What is the Strangest you have won gambling at pool

I won a Harley chopper once, from the President of a motorcycle gang. He bought it back from me a couple days later. I once played a guy in my poolroom for twenty bucks and he stiffed me after one game, told me he didn't have the money. He did have a small bag of groceries with him and I told him I'll take that, and I did. ;)
 
Won 28 watermelons and had to load them myself. He said handling was not part of the bet.


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Won a kid's high school class ring...we started at $5 a game (8 ball, BB) and doubled down till it was $20. After I was up about $60, he takes one more roll for the whole $60, then stiffs me (he was bust). Took his piece of crap tritium and glass Herf Jones ring from Barbe High School in Lake Charles, LA. That was about 25 years ago, still got it.
 
macguy said:
I think I was in that place. Was it called Robbins billiards? It had like old tables from the 1930's. The whole place was like an antique.
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I'm not sure--it was gone before I started venturing out ,,in the early 70's the place was gone--The Gent That told me the story--Buford Young--yep He won himself a Pig in that spot once--It was a little Baby Pig..said " I let it run around in the floor board of my car driving back home that night"...LOL
 
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Won a super hot date once lol girl told me u beat him in a match were going out later lol well let's just say I played my game think I beat him 10-1 and the one he got I scratched on the 8 :grin-square:
 
While I was stationed in AZ, I once gambled a guy on what I consider to be rather strange terms.

He was with his GF, and was being a complete dick, treating her like garbage, calling her names, and making a complete ass out of himself. So I watched this go on for what must have been an hour and a half, and at the point where he grabbed her by the face (apparently he felt she wasn't listening to him well enough), I walked over and interjected. I stated that if I was not in such a generous mood, I would simply beat the crap out of him, and that would be that, but since I was in a good mood and wanted to attempt to be fair before I introduced him to the floor, I would off a wager.

One single game of 8 ball, whatever rules he wanted. If he wins, he walks out of the poolhall untouched, and I buy the girl a cab ride home, if he loses... well you get the point.

So I break, run down to the 8, pause, look at the girl who is sitting one table away looking like she was about to get murdered, and tried to get a feel for her feelings. When I made eye contact with her, she shook her head no, as if to say she didn't want me to win, so I rake the cueball into the side pocket, turned to the dickhead and said GET OUT, which he promptly did.

Once he had left she thanked me for stepping in, and said the reason they had been arguing was that she tried to break up with him, and he pretty much said no. So I offered her a $20 for a cab ride, and she asked if I wouldn't mind taking her to a friends house instead (maybe a mile away). So I did, and her and I ended up being pretty close friends. She was able to keep the doucher at a distance, but he kept calling, texting, and randomly showing up at her house for like 3 months after the fact.

Some people should just be shot.
 
jalopies, boots, shirt

I won a car a couple of times, people were offended I didn't take them after getting a look at the cars!

I remember winning a pair of pointy toe roach stompers from somebody a couple of times, two different people. Not my style so I had a convenient excuse they didn't fit. Won the western shirt a guy was wearing. He was between 250-300 pounds, the shirt was sweated through, and he wasn't wearing anything under it. Not a sight I wanted to see so I passed on the shirt too. The point was I had busted them down to the last thing they could bet, they were thoroughly beaten.

I had a chance to play for the company of a woman a couple of times. Once the couple claimed she was his wife. It might have been his wife, I don't know. When I refused the bet they were both highly offended. Almost got into a fight over that one and funny thing was I would have been fighting both of them!

Some guys didn't figure they were busted as long as they had something to bet and it seemed like it was a matter of honor to battle until they couldn't bet anything else. Reminds me, I did win a dinner plate too, a rodeo winner's buckle. That one was supposed to be silver and gold, might have been. It had an inscription on it and I wasn't into dinner plates so I gave that back too. Thinking about it, I can't remember keeping anything I ever won other than cash. I either gave it back, gave it away, or sold it for a few bucks. I did make a guy walk around in his sock feet for an hour or two when I won his boots before I gave them back as I was leaving. Had them sitting on the drink table by the pool table just so everybody knew he had lost his boots. :thumbup:

Things I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, I won a few pistols and won dope a handful of times. I didn't want anything to do with a pistol and then find out it was stolen or worse yet used in a major crime. Even when I smoked I wasn't smoking with a stranger or a stranger's stash and some of the stuff I won was harder stuff. More good fun to escort them to the men's room and force them to flush it! Some cried like a baby for me to let them keep it if I didn't want it. "Nope, you lost, flush it!"

