Biggest Air Barrels you have ever seen or heard of !!!

The Kiss said:
Its a New England /East coast game...called Chicago 61 other places..Fun game....can lose you mind and your money playing that game:D quickly....
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Oh, I know what it is, just never heard anyone outside of Binghamton call it that.:) Used to be a TON of arguments over that game and it got a bunch of people barred for a couple months at a time. LOL!!
 
> No,Jughead and Bonehead were 2 totally different guys,but I know both. I was also not a fireman,LOL. Jug was the master of that move,it worked for him several more times,but only on the unsuspecting,and as far as I know,he never lost like that. Tommy D.
 
Been quite a few years back, this player and backer were up 5 large and the opponent was broke, but he had a nice vehicle outside that matched the title. They played, the guy lost his car later the winners checked the vin #s, guess they should of looked earlier. Don't know what happened to the car.
 
I once saw a guy that was a regular at a pool room when the action was great. He would come in a bet anywhere from $10.00 to $500.00 a game, never beat anybody for 3 or 4 months. Would blow anything from $2,000.00 to $10,000.00 a week and always paid off. Well a known golfer from my home town who also shot pool, and paid off if you could beat him on the golf course, played the guy and lost $25,000.00 on the wire. He told him he was going to get the money and wait there until he returned. He would have stood a better chance of winning the tour de france than to get paid by this worthless maggot. The only good thing that came out of it was the action man still came to the pool room and played, and lost, and paid off while the worthless golfer stayed out of the pool room.
 
I've never shot an airbarrel at anyone, but I have "bet all I had on me" on a single game or set in the hopes that I would win and keep going. It is a great feeling when you start at one pocket for $40 a game and walk out with three or four hundred (cause' they keep jacking it up to get even, you keep letting them, and they keep losing).

I have never had the nerve to shoot an air barrel.

Here is something bad that happened to me. A guy wanted to play $100 9 ball sets. We posted up a set. I won 9-4. He grabbed the ENTIRE post, and ran out like a freakin' mongoose. It happened before I realized what the hell was going on. That sucked!
 
I heard a story about Richie Rich was playing a guy and when he went to the bathroom, the guy stole his cues and the money posted on the light.
 
Pretty good player from the area I grew up was playing a wanna-be roadie for some pretty good cash. Sets over, the roadie lost and tried to run out the door because he was bust. A whole bunch of us ran outside after him, I was one of the last ones out the door, but by the time I got out there.... the winner had him on the ground stabbing the crap out of the roadie. He ended up surviving it, and seemed to learn his lesson from it. I seriously doubt he made that mistake again. I know he didnt in that neck of the woods.
Chuck
 
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i was playing a guy named jaime in the dallas area, hes not a very good player but he can play. we were racing to ten for $100, and i was on the hill and breaking and he was at like 5 games. he said go ahead and break i gotta use the phone, and he went outside. well, i broke and i could see him through the window on his phone and ten minutes went by so i started talkin to other people, next thing i know he dashed towards his car and peeled out.

one year later i see him at a bar tournament and walks up to me acknowledging that he stiffed me and that hes sorry and that hell pay me back whenever he wins the tourney. next thing you know i beat him in the finals and win $250 with the calcutta and while hes getting his second place money ($40) i grab his Joss cue and walk out the door.

almost another year later i run into him again and he wants to fight. i told him that i have an awesome cue that im willing to sell to him. to make a long story short i sold him back his Joss cue for $200. I finally won one!!!!!!!!
 
Air barrel....

I played this guy I knew once for $300 sets. We were paying off after each set. I won the first. He paid off. I won the 2nd and he excused himself to the bathroom and then hightailed it out the back door. I learn later that he moved to another state.

Flashforward 5 years.

I see this guy in the same pool hall, and unflustered, I pretend that everything is cool. We exchange pleasantries and then agree to play some sets. We play for...you guessed it...$300. I win the first set, and he pays off. He wins the 2nd set, and I said that's enough pool for me tonight and start to pack up. Naturally, he asks for his money....I said that you can deduct it from the set you owed me 5 years ago.

He was pissed, but cooled off faily quickly....

I know we're not talking huge money...but I thought sorta funny...

