Whats the Luckiest (slop) shot you've ever seen....Good or Bad

[Newsheriffintwn]

In the twenty some odd years Ive played this game, Ive seen some unbelievable and often times unimaginable shots. Sometimes the victim sometimes the benefactor. Lets hear some of your favorite stories of LUCKY or UN LUCKY Rolls or Shots..............

 

[SnapdaNine]

Quite a few years ago at the Iowa VNEA state tournament I was watching the hill-hill match in the team tourney. In VNEA you have to use the patch, one of our local players was about to shoot a straight in 8-ball for the match but he forgot to move the patch. Everyone on both teams realized this, but couldn't say a word...the shooter was so nervous that he slammed the 8ball towards the pocket he called, it missed and went 3 rails into the pocket that was patched! For the WIN!

 

[hang-the-9]

I have two that are about equal.

In a called 9-ball tournament, my opponent called a 2-9 combination in the corner, the two balls were about 4 inches apart. He missed so bad the 2 did not even hit the 9, banked off the end rail, kicked the 9 up-table, the cueball was hit with follow which then followed into the 9 heading toward it, knocking it into the pocket he called.

Another was was pretty resent. I was playing a friend 10-ball, he went for a shot, missed, and then crapped in 3 other balls during the miss. The ball he missed banked off 2 rails around the corner kicked another ball up-table, which caromed off another ball into the side, that ball it caromed off then went into the opposite side, and the cueball made a ball up-table in the corner. It took me 5 minutes before I could compose myself after laughing.

 

[CreeDo]

Well, it's not a slop shot exactly, but it's a ball that went in without the shooter intending it ...this just happened very recently in a league match. The guy hit the 5 with soft draw, looking to draw into the 8, clip it, and end up with the angle on the 6 to get to the 7.

Instead he "hits it too good", draws perfectly between the balls which barely have a ball-sized gap between them, and the ball curves slightly from the draw to scratch in the side.

When we saw that the gap between the balls wasn't even pointed at the side, we were kinda baffled.

 

[PGHteacher]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9PHgPLW_h4&feature=related

This is funny but the funnyest is in a call ball & pocket game you miss and still get the ball too many to list. The most memorable one was when I was just a kid (22 or 23); I was playing in the Iron City Pool League it was slop back then with a marker for the 8 ball. I remember the captain saying before I shot "I expect you to lose this game and have a losing record tonight, just play"

Well I got to the 8 and it was the last ball on the table, at that time if anyone said anything to you it was a foul BIH for your opponent so no one could have said anything. I called the ball but the marker was on the opposite corner. I blasted the ball, missed my called pocket; and the 8 went around 3 rails into the corner with the marker LOL.

 

[PGHteacher]

Quite a few years ago at the Iowa VNEA state tournament I was watching the hill-hill match in the team tourney. In VNEA you have to use the patch, one of our local players was about to shoot a straight in 8-ball for the match but he forgot to move the patch. Everyone on both teams realized this, but couldn't say a word...the shooter was so nervous that he slammed the 8ball towards the pocket he called, it missed and went 3 rails into the pocket that was patched! For the WIN!

HAHAHAHAHAH the same thing happend to me we were writeing at the same time LOL

 

[zpele]

So my name is a verb at the pool hall I frequent. For some reason I shit lucky shots and leaves out of my ass like a leprechaun.

One of my more memorable shots was one where I was playing a 7 and in the hill match I marked a straight in shot. Thinking it was incredibly easy I hit it hard. The ball hit both nipples in the corner pockets then shot out at the side pocket. It hit the nipples on that pocket 3 times before shooting off into the corner pocket it had just come from where it sank itself right into the middle of the hole.

 

[Cornerman]

In the twenty some odd years Ive played this game, Ive seen some unbelievable and often times unimaginable shots. Sometimes the victim sometimes the benefactor. Lets hear some of your favorite stories of LUCKY or UN LUCKY Rolls or Shots..............

I've written about both these in the past (Lucky for me, brutally unlucky for my opponent):


I was in an 8-ball tournament, race to 4, WSR. Down 1-0, I ran out the set. In one of my B&R's, I dogged and rattled the 8-ball but I hit it with so much pace that it banked across the table and back in the hole that I called. Yeah, my opponent was livid. I don't blame him.

