Some big-mouth wanna-be road player rolls in after a big tourney and asks who won. Only 15 people left in the room. He tells the winner chilling in a chair I’m 570, you’re 693?, I’ll play you 10 ball race to 7 even you just have to make the money balls left handed. That’s the handicap. The winner replies “hmm.. that’s a lot of weight I don’t know how much are you thinking”. “We can play cheap, $300 a set”. Winner says ok I try, 2 sets minimum though, let’s post up. They post up and clarify all the rules. It was so hard for me to keep my mouth shut but I didn’t want to kill the action. The winner was left handed. Got a better story?
Dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in pool!
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Don't know if it was better, but it was pretty funny.
Cliff brings a backer in the pool room and starts playing a guy 100 dollar a game 1 pocket, giving him 10 to 6 , he should have been stealing .Now the player and his backer had put in 50 each and were taking a flyer at him. The guy wins the first game loses the second wins the third and they go back and forth a few games and the backer starts playing 5 or 10 dollar one pocket 3 tables away and stops paying attention. 10 or 15 minutes later Cliff finally gets 1 game ahead and as he is breaking the balls on the air barrel game , the backer mutters "I'm out, Cliff sells out on the break and the guy gets up and runs out, and the backer goes and collects the money. They end up winning 1700 off Cliffs backer , on the I'm out, air barrel ploy, As I always say. "There's a lot more to this game than making balls".
Cliff brings a backer in the pool room and starts playing a guy 100 dollar a game 1 pocket, giving him 10 to 6 , he should have been stealing .Now the player and his backer had put in 50 each and were taking a flyer at him. The guy wins the first game loses the second wins the third and they go back and forth a few games and the backer starts playing 5 or 10 dollar one pocket 3 tables away and stops paying attention. 10 or 15 minutes later Cliff finally gets 1 game ahead and as he is breaking the balls on the air barrel game , the backer mutters "I'm out, Cliff sells out on the break and the guy gets up and runs out, and the backer goes and collects the money. They end up winning 1700 off Cliffs backer , on the I'm out, air barrel ploy, As I always say. "There's a lot more to this game than making balls".
Cuz they only had a hundred bucks between them. Freakin’ sweet backer buddy!
Sure it does.
Cliff got a game ahead and got paid. Had he gotten 2 games ahead they woulda stuffed him for the last game.
Air barrel.
Appreciating customer service with proper language. What does it take for someone to say Thank You, I appreciate the work you are doing and its ok if you are working here temporarily.
How many women get catty when they see someone rising up getting noticed by men? Same problem for guys.
Its a pool club, not an admissions competition. No one gets more points or
higher rank, just show up and play pool. Or practice customer service, no ones wants a trial by fire, especially me.
How many women get catty when they see someone rising up getting noticed by men? Same problem for guys.
Its a pool club, not an admissions competition. No one gets more points or
higher rank, just show up and play pool. Or practice customer service, no ones wants a trial by fire, especially me.
bb what is an air barrel ploy and how did that ploy make them 1700.
and once the backer says im out cliff doesnt and shouldnt let the game proceed he was in. its over. he likely wont get paid if he wins it.
and cliff didnt make the player show enough money to play 100 a game or put up for the games. seems like he has been in pool rooms before.
and once the backer says im out cliff doesnt and shouldnt let the game proceed he was in. its over. he likely wont get paid if he wins it.
and cliff didnt make the player show enough money to play 100 a game or put up for the games. seems like he has been in pool rooms before.
The player and the backer prob didn't tell Cliff the backer was out.
Cliff never got to 2 ahead, so the opponent/ backer never had to show they didn't have money to pay for a second game down.
I agree Cliff got a little out gambled but he's bet so often I am sure $100 a game with no post was common.
And one would think Cliff jacked it up...and still was only chasing his own$.
Out (cheat) gambled.
(And justdum is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in pool)
FN idiot thousandish and two are in the same area as I was going to do the same
but I don't have any involvement in the house but it would be fun to get it done 
and the first one is a bit mah and a bit more like it is the only way I can get a i in the past azb weeks you ever need it eueyywu eueuyue use it and it will help you with the other ones and a unique combination.
FN idiot thousandish and two are in the same area as I was going to do the same
but I don't have any involvement in the house but it would be fun to get it done and the first one is a bit mah and a bit more like it is the only way I can get a i in the past azb weeks you ever need it eueyywu eueuyue use it and it will help you with the other ones and a unique combination.WobblyStroke
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I shared this recently bc it was just a crazy thing to hear come out of someone's mouth in a pool hall but I will put it here as it is def the stupidest thing I've seen. This happened a few weeks ago....
So I just get to my table next to a group of 20something macho types in the corner and start hitting some balls. Bam. Ball off the table. A few min later, again a ball flies off. Then I'm down on a shot and two balls fly off, one of them a cue ball which flies over my shaft and ends up a cpl tables past me. So I turn to the guys and ask em wtf they doin? The guy who just shot the balls off wasn't even apologetic about it and said:
"It's easier to knock em off than knock em in".
So I just get to my table next to a group of 20something macho types in the corner and start hitting some balls. Bam. Ball off the table. A few min later, again a ball flies off. Then I'm down on a shot and two balls fly off, one of them a cue ball which flies over my shaft and ends up a cpl tables past me. So I turn to the guys and ask em wtf they doin? The guy who just shot the balls off wasn't even apologetic about it and said:
"It's easier to knock em off than knock em in".
That’s fantastic.
SeniorTom
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lol, I think many in here would love to give you a permanent day off, or better yet, a permanent forever off. You love the attention you get from making the dumbest comments in the world! March on brother.
Agreed.
His employer must get a Work Opportunity Tax Credit.
There is a very old Mark Twain story that's about the same. Evidently pool players are slow to learn.
But in terms of dumb, I don't think your story holds a candle to a group who took the pool balls to the carom table, racked up eight ball, and took several shots before they figured the table was funny. It turns out the balls won't actually fit into the dust holes at the corners. They tried pushing one in by hand.
The Twain story:
Speech, April 24, 1906
The full text:
The game of billiards has destroyed my naturally sweet disposition. Once, when I was an underpaid reporter in Virginia City, whenever I wished to play billiards I went out to look for an easy mark. One day a stranger came to town and opened a billiard parlor. I looked him over casually. When he proposed a game, I answered, “All right.”
“Just knock the balls around a little so that I can get your gait,” he said; and when I had done so, he remarked: “I will be perfectly fair with you. I'll play you left-handed.” I felt hurt, for he was cross-eyed, freckled, and had red hair, and I determined to teach him a lesson. He won first shot, ran out, took my half-dollar, and all I got was the opportunity to chalk my cue.
“If you can play like that with your left hand,” I said, “I’d like to see you play with your right.”
“I can’t,” he said. “I’m left-handed.”
I've seen this a bunch of times! Always got a good laugh out of it. The place also had a snooker table, and the no0bs would bring the pool balls to that table pretty often as well.
My first poolroom in Bakersfield got so busy on Friday and Saturday nights that I would have a waiting list of eight to ten names. We had 22 tables, 20 pool tables and two snooker tables.
I would offer people the option to play pool on a snooker table rather than go on the wait list. Sure enough I rented those two tables as well! True story
