What pool hall do you call home?
What is your HIGH RUN?
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My favorite High Run came playing slow pitch softball. On a hit of acid I still went 3 for 4. 
caught line drives in the field. wouldn't do it again. Eek
caught line drives in the field. wouldn't do it again. Eek24 in 3 cushion is amazing. I'm always curious about comparing high runs across disciplines. I'd say a 24 at 3 cushion is about equivalent to:
250 ball run at 14.1
Maximum in snooker (147)
9 Ball??? No clue. Maybe about a dozen playing under WNT rules.
I hate to say this looking 'Bias' but, not even close.
In 1982, 1983, 1984 when I accomplished these records the 3C tables were Not heated. Somewhat more difficult than today's equipment.
Still, today a run of 24 would more equal to over 300 balls in straight pool. Back then equal to 400+.
Snooker 147 hard to say where and when they are done.
When Jim Ward told me he put two 9 packs back to back in the finals coming from the second chance side. I knew it was true. I have watched Dan Louie win in the finals when down 6-0 going to 7[edit-TWICE.] So my 6-2 recovery seems Uh? okay
.Brady Golan laid it down at that level also.
Oops story alert:
A favorite $40 donation I made was in Spokane at the big table 9 ball event. I was working construction and dead money in the event. Friday night got there early enough to see who was preparing and the draw while I got a table. I see a friend and he says, "Greg Greg you gotta see this guy he just broke and ran (uh 6 maybe more). His name is Brady Golan. My wife taps my shoulder to tell me she saw the draw. And I am playing a girl. Brandy Golden........I get the wry smile as I stick my cue together. I see Dan Louie and tell him my funny story. He responds with, "Oh yeah Brady , he's won it the last (2? maybe more times). " I smiled and thanked Danny.
The TV table the next morning was an experience. I got 3 or 4 and the respect of Brady going to 9. He won again.
Another time:
Lake City got my fur up calling me a Liar or was it Cheater? Same same ...provoked me to win my first 2 day event against Seattle Tacoma Olympia's best. Say it again......☺
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bill was a top elite 3 cushion player. one of the best.
and right about the difference in tables. i wasnt great but getting around more than 5 rails on an old anniversary in humid places was not with anything but a power stroke. my high run was 8 but also didnt have many times runs of 3 or 4 in a game.
on these new headed fast tables with clean balls i have lots of 3 and 4's. but i only get to play maybe once or twice a year for a short time as so few tables around me. none within two hours drive.
and right about the difference in tables. i wasnt great but getting around more than 5 rails on an old anniversary in humid places was not with anything but a power stroke. my high run was 8 but also didnt have many times runs of 3 or 4 in a game.
on these new headed fast tables with clean balls i have lots of 3 and 4's. but i only get to play maybe once or twice a year for a short time as so few tables around me. none within two hours drive.
Why bother to lie to impress a bunch of strangers? Poolmanis is right though. These are a few remembered magic nights. I have beaten legends. I have lost to the local hero in a place I never knew the name of off in the piney woods of lumber country. I wasn't satisfied losing to him once, I went back for seconds!
I lived on a pool table for years. I was working 40-50 hours a week on my day jobs when I decided to log the time I spent on a pool table. First time I kept up for three weeks, sixty to eighty hours a week on the table. A few years later I logged three weeks again. Sixty to eighty hours. Not standing at the counter or bar, hitting balls.
I am sure I went well over a hundred hours a week when the oil patch was slow and I was paying the bills playing pool. I didn't suffer any loss of income playing pool instead of working but the nut was a hundred dollars a day. If I had a very good day and made far more, the nut the next day was still one hundred dollars. I didn't get tired of playing pool, I got tired of going to bed knowing I had to meet that nut the next day, seven days a week.
A number that sounds a lot more like a lie than the runs, I made seven hundred to over two thousand a week in the months I played pool without working in the seventies and eighties. The rare day I didn't make a hundred I started the next day that much in the hole and had to make that much plus another hundred that day.
Hu
yep in the 70 and 80,s gambling at pool was everywhere. and if you were half smart you could make more than the middle class worker without any downside. few fit that bill though. most stayed broke as most gamblers do. not so much nowadays as smart people have gotten into gambling as a way of life and income.
The longest run I have heard of came from Doug Medina, Denny's cousin. Doug got in our South hill saloon 9 ball ring game we were quarter fifty cents game. Offered 1 and 2. He declined but made it 3 for quarters. His first shot he jumped a full ball with the big cueball and ran out making a dollar fifty. Now he was ready to play for 1 and 2. an outstanding $20 lesson that night. Complete with Road stores and good weed.
Oh yeah the longest run was Bobby Hunter on the road didn't miss a ball for a week and a half. Either made a ball or locked 'em up.
an outstanding $20 lesson that night. Complete with Road stores and good weed. Oh yeah the longest run was Bobby Hunter on the road didn't miss a ball for a week and a half. Either made a ball or locked 'em up.
True about the money. I made an upper middle class income on the tables just to keep all my boats afloat and I was fond of eating too.
The downside? I paid nothing into the cushions society provides. I also never knew when things were going to go from routine to super dangerous. The incidents and accidents of my life leave me pretty unruffled once they are over. The doctor kept emphasizing I was was a few minutes from dying when my body temperature topped 106F this time last year. "Hey doc, I'm still here." He went over to my brother for support. A waste of time. The first thing I did when I woke up was look at my brother and we both started laughing. A tech had my legs spread and was icesolating me from knee to knee and everything in the middle. Pouring ice and ice water across everything.
Have to be familiar with the Little Rascals shorts to understand things. When the tech asked what was so funny my brother had to explain about Buckwheat's mom icesolating him! I'm sure when my first reaction was to flash to that and laugh my brother knew I was coming back.
