Big cueball

[ShootingArts]

I knew him from Detroit…lotta energy, fierce as hell….make a score….play the poker ….couldn‘t get out with any money.

As I am sure you know that is/was almost the universal problem pool players that play for decent money have. Action junkies will stay in action winning or losing so it doesn't take too long for it to be losing.

I knew a guy slightly, one of the good hands people and I ain't talking about Alstate. His boss told him about a pony in a boat race. His pockets were inside out leaving the track. I asked him what the hell happened? "The other nine races."

Hu

 

[Mensabum]

As I am sure you know that is/was almost the universal problem pool players that play for decent money have. Action junkies will stay in action winning or losing so it doesn't take too long for it to be losing.

I knew a guy slightly, one of the good hands people and I ain't talking about Alstate. His boss told him about a pony in a boat race. His pockets were inside out leaving the track. I asked him what the hell happened? "The other nine races."

Hu

 

[Mensabum]

Agree here. look i like a good 9ft GC myself but i'd never say bb's are not pool. in my part of the country bb's rule the roost except for 1p or golf on the snooker table.

Agree here. look i like a good 9ft GC myself but i'd never say bb's are not pool. in my part of the country bb's rule the roost except for 1p or golf on the snooker table.

Same up here. Bar box leagues packing a local hall every week night!!
I've tried to get action on any of the five 9' Diamonds they have in there, to no takers.
All wanna peel off to a bar box. They mistakenly believe it's the great equalizer.

 

[Mensabum]

Man, I am way time behind with my high run of six. I did move away before I could push it higher but I had been stuck at six for over a month. Before that my high run was four. I leaped right past five! Breaking out the math, six is fifty percent more than four so at that rate I was moving fast!

Hu

Remind me never to gamble on pool w you Hu!! I don't care if you gave me the last 3. It ain't happening. Can't top your numbers in my Dreams.
Perhaps Nightmares fits better.

 

[Mensabum]

193 sports fans.

Man, I am way time behind with my high run of six. I did move away before I could push it higher but I had been stuck at six for over a month. Before that my high run was four. I leaped right past five! Breaking out the math, six is fifty percent more than four so at that rate I was moving fast!

Hu

About those misses... Hadn't gone in expecting anything like that. Had to piss like a racehorse around the 5th rack. After ten, every hit sounded like a gunshot in my head. Major migraine coming on. Started seeing double. Pinching off my bladder every time I bent over the table. Was on diuretics at the time, so you can imagine. I didn't have a zone I got into, everything just clicked that day. I was even daring the table by cheating holes wide and using hard low trying to get one to jaw on me. None did. That's what I recall about that day. Bragging rights sure, but piss and headaches is what's stayed w me.

 

[8intheside]

Dave Matlock, Gary “Bushwhacker” Nolan, Little Gary Flannery, Buddy Hall. I always found this a circus side show though, as while it’s an unpopular opinion with most, Bar Box isn’t pool IMO.

I disagree. but you knew that was coming, right?

 

[ideologist]

Who were the best big cue ball players you ever saw.

I love it, it's a huge advantage for me when it bothers my opponent

Seeing them die inside when I refuse to let them swap to a nice cueball, I know I am going to win

 

[Philthepockets]

I love it, it's a huge advantage for me when it bothers my opponent

Seeing them die inside when I refuse to let them swap to a nice cueball, I know I am going to win

The high ball is somewhat of a lost art these days, stun and draw have taken over.

 

[PreacherRonn]

Who were the best big cue ball players you ever saw.

Back in the late 70's at Hard Times in Bellflower there was a fella named Doc White. Back then they played 2 shot shoot out. Doc would push out to a jump shot. Jump, draw back and run out.

 

[straightline]

About those misses... Hadn't gone in expecting anything like that. Had to piss like a racehorse around the 5th rack. After ten, every hit sounded like a gunshot in my head. Major migraine coming on. Started seeing double. Pinching off my bladder every time I bent over the table. Was on diuretics at the time, so you can imagine. I didn't have a zone I got into, everything just clicked that day. I was even daring the table by cheating holes wide and using hard low trying to get one to jaw on me. None did. That's what I recall about that day. Bragging rights sure, but piss and headaches is what's stayed w me.

