Biggest Package Run Against you?

[InsertCleverNameHere]

Not entirely sure but I’d say I’ve had 6 or 7 against me a few times and once I was 10 ahead and only shot once(a kick) before I was down 2. That 12 ahead wound up a draw, we both agreed to quit after 8ish hours and we never played again, bummer.

 

[straightline]

Not entirely sure but I’d say I’ve had 6 or 7 against me a few times and once I was 10 ahead and only shot once(a kick) before I was down 2. That 12 ahead wound up a draw, we both agreed to quit after 8ish hours and we never played again, bummer.

I'd quit breathing before I took on that kind of stress.

 

[Chili Palmer]

3, maybe 4.

I'm not so good that I play too many people capable of better than that...

FWIW, I've only put a 3 pack on someone once.

I've had a 4 pack and I've given a 4 pack.

EDIT: In the 4 pack against me it was a race to 13 for $100, we were tied 4-4, he won 13-4, he caught a gear.

 

[InsertCleverNameHere]

I'd quit breathing before I took on that kind of stress.

I was young and dumb and had a good backer that night. I had the worst of it for sure but still could've won if I didn't miss a ball when I was +10.

 

[straightline]

I was young and dumb and had a good backer that night. I had the worst of it for sure but still could've won if I didn't miss a ball when I was +10.

Absolutely the agony of defeat at work. I just don't have what it tooks to make it lol.

 

[Mensabum]

Had to endure a few 50s but lucky stars if those had been 100s and more, I woulda had to become a pool playuh.

 

[skogstokig]

a friend hit me with 120 something in straight pool. i could beat him in 10-ball and one pocket, but almost never in 14.1. it's a beautiful game, but not when parked in the chair that long

 

[sjm]

Not sure in 9ball, but there's an element of randomness involved. I'm no pro but I once ran a seven-pack in about 2000. It included a nine on the break and three early combos on the nine. I recall giving up a five-pack to Mika Immonen in about 2004, but I don't recall anything more than that. In straight pool, I've had to sit and watch three runs of 200+ against me, two of them by Tony Robles and one by Mika Immonen.

As a live fan of tournament play, I was present for Appleton's world record of 200 at straight pool. At rotation pool, I've seen two different eight-packs. One of them was by Souquet at 9ball and the other by Dechaine at 10ball. Although many have offered that Lassiter once ran a 21-pack, the longest fully verified package I know of on a nine-footer was the fifteen-pack by Niels Feijen in 2003.

According to an AZB website article on 2/2/2003:

In a 'challenge match' against French player Donald Du Bois, Feijen broke and ran 15 consecutive 9-ball racks on a regulation 4 1/2 X 9' table.

 

[fjk]

Didn't CJ tell a story about him running a ten pack on Busty and then Busty doing it back right behind him?

I also recall hearing Archer running out a set (8, 9, or 10 racks) and beating Busty. Then Busty asked him to double up on the next set. I like that one.

 

[InsertCleverNameHere]

Absolutely the agony of defeat at work. I just don't have what it tooks to make it lol.

Me either. Not many do. I punched above my weight class from time to time but I never amounted to anything in the game. And life has turned out pretty great

 

[Magictrat007]

I used to practice with Eric Aceanena
Quite a bit several years ago it wasn’t uncommon for him to hit me with a five pack of nine ball on the regular

 

[Frosty]

8 pack in a $100 a rack game, it happens

 

[straightline]

8 pack in a $100 a rack game, it happens

Did you bother to attempt recovery? Is right after a long pack a good time to return fire?

 

[LHP5]

6 pack in 10 ball on a tight diamond. Dude was rated a 691 and was just unbelievable. In total he ran that six pack in like 10 minutes too. There are levels to this game…

 

[sjm]

Didn't CJ tell a story about him running a ten pack on Busty and then Busty doing it back right behind him?

Never heard of this.

I also recall hearing Archer running out a set (8, 9, or 10 racks) and beating Busty. Then Busty asked him to double up on the next set. I like that one.

This classic story is well known. In a 9ball action match, Archer ran a thirteen-pack and Busty asked to increase the bet. I think this was in the late 1990s, but I'm not sure.

 

[middleofnowhere]

Never heard of this.

This classic story is well known. In a 9ball action match, Archer ran a thirteen-pack and Busty asked to increase the bet. I think this was in the late 1990s, but I'm not sure.

When a guy runs a bunch of racks it takes a number of factors. It would not figure to scare off any top player. They may play the rest of the night or multiple nights and not have anything like that repeated. I saw Larry Hubbard do something like that Mike Carella playing like a thousand a game.

Actually more, because Hubbards backer was betting like another couple thousand on the side.
Hubbard had run 8 or 10 racks and scratched on a 9-ball. In those days they spotted balls. After losing all those games and all that money Mike jumps out of the chair takes like two strokes fires in the spot shot and goes on to win about the next 15 games in a row. Not running 15 racks but winning like 15 in a row.

That's spectacular display that Larry put on didn't phase Mike at all. That pretty much ended the night. Larry was back the next night with the backers and they started again. Ultimately though this night was all Mike Carella. It was a very long session but ultimately Larry and his backers left lightened by about $90,000.

This also created quite a scene afterwards. As Mike wanted a percent of all that money that had been won on the side cuz they had won somewhere in a nature of twice what he had won.

 

[Dimeball]

Around 25 years ago, when I was just starting out, the local champ beat me out of $250 playing $5 a rack 9 ball on a bar table. Basically I was paying lessons on how to rack. I remember a 9 pack in that bunch, but, he may have hit a 10 or 11. The 9 pack was in the first hour, after that I kept checking my wallet hahaha. Thanks for the memory pops.

 

[Frosty]

Did you bother to attempt recovery? Is right after a long pack a good time to return fire?

I didn’t quit the game, I just kept grinding until his “chemical enhancement” started to fade. I was up $1200 when the smoke cleared, he was a “regular customer”.

 

[driz86]

Joe Salazar ran out of set on me playing 9 ball on a bar table. We're playing race to 7, I never shot. I'm old and I've been playing so long I don't even remember how many times I've lost sets where the guy ran out the remainder of the set 5, 6, 7 racks.
Straight pool had lots of guys run out on me. Freddy the beard ran 89 and out with me just needing a few. I only once had a guy run out from the opening break in one inning 100-point game.
It was Gene Nagy. I didn't know him or I certainly would not have been playing him even, if at all.

I was fortunate to meet him (Salazar) last year before he passed. I found it interesting he was from Tracy, CA, where I was living at the time and there's not a single pool hall for many miles there. I heard he was one of the very best on a barbox.

 

[middleofnowhere]

I was fortunate to meet him (Salazar) last year before he passed. I found it interesting he was from Tracy, CA, where I was living at the time and there's not a single pool hall for many miles there. I heard he was one of the very best on a barbox.

You always hear about players. I had heard about Seattle Joe as he was called. This was around 1973 or 74.

Well, Joe lived up to the hype. He beat everyone he played when he was here. DiLiberto, Gean the Machine, lots of lesser players giving ridiculous weight. He was amazing and a really humble nice guy.

Over the years I would see him off and on and he was the same guy. He told me a story once of picking in the fields when he was young and how his life changed when he discovered pool.