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I've watched guys at a local golf course throwing golf on the green betting on closest to the hole. I thought you've all got golf clubs but you are throwing the ball, wtf?
I was a video golf master for a while, never played a real round and prob only hit 100 balls off natural surface, so I got no real golf skills, you see.
My bro plays pretty well and I went to a par 3 with him and other friends of his, all who play golf regularly. A storm started comin in when we go to the last hole so we had to gtfo ASAP. We threw the balls at the pin and I had about a 12" put for the win. Only hole I won.
Hey Black i know you got better stories then that one, with all the crazy shit that happen inside the pool halls in DC and Balto.
Come on brother, out with some!
Good friend of mine Big Craig, he worked at bill and billies back when things were rolling.
Of course Bill and Billies was over in glen burnie, Big Craig live over in Dundalk, so he hung out at Running out alot.
So Craig was 6-2 and 330 and with decent shape, now all of us over at Running out know about how Craig could and would pick up cars - trucks from behind and set the rear end up on the curb.
Around this time in the early 90s there were lots of road players in and out of Bill and Billies were Craig work at nite time, 10-6 am, this was the best time to go there for action, after the bars closed!
So Big Craig would bet the road players or the backers that he would pick up the back end (and move it a certain distant)of what ever vehical they drove to the pool hall in.
Of course Big Boy never lost a bet!
At the warehouse district poolroom in glen burnie, md...acknowledged in Playing off the Rail...there was a guy who bet a bunch of people that he could stand outside with his pants down and come in under 2min without touching himself.
I didn't see it, but understand he did get the cash.
His girlfriend must have been so proud.
No one ever loaded up the trunk with bricks?
I remember a bet outside of the old congress billiards in Miami. Not really anything that unusual it was just a foot race. Mike Carella was playing Jimmy Mataya. Mataya had a guy with him sort of a body guard I think he called him Rocky. I am not sure how it came about but Carella gets into a bet with Mataya that Rocky can out run Carella. Now Mike is in collage and looks like an athlete.
Rocky on the other hand is like 6' 2" with a big gut and looks like sitting in a chair is his favorite activity. We all go outside and they are going to race past the stop sign at the end of the street.
They bet like a thousand on this. Mataya is no idiot and we are thinking this is some kind of trick bet there is no way this guy can beat Carella in a foot race. Turns out it wasn't. They get ready to run and someone says go. On go, Rocky is gone. This big fat guy runs like a pro football player. I don't think Carella ran ten yards before pulling up Rocky was so far ahead.
Sorry to say that was the high point for Mataya dealing with Carella. Carella beat him for like $30,000.00 over the next few nights.
Figures it was at Bill and Billies, I believe that Nuts name was Squirell (spell), Seriously his real name was Richard!
As you probably know Mac, alot of them huge linemen in pro football run some very impressive 40 yard times, hard to believe someone that big can run a 5 something!
Back around 1970-71 Detroit Whitey came into the Family Fund Center in Denver. Action was slow and it got late.I've shared this story before.
I'd rather not name names, but those who regularly frequented the Golden Q in Elmhurst, NY in the early 1980's will already know this story.
A fairly well-off Chinese fellow who owned a nice little restaurant in Chinatown gambled for about thirteen hours against one of the regular action players there in what I seem to recall was 1982. It started out for 1,000 a set, but the stakes got higher and higher, and before long the game was race to seven 9-ball for 10,000 a set. By sunrise, the Chinese fellow was stuck over 60,000 and was nearly out of money. He wasn't giving up yet, however, and asked for a double or nothing game. Not too surprisingly, his opponent protested that he had nothing left to bet with. The Chinese fellow said "How about if I put up my restaurant in Chinatown?" Sure enough, the wager was accepted, and sure enough the fellow lost his restaurant! It was quite painful to watch. By the end of the night, the fellow had lost 60,000 and a restaurant worth the same.
In short, the weirdest stake I've ever seen played for is "one Chinese restaurant."
The weirdest bets I've seen:
1. Abe Rosen, a grand old man of pool, and a mentor to Johnny Ervolino, used to ask for 99 on the wire in a straight pool race to 100 as well as a provision that there would be no deductions for his scratches. The catch was that Abe shot every shot with the sharp end of a pencil, so he couldn't hit the cue ball very far.
2. Larry Lisciotti was always happy to bet you that you couldn't drink a gallon of milk and go an hour without vomiting.
Back around 1970-71 Detroit Whitey came into the Family Fund Center in Denver. Action was slow and it got late.
He drove an old pickup tuck with a cmper shel on it and filled with dogs. Llate that night all the bs bagan and he agreed to perform oral sex on one of his female dogs for I think $25.
He went out to his truck, got the dog and set her up on the billiard table and wwent to work.
It was the weirdest, sickest thing I ever saw and nearly puked. I was very concerned why I would stick around and witness such an event/.
I think, I think SJD was there at the time??