Bad pool stories.......

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pooltablemech

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I know everybody has a shot or a situation you wish you could have stood back up on. And took alittle more time to think about. Well here is one that stands out for me......................................................It was a 75.00 entry tourny in Dothan AL. I was doin pretty good, gettin out when I had a chance and getting a few good rolls. Before long I was playing Jr Goff.........and the loser got 13-16th, just outta the cash. To make a long story short............He got up quick then I pulled back 7-7, in a race to 9. Then he got to the hill first and broke, not making a ball on his break left me an easy run out.........making it Hill Hill! I break make 2 balls........and run to the 7 ball! I am ligning up the shot and went brain dead! I bumped the cue ball with my tip.....It didn't roll.....it just rocked. Man I felt like shit! Jr got ball in hand and needless to say ran 3 balls. After that he ran over everybody and ended up takin 2nd place. THAT SHOULDA BEEN ME!! LOL
 
marcus :(

I attended the MID ATLANTIC CHAMPIONSHIP, drew Marcus Chamat first match.. well started off great , held my own with him for 8 racks 5-3 for me.... had a great chance in game #9 missed 3 easy pots! i mean easy!.. nerves got the best of me.. so he went up on me in race to 13..9-5.. i figured i had blew it... he missed a makable 9ball and let me back in.. i went 9-8.. and did the same thing over again missed another easy 8ball:(.. had lotsa chances but screwed them up... first pro tourny great experience :).. easy to say that i should have done better but at the time under the pressure i folded and probably would have many times over.. ill beat the pressure oneday :)
 
I can certainly relate to getting beat by the pressure! I played Morro Paez in an open tournament. He was playing terrible, missing shot after shot. I had many opportunities but every time I got down on the ball to shoot, I'd see 50 people or so watching me. I couldn't get my eyes to focus on the ball. The bottom line is, Morro offered me the match on a silver platter and I gave it back to him repeatedly. It was awful!! I wish I knew how to beat the battle of the nerves! If I could play as good in a tournament as I do in practice, I would have won at least a few more tournaments than I have.
 
Tournament pressure and Gambling pressure are 2 different Beasts. The only way to cope better is to be in that situation more often. If tourneys are your thing, the more you play then the more comfortable you will be in those situations. I wish they could bottle nerves and sell them............Like Mike " AIR " Jordon said, He has made more shots than anybody......but he has also missed nore than anybody! You can't make the shot if your worried about missing!
 
"Like Mike " AIR " Jordon said, He has made more shots than anybody......but he has also missed nore than anybody! You can't make the shot if your worried about missing!"

PTM,

Great advice!! I can really relate to what your saying. When the nerves start to jump and I say to Hell with it and just shoot the ball, I usually do better. When I think too much about it, I'm doomed! I'll try to remember this phrase.
 
I have a bad pool story, but I'm not a tournement level shooter, so this is just a bar room story that actually happened to me just this past weekend. Last Saturday I walk into my local home away from home bar and the place is packed. There was nine names already on the board to shoot pool. The minute I walk in one of the guys that is shooting yells out my name and asks if I'm going to put my name up, so I did. Now I'm sitting there watching these guys play while tossing back a couple of cold Buds and a couple of shots with the girls when the guy that wins the game just starts giving me a load of s***. I just blow this off at first because there is always someone who always walks in and wants to kick my ass on the table. Now don't get me wrong, I'm by no means a Johnny Archer or Earl Strickland, but I can more than hold my own against these once in a while weekend shooters, so I'm the one everyone wants to play. Well this guy keeps up his s*** talking the whole time he's playing and I notice that for all the shit he's talking he is getting really lucky on a lot of his shots and that the other guys just suck worse than he does. Well about two games before it's my turn I start to get steamed as hell because this guy just isn't shutting up. Well my turn comes up and as I'm racking the guy asks me if I'm ready to get my a** kicked. I blow this off and tell him to just break and go to get my stick. Well he breaks and starts shooting and in between each shot continues with his BS. He runs out 6 balls and finnally misses leaving me with 7 on the table and tells me I had better not miss, so I think " fine, I won't" I start shooting and everything clicks, my stroke, my speed, Im dead on the CB and I just start clearing the table leaving myself exactly where I need to be for the next shot. Well after about three shots everyone shuts up and the place is dead quiet, I mean if it werent for the music you could have heard a pin drop. Everyone likes to see me shoot and was looking forward to me shutting this guy up and getting him off the tabel. I run out and leave myself dead perfect on the 8. I line up my shot and guess what, I fricking miss. I was totally stoned. There was no way I could miss that shot, but there it was sitting right on the lip staring straight back at me. I have never been so pissed/embarressed in my entire pool shooting life time. It took 4 shots and 3 beers to calm me down. Now tell me that isnt a bad pool story. I know it isnt for money in a tournement or anything, but man was my pride wrecked. ( I played him 3 games later and left him with six on the table though, so it was all good)
 