Hu
There was definitely a lot of small action around even into the 90s.
Kept me from getting a real job for 13 years.
When I was 8 or 9 I was visiting my father and got a fever. When it hit 105 he made a trip to the store and came back with 45 pounds of ice and poured me a bath. Wouldn't let me out till I was sub 100. That bath was COLD!!!!!
Jaden
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My Gold Crown has been tightened up to 4.125 inch pockets and I rarely run a rack anymore.
Yeah, at the pool hall I ran in Redlands, Ca. in the early 90's there was this old dog road hustler named Doug. He'd come in and play us golf on the ten footer snooker table and win most of the time. Me and Scott, the owner of the pool hall would occasionally win out, but typically not much from Doug. He lived in his car and I think he died in it parked over at the Denny's in San Bernardino one night.
I was contemplating going pro at the time and after mental game fatigue due to a psycho hose beast relationship and the story of Doug, I decided against it, took several years off from pool and moved to my family's apartments in Orange county and went to college while working at the apartments part time as a handy man.
Jaden
Jaden,
When I was considering hitting the road full time which was what being a pro meant at the time there were three guys known locally that got messed up bad in a six month period. One lost two or three yards of intestine, mostly large intestine, to a knife. He lost considerable small intestine too but when food hit his large intestine it was basically a straight shot down.
Another was hit in the head so hard he walked around drooling for life.
The third guy seemed the luckiest to me, he was just killed graveyard dead, no lifetime spent in dealing with injuries. He got hit a half-dozen times or more and hung around a few days but that seemed better than the other guys' fate.
I didn't know this was a really unlucky run and a career where this was the norm didn't seem like the smartest thing in the world. I decided then to stay mostly local and on the low-low.
maha, The main reason I hustled home from school in grade school and jr high was an afternoon show with some other good things and often two Our Gang Little Rascals shorts. The original dog had a spot around his eye. When he had to be replaced they had to draw or paint it. Yeah, they were all bulldogs. No doubt the show is racist and not PC and such today. Like many of the shows of the day people today only want to look at what they see wrong and ignore what was good.
The good ol' days when times were rotten! I wish I lived then and knew what I knew now! First night I spent in jail was for fighting and (accidental) destruction of property. I called my mom because she would be horrified and sure I was badly injured or dead on the side of the road if I was missing overnight. I told her I wanted to get some sleep then have my brother-in-law look in the top of my closet. Grab my money to make bail and come fetch me. My mom asked what about the danger from the criminals?
I was in what was known as the drunk tank or holding cell. I told her not to worry, these were the same guys I gambled with every night.
The cops were annoyed when my brother in law flashed fifteen hundred. It took them three months or more to make that. When they asked where I got it I told them the truth, I earned it. Some at my business, more across the rails of a pool table, something I didn't figure they needed to know!
High run in the city jail might have been three or four nights one night at a time. I wasn't guilty every time they arrested me but there were a lot of times when they didn't arrest me when they could have. I figured it all evened out in the wash!
Hu
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In 8ball a 5 pack but it had two safety’s that brought me back to the table.
9 ball 2 or 3 racks I think did that several times.
When I first started to practice a lot, 5 racks of seven ball after 6 months of practice.
34 in straight pool. I was playing a lot of pool at this time but only played a couple of hours of straight pool in my life. Gonna have to work on that one.
9 ball 2 or 3 racks I think did that several times.
When I first started to practice a lot, 5 racks of seven ball after 6 months of practice.
34 in straight pool. I was playing a lot of pool at this time but only played a couple of hours of straight pool in my life. Gonna have to work on that one.
hu, as i remember our gang came first then later they became the little rascals.
there was also the dead end kids who became the bowery boys.
i got memory sick so i just watched dead end with humphrey bogart on you tube. which was the start of the dead end kids.
there was also the dead end kids who became the bowery boys.
i got memory sick so i just watched dead end with humphrey bogart on you tube. which was the start of the dead end kids.
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I read this whole thread.
You guys have some amazing memories. I tried to think what my answers would be. I havent posted because i would be bullshitting or guestimating for the most part.
Don't misunderstand my comment, i am not doubting anyone.
My best guess for 14-1 is in the 20s somewhere. Loved playing it back in the day keeping track on a big yellow notepad.
I miss billiards. or whatever its called. the game with the red balls and one white. I loved learning the game and playing it. Improved my skill playing other types of pool. As someone said before it really is the chess of pool. Its too bad there are no more tables like that by me. and doesnt seem to be anyone playing straight pool either.
9ball and 8ball is a guess for me, still got a bunch of break and run patches from league days in my old bags.
9 is probably around 3 or 4
8 ball is probably 2-3
10 ball i had never even heard of before joining this thread. played recently and learned the rules. its fun
1 pocket and last pocket ive def played. no clue on run numbers.
You guys have some amazing memories. I tried to think what my answers would be. I havent posted because i would be bullshitting or guestimating for the most part.
Don't misunderstand my comment, i am not doubting anyone.
My best guess for 14-1 is in the 20s somewhere. Loved playing it back in the day keeping track on a big yellow notepad.
I miss billiards. or whatever its called. the game with the red balls and one white. I loved learning the game and playing it. Improved my skill playing other types of pool. As someone said before it really is the chess of pool. Its too bad there are no more tables like that by me. and doesnt seem to be anyone playing straight pool either.
9ball and 8ball is a guess for me, still got a bunch of break and run patches from league days in my old bags.
9 is probably around 3 or 4
8 ball is probably 2-3
10 ball i had never even heard of before joining this thread. played recently and learned the rules. its fun
1 pocket and last pocket ive def played. no clue on run numbers.