What is the Strangest you have won gambling at pool

greyghost said:
im guessing the wife loves that your a pool player ;) woulda never got there maybe if not for the game! very very cool indeed.
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Well GGhost, you are right on many levels. The game of pool has actually brought many many lovely young ladies into my life from the age of about 13 and on. Sadly though, I must tell you that with this one; while we came ever so close, we did not make it to the married part. Sometimes in life; for whatever the reasons, some things apparently are just not meant to be. We did however spend almost 5 wonderful glorious years together and I can say whole - heartedly that was without a doubt the best 5 years of my life and would not trade even a second for anything in this world. Even to this day we are still very close, and I guess it's never over till its over right? But yes; with that short race to 5 on a barbox, I made the best " score " of my life 😆
 
Was in a bar a couple years ago and a guy I know wanted to play for a dollar. Now this guy comes in a lot and likes to play for a dollar or a beer usually but he's just an odd jobber and never has much money. He always wants to play though, even though he really sucks at pool.

So he loses and wants to play for $2. I said ok and win so he says "double or nothing". Loses again. "Double or nothing". Loses again.
He keeps saying "double or nothing" after every game. So it goes from $1, to $2, to $4. to $8, then 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and finally $512.

Of course he doesn't have the cash, which I pretty much figured from the start, so he agreed to come work for me on the farm to pay it off. He kept his end of the bargain and I would go pick him up every morning for 2 weeks until he paid it off.

I guess that's the strangest thing I've won.
 
I was 15. Came in my Pops hall to find Pop stuck for $1500 to a guy named Howard the pimp who ran a stable of girls on the old 14th street walk in DC.

Pop tells Howard he wants to put me in the box against him. 9 hours later I've got the $1500 back & another 3 large, Howard's tapped out.

He gets on the phone & when he hangs up he says he's got more $ coming. 40 minutes later in walks 4 hookers & give Howard $1200. 2 hours later that's gone, Howard's busted but on tilt and offers up his orange Corvette against 5 dimes, 10 ahead. 3 hours later Pop is giving Howard a ride home to get the title.

Pop came back & gave me a grand, kept the rest of the cash & the Vette. Said I wasn't old enough to drive yet anyway and said if I told my mom he'd have my ass. Pop was rough.
 
Back in the 60's I won a Saint Bernard pup with papers in a race to 3 9ball. I put up $50. Wife thought I bought it for her. I remember that was a great night in the bedroom. Johnnyt
 
I was having our carpets cleaned and when he got to game room he saw the
pool table. Well guest what, he paid his way through school hustling pool.
I told him I would play him a race to 5 ( 8 ball is what he played) double or
nothing on the carpet cleaning.But if I win you have to scotch guard it too,
since you were a pool hustler. Okay. Free carpet cleaning. I was at the old
Harley dealership on the outside of downtown Dallas talking to A custom
painter, pinstriper that worked there about getting my bike pinstripied. I still
remember his name, Fink. Anyway I got some estimates and left. Two or
three weeks later I walk in Times Square pool room and there he is hitting balls.
I started talking to him and another double or nothing deal. Bike turned out great.
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I had beaten the owner of the bar out of 2500 cash at 100 to 500 a game and gotten paid every game no problem, he then put in a substitute the last game and wanted to play for 2000 for the last game of the night.
I was playing good and thought what the heck, and I said ok.
We flipped I won the toss and ran out , made one of the hardest banks I ever made in my life on the 8 ball.
The guy told everyone to leave us alone and when they got outside , he pulled a shotgun on me and told me to get behind the bar, {it was 3:30 in the morning and I knew behind the bar I was paid for.}
I have been in plenty of bar scrapes and this guy was dead serious, I think he had lost money the mob loaned him, to cash payroll checks, and knew he was in deep crap.
I got a steel door between me and him somehow and smashed it down on the barrel and jumped about 200 feet around a couple of corners and got away with my life.
My partner was a little miffed and said "He was probably bluffing" I said" the moneys all yours if you want to go collect it". We drove home instead, lol
So , my strangest thing won , was a sawed off shotgun to the chest for a game of pool.
 
