Biggest spot you gave or received.......

I love the old 8 ball barbox bet where you tell the person that they have the break and as soon as it is determined if they have lows or highs they get to choose 4 of their balls and take them off the table.

Hehe, they always pick up the trouble clusters for you and get one or 2 in and miss ... leaving you a wide open table to run out. :)
 
Ive got the following
Call 5,6,7,8 playing 9 ball - lost
Wild 6,7,8 playing 9 ball - lost
Wild 7,8 playing 9 ball against a player about my own speed - WON A MINT!

Ive given and lost
Every ball on the table and the break playing 9 ball (was a little drunk)
Wild 7,8

Ive given and won
Wild 7
Wild 7,8
Wild 8

With buddies I give out weight to challenge myself. When playing for non-friendly amounts, I like the weight. :)
 
Given
5 out and the breaks/5 ahead - broke even
5 on the wire in races to 7 for 100 - worked out ok
7-8 etc - usually works out good

Received
10-6 for 100 a game from a guy I could have given 10-6 to - worked out very well
25 points in a 100 point 14.1 game - didnt like it
50 no count in a 100 point game - realized why he was so happy I played him only getting 25 points the first time
9 ball, most Ive ever gotten was the 7 - usually works out well. But it makes me sad Ive never been able to get more.......
Chuck <---needs to work on my approach apparently
 
Spots

I gave a c player a spot where if I missed he got ball in hand also played him sets with my jump cue.
 
I used to frequently give weak players games like 10-4, 11-4 and even 12-4 in One Pocket. I nearly always won. I have been given as much as 8-4 and the break playing One Pocket (Tony Chohan), and I lost at 300 a pop! I figured out what I did wrong and wanted to play again later, but he declined. Ronnie used to practice with me (ten a game) giving me 8-4 and we broke about even, but I played a lot better back then.

One of my favorite games to give a decent player was the break and the one ball, playing push out 9-Ball. And I got the two through nine balls! He could win on the one or the nine ball. Yes, you heard me right, he got the one and the break. All I had to do was outmaneuver him on the one ball and then I would win. If he lost at that game, I would then offer to switch it around and take the one and the break and give him all the rest of the balls. If I could beat a guy even, I could win at either side of that game!

I also liked to give up the five and the break playing six ball to someone who played close to my speed. He didn't know it, but he was spotting me! Very hard to make a ball on the break in six ball and the balls are never tied up. It's an easy run out!

I once got 2-1 (my 10 against his 20) on the money playing a better player 9-Ball. He couldn't win!
 
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The biggest spot i ever got was the last 4 from Dee Adkins and i've given the 4 and the breaks and the 5 out a few times.
 
9 Ball, I gave a good C player the breaks and 2 & out. Race to 5 I won the hill game and $20.

One Pocket, I gave 20-4 and won $100. A pro gave me 11-6, I lost $400.
 
My buddy and I once played these 2 girls from our local apa league (they were 3s or 4s maybe) in partners, but the spot was that every other shot we had to use a shoe to hit the cueball. I won't give specific details as to the wager but I will say we won and liked our end of it!
 
Given:

I just got off the road and started running my first pool room. Had a customer who got bit hard by the gambling bug. Tried to talk him out of it cuz I could see this guy really going off and I didn't want to lose a good customer.

The bet was a race to 10 9 ball for a $100 and a promise not to gamble again until I said he was ready. I gave him the rainbow (any ball he makes legally, he wins). I got the breaks and first shot after the break (no ball in hand).

Beat him 10-0 with his jaw hanging open. He stood up on his end and didn't gamble for a year.

Been offered:

Had a young guy's backer offer me the 6 out that I know had never seen me play. I had to bet at least a $100 a game. Told him I'd take the 6 out and the snaps. He immediately said no snaps and offered me the 5 out. I knew I had no chance to win and I passed.

The guy had just gotten off a plane from the Phillipines about a month before. Saw him win the Red's tourney in Houston. Saw him beat the best the world had to offer, easily.

His name was Efren something. LOL

That boy put the fear of God in me.

Stones
 
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dabarbr said:
Maybe not the biggest but certainly the biggest eye opener here. Whoa!!
I was going to post but decided not to after your post.
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Well as Jay points out later, giving the break in 6 ball is not that difficult. It often backfires on them! "IF" they get the break working, you are screwed!
 
Recently seen this spot:

Pro player vs. solid B
$500 a set (or was it $300? not sure)
Race to 9
Solid B got 2 on the wire, all the breaks and ball in hand after break no matter what he did on the break...even if he shot the cue off the table.

They split sets.

Lots of barking...it was fun to watch. :-)
 
I never took weight from anyone, but I never played for thousands either. I have given big weight playing 1P for $50 a rack.....mostly 10/4 or 9/5, but the player didnt know the game. He just beat me playing 9ball, so I got his nose open playing 1 hole with a big spot offer.

I have witnessed Andy Toth give 80 no count 14.1 on more then one occasion. I sat and watched it while I worked at the pool room. At that time no one had a chance unless you were Sigel or Hopkins or Rempe etc.

Wasn't long til I got Andy to teach me the game. I have given 30 no count and won, but the tables were very easy.

G.
 
Sanity

sokaiba said:
What was the biggest spot you gave or were given, and what happened?
I was at a local room one night and this local guy kept woofin that he wanted to play me (he doesn't gamble or I would be rich) and was gonna beat me. So we started playing some one pocket even, which I won 8-0, 8-1, 8-0 in about 10 minutes time and he's still woofin that he should be spotting me and this and that. I told him I would beat him playing 13-3 for whatever he had in his pockets, he declined, but said there was no way in hell I would even get to 4. He lasted 2 games, losing 13-2, 13-1 and walked away still woofing that he should be spotting me. Everyone on the tables next to us were dieing with laughter. To this day he still wants to spot me but won't play for a cent.
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You do know that not everybody is sane?
 
Most i've given to anyone was playing Barbox 8 ball. I would have to spot like 8 games to lower handicap players and I had to spot apa skill level 7's 4 games....It was tough but if the other player never has a decent opportunity they can't win.

I got the 6 out on a few different occasions from a road player i didn't know and got slaughtered( he wouldn't win with that spot now though:smile:)

Brady also beat me giving me the 6 out when I was first learning how to play. Guy has one of the smoothest strokes i've ever seen and i've never seen anyone keep their head that high above the cue and shoot that good.
 
The biggest spot i ever gave anybody was the break (and when i mean the break i MEAN the break). If he made a ball on the break he won but if he didnt i got BIH. Well the table we were playing on was a table with 4" pockets and he couldnt break for shit so we played a race to 7 for $40 and i won 7-5 :cool:


The biggest spot i ever got was the 4 out but it was clearly a hustle (i just started to gamble) and i lost the set(s) but only lost about $50 after 5 sets for $10.


Great thread btw
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My big gambling as you would call it was for pocket change with other kids at the Boys Club in Miami in the 1950, we were not sophisticated enough to ask for weight.

Mostly we played to stay on the Pool Table, and face the next opponent waiting in a long line. Sometime after lunch a wager of let over lunch money became a Side Bet on the game. Loves those day in my life!

some time I won so much money I would have a hard time explaining my wealth to my mother when she saw a pocket full of change.
 
I gave the Break and ball in hand after the break to the EX manager
at the Dog House in Myrtle Beach about a year ago. Race to 5 for 50$
I wasnt barking at him, He approached me with the game
 
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