Worst pack you have run

measureman

measureman

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The how many packs have you run thread made me think of this one.
Because I have a personal worst pack ever run.

I'm playing a guy even race to 5 in 9 ball.
I get the first break and run 4 racks.
I break the 5th rack and run to the 8.
I shoot the 8 in and get terrible on the 9.
I play safe on the 9 and my opponent banks it in for the win.

I wind up losing the set 5 to 4.
My opponent played real good.
 
measureman said:
The how many packs have you run thread made me think of this one.
Because I have a personal worst pack ever run.

I'm playing a guy even race to 5 in 9 ball.
I get the first break and run 4 racks.
I break the 5th rack and run to the 8.
I shoot the 8 in and get terrible on the 9.
I play safe on the 9 and my opponent banks it in for the win.

I wind up losing the set 5 to 4.
My opponent played real good.
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I'd call that a "Six-pack" 'cause i'd be slammin' cold ones after a deal like that. ;)
 
I had a tournament match, race to 5, go like this:

My opponent breaks dry.
I ran three racks, broke dry.
My opponent ran out the set.
 
Do yourselves a favor and check out Sean McKay
vs. Jeffrey Ignacio 2015 usbtc 8 ball on youtube.

Its alternating break but this guy gets out from
certain doom over and over and over.

Ugly indeed but this Sean guy has absolutely
no quit.

https://youtu.be/_t1q55wCLOc
 
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measureman said:
The how many packs have you run thread made me think of this one.
Because I have a personal worst pack ever run.

I'm playing a guy even race to 5 in 9 ball.
I get the first break and run 4 racks.
I break the 5th rack and run to the 8.
I shoot the 8 in and get terrible on the 9.
I play safe on the 9 and my opponent banks it in for the win.

I wind up losing the set 5 to 4.
My opponent played real good.
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One of my 5-from-the-snap-s was in a tourney. On the 6th break, I leave the nine this >< far from the far left corner. Literally, if a FLY breathed on it, it would've dropped for the match ( we were hill-hill at that point ). So that would've been 6 from the snap. But it hangs... and the guy I'm playing calls a gaff foul on the one, there's no ref, I go for the TD, he takes bih in the meantime and shoots the one into the nine, then rakes all the balls to one end and unscrews. Nice. And tons of people watched it happen but couldn't / didn't say anything. C'est la vie. Tommy Kennedy told me a few minutes later "You got robbed. I couldn't say anything but you played real well." I said, "Yeah... I know. Thanks, Tommy."
 
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Momentum can be huge. Last year at the regional BCA 9 ball event I was playing real strong and on the hill at 6-2 and missed a pretty easy 7 ball with three balls to go for the match.

It went bad from there. Real bad.

JC
 
First tournament I played in over 14 years.

I won the first two games, he won the next five.

Won my next three matches.

Last match of the night - won my first two, he won the next five.

Whenever I'm up 2-0 I try not to have flashbacks!
 
Michael Andros said:
One of my 5-from-the-snap-s was in a tourney. On the 6th break, I leave the nine this >< far from the far left corner. Literally, if a FLY breathed on it, it would've dropped for the match ( we were hill-hill at that point ). So that would've been 6 from the snap. But it hangs... and the guy I'm playing calls a gaff foul on the one, there's no ref, I go for the TD, he takes bih in the meantime and shoots the one into the nine, then rakes all the balls to one end and unscrews. Nice. And tons of people watched it happen but couldn't / didn't say anything. C'est la vie. Tommy Kennedy told me a few minutes later "You got robbed. I couldn't say anything but you played real well." I said, "Yeah... I know. Thanks, Tommy."
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I don't understand. If he shot while you were going to get the TD for a ruling, he automatically loses the game, right?
 
I was playing in an open tournament against a really good player. I jumped out to a 5-0 lead very quickly in our race to 7, either making the 9 on the break or having an early combination on the 9...Then I broke dry the 6th rack. My opponent ran out, then put 6 on me to close out the set...off to the left side of the bracket I went.

I knew it was pure luck that I was up 5-0, but I felt like the pool gods were really on my side that day. 9-ball can be a crazy game at times.


Another time while gambling, I was playing a guy I didn’t know from out of town some 9-ball races to 7. The first set, I broke and ran the first 5 racks (legit break and runs) before playing safe in the 6th rack. My opponent, looking cool as a cucumber the whole time, stood up and said, “That’s very good.” Then he kicked the ball in, ran out, and broke and ran the next four games before locking me up behind a ball at 5-5. I had forgotten about this match in the other “How many pack” thread.
 
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I used to be the king of having somebody down 6-0, 6-1 etc in a race to 7, and not be able to finish them. All the while, usually having a look at the 9 in most if not all the rest of the games.