Regards,

Doug
 
i was giving a very very good player in town a ride home (yup the best players cant afford a car) and he took me into a neighborhood that was not his to buy drugs. well he gets out of my car and when i start to leave i notice his case is still in my car. so when i look for him hes jumping back in my car sayin that the cops are coming. first of all i dont do drugs and i looked like that guy on COPS saying that i was just giving him a ride somewhere. i wind up gettin $400 in fines.

a month later im staking him for $200 sets and he wins us $800 and i dont give him shit. why you ask, bc right off the bat i get half of all winnings for staking him, and the other $400 for the fines he cost me that night. he was pissed but understood. itt took him all day to win that money so i bought him a beer.
 
Playing on Ass (Air barrels)

I'll give you all one of my secret road stories.
I once put a spread down to play Archie Karas. Archie the Greek, from Las Vegas. He's the highest rolling man of all time. Nobody has ever gambled in the history of the world like Archie Karas. He was like $50,000,000 winner at the Horseshoe Casino. He had played the owner of the Mirage Casino, Bobby Baldwin, pool on his nerve, and ended up winning about a million. Then he went on to win $50,000,000 playing dice.
My cohorts told him that there's a billionaire in Pennsylvania that likes to play pool and gambles really, really high -- which there is such a guy -- a gambling degenerate who can't play at all. These guys told him they could get him a game with the guy. So they got him to go to PA, to some little town -- and planted in that town is me. I'm the billionaire.
Archie knows this guy is eccentric, he don't dress fancy, or wear jewelry, so they passed me off as the guy. We meet, we go to the poolroom; we're going to play some 8-Ball. I say, 'What do you want to play for Archie?' We kicked it off at $40,000 a game! Archie has in his pocket $200,000 in $5,000 and $25,000 chips from the Horseshoe Casino.
So the first game of 8-ball we played for $40,000. He broke, didn't make nothing and I run out. It was an easy layout. He reaches in his pocket and gives me eight $5,000 chips. I break I don't make nothing, he runs out. Another easy layout, I give him back the $40,000. Now I got a little shaky. I could beat him; but we're playing $40,000 a game and I don't have a quarter! None of us had that kind of money. There ain't no paying him off. What are we going to pay him with? After stalling and changing the bet, I ended up beating him out of $100,000 the first night. He paid me off with four $25,000 chips.

For the full version, including the end of the story, you'll have to wait until my next book comes out in Oct., The GosPool, According to the Beard.
the Beard
 
Freddy the beard,

I think I would have come close to shytting my pants if I would have seen that guy run out. Expecially if you dont have anything to pay him with.

The guy I mention'd who airbarrell'd me in my earlier post, He was playing a asian guy in town who everyone knows, and he shoots damn good! He would practice on a 9ft triple shimm! and run out consistently! Anyways, the asian is playing this guy for 50$ a set, and at the end of the nite is stuck for 200$.

Well needless to say he didnt have anymoney on him, So the guy he's playing doesnt believe him, and tackles him on the way out and litterally holds him down and searches through all his pockets and his wallet and almost every place possible to see if he's got any $ stashed on him.

But theres nothing. It was a amusing situation because the guy who ended up being stiff'd for the $$ has done this several times before, or he'll give you the money the next day, but in a foreign currency lol
 
Only Ronnie!

A couple of years ago we were in Houston at the Slick Willies on Monroe and Ronnie Allen was there and going through his routine.
RA is begging Rick to play and finally Rick gets 9-7 which figures is the nuts.
They begin play and start at $100 per game. The 1st game takes forever, but Ronnie finally wins it. Rick pays off and insists on playing for $200. RA says ok and this game also takes forever, Rick wins the 2nd game for $200. Well, Ronnie unscrews and tells Rick that the game is too tough. Rick is all smiles and has the look like he had just really proved something.
A few minutes later, Rick reminds Ronnie that he owes him $200.
Ronnie says, oh yea, I'm gonna have to owe ya. Rick says well at least give back the hundred! Ronnie belts out, what give you my last hundred, are you nuts? I thought there was going to be a murder.
 