Seriously. What's your previous high?

 

[rick4u]

Tracy Joe & Bakersfield Bobby

 

[pt109]

Bobby Legg in the 70s and 80s felt he was the best bar box player….he owned a small bar in northern Indkana…a player came looking for him….with a backer…Bobby won the flip and ran 14 racks ….that broke them….player came back next day with another backer….Bobby won the flip again and ran another 7 racks…the backer quit.
Later, at a tournament, Mike Sigel offered Bobby the 7 on a 9-footer….Bobby offered Mike the 7 on a bar box….neither one would go to the other’s table…..bar boxes and 9-footers are two different critters…..until Diamond made a 7- footer.

 

[Colonel]

you brought it on pal. once again. as long as people like you keep saying barbox pool is not pool i'm calling you out. different game?? of course, no one's arguing that but to say its not pool is idiotic.

It is a different game, a carnival game. Why? BB’s didn’t come from the pool industry. In mid 50’s they were invented and made by Amusement companies, those that made pinball machines & other carnival games. They marketed them to bars as such, amusement. Bar owners loved the new income from the coin box and increased liquor sales from those playing the new carnival game.

Many here lament that BB’s are all that’s available in their region. League bangers here love to say their leagues/BB’s “saved pool”. No it destroyed pool. When they came out those that played pool poorly left pool halls for bars to play the new carnival game, giant pocketed toys were fun, easy. Soon after most average pool players left the halls. Their remedial skills made them nobody’s at the pool hall, but they could be champions at the carnival game at the bar. That left serious players only at halls and the lost business caused pool halls to close 1 by 1 until certain regions had only BB’s. BB’s destroyed pool.

You’re calling me out? It’s time someone calls you out. When do you ever play pool? You’re here all day, 7 days a week making 10-100+ posts every single day piss marking your territory. You say you like 9’s and have access to good, tough tables at Magoo’s but instead of playing on them you complain to the owner they’re too tight. If you spent 1/2 as much time on those tables as you spend here, you MIGHT become a pool player. You’re a loud mouth, and if no one has ever told you, the loudest guy in the room is the weakest guy in the room, and you’re the loudest every day. Don’t like my opinions? Put me on ignore, it’s a badge of honor.

 

[ShootingArts]

Bobby Legg in the 70s and 80s felt he was the best bar box player….he owned a small bar in northern Indkana…a player came looking for him….with a backer…Bobby won the flip and ran 14 racks ….that broke them….player came back next day with another backer….Bobby won the flip again and ran another 7 racks…the backer quit.
Later, at a tournament, Mike Sigel offered Bobby the 7 on a 9-footer….Bobby offered Mike the 7 on a bar box….neither one would go to the other’s table…..bar boxes and 9-footers are two different critters…..until Diamond made a 7- footer.

Mike was the best in the world for years. People forget that Efren came in second to Mike so many times that Efren was nicknamed Bridesmaid. Mike has an overall winning record against Efren. A lot of people beat Efren one game or a short set, few can claim a career winning record!

I noted the three foot crack, forgot who wrote it or I would ask them the difference between a three foot shot on a nine footer or bar table. I tried to keep all my shots under thirty inches, seven foot table, nine foot, ten foot, or twelve foot snooker table. No sense stretching a good cue stick!

Can't say how many times I have heard that barboxes are just toys, right before somebody tangled with a barbox monster. If they still said it afterwards they were invited to come play on a "real" table. What some had to be shown was that the same things that make a barbox monster usually make a big track monster too.

Most short track specialists played a little better on the short track but thinking they couldn't play big track was a mistake. When the IPT flushed them out of the woods they gave most nine foot players all they wanted and then some!

As I am sure you know, real men played on ten footers, not those little kiddie nine footers!(grin) I did love the tens. Hit a ball pure and it was a given it was going to fall. When I was a youngster I liked getting down on the next shot, lining up on the cue ball, and waiting for the object ball to fall when I banked on a ten footer.

Those big massively built ten foot tables with heavy leather pockets were the real tables. When I found a pool hall that had them I was in hog heaven!

Hu