Hu
 
I won one shoe, no not from a one legged man...

I had just moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth area for college.
Me and three guys from school go to a bowling ally in Euless.
Waiting on a lane, we get a pool table. My friends, one of them is a 6'5" 250# football player from west Texas.
I let them play (badly) for awhile.
Then here HE comes. Loud, rude, wanting to play any of us, "for whatever".

I say to him I can play and am pretty good. I say I don't have much money but we can play some $10 9ball. He *****es and complains about the low stakes, you know the standard bs.

When he is down $40, I see a familiar look on his face, he is about to bolt. I say let's settle up. He craw-fishes for a bit, then admits he is completely bust.
I'm willing to laugh it off, write it off, whatever I have embarrassed the loudmouth and that's enough for me.

But my football friend isn't having it, he is pissed.
"Man makes a bet, man pays up."
Football quietly walks over to loudmouth, bends way down and quietly says something to him.
Loudmouth bends down and takes off one shoe, as he starts to take off the other one, football growls "Weren't you listening, I said one!"
So, there stands loudmouth with one shoe, football says "now leave!"
Off walks loudmouth in one shoe :)

I says to football "What the hell did you say to him?"
He says "I told him, you can take one shoe off and walk away, or I can knock your ass out of both of them and you can get carried away!"
 
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We have all been around the halls and bars and watched and participated as the money flowed , whether as players or rail birds betting on the side

I have watched players lose money, cars , cues , jewelry ECT

But the strangest thing I saw won in a pool game was a 35lb Redfish

I was fishing with my Dad and his friend years ago and after fishing down at Crystal beach Texas most of the Morning, We stopped at a local watering hole before heading home , Dad and his Friend Skip , ended up in a 100 dollar a man scotch doubles game with a couple of their friends who were also players , Dad and Skip had won a couple hundred dollars and the other team came up with the Idea that they would wager a big red fish they caught that morning against a cooler of speckled trout we had caught on the last game , Dad and Skip won that one too

One of the guys from the losing team said " Man your really not going to take my fish are you ?" Dad laughed and said Absolutely I am going to take it and we did lol
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I seen a guy wager his EYEBROWS vs 100 dollars here is the video for proof : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk5iqFZ7DDw
 
ShootingArts said:
I won a car a couple of times, people were offended I didn't take them after getting a look at the cars!

I remember winning a pair of pointy toe roach stompers from somebody a couple of times, two different people. Not my style so I had a convenient excuse they didn't fit. Won the western shirt a guy was wearing. He was between 250-300 pounds, the shirt was sweated through, and he wasn't wearing anything under it. Not a sight I wanted to see so I passed on the shirt too. The point was I had busted them down to the last thing they could bet, they were thoroughly beaten.

I had a chance to play for the company of a woman a couple of times. Once the couple claimed she was his wife. It might have been his wife, I don't know. When I refused the bet they were both highly offended. Almost got into a fight over that one and funny thing was I would have been fighting both of them!

Some guys didn't figure they were busted as long as they had something to bet and it seemed like it was a matter of honor to battle until they couldn't bet anything else. Reminds me, I did win a dinner plate too, a rodeo winner's buckle. That one was supposed to be silver and gold, might have been. It had an inscription on it and I wasn't into dinner plates so I gave that back too. Thinking about it, I can't remember keeping anything I ever won other than cash. I either gave it back, gave it away, or sold it for a few bucks. I did make a guy walk around in his sock feet for an hour or two when I won his boots before I gave them back as I was leaving. Had them sitting on the drink table by the pool table just so everybody knew he had lost his boots. :thumbup:

Things I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, I won a few pistols and won dope a handful of times. I didn't want anything to do with a pistol and then find out it was stolen or worse yet used in a major crime. Even when I smoked I wasn't smoking with a stranger or a stranger's stash and some of the stuff I won was harder stuff. More good fun to escort them to the men's room and force them to flush it! Some cried like a baby for me to let them keep it if I didn't want it. "Nope, you lost, flush it!"

Hu
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I played a guy in a bar in Arizona about 30 years ago. After he lost he asked me if I wanted to play for his gun. That kind of worried me to hear that. I asked him what kind of gun, and he pulled a .38 revolver out of his pouch and showed it to me. He said it was not loaded, so that was a relief. He told me he would put it up against $50, so I played him because I wanted to get the gun away from him. I won the match, two out of three games of Eight Ball and he handed me the gun.