freddy the beard said:
I'll give you all one of my secret road stories.
I once put a spread down to play Archie Karas. Archie the Greek, from Las Vegas. He's the highest rolling man of all time. Nobody has ever gambled in the history of the world like Archie Karas. He was like $50,000,000 winner at the Horseshoe Casino. He had played the owner of the Mirage Casino, Bobby Baldwin, pool on his nerve, and ended up winning about a million. Then he went on to win $50,000,000 playing dice.
My cohorts told him that there's a billionaire in Pennsylvania that likes to play pool and gambles really, really high -- which there is such a guy -- a gambling degenerate who can't play at all. These guys told him they could get him a game with the guy. So they got him to go to PA, to some little town -- and planted in that town is me. I'm the billionaire.
Archie knows this guy is eccentric, he don't dress fancy, or wear jewelry, so they passed me off as the guy. We meet, we go to the poolroom; we're going to play some 8-Ball. I say, 'What do you want to play for Archie?' We kicked it off at $40,000 a game! Archie has in his pocket $200,000 in $5,000 and $25,000 chips from the Horseshoe Casino.
So the first game of 8-ball we played for $40,000. He broke, didn't make nothing and I run out. It was an easy layout. He reaches in his pocket and gives me eight $5,000 chips. I break I don't make nothing, he runs out. Another easy layout, I give him back the $40,000. Now I got a little shaky. I could beat him; but we're playing $40,000 a game and I don't have a quarter! None of us had that kind of money. There ain't no paying him off. What are we going to pay him with? After stalling and changing the bet, I ended up beating him out of $100,000 the first night. He paid me off with four $25,000 chips.

For the full version, including the end of the story, you'll have to wait until my next book comes out in Oct., The GosPool, According to the Beard.
the Beard
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You know, with all the money this guy had won, you just have to wonder what was going through his mind when he blew it all.
Phil Knight told me Archie blew 11 million in one night at Ceasars.
The man is the true gambler.
 
Jay, a guy I've known for years, and a friend of his who was a stranger to me, aired my son and I for $70 one night. I've dogged 'em both ever since, loudly warning everone in the room not to play these guys unless they see the money on the rail. Damned near got into fists with Jay. The other guy just quit coming in.

That was hat trick of a bad night. After getting stiffed by those two, I was so pissed I starting drinking a wee bit too fast. My dearly beloved only child proceeded to hustle me out of $150. That did not improve my disposition, so I got my first speeding ticket in 35 years on the way home.

I did manage to recover the $150 later that week, though. :-)
 
Any road player will tell you that at one time or another they have been at either side of this situation (I have) and its embarrassing at both ends. That's life.
 
Blackjack said:
Any road player will tell you that at one time or another they have been at either side of this situation (I have) and its embarrassing at both ends. That's life.
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True enough, that's llife.
Nothing used to get me hotter than to have someone Jack the bet on ya, and then stiff you on the next game. This happened to me many times and four I remember of ended up in fights.
 
Stavros the Greek

A certain character in North East Ohio (Stavey) was famous for shooting air barrels at everything he did. I seen him run nothing up to 8k in the pool room one night. One of the more humorous air barrels occured with him on a golf course. He proceeded to lose 1500 on afternoon on the final hole. At the club house his opponent attempted to settle up and Stavros in his greek accent said "Hey Joel I'm a little short will you settle for a dime?" After thinking for a second Mr. Joel Dine said "yea Stav I'll settle for a grand" Stavros' reply was classic.... "Ok I owe you a dime"
 
Blackjack said:
Any road player will tell you that at one time or another they have been at either side of this situation (I have) and its embarrassing at both ends. That's life.
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1970, I was playing Daulton in San Francisco, at the time I knew 9-ball would of been a difficult win, so I got him staked and into a 14.1 game and the house man was holding, so I thought. He really didn't have a good chance at this game and I ran 3+ racks and out and when I looked up the steak was gone. About 5 years later in LA at the Sportsmans where they had great baskets of boiled shirimp I ran into him again, I asked him to play some 9-ball on the 8' gold crowns, I proceeded to beat him and noticed he was laying off on some shots so the win came quickly, too bad the stakehorse did not know what was going on, he made up for the prior event in San Fran + some, I know the horse never had a clue.
 
2 A players

After a local A level event these two guys(billy and john) start barking at eachother to play some $100 a set 9 ball even. They finally agree to play and the coin is flipped and Billy wins the toss and before he breaks he runs over to a local stakehorse and asked him to back.The stakehorse for some reason says NO but billy walks back to the table and proceeds to break and play the set anyway. After two sets he is down $200 and asks to raise the bet to $200 a set which the other player agrees. At this point I can't understand how he can fire that much air at this guy, I really lost alot of respect for him at this point. He wins the next 3 sets and is up $400 and the other guy quits. So they both unscrew and Billy asks for his money and the guys tells him he has the money in his case which he put behind the counter. Billy happy he is going to have $400 in his pocket goes to the bathroom to wash his face and the guy grabs his case from behind the counter andtells the owner to tell Billy he has to go to the ATM to get the money and would be right back which of course he never did. Billy comes out of the bathroom and flips out that everyone let him leave the room. I coudn't stop laughing at the justice I had just witnessed.
 
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