Strangest runout

[VarmintKong]

I hesitate to call it the best when low percentages are stacked together. So what would you call your strangest or most improbable runout?

Tonight I had a steep angle break shot with the break ball about a ball off the short rail. High inside to try and break off the bottom corner and push stack toward the opposite side up table while cue ball comes off long rail below side pocket.

I hit it so badly that the cue ball jumped off the short rail and completely over the rack, scorching along the length of the table and back to the stack. It broke off the opposite corner ball and ended up straight in a half ball off the rail.

Rail first for angle and the rack spreads up table, bit too much left or top had me welded to the stack underneath.

Eehh? Maybe I should just rerack? Eff it! Kick into the high side of the ball I’m stuck on and call the lowest (3rd) ball in the bottom corner. Dang thang! Looked like it came from the factory that way.

Hanging out by the bottom corner and there’s lot’s of balls blocking each other up-table. Shoot, already made two low percentage shots just play another combo to the side. Prolly 60% shot looked just like a hanger.

Three more balls in rack area. Two are froze dead towards short rail pocket point, just need to come in on right side to throw lead ball into the width of the pocket. Lazy play lead to a good line, but poor speed control and I snuggled right up on the combo spreading out the dead balls and ruining the look.

Played a ball back up table. Set back up on the balls in the rack. Played the combo with the third ball in the rack to the opposite corner and left original ball half diamond from pocket with perfect angle to come up table and clean up.

Good break ball with inside to come off perpendicular on bottom side of rack. Stayed below rack with easy position to come off long rail to just below center table; beat it right into the pocket point like a jack’em off jack hole.

So jumped the rack, rail first trash, kick combo plus two more to stack several low % shots. Follow up with a great spread and missing a 95% shot.

Usually, I like to enjoy the moment and move on, but I’ve been really trying to focus on playing tighter with short area precision and higher percentages lately. This just flew into the face of everything I’ve been trying to work on and it was a joyful experience. I wanted to remember it.

I would invite you to share an improbable rack or run you’d like to remember here. Party on!

 

[straightline]

A half table full rack in rotation in one pocket. I had just put the balls out and they were just sitting like that. Got out. No lie but who believes shit like that anyway?

 

[InsertCleverNameHere]

After a 9 hour battle playing 5 aheads on the bar table with a guy and me never being ahead at any point. He was 4 ahead and 1 set ahead. We agreed to play til someone was 2 sets ahead. Me and my partner had every dollar to our names bet....

My opponent played a nasty safety on the 6 ball leaving me with the most awkward angle I've ever had that I can remember. I had to masse kick cross table and cut the 6 in the side. The table was playing a little springy and wet. I massed just short of the point of the side, cut the 6 backwards into the side, cueball runs 3 rails around almost back to where it was. I shaft jumped in the 7(leather tips back then) and ran out. He was crushing me all night and couldn't make a ball after that. I won the money in short order.

Both Lucky and good, best combo.

 

[straightline]

Shaft jumping is the limit of what I can do now. I really don't see the issue. Was that common among you guys?

 

[Poolmanis]

I have done so many crazy runouts in my life hard to say really...
But one i got in video i think was cool and funny was when i play first one pocket ghost and then switch full rack rotation ghost match and forget it in 2nd break and break soft one pocket ghost break... Then i just wtf i just try this impossible layout and got it done..

 

[ShootingArts]

I wonder sometimes how many runouts Danny Medina and I had between us on a bar table one night. The coin mechanism got noticeably warm on a chilly night!

I had started practicing a few hours a day on a snooker table. Some nights I was having so much fun that I never left the snooker table. A perfect on a snooker table is pretty sporty and once you get the red balls off and sevens behind each one, all the numbered balls are like running a drill you have ran many times before.

I ran reds and sevens not paying much attention until I realized the reds were gone. My heart started doing pitter-patter. I had ran the numbered balls countless times.

Two, three, four, the five ball is center table. Easy shot to make but I have overrolled shape about four inches. I can either apply a lot of inside english or I can go up to the head rail and back. Normally the headrail and back is a no brainer but I just misjudged speed and the heart is starting to sound like it is two stroking!

I decided on the english. Whack! Splat! Center pocket and down to the bottom of the leather. Perfect shape on the six to shoot it in the corner easy and have shape on the seven.

I walked around the table and put down my bridge hand. Caught something blue out of the corner of my eye. Yeah the five ball is blue on a snooker table. It is about a foot from my bridge hand. Never saw that SOB hop out.

Moved away from snooker tables not long afterwards. I have ran countless tables of pool, that is the closest I ever came to running a snooker table! Up to the head rail was the easier shot but I don't know that I would have made it either. I wanted that "perfect" and my heart was going a hundred miles an hour by then.

Hu