That habit was harder to break, than quitting smoking. :thumbup:
 
RiverCity said:
I used to be the king of having somebody down 6-0, 6-1 etc in a race to 7, and not be able to finish them. All the while, usually having a look at the 9 in most if not all the rest of the games.

That habit was harder to break, than quitting smoking. :thumbup:
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When I was just starting to get out fairly regularly ( around 16 or 17 ), the hardest thing I had to deal with was missing the one. If I made the one, I got out, a lot. But SO MANY TIMES, I would get a fairly easy shot at the one and miss it. I just could NOT get started. I finally got past it, though, thankfully. But man, was that a pain in the A55!
 
I've had some bad ones, if I think about it too much they will be back coaxing me in off the ledge again.
 
I met a couple gentlemen from this forum for a friendly game, played the worst pool of my life!......pretty sure they will never ask me to play again.....:embarrassed2::embarrassed2:
 
Chili Palmer said:
First tournament I played in over 14 years.

I won the first two games, he won the next five.

Won my next three matches.

Last match of the night - won my first two, he won the next five.

Whenever I'm up 2-0 I try not to have flashbacks!
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I thought you were going to say it was to the same player.

I did that once. I lost my first match at the monthly 9-ball tournament at HardTimes in Bellflower, came back all the way to make the loser's bracket final, then lost to the same guy.
 
PoolBum said:
I don't understand. If he shot while you were going to get the TD for a ruling, he automatically loses the game, right?
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You would think so, yeah... but the TD was in the middle of another "to-do" and by the time he made his way over, I just told him "NM, I don't care at this point." Which the guy who put me in the tourney didn't especially like but I was pissed enough that I'd already gone out to my car and took about 4 sizeable hits off the pint of Jack I had and so I was pretty much done. And, I was told later the tourney rules were, we would've replayed the game ( He said, he said, no ref ). But I've heard many times since ( this was almost 40 yrs ago ) that in most tourneys, it would've been loss of game. I had never seen it happen before ( at least that I remembered ) so i didn't think anything about it when the TD told me the game would be replayed. At that point I was a bit over the top on Jack and just said f**k it. Shrugs... water long since under the bridge but I still remember it like it was last week.
 
Michael Andros said:
When I was just starting to get out fairly regularly ( around 16 or 17 ), the hardest thing I had to deal with was missing the one. If I made the one, I got out, a lot. But SO MANY TIMES, I would get a fairly easy shot at the one and miss it. I just could NOT get started. I finally got past it, though, thankfully. But man, was that a pain in the A55!
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I started carrying a 9 ball around, kept one on the desk too. I would hold it and roll it around in my hand while doing other stuff.

This game IMO, is 10% physical, the other 90% is in the grey matter. We get so hung up on stuff sometimes, it creates a blockage/plateau.

A playing buddy I had years back had a great line. He was a strong B player, but showed up at an open tourney one time and played lights out.

I asked him, "What dafuq got into you?"

He replied, "I woke up this morning, and asked myself 'why cant it be you?" He couldnt come up with an answer, and he jumped up a couple of balls with that boost in confidence.
 
RiverCity said:
I started carrying a 9 ball around, kept one on the desk too. I would hold it and roll it around in my hand while doing other stuff.

This game IMO, is 10% physical, the other 90% is in the grey matter. We get so hung up on stuff sometimes, it creates a blockage/plateau.

A playing buddy I had years back had a great line. He was a strong B player, but showed up at an open tourney one time and played lights out.

I asked him, "What dafuq got into you?"

He replied, "I woke up this morning, and asked myself 'why cant it be you?" He couldnt come up with an answer, and he jumped up a couple of balls with that boost in confidence.
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:yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah:

You made me think of something about this I hadn't thought of in a long time, Chuck. When I was KILLING MYSELF, trying to get past missing that f'ing one all the time, I said, ok, well... I'll just GET RID OF IT. Make it go bye bye. So I would take the one off the table and add an extra two ball. The old man ( Tony Proestos ) who had owned the room and had told and shown me so much when I'd first started going in, had sold it a year or so before this, but still came in all the time. One day he's watching me practice and he says "Where's the one ball?" So I tell him what I'm doing... he says "You're not doing yourself any favors running away from the one ball." and proceeded to give me a mini-lecture on the importance of facing life head-on, not running away from it, whatever the issue might be. So, I not only put the extra two ball back and brought back the one, but I actually took the *other* two ball off the table and added another ONE BALL. The next time he saw me, he just nodded his head... I was like... Hell, I might learn this game *yet*.

So, yeah... I got over it. And, as with many things about this silly game, I learned something about life. And I like that.
 
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