BmoreMoney said:
Well GGhost, you are right on many levels. The game of pool has actually brought many many lovely young ladies into my life from the age of about 13 and on. Sadly though, I must tell you that with this one; while we came ever so close, we did not make it to the married part. Sometimes in life; for whatever the reasons, some things apparently are just not meant to be. We did however spend almost 5 wonderful glorious years together and I can say whole - heartedly that was without a doubt the best 5 years of my life and would not trade even a second for anything in this world. Even to this day we are still very close, and I guess it's never over till its over right? But yes; with that short race to 5 on a barbox, I made the best " score " of my life ��
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Very similar life story BM, different ending!..I met the love of my life in a bar (where else) and we jokingly played a game of 8ball for her phone number..After several great dates, with this little angel, a few months later we were married..This led to the greatest 36 years of my life, until sadly, she passed away a few years ago.. Definitely the best "score" I ever made! :wink:

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BmoreMoney said:
Well GGhost, you are right on many levels. The game of pool has actually brought many many lovely young ladies into my life from the age of about 13 and on. Sadly though, I must tell you that with this one; while we came ever so close, we did not make it to the married part. Sometimes in life; for whatever the reasons, some things apparently are just not meant to be. We did however spend almost 5 wonderful glorious years together and I can say whole - heartedly that was without a doubt the best 5 years of my life and would not trade even a second for anything in this world. Even to this day we are still very close, and I guess it's never over till its over right? But yes; with that short race to 5 on a barbox, I made the best " score " of my life 😆
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Well what about the new girl you met at the pool hall. Did she ever call you so y'all could get together?
 
SJDinPHX said:
Very similar life story BM, different ending!..I met the love of my life in a bar (where else) and we jokingly played a game of 8ball for her phone number..After several great dates, with this little angel, a few months later we were married..This led to the greatest 36 years of my life, until sadly, she passed away a few years ago.. Definitely the best "score" I ever made! :wink:

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SJD, let me tell you honestly I'm so sorry brother. I can not even begin to imagine the pain. I mean that. I will say this, and most will not u Der stand and that's ok but her and I parted ways on the best of terms. There was nothing wrong between " us " per say. We were, and remain VERY close. As far as I'm concerned it ain't over till u got the toe tag and you're in a box - so we will still see😆

Allen, I was actually very curious who was gonna be the first to ask - you won brother!!!! But sorry, no good news here unless no news is good news. No worries though, I remain with my time fully occupied with pretty girls, with hot bodies, that I can't talk to no further than what kinda shot u want, or hey turn around during lol. It's all good. I look at it like fishing ( which is my true love ). Yankees put a spread out, sometimes they don't hit, sometimes they hit all at once lol 😆😆😆😆
 
Well I Have a new one the other night why'll hanging out at local strip club with some buddies i won a 2 for 1 lap dance from another patron on the little bar box they had there lol
 
I won a buck and a crawl up north. When I won, he handed me a buck and had to do an army crawl under the table.
 
couldnthinkof01 said:
I love this!
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Yeah, and when he said what we'd be playing for, I had NO idea what he said -- I never heard of that. I only caught the "buck" part. Lucky that I won, because it was quite a surprise when he hit the deck and started crawling under the table.
 
I had just got my drivers license. I got in $1 8 ball action. (This was in the 60's). Kid went bust and I beat him out of an electric guitar and a slot car. I know, but it was my first "score" but the action fever infected me that day.
 
Well, it may not be the strangest, but if you'd spent five minutes with my friend Leon you'd see why it's noteworthy.

Living in Perth, Australia I was almost getting by on my game at the time.
Though a couple days a week I'd have a session with Leon as my opponent.
An ex-pro, months previous he was spotting me 8 in a race to 9, but I'd learned & lifted my game to the stage we'd haggle furiously over a 1 spot, which also often pushed up the $ staked.