Here is an all around bad road trip story. 3 of us were in Tallahasse.......traveling around the south. I matched up with a guy for 100 a set, I lose the first one. Then one of my roadies says he wants out...........he didn't think I could win and he was tight anyway. The other dude said he didn't like the game either........So I said ok Yall are out. I played 3 more sets winning all 3...........So I won and they lost. We left shortly after that headed to Jacksonville.......on the way there I had to listen to one of the guys bitch about wanting some of MY winnings after he pulled out.....LOL. The worst part was we had picked up a young kid that didn't miss...( we figured we could put him in some easy games as good as he played ).....Not only did one of my roadies want his share of what I won, but this kid we picked up thought he was in too. He thought he deserved money that we won. After 30 mins of this crap.....I made a U Turn on I-10 and headed back to drop this kid off in Sneads Florida and drop off one of the 2 roadies with us. I didn't say a word till I pulled back up at the pool room in Tallahasse, When I said " GET THE F**K OUT! "
 
I got a shitty story. I was in Vancouver, BC and i had nothing to do on a Sunday afternoon so i decided to head down to a local tournament. $15 entry fee. Little did i know that all the pros and A+ players in the area came to this tournament. I had never played in a handicapped tournament before so I didn't know what my handicap was. I figured i would be a C+ player, but the said anyone new to the tournament was autimaticly given a B+ rating. Once i found out about all the Pro's playing i was excited as i had never played in a field of this caliber. Anyways the tournament started and i blew through my first match with some russian guy (b+) 3-0. Then i played a some guy that was about 25 (b) and blew through him 3-0. My next draw was John Horsfall (pro+), i was told he was current canadian champion. I had heard of him and seen him play on TV so i was pretty nervous. He had to give me the 7,8, and 9. He won the toss and then won the first game. The table we were playing on was terribly balanced though so he was getting terrible rolls. This table would seriously roll out about 4-6 inches when shooting across the short way!! Anyways he got a few bad rolls and lost the second game. I broke and ran a few balls then combo'd the 9. 2-1 for me. My heart was pumping pretty fast after this. The second game i didnt make a ball on the break, we had a few safety battles, and then he left me a shot on the 7. I missed!! He ran the 7 and 8 and missed the 9!! Left me a fairly difficult table length cut on the 9. I MISSED AGAIN!!! So he evened it up at 2-2. To make a long story short he gave me 3 more chances!! 1 chance at a runnout and 2 chances on game balls!! I MISSED THEM ALL!!! I broke under the pressure of playing such a good player. OH WELL NEXT TIME HE'S DEAD!! I then proceeded to lose the next match to an A+ player 3-0. I won the toss and didn't make a ball on the break, he ran out then broke and ran 2 more. It just pissed me off that i could have been Canadian Champion for 5 minutes as well as the fact it would have launched me into the finals. It was the bottom side of the bracket and i don't know why i had to play such few matches but i would have been in the final of a 30 player field with 5 pros there!! I must have had a few byes i didn't look at the tourney sheet.
 
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