Your most bone-headed move in pool

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Clusterbuster

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So last Wednesday I'm in my league match playing eight-ball. I get the break, see a flash of yellow go into the side pocket and think its the one ball. I shoot in a solid but it was really the nine ball that fell. The one ball is sitting smack in the middle of the table, all alone, mocking me. Okay, I shot a ball in the wrong group. It happens. Ball in hand to my opponent.

My opponent teases me for a few seconds (not inappropriately; he's a great guy and I'd have done the same) then he decides to play a safety and at the same time clear a pocket I seem to have blocked. Since I have just fouled, he takes ball in hand, very deliberately lines up on the ball he will use to eliminate the blocker and fires away. Problem is, with ball in hand, he lines up on a stripe (one of my balls, since I made the nine on the break) and shoots it into the blocker. I bring this problem to his attention and we both marvel at how ridiculous it is that he would shoot at the wrong group with ball in hand right after I had just done the same thing. Now we're both kind of tickled and distracted.

I then take ball in hand after his foul and immediately proceed to line up on and (you guessed it) pocket one of solids and then a second one before either of us catch what I have done! Never have I engaged in such sustained idiocy at a pool table (granted, with an assist from my opponent).

I don't know that anyone can match this but at least help me out. Can anyone make me feel even slightly less foolish and tell about when they at least came close to pulling this big a boner. And not what you saw, what you heard, but what YOU did.
 
Playing 8 ball yesterday...nice run, lined up to go for the 8, called corner pocket. My opponent was kind enough to remind me I'd forgotten the 6 ball. Really, something in my head..just flat forgot it was there.

(edit) That was just yesterday...I'd get worn out typing all the others.
 
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I am playing 8 ball in vegas for APA singles. My opponent is on the 8 ball and I have solids on the table. My opponent misses the 8 ball and I come to the table with no shot. I bank a ball and it hangs in the jaw of the pocket. I leave a difficult but makeable 8 ball shot for my opponent. The way the shot is situated, I am sitting looking at the table and all I can see is his back leaned over on the shot, I can't see the table. He shoots and gets up off the shot and points to his buddy with a wink, basically howd you like that shot. I go up to the table and scoop up my remaining balls and start pulling up balls from the ball return. Thats when I notice the 8 ball hanging in the jaws of the pocket..............
 
I had a kick shot, lined it up, walked over to the point of contact, and then when I came back to the cue ball to hit it, I hit the 9-ball instead, which was next to the cue ball. I made the kick too.
 
lol, you guys are making me feel better. I've had a similar situation where my opponent and I both kept hitting the wrong balls consecutively...

A couple weeks ago, I was down on my last shot before the 8ball in a hill-hill match with playoff implications - a simple draw back of 6 inches or more and I'm golden... So naturally I dig under the ball and jump the cueball completely off the table into the bar patrons...
 
WillyCornbread said:
lol, you guys are making me feel better. I've had a similar situation where my opponent and I both kept hitting the wrong balls consecutively...

A couple weeks ago, I was down on my last shot before the 8ball in a hill-hill match with playoff implications - a simple draw back of 6 inches or more and I'm golden... So naturally I dig under the ball and jump the cueball completely off the table into the bar patrons...
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I'm sure you'll never do that with your new $1000 Predator. :mad:
 
too many to mention, here is just one.

ball in hand on the 9 ball, 9 ball is one foot from the pocket, place CB one foot behind that, hit the CB too low and it jumps over the 9ball directly into the pocket.
 
pwd72s said:
Playing 8 ball yesterday...nice run, lined up to go for the 8, called corner pocket. My opponent was kind enough to remind me I'd forgotten the 6 ball. Really, something in my head..just flat forgot it was there.
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In A 9 ball tournament and am lined up on the six, make it, and get great shape on the 7. My opponent reminds me I forgot the 5 ball. BFBIH . Brain Fart Ball In Hand.
 
Playing one pocket, I made a ball on the break in my hole and a ball in opponents pocket. I then ran four more balls...in the wrong hole. Bonehead
 
billiardthought said:
I am playing 8 ball in vegas for APA singles. My opponent is on the 8 ball and I have solids on the table. My opponent misses the 8 ball and I come to the table with no shot. I bank a ball and it hangs in the jaw of the pocket. I leave a difficult but makeable 8 ball shot for my opponent. The way the shot is situated, I am sitting looking at the table and all I can see is his back leaned over on the shot, I can't see the table. He shoots and gets up off the shot and points to his buddy with a wink, basically howd you like that shot. I go up to the table and scoop up my remaining balls and start pulling up balls from the ball return. Thats when I notice the 8 ball hanging in the jaws of the pocket..............
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I'm going to go ahead and use all the powers invested in me to hereby declare you the winner of this thread!
 
With my opponent on the hill, I played a two way shot on the seven, drawing below the nine just in case. The result was that I hooked him from a seven ball that was less than an inch from the pocket. A missed diagonal kick would take the match to double hill with me breaking and even if he made it, there was a significant chance that the cue ball would follow it in for a scratch.