In another 8-ball tournament, (I may have won or come in second on this), in my first or second round match, my opponent had a straight in four foot or so shot on the 8-ball. The pockets had those leather aprons over the pocket iron and they were stiff. He shot the ball at medium to slow speed and the apron vaulted the cueball back on the table. IIRC, this was the case ball for the set. I ended up winning that and worked my way through the field to the finals.

Freddie <~~~ sometimes you don't make your own luck

 

[PGHteacher]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9PHgPLW_h4&feature=related

This is funny but the funnyest is in a call ball & pocket game you miss and still get the ball too many to list. The most memorable one was when I was just a kid (22 or 23); I was playing in the Iron City Pool League it was slop back then with a marker for the 8 ball. I remember the captain saying before I shot "I expect you to lose this game and have a losing record tonight, just play"

Well I got to the 8 and it was the last ball on the table, at that time if anyone said anything to you it was a foul BIH for your opponent so no one could have said anything. I called the ball but the marker was on the opposite corner. I blasted the ball, missed my called pocket; and the 8 went around 3 rails into the corner with the marker LOL.

Quite a few years ago at the Iowa VNEA state tournament I was watching the hill-hill match in the team tourney. In VNEA you have to use the patch, one of our local players was about to shoot a straight in 8-ball for the match but he forgot to move the patch. Everyone on both teams realized this, but couldn't say a word...the shooter was so nervous that he slammed the 8ball towards the pocket he called, it missed and went 3 rails into the pocket that was patched! For the WIN!

You know the more I think about it this scenario is not as unlikely as I thought it was then and have been thinking about it since, if you think about it the people that are new to "markers" forget them and call the ball all the time; when you are shooting at a corner pocket and miss thick (toward the short rail) the likelyhood of it going in the opposite corner or the side is not as low % as most people think, I will bet this happens all the time when I think about it.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Actually, a sequence of two shots. From an article published in July, 2001:

At the recent Billiard Congress of America Open 9-Ball Championship at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Oliver Ortmann was playing Ernesto Dominguez, and he needed two more games for the match. On his break, the 9 stayed at home, as expected, and the back ball, shown as the 6 in Diagram 3, came four cushions directly at the 9. In a minor miracle, the 6 hit the 9 just right to send it into the corner pocket. Tough luck for Dominguez; if any ball had touched either the 6 or 9, Ortmann wouldn't be "on the hill." Ortmann broke again, and as if it were on tracks, the 6 came around four cushions, hit the waiting 9 ball, and the match was over.​

At "home" means the nine ball did not move at all on the break shot which is what you often get for a tight rack. The article was about why nine ball is broken. The full article is: http://www.sfbilliards.com/articles/2001-07.pdf

 

[3RAILKICK]

Actually, a sequence of two shots. From an article published in July, 2001:

At the recent Billiard Congress of America Open 9-Ball Championship at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Oliver Ortmann was playing Ernesto Dominguez, and he needed two more games for the match. On his break, the 9 stayed at home, as expected, and the back ball, shown as the 6 in Diagram 3, came four cushions directly at the 9. In a minor miracle, the 6 hit the 9 just right to send it into the corner pocket. Tough luck for Dominguez; if any ball had touched either the 6 or 9, Ortmann wouldn't be "on the hill." Ortmann broke again, and as if it were on tracks, the 6 came around four cushions, hit the waiting 9 ball, and the match was over.​

At "home" means the nine ball did not move at all on the break shot which is what you often get for a tight rack. The article was about why nine ball is broken. The full article is: http://www.sfbilliards.com/articles/2001-07.pdf

Bob-that is/was wacky- times 2.

btw-referring to the last paragraph of the article-are you the original Majic Rack originator? or had this template concept been around much before 2001?

as always-good stuff.

 

[hang-the-9]

So my name is a verb at the pool hall I frequent. For some reason I shit lucky shots and leaves out of my ass like a leprechaun.

