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Biggest Air Barrels you have ever seen or heard of !!!
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Okay I'll start it. This isn't huge by any stretch of the imagination, but a year ago I shot an air barrel in the amount of $20, and lost.
I have seen some pretty big ones, but the funniest by far was an A player who went off for $220 at $5 a game 9-ball. They played all day and closed the pool hall. When it came time to settle up he had $15 in his pocket. I think the table time was almost $100.
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I was told by a room owner in ill that a certain ipt player called him for money because he shot an air barrel on a guy and he threatened to beat him up if he pay up after the first game.This player tied for 7-18 in the NA open and the bet was 2 bucks!!!!!!!!!!
I was told by a room owner in ill that a certain ipt player called him for money because he shot an air barrel on a guy and he threatened to beat him up if he pay up after the first game.This player tied for 7-18 in the NA open and the bet was 2 bucks!!!!!!!!!!
> I've got one where the air actually sucked a guy in. Back in the early 90's,before the casinos in Tunica opened,people around Memphis used to gamble at pool a LOT more than they do now. There was a late-night regular at The Rack that everyone called Jughead. One night,James Christopher looked at Jug and said I'll bet a dollar you don't have a dollar in your pocket. Jug stands up and says "pay up then,m**********r,I've got 1.35!". James pays off,and Jug goes and buys a beer for 1.25,so he has a 1.10 in his pocket. No more than 30 minutes later,a player I've only seen that one weekend came in,after James left,and asked if anyone wanted to play some 100 dollar 9-ball. Jug jumps up and says "yeah I'll play some". This guy must have been really trusting or from out of town and didn't know Jug,because they agreed to play/pay by the game and didn't ask to post the first game or to see Jug's roll. Jug was probably a D player if he had actual gambling money on him,but depending on how close he was to being totally busted,his game would jump to a B+/A level,where spurts of 4-5 games without you doing much but kicking were fairly common. Jug was obviously flat broke,and blitzed this guy,winning 1800 in less than 2 hours. We won 400 side-betting on Jug in my first experience with side-bets. The guy he was playing played other people that weekend,and showed himself to be a pretty solid A player,but would have lost with the 8 from a guy that needed the 7 with money in his pocket. Tommy D.
I had a fellow opponent whom I gambled with here n there, and basically he always won.
Well one day i come into the pool hall, and he's sitting there waiting for me, and was eggin me on about playing. So we end up playing even, where normally i was getting the call 7 or call 8.
Well we are playing for $20 a set, going to 7. And after a while he starts to make a come back, and right before closing, we do a double or nothing. And I end up beating him.
We goto cash out the table, and he turns to me and says " hey i dont have any money on me" I seriously didnt even believe him untill he opened his wallet and emptied his pockets!
I was like WTF!!! And he goes on about how I've never beaten him so he figured it would be no prob to win a bit off of me, and he never thought i would end up beating him in the end.
So i paid TT and looked at him and said, I would be taking his stick ( a jacoby ) for collateral. Well he gets all in a tiff and was like, I'll just leave it here, with the owner, whom we both knew, and you'll get your money tomorrow.
In the end I did get my money, and ended up loosing it right back to the same guy about a week later!
I dont think I've gone from being so happy to so pissed in such a short time! Only because I had finally taken some money off him and could gloat for a lil bit about it.
Well one day i come into the pool hall, and he's sitting there waiting for me, and was eggin me on about playing. So we end up playing even, where normally i was getting the call 7 or call 8.
Well we are playing for $20 a set, going to 7. And after a while he starts to make a come back, and right before closing, we do a double or nothing. And I end up beating him.
We goto cash out the table, and he turns to me and says " hey i dont have any money on me" I seriously didnt even believe him untill he opened his wallet and emptied his pockets!
I was like WTF!!! And he goes on about how I've never beaten him so he figured it would be no prob to win a bit off of me, and he never thought i would end up beating him in the end.
So i paid TT and looked at him and said, I would be taking his stick ( a jacoby ) for collateral. Well he gets all in a tiff and was like, I'll just leave it here, with the owner, whom we both knew, and you'll get your money tomorrow.
In the end I did get my money, and ended up loosing it right back to the same guy about a week later!
I dont think I've gone from being so happy to so pissed in such a short time! Only because I had finally taken some money off him and could gloat for a lil bit about it.
Sounds like Jug had a preplaned game.
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Jughead wouldn't also go by Bonehead would he?
And Tommy, are you a fireman per chance, or used to be?
And Tommy, are you a fireman per chance, or used to be?
personally, i've never played without the $$ to back it up (mine or someone covering me).
i had the same guy fire a $900 air barrel TWICE. this is an escalation of a $5 game which got out of hand, mind you. i don't play for big money, but alcohol + the nuts was enough to keep me playing. the first time we ended up playing $100/rack 9ball, and second time, the last rack was $200. the way the bet went up, i was never ahead less than 4 racks. i collected the first time (took 3 months though...sigh), so when he wanted to play again (6 months or so later...? maybe longer), i had to play even knowing he'd be on credit. he still owes me $200, almost a year later
obviously, he doesn't come around any more.
there's another local guy who won't come around cause he owes. he fired off $300 on air to me...i've obviously got too big of a heart.
i know another guy who went to the windy city open and fired off around $200 on air to someone he didn't know (and who was bigger than him). somehow, he got out unhurt. that must have been some fast talking!