This day I was playing well, having won 2 races from a 1 spot, both by a few racks & pocketing $200/race.
My friend, somewhat frustrated, pushes me to play 'double or nothing'. I'm not so keen, knowing he has a couple extra gears he can change up to when he's truly up against it.
I had, however, fallen in love with the Limited Ed 1/50 P2 cue he'd brought to show off & said he'd thrash me with. Very alike to the 10th Anniversary LE model, but with Implex joint & butt cap, & a 30" shaft.

So crazily I offered to play a final race with him putting up the P2 as a prize.
Begin the next haggle - how much is it worth, that I need to put up against it??
We settled on AU700.
Then we haggled over him spotting me a frame in this race! It was epic stuff.
Having won the last 2 races off 1 spot, he didn't want to spot me at all in this match! Cheeky fellow. I countered with a reduction in the $$ I stake for the loss of the 1 frame advantage. He wouldn't hear of it! So I offered an extra $100 for him to spot me 2 frames - we hadn't played a 2 spot race in weeks!
I risked him taking this offer, likely to spur his game up a gear that would have me chasing my tail all match or worse, sitting on it!
Eventually we settled at $700, with no spot, but I have the break in each frame.
We're playing 9-ball.
First break 3 balls pocketed & a shot on the 2 ball. An ugly roadmap, but I run the rack.
2nd break GOLDEN!
3rd break a lonely ball drops & leaves me hooked. Push-out or kick at it? I push into space, leaving the 1 ball open but blocked for a path to a pocket.
I'm forced to kick out of a cruel safety, part luck/part willpower sees the 1 struck & the CB caroms off to pocket the 5. Hooked on the 1 again!
No more magic for the rest of this frame or the next, evening the score.
5th break GOLDEN from an 'out of the blue' kick.
6th break, 2 balls down & rack wide open. Win, score 4-2 my favor.
We trade wins the next 4 racks, score 6-4...
11th break a shocking 5 balls down! The slightest edge on the 6, with the 9 wired to the pocket against it.
7-4.
12th break is a shameful flipside of the coin to the previous. Dry, only saving grace is the 9, 8 & 6 balls all frozen together in no-mans-land.
That dreaded next gear is found, with a carom shot breaking them open magically. 7-5.
My friend hates that he's given away the break.
13th break #1 pocketed, leaving #2 open & a sneaky carom off #3 to pocket the 9.
PHEW!
8-5.
On the hill against a Sth Londoner, staking a US1200 cue against my AU700.... and I have the break.
I wish it was Golden. What a way that would be to end the story!
But no, 14th break loss.
8-6.
Seeing the quality of play step up rapidly. It's how you wish you could play. Smooth, fast rhythm, 'two-stroking' every shot.
8-7.
Oh no! He's caught up!!!
My game gets a tad wobbly, & I find myself in the spiral where each tough shot made breeds the next tough shot.
I play out 1 through 7, but flop the 8, luckily leaving it on the long rail with the CB hanging in the opposite corner pocket.
My opponent, my good friend, bears down on the shot like he's looking at a trophy head through a rifle scope. Catches the edge of the pocket & narrowly misses the 8 - Scratch!
Oh my I got lucky there.
And won.
P2LE 1/50 is mine!!!


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Bartender called me one night said some kid in here wanting to play some $100 a game pool. I go down the kid says you gonna play for a 100 i tell him sure put up 5 games. now he wants to bet 50 i say ok . He says im to anxious lets start for 10. Now im not happy so i tell him 10 ahead for a 100 or im out of here. I WIN 10 ZIP. He says he got hustled. Has no more money .He has a really nice designer like sweatshirt on .I tell him ill play another set his 100 for his shirt.10-1 he wont give up the shirt. The bartender comes out says ill give him the 100 and take that shirt and your *******hide with it. I used it to wax my car.
 
SJDinPHX said:
Very similar life story BM, different ending!..I met the love of my life in a bar (where else) and we jokingly played a game of 8ball for her phone number..After several great dates, with this little angel, a few months later we were married..This led to the greatest 36 years of my life, until sadly, she passed away a few years ago.. Definitely the best "score" I ever made! :wink:

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With the resurrection of this thread, just curious SJD isn't dead yet is he? Hadn't thought about it till this thread but haven't seen him bloviate recently? Hope all is well Dick.
 
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