🏆🏆 What is your LARGEST pool accomplishment?

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In 2017, I won a citywide 9 ball tournament in Columbia, SC. It was handicapped. There were a few road players etc...A former pro dropped by.. I forgot the scale but a strong road player was a 10, I was an 8 (probably fourth highest ranked player in the tournament). If he and I played he had to give me the last two. Anyway he lost in the earlier rounds and I WENT UNDEFEATED. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🏆🏆🏆 I played a woman in the finals who played rather sporty 💡 I was spotting her something like the last four. I believe it was a race to 5 games. I lost the first game until it dawned on me I'm not making any balls EVER. I'M PLAYING SAFE, OR LEAVING HER LONG AND ON THE RAIL ,GETTING BALL IN HAND AND THEN RUNNING OUT🙌🏾🙌🏾😎😎... (I won about $300 & a dude kinda knew me 😉 a purchase me in the Calcutta and he won about 300 and he gave me half of that 👍🏾👍🏾) WHAT'S YOURS?? 👀
 

David in FL said:
Well, the first time I decided to play in a big, open tournament, I drew Mike Sigel in the first round.

That’s all I got.

The result of that draw certainly didn’t qualify as any kind of accomplishment. 😑
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Before Covid I had 3-4 good seasons of playing weekly amateur tournaments.
  • I won a few non handicapped 16-32 player tournaments (big and small table).
  • Cashed in a couple regional events.
  • Won a round in a Pro-Am straight pool event.
  • Won 4 games against Dennis headed to 6 in a tournament (still lost).
  • Made 60 points in straight pool tournament against Mike Davis (still lost) and Bobby Hunter L-2 (happy to play those guys).
  • Beat a few top regional players in tournaments over the years.
  • Ran a eighty in straight pool.
  • And got a Master's from DR. DAVE!
 
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Being Fatboy

I sincerely mean that. I play ok, never won a tourney, won and lost my share of money as I was a $ player.

My nickname “Fatboy” was pinned on me in 86, it always stuck.

To have a nickname in pool and NOT be a champion is a true honor. I’ve never taken offense to that name, I’ve had guys 500 pounds walk up and say “hi Fatboy nice to meet you”. I always ask their name when I don’t know it.

I’ve done a couple things at the Derby with the 10’ box years ago. Was cool to be part of that.

I try and be nice to everyone I meet, I’ll always flip a coin to give action, and support pool in lots of ways. I’ve bought enough cues for several people to retire off what I’ve spent.

I was at a few Mosconi Cups with the teams in the team meetings and practice rooms and at my house in Vegas as a practice venue. That was close to being on the team as I’d ever get. I felt like part of it-even tho I really wasn’t.

I have the respect of my peers mostly. Not everyone-some people hate me. I’m not going to mention names but about 15 BCA HOF members I know personally respect me as a member of the pool world.

That’s what I accomplished in pool, I’ve had one hell of a lot of fun, will continue to. I try and post good posts on AZB and contribute meaningful content 90% of the time. 10% I bullshit around.

So yeah that’s what I accomplished in pool, not much really, but still something that’s nothing really. Sounds like the kardashian sisters. Kinda bullshit, but they are part of the conversation.

Best
Fatboy😀

Edit: I wrote this the stuff above in a hurry. AZB is what really launched “Fatboy” and all the people here who have read what I wrote, opinions shared, they get the credit for creating Fatboy-without AZB it wouldn’t have happened. I don’t do FB, where i’m certain I could blow it up bigger-not my goal. I just wanted to do fun stuff for pool-read my first posts.

I do my best. I don’t know it all, but I’ve been around. One thing I’ve never done in my life as Fatboy or Eric is bullshit or guess. If I say something it’s based on what I can remember or know. I never guess, I don’t embellish and if I don’t know the answer I’m first to admit I just don’t know. I have always been honest and accurate with all my posts. That’s me personally. Fatboy isn’t a character, it’s a nickname for Eric Petersen life long pool junkie/degen.
 
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I set a goal to run 100 balls in 2020. It happened in 2021, twice. 101 each time.

It sounds cheesy, but I'm still riding that high.

Edit: I ran the first 100 with a Tascarella. I told myself I'd buy another nice cue if I ever ran 100. So I bought a really sweet 1990 Richard Black Bushka and hit 100 again a few months later with it.

I've got a daughter on the way, so gotta cool it with buying cues. 2021 has been quite a year of firsts for me.
 
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Welder84 said:


Before Covid I had 3-4 good seasons of playing weekly amateur tournaments.
  • I won a few non handicapped 16-32 player tournaments (big and small table).
  • Cashed in a couple regional events.
  • Won a round in a Pro-Am straight pool event.
  • Won 4 games against Dennis headed to 6 in a tournament (still lost).
  • Made 60 points in straight pool tournament against Mike Davis (still lost) and Bobby Hunter L-2 (happy to play those guys).
  • Be a few top regional players in tournaments over the years.
  • Ran a eighty in straight pool.
  • And got a Master's from DR. DAVE!
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WAY TO GO!! 💪🏾💪🏾
 
Fatboy said:
Being Fatboy

I sincerely mean that. I play ok, never won a tourney, won and lost my share of money as I was a $ player.