It was a very old nickel plated Smith & Wesson with a hidden trigger. I took it home with me, back to California and went to a gun store to try to get ammo for it. They told me that they no longer carried that type of ammunition, but referred me to someone else. I finally got a box of 50 rounds for about $40! They are longer bullets than a regular .38. I cleaned it and took it out and fired a few rounds. It was loud and powerful, even shooting a few sparks out the side. I've never fired it since and still have the gun, the only unregistered firearm I own.

I may some day turn it in when they have a "drop off" of guns in L.A. I think they pay you $50 for any gun you turn in. Of course maybe it has more value but I've never tried to sell it. I've only showed it to one or two people.
 
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jay helfert said:
I played a guy in a bar in Arizona about 30 years ago. After he lost he asked me if I wanted to play for his gun. That kind of worried me to hear that. I asked him what kind of gun, and he pulled a .38 revolver out of his pouch and showed it to me. He said it was not loaded, so that was a relief. He told me he would put it up against $50, so I played him because I wanted to get the gun away from him. I won the match, two out of three games of Eight Ball and he handed me the gun.

It was a very old nickel plated Smith & Wesson with a hidden trigger. I took it home with me, back to California and went to a gun store to try to get ammo for it. They told me that they no longer carried that type of ammunition, but referred me to someone else. I finally got a box of 50 rounds for about $40! They are longer bullets than a regular .38. I cleaned it and took it out and fired a few rounds. It was loud and powerful, even shooting a few sparks out the side. I've never fired it since and still have the gun, the only unregistered firearm I own.

I may some day turn it in when they have a "drop off" of guns in L.A. I think they pay you $50 for any gun you turn in. Of course maybe it has more value but I've never tried to sell it. I've only showed it to one or two people.
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That's pretty cool, I would have done the same thing, except I'd probably never take it to buy-back. Do you know the model number? It may be on the inside of the arm that swings out when you open the cylinder.

You should post it in the "Show us your piece" thread!
 
In college at U of Florida, I use to play this one guy who would go give blood regularly for $. They paid him like $18 to give blood and he would come in and play me $1 or $2 a game pool until I busted him out of his blood money.

I played a fellow public defender for the right to do a closing argument. We were working on a case together (dealing in stolen property and a few misdemeanors) and we both wanted to close at trial so I offered to flip him for it. He said he would play me a game of 8ball if I shot one handed vs his two. I never got to collect because right before jury selection the prosecutors office dropped the felony count and we plead the guy to time served on the mm's.
 
jay helfert said:
I played a guy in a bar in Arizona about 30 years ago. After he lost he asked me if I wanted to play for his gun. That kind of worried me to hear that. I asked him what kind of gun, and he pulled a .38 revolver out of his pouch and showed it to me. He said it was not loaded, so that was a relief. He told me he would put it up against $50, so I played him because I wanted to get the gun away from him. I won the match, two out of three games of Eight Ball and he handed me the gun.

It was a very old nickel plated Smith & Wesson with a hidden trigger. I took it home with me, back to California and went to a gun store to try to get ammo for it. They told me that they no longer carried that type of ammunition, but referred me to someone else. I finally got a box of 50 rounds for about $40! They are longer bullets than a regular .38. I cleaned it and took it out and fired a few rounds. It was loud and powerful, even shooting a few sparks out the side. I've never fired it since and still have the gun, the only unregistered firearm I own.

I may some day turn it in when they have a "drop off" of guns in L.A. I think they pay you $50 for any gun you turn in. Of course maybe it has more value but I've never tried to sell it. I've only showed it to one or two people.
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Jay, you might want to have a gunsmith take a look at it before you fire it again...sparks out the side isn't good, cylinder index might be a tad off, so your round is rubbing the barrel throat coming out of the cylinder, sending some sparks. I've got a Dakota Arms .44/.40 that does that (probably worse than yours), and was advised to put it away until I got someone to adjust it. He may make you an offer you'll like, too. My Dad's got three different nickel Smiths, all were made in the '30s/'40s. His are beat up, but worth more than most of his or my other pistols, you never know...
 
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Grease rag!!!!

About 7 or 8 years ago, a mechanic would stop by the pool hall I played in everyday after work. Like all mechanics he used grease rags at work. He always had his grease rag in his back pocket. It must have been like a security blanket for him, as he would even carry it in his back pocket when he came to the weekend tourny's on his off days. He would have a clean rag on off days, lol.

He and another young gentleman would regularly match and gamble for 10-20 bucks on a race to 3. Both were decent players but nothing special. Good for an occasional 9 ball out if it was easy. They enjoyed the woofing and smack talking more than anything. The mechanic usually got the better end at the end of the night.

