Spoiler alert.
The gang party buses to Atlantic City and sets up 5 matches, a grand each, race to 9, 9-ball, some play even up, others given weight.
First match: Jennifer steamrollers SomeDood who had No Chance playing her even. Finnnegan sez Jen ought to lead off every future team event, cause she really breaks down her opponent.
Next up, Mike Dechaine giving up the 8 and last two... MD has moments of missed opportunities, but comes out with the win 9-7 against a surprisingly good oppo. If MD would take a shave now and then his big head would be look almost normal. Almost.
Jarrod reveals he was injured in the Boston Marathon bombing, a photo appears showing him standing a few feet away from one of the bombers. He shows hospital pics including shrapnel in his legs, ver serious stuff; others near him that day lost limbs. Later he talks about its affect on his game.
Ross & Amy had crashed the party, but quickly left the poolroom, showed up later at a fancy restaurant in different clothes. Ross pulls one of the worst bonehead boyfriend moves of all time - could only have been scripted by a weird producer it was so bad.
Finnegan is worried, Gary and Gregg are losing, Fin wonders if there is some funny biz going on twixt Gregg and the Jersey Boyz. Gregg's last-gasp hero shot fails to drop, he loses his match, so now the score is 2-2 in matches and it's all tied up.
Jarrod and Andy of Jersey are playing, Jarrod is getting the 8. Jarrod is looking good, ahead in games 4-1. But he loses focus and gets some poor table luck, and in no time at all he is down 8-5.
He's lost his A game, he's a game away from losing the match. If he loses, the gang goes home with 2 wins and 3 losses, a grand down for the night's money action.
So far the program has been all action all the time, no breaks for foolishness except for the short segment of Ross making a fool of himself in front of Amy.
Oh oh, tension time. Jarrod wins a game, he's now only down 8-6, but he's on a roll... now it's 8-7 Jersey, Jarrod has a chance for a comeback.
Andy from Jersey scratches. Jarrod runs out to tie the match at 8-8.
The pressure is on. Andy from Jersey now is the one losing focus.
In the final game, Jarrod gets a long combo for the win, but it's really a low percentage shot and he misses.
But Andy from Jersey fails to run out, and leaves Jarrod a shot - a semi-tough carom off the six to pocket the money ball for the win...
...Jarrod sez he has to forget all the stuff that went before hand, forget playing his opponent, he's just playing himself. He shoots, the ball caroms off the six just right, knocks the eight dead center into the corner pocket, the eight is Jarrod's money ball, so he wins his match, and puts his team ahead for the night.
Very nicely done, tonight's program went by fast fast fast.
It was an enjoyable pool show, the kind that should keep viewers coming back for more.
All the players were well-behaved, both teams. It was like going to the pool hall and rail-birding a few fair matchups, all played in the spirit of modern, good mannered pool.
My guess is the producers provided all the gambling funds, which is why the Jersey team was not grumbling and angry and throwing chairs around after losing a thousand bucks.