My nickname “Fatboy” was pinned on me in 86, it always stuck.

To have a nickname in pool and NOT be a champion is a true honor. I’ve never taken offense to that name, I’ve had guys 500 pounds walk up and say “hi Fatboy nice to meet you”. I always ask their name when I don’t know it.

I’ve done a couple things at the Derby with the 10’ box years ago. Was cool to be part of that.

I try and be nice to everyone I meet, I’ll always flip a coin to give action, and support pool in lots of ways. I’ve bought enough cues for several people to retire off what I’ve spent.

I was at a few Mosconi Cups with the teams in the team meetings and practice rooms and at my house in Vegas as a practice venue. That was close to being on the team as I’d ever get. I felt like part of it-even tho I really wasn’t.

I have the respect of my peers mostly. Not everyone-some people hate me. I’m not going to mention names but about 15 BCA HOF members I know personally respect me as a member of the pool world.

That’s what I accomplished in pool, I’ve had one hell of a lot of fun, will continue to. I try and post good posts on AZB and contribute meaningful content 90% of the time. 10% I bullshit around.

So yeah that’s what I accomplished in pool, not much really, but still something that’s nothing really. Sounds like the kardashian sisters. Kinda bullshit, but they are part of the conversation.

Best
Fatboy😀
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💡💡 I THINK YOUR OVERALL "SUPPORT" OF POOL IS THE STRONGEST THING YOU'VE SAID 👍🏾👍🏾 SO MANY PEOPLE GIVE IT A BAD NAME. NOBODY'S PERFECT, BUT IT CERTAINLY SEEMS LIKE YOU HAVE HELPED MORE THAN HURT 👍🏾👍🏾 AND YOU EVIDENTLY PLAY PRETTY GOOD AS WELL 😂😂🎱
 
some local wins that made me feel good
but continuing to follow this pool rabbit hole down
deepening my knowledge of, and love for, the game
I would easily consider that my biggest achievement
 
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Beating grown men in bar tournaments when I was between 12-14. And then after the tournament playing doubles with my dad against them to win even more. It was a good time and a good story.

I’ve been waiting patiently for some more accomplishments, but none come to mind…
 
Scoring 35 against Willie Mosconi in a 14.1 game to 150 in 1965.

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There were several dozen brand new Gold Crown tables and the tournament lasted days. Throughout the tournament people kept asking me again and again, "Do you know who you just beat!" Me, "Hell no, who's next!"

Then I got to play Mosconi in a game I'd never played before and was vaguely aware of the rules.

First we lag. I come 1/2" from the rail. He lands on the rail. My break.

I do a perfect break. Hit one of the back corner balls and the two corner balls each go to a rail and back where they started in the pack and the cue ball end up on the head rail. (I'd seen that in the Hustler movie so I practiced the break before going to the tournament.)

We trade safeties back and forth 5-6 times each. I finally make one and run seven and then rattle a ball in a pocket. The thread above explains the rest.

After that I got a driver's license, a car, a real job as a bagboy/checker in a grocery store and discovered girls.

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I laid off pool pretty much completely for 40 years until my wife and I moved into the town where we live now. The first night here we went to the local bar a half mile away to get something to eat at the attached restaurant on the other side. In order to go to the bathroom my wife had to walk past the pool table in the bar. Wife comes back madder that a wet hen and says the guys playing pool insulted her and said she couldn't repeat what they said due to the language they used. Wife says, "Didn't you say you used to shoot pool when you were a kid -- go give those guys a comeuppance!"

Ar-g-g-g-g, I hadn't picked up a stick in decades. Right shoulder is locked up so bad with osteoarthritis that I can barely move it and can't raise my arm higher than my heart without it hurting bad (I hadn't been able to drive a stick shift for years). I go warm up on the second table the place has in the back. Wow I can make two balls in a row if I'm lucky!

The A-holes finish skinning the mark they were playing for $20/game on the challenge table (with a whole lot of blatant sharking going on for their part). So I put up my quarter to challenge them. I ask them politely to apologize to my wife. Ha, ha, ha grandpa. Me: O.K. guess I'm going to have to make it my mission in life to take your stupid challenge table away from you whenever I see you playing. Ha, ha, ha, they say again -- we'll never apologize.

Me: You guys are just big fish in a tiny little pond get over yourselves. After that first night I found out that pool was the best therapy for my shoulder. Then I started playing regularly again and made it my mission to tear the A-holes a new A-hole whenever I saw their cars parked outside of the place. Nothing sweeter than listening to them curse to the high heavens and (one of them) banging his cue against the table as hard as he could when he lost.

When I went there for breakfast one morning the waitress said that she saw me hold the challenge table from 6PM on a Sat. night until they closed at 2AM. She'd never seen that before. Got to where when I bought in on a busy night and there was a long line of quarters/marker on the challenge table -- one or two ahead of me would take theirs off the table and exclaim, "I'm not paying for that guy's practice time anymore."

My opponents' girlfriends nicknamed me: The Evil Santa

Ah the good old days of (cowboy/biker) bar pool.
 
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