Well... one night after a couple hours of their usual banter, the young guy decides he wants the grease rag. He woofed all night and the mechanic was insistent he wasn't playing for the grease rag. Not sure why, but it was a strong no.

After 3 weeks of woofing at the grease rag, the young man finally broke the mechanics will and he said OK. The match was set. 9 ball race to 7. Grease rag against 50 bucks.

Everyone in the pool hall was pumped for this match. As stupid as it seems, we all watched this transpire over 3 weeks so we were ready to watch.

The match lived up to its hype. It went hill-hill with the young man winning on the luckiest 4-9 piss in you have ever seen. The young man and the entire pool hall (full of tourney players) erupted in disbelieving laughter, in shock at what just happened. The mechanic however was really pissed off. I'm talking Earl the Pearl pissed.

The mechanic did however hand over the GREASE RAG, and the young man still has that same rag today....
 
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jay helfert said:
I played a guy in a bar in Arizona about 30 years ago. After he lost he asked me if I wanted to play for his gun. That kind of worried me to hear that. I asked him what kind of gun, and he pulled a .38 revolver out of his pouch and showed it to me. He said it was not loaded, so that was a relief. He told me he would put it up against $50, so I played him because I wanted to get the gun away from him. I won the match, two out of three games of Eight Ball and he handed me the gun.

It was a very old nickel plated Smith & Wesson with a hidden trigger. I took it home with me, back to California and went to a gun store to try to get ammo for it. They told me that they no longer carried that type of ammunition, but referred me to someone else. I finally got a box of 50 rounds for about $40! They are longer bullets than a regular .38. I cleaned it and took it out and fired a few rounds. It was loud and powerful, even shooting a few sparks out the side. I've never fired it since and still have the gun, the only unregistered firearm I own.

I may some day turn it in when they have a "drop off" of guns in L.A. I think they pay you $50 for any gun you turn in. Of course maybe it has more value but I've never tried to sell it. I've only showed it to one or two people.
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Jay,

Another caution about that long bullet S&W, it may predate smokeless powder. The earliest "smokeless" thirty-eight I knew of took shorter bullets than modern guns. The .38 Special was the hotrod before .357's came along.

I'll second the thing about checking value a few places before parting with it too. A friend bought a Colt from a neighbor in west Texas for $40, the neighbor wanted to just get rid of it because of unpleasant memories attached. He and a neighbor got in an argument over a fence line and his neighbor went for a gun. The guy with the Colt deliberately shot him in the thigh but hit a bone or big blood vessel and the neighbor bled out before help could arrive. Anyway, when Joe sent the serial number to Colt to order some parts they contacted him immediately. First offer was $10,000, turned out Joe owned one of the earliest Peacemakers known to still exist! You never know.

Hu
 
I once played a guy a pitcher of beer on our bar tab against $5 bucks. We were in college and had no cash but one friend had a monthly tab a local spot.

Sounds innocent enough right so I beat the guy, guy refuses to pay and it looks like we are in for a fight. There are 2 of them and 3 of us but size wise we are out numbered. So just about as we are going to go at it. The bigger of the 2 guys pisses himself:D. Thinks better of the situation hands us $5 bucks.

We run out the door. Beat the piss out of a guy and $5 bucks without a punch ever being thrown LOL
 
I knew a guy who was always willing to play for pushups. Not as cool as pistols, redhead twins, or livestock, but funny nonetheless!
 
ShootingArts said:
Jay,

Another caution about that long bullet S&W, it may predate smokeless powder. The earliest "smokeless" thirty-eight I knew of took shorter bullets than modern guns. The .38 Special was the hotrod before .357's came along.

I'll second the thing about checking value a few places before parting with it too. A friend bought a Colt from a neighbor in west Texas for $40, the neighbor wanted to just get rid of it because of unpleasant memories attached. He and a neighbor got in an argument over a fence line and his neighbor went for a gun. The guy with the Colt deliberately shot him in the thigh but hit a bone or big blood vessel and the neighbor bled out before help could arrive. Anyway, when Joe sent the serial number to Colt to order some parts they contacted him immediately. First offer was $10,000, turned out Joe owned one of the earliest Peacemakers known to still exist! You never know.

Hu
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I was wrong about this gun. Along the top of the barrel it says Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. On the side of the frame it says S&W .38 Crtge, That's what threw me off. I hadn't taken the pistol out of my safe in maybe ten years.
 
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