.
 
True Story....2 of them

#1)Back in the 90's one of my friends from Bartlesville, OK was at a tourney in TX.....up walks DICK LANE and asks him "how would you like the 6 out on the bar box for a thousand?"

My friend says: "HELL RACK THEM UP!"

Dick says: "Oh no I didn't want to play with you, I just wanted to know how you would like it."

Friend says: "Well what do you know....a 200million dollar nit!"


#2) Matlock and a few guys were up drinking at some midwestern bar.....Dave is drunk as a hoot owl. Some kid comes up and asks "you want to play some $5 eight ball?"

David turns to him and says "dont you know who I am? I'm the best bar box player in the whole world!!!"

Kid looks at dave and says "hell its just $5 eight ball lets play"

So they play......they play 4 games and Dave loses them all he's so drunk.....

He gives the guy $20 and quits.......

as the guy walks off he says "BEST BARBOX PLAYER IN THE WORLD MY ASS!"


-Grey Ghost-
 
To an obnoxoius railbird:

"If I wanted your opinion I'd have beaten it out of you."

or (depending on his size):

"If I wanted your opinion I'd have given it to you."
 
AAaaarrrghhhh!

DogsPlayingPool said:
I recall a story about Mosconi (maybe even read it here) where he was having lunch with Andrew Ponzi and some guy with a backer started woofing at them. The guy got so obnoxious that Mosconi, not normally a gambler, obliged him to play some 9 Ball.

After Willie ran the first dozen racks, the guy's backer had seen enough and said to him "I'm done, you can't beat him."

The guy said back to his stakehorse' "You don't know that, you haven't seen me play yet!"
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Great Story!
 
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