I was with a couple of cop friends at a bar that they go to regularly, just hanging out with them and having a few beers. The place is full of bangers and I was not interested in playing any. This loud mouth walks in and starts walking past the people playing pool and pointing to each one of them saying, I beat you already, hahaha, and you and you and you. He puts up his quarters and wins his first game, then a couple more games, he pots the balls pretty good but is still a banger. The house rule is pretty much you play for a beer or a buck on that table (the beers are one dollar in this place, yeah this happened years ago) but he is badgering the others to play for five.
Now I find some interest in playing, I put up a set of quarters and when it is my turn the guy is making his usual offer, a buck or a beer or five. I say five but I also say I am not familiar with this bars 8 ball rules, would you like to play six ball instead, slop counts, ball in hand anywhere on the table, keep the rules simple, etc.
He says, "sure, I can make money faster that way, hahaha". Its his break, he makes one on the snap and three more and puts the white ball in a hole. Easy two balls for me. Looks like I got lucky.
He puts a five on the table I was sitting at with my friends and tells me, "hey, don't get too used to that, it will not be there for long". I just loved that comment.
I break, a ball goes in a hole and then win off a one six combo, another lucky game for me. Then I win again after we each had a time at the table. It looked like three lucky games for me and the banger is pissed, he wants to play more, talking real loud about how I got sooooo lucky. The next persons quarters are up now and they tell me, keep playing him, he is in here every friday and saturday night drinking the beers we lose to him.
After seven or eight games, he has won once, he quits and hands over the final five and tells me. You play pussy pool and walks out the door. I can understand that, he liked to fire the balls in the hole. I am using stroke to move the cue with a light hit with just enough speed to have the object ball drop in the hole. He mentioned a few times during our little session how I had so much luck with the position of the cue ball.
When the guy walked out the door, about a dozen people in the bar all yelled, yeah, and then purchased me enough beers to keep my friends and I from dying of thirst for the rest of the night.
I really don't feel honored by beating a banger, I see players at the local gambling pool hall taking bangers off for hundreds of dollars on a regular basis. I have heard so many stories from bangers that were down two hundred dollars and could not understand why they were not winning against a stalling shortstop player. "I just lost that set by one game"! I have to bite my tongue because it is not cool to cut into somebodies action. No mater how lopsided it can be unless the sucker is a friend.
I felt honor for putting a loud mouth banger who thought he was a player out the door. A bully.
That night I was the David who put down the Goliath among the regulars at that bar. That was what made me feel honored!
That is what this thread actually appears to be about from the other stories.
End to this story. About a month later I go back to the same place with my friends. Loud mouth shows up again and when he sees me he is not so loud and he comes over and starts talking to me.
Guess what he asks me? He asks me if I can show him some pool skills!
I just told him that I did not think he was the type of macho guy to play pussy pool and left it at that.
If the thread said "best story about taking advantage of a banger" I will add this story.
I don't remember how it started, I think I was practicing alone and two guys were playing near me. It appeared that one guy was beating his friend pretty bad so his friend suggested that he ask me to play for a couple of bucks. I think it was sort of a "if you think you are so good because you are beating me, then go over there and play that guy for some money".
So, HE asks me to play for cash and we played for five a game. I won the first five games and by now the guy I am beating is getting mad because he was showing his friend how to play. He borrows money from his friend and I win five more, they are broke now, they leave and about twenty minutes later they show up with more cash. They hit an ATM machine and we play again. I won five more games and then sure enough, the guy makes the nine ball and he won one. He quits, he is happy. He beat me one game. It cost him 15 games to get there but he did beat me.
I don't think I took advantage of him but it was about putting a banger down.