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i had the same guy fire a $900 air barrel TWICE. this is an escalation of a $5 game which got out of hand, mind you. i don't play for big money, but alcohol + the nuts was enough to keep me playing. the first time we ended up playing $100/rack 9ball, and second time, the last rack was $200. the way the bet went up, i was never ahead less than 4 racks. i collected the first time (took 3 months though...sigh), so when he wanted to play again (6 months or so later...? maybe longer), i had to play even knowing he'd be on credit. he still owes me $200, almost a year later
obviously, he doesn't come around any more.there's another local guy who won't come around cause he owes. he fired off $300 on air to me...i've obviously got too big of a heart.
i know another guy who went to the windy city open and fired off around $200 on air to someone he didn't know (and who was bigger than him). somehow, he got out unhurt. that must have been some fast talking!
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Worst I saw was a year or so ago.
A friend of mine had a guy playing for $200 sets, and after a couple hours he's $800 up and they jack up the bet to $400. Two *more* sets later my friend has the guy stuck for $1600.
Against better judgement my friend agrees to play the last set for $1500 (why risk all of what you've spent all night winning, to potentially lose it in one set?!) and WINS. So the guy is stuck $3100 total.
When he reached for his wallet to pay up, the guy only has a single Benjamin in it. Ouch.
A friend of mine had a guy playing for $200 sets, and after a couple hours he's $800 up and they jack up the bet to $400. Two *more* sets later my friend has the guy stuck for $1600.
Against better judgement my friend agrees to play the last set for $1500 (why risk all of what you've spent all night winning, to potentially lose it in one set?!) and WINS. So the guy is stuck $3100 total.
When he reached for his wallet to pay up, the guy only has a single Benjamin in it. Ouch.
Not sure I have heard of any. The only one I was involved in was I was playing a guy $30/set race to 5 9ball. He was getting backed by a guy he came to the tourney with. I won the first set, he got the money from his buddy and paid me. We played again and I won. Then he wanted to play for $100 race to 9. i said thats a long race so we settles on race to 7 for 75. I was up 7-1 when he missed a 9 and quit the match. He went to his buddy to get the money and his buddy told him he didn't authorize playing for $75 so the money was on him. He didn't have it and the ATM was offline. He said "keep my cues for now and I'll come back tomorrow and give you $100 for the trouble." I said fine...he never showed up again. His cue was probably homemade, kinda a POS with a Meucci shaft. Then there was a Kangaroo Jumper jump cue and a 2x2 case. I sold his playing cue for $100 so i got my money out of it.
When I was about 19 I found some doofus who would play me for $1 a game at eight ball. I let him win 40 or 50 games (dang he was PATHETIC), then stiffed him; I also snuck out and stiffed him for the table time. What a loser that guy was - just clueless. I wonder what ever happened to him - probably drunk or in some kind of institution (or both).
Williebetmore said:
Now that's funny.....
DidHeStiffMe said:
Small world. That would be at the student union of the University of Illinois. I remember it like it was yesterday. While the loser was racking the balls a friend and I were talking. I told him about the bet and he ask “Will he bet more ?” Of course the answer was no but this lose and dash artist perked up like he had just heard his own name for the first time. In retrospect I guess he had.
I have to go now, Thursday morning is all the Jack Daniel’s you can drink here in the day room.
I've heard of lots of 'em over the years but can't remember any specific off the top of my head. My own personal experience: My BD subscription was due and I was broke. Went to the pool room and played a local guy Straight pool, 75 points per game. Won both games, went home and sent in my subscription. I think it was only $10 a year at the time, so two games at $5 per + tt. I have a complete run, from #1 to the present issue.
I played a guy $ 10 dollar a ball razzle...I told him straight out I was low on cash and I would pay him later he agreed probably figuring he had the best of it in a low cash situation.....Well in about 5 racks I was up $ 150 and he quit While not paying in a loss is bad, playing on Nerve can amp up your game or just fold it completley...
Another 4 way Razzle game $5 bucks a ball a guy ran out of $$$ so we let him write out an IOUs as we were playing with Poker chips...So he gets beat everybody grabs the cash I get stuck with $ 250 in IOUs...He writes me a bad check ...A few weeks later he makes good...
The best story I ever heard was a guy who with 5 bucks in his pocket beat a couple of chumps out of 750 bucks
While not paying in a loss is bad, playing on Nerve can amp up your game or just fold it completley...Another 4 way Razzle game $5 bucks a ball a guy ran out of $$$ so we let him write out an IOUs as we were playing with Poker chips...So he gets beat everybody grabs the cash I get stuck with $ 250 in IOUs...He writes me a bad check
...A few weeks later he makes good...The best story I ever heard was a guy who with 5 bucks in his pocket beat a couple of chumps out of 750 bucks
A couple of months ago I played a guy who was trying to impress some girls. We bet $5 a game of 9 ball. Now, I rarely play 9 ball for cash but this guy was really out of his league here. I beat him 11 straight games before he quit. I then ask where my $55 was and he replied that he only had a couple of dollars on him.
Considering I have shot an air barrel and lost before, I let him off. I figure now I am even with the world.
Considering I have shot an air barrel and lost before, I let him off. I figure now I am even with the world.
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