As he kicked, I must concede I didn't pay much attention and when I turned around, he was heading back to the chair and the seven was still hanging. I enthusiastically took ball in hand, but was then informed by my opponent that he'd made a good hit. Sure enough, I noticed that the seven's position was marginally different - perhaps it had moved a 1/4". So instead of having two hangers on the seven and nine to get to double hill, I had committed a foul and moments later I lost the match.

Ouch!
 
I have commuted about every one of the above bonehead moves. Sometimes I think my biggest bonehead move is the day I started playing 4 years ago.:D
 
I got a good one...

Playing 9 Ball - - I break and make a ball while leaving the 1 ball hanging in the pocket. The only problem is I can't hit the 1 ball because it's blocked by a couple of other balls and I can't even directly see the blocking balls. So what can I do? I think about it for a second or two and I call a push and kick at the blocking balls hoping to gently nudge the 1 ball in since the 2 is at the other end of the table.

Still with me? I shoot the push shot and hit the balls I'm aiming for but unfortunately I don't hit them hard enough and the one is left hanging. My opponent immediately gives me the shot back since it's physically impossible to contact the one (without shooting a miracle jump shot).

Now what? Well, I figured since it was impossible to hit the one I better at least tie up a couple of other balls before giving him ball in hand. So I try and tie up the 7 and 8 balls but I didn't quite get the job done. My opponent comes to the table and pokes at the cue ball and gives me ball in hand. Here's where I lost my mind for a second.

I go back and finish the job of tying up those two balls and give him ball in hand back. He comes to the table and pokes at the cue ball again and says, "You're on 2."

Oops! I have no idea what I was thinking. It was about the dumbest thing I've ever done on a pool table. I acknowledged my stupidity to everyone and I then tried the miracle jump shot. I hit the 1 but the cue ball went flying off the table and I lost the rack. I knew I had to look out for getting three fouled but somehow I just over thought things and fixated on getting those balls tied up. I really can count to 3 I promise.

Stupid...stupid...stupid.
 
As a B-rated player playing a Masters rated player in a race to 5 I was up 4-0 with my match winning 8 ball about 4 inches from the side pocket with a slight angle, dead in position with the cue ball. Hit a stop shot and the 8 hit the far tit of the side pocket and just sat there. He then beat me 5 games in a row to win 5-4. EVERYONE was watching my match Because As the worst player there I was about to put the BEST player there on the loser side his very first match 5-0. Never forget the heart breaks...

I've also taken a shot over a clustered table at on of my balls only to swipe just about EVERY ball on the table to a new location. I've also jumped over my 8 ball by scooping under it and many other dumb moves but ....i'm a terrible player in a terrible town with terrible fans and terrible pool players lol
 
Clusterbuster said:
So last Wednesday I'm in my league match playing eight-ball. I get the break, see a flash of yellow go into the side pocket and think its the one ball. I shoot in a solid but it was really the nine ball that fell. The one ball is sitting smack in the middle of the table, all alone, mocking me. Okay, I shot a ball in the wrong group. It happens. Ball in hand to my opponent.

My opponent teases me for a few seconds (not inappropriately; he's a great guy and I'd have done the same) then he decides to play a safety and at the same time clear a pocket I seem to have blocked. Since I have just fouled, he takes ball in hand, very deliberately lines up on the ball he will use to eliminate the blocker and fires away. Problem is, with ball in hand, he lines up on a stripe (one of my balls, since I made the nine on the break) and shoots it into the blocker. I bring this problem to his attention and we both marvel at how ridiculous it is that he would shoot at the wrong group with ball in hand right after I had just done the same thing. Now we're both kind of tickled and distracted.

I then take ball in hand after his foul and immediately proceed to line up on and (you guessed it) pocket one of solids and then a second one before either of us catch what I have done! Never have I engaged in such sustained idiocy at a pool table (granted, with an assist from my opponent).

I don't know that anyone can match this but at least help me out. Can anyone make me feel even slightly less foolish and tell about when they at least came close to pulling this big a boner. And not what you saw, what you heard, but what YOU did.
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My friend call push out (playing 8ball ).
Next day he pot 10 ball on the hill (9 was on the table ) ...

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There aren't enough electrons in the universe for me to list all my mistakes.

The funniest was when I had BIH on a particularly tight 3-ball in the corner pocket and lots of traffic getting to the 4-ball. I "over-thought" the placement of the CB, moving it from spot to spot. Tunnel-vision set in and at one point I moved the 3-ball instead of the CB.

When my opponent said "You can't do that!", I said "What did I do?" because I was so lost in thought, that I didn't realize I'd committed a foul. :embarrassed2:
 
Went to break the balls, pulled the stick through my bridge hand, and jammed the tip into the end rail. The stick flew end over end breaking both the overhead light and the stick into a thousand pieces each.

Ok it was a friend of mine, not me. Never saw anything like it. Somehow none of the pieces hit any of us onlookers.
 
One time I was playing in a tournament and it was a hill, hill game and my opponent scratched with only 3 balls left on the table, so all I have to do is get these 3 balls for the win. So I take BIH and when I went to set the Q ball down I dropped it and it rolled into the ball for a foul.
 
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