One of my more memorable shots was one where I was playing a 7 and in the hill match I marked a straight in shot. Thinking it was incredibly easy I hit it hard. The ball hit both nipples in the corner pockets then shot out at the side pocket. It hit the nipples on that pocket 3 times before shooting off into the corner pocket it had just come from where it sank itself right into the middle of the hole.

No offense, but could that mean you just hit things hard and miss a lot which would be the "some reason"?

There is a guy that plays in our area that is always considered "lucky" by people, but he tends to try to hit the 9 ball on just about every other shot even with an open rack, which of course gives him more chances to make the 9. If you go for the 9 a lot or hit harder than you need to for position, the law of averages tends to follow this, more chances you try for the more you will make.

 

[jason]

I was playing a friendly game of one pocket and attempted to play a safe, but instead I pocketed 3 ball in my pocket. do not ask me how they were set up because I don't remember and it surprised me as much as anyone.

 

[cuesblues]

One night / morning around 3:30 am I was playing cashrider some 1P.
I don't play 1P, cashrider had me hooked behind the 5, 3-balls within an inch or so of being in the pocket,
and no way to play safe.
Oh, and he needed one ball.
I blasted the 5 into his pocket, blew out the 3 balls, the 5 hit the titty, and banked back into my pocket.
Then I ran out, no shit, ask cashrider he'll remember, because I did just about the same thing on the next game.

 

[Celophanewrap]

in a hill hill game in the final of a tournament I was shooting a long shot at the 2 that I intended to hit reasonably hard, I miscued and came off the rail and the cue ball hit the 2 and made it in the opposite corner pocket of where I intended to pocket it, the cue ball came around three rails and shit the 9 in. I shook hands and apologized and smiled meekly, then collected my winnings and as quietly as I could I left the pool hall. Haven't been back there since

 

[Bohemyth]

A low level player was up against my teammate this past week in 9 ball. He was on the 8 in nine ball. The nine was in between the 8 and the cue and it could barely be seen the long way separated by about 5 feet. He missed the 8, hits the footrail, bounces all the way back to the head rail, then bounces back again and contacts and sinks the 8, and somehow sets himself up for a simple shot on the 9 as well. It was ridiculous.

 

[miscrewed1989]

Wtf?!?

About 18 or 20 years ago I was "teaching" someone to play 1 pocket. I spotted him 10-6 and we played cheap ($20/game). Basically it was supposed to be easy and he was paying for the lesson. I took it easy on him the first game, playing aggressively allowing him to shoot at his hole. Finally, with one ball left in the jaws of MY pocket, I explained to him that he needed to shoot the ball in my hole and scratch behind it. He got down and FIRED at the ball. The object hit the back of the pocket and jumped about 18 inches high. The cue ball had so much topspin that instead of scratching, it checked up around my corner like some 3 cushion trick shot! The object came down on the wood part of the bottom rail and took off across the smooth surface coming to a stop in the bottom of my opponent's pocket!
Needless to say, neither of us could play after that for laughing!

 

[victhestick]

One Pocket

Getting spotted 10-6 and the break last Friday. First game made a ball in my pocket. Second game breaking from the other side made a ball in his pocket. Third game made a ball in my pocket. Fourth game from the other side made a ball in his pocket. Four consecutive balls made in the same pocket with a standard one pocket break. Two for me and two for him. You couldn't make this stuff up.

 

[miscrewed1989]

Another 1 pocket story...

Again, several years ago during a 1 pocket game...
I had a hanger in my pocket. I had just banked it over there trying to get out. I needed 4 balls. There were 3 more balls in front of my hole. My opponent shoots a 4 ball combo to give me the hanger and clear the balls from my side. This combo was nowhere near straight. It would have been a hell of a shot just to hit it good enough to make the hanger. Somehow, ALL 4 BALLS went straight into my hole! No kidding! They didn't bank around the table, they went STRAIGHT in!
We didn't laugh about this one as we were playing for $100.

 

[JasBy]

In league play I absolutely buried my opponent with a safety, so he 3 railed the cue ball to get the hit, then his object ball banks into the side pocket....
and....
left him perfectly straight on the 8 ball to win the game *sigh*