Biggest Spot Ever Witnessed?

poolcuemaster said:
This sounds like the propsition bet that the rails are your pocket, all you have to do is make each ball hit the rail in numerical order till you shoot the nine to a rail in which case you win and I will remove each ball that hits a rail right after the shot . I intern have to play regular 9 ball shooting them into the pockets to win. want to try that for 100 a game? Leonard
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So what's the catch? I would think that in a long race with winner breaks, the player receiving that spot would always win unless they were absolutely pathetically bad. Basically as soon as they can make a good hit, they're out. Seems like the only way the guy playing regular 9-ball could win it is by demanding all the breaks, and then beating the ghost.

Is there something I'm missing? If someone came into my poolhall and offered the bet, would I prove myself a sucker?

-Andrew
 
2-out & breaks

A few years back, a road player gave me the 2-out & the breaks for $20 a set, race to 5. We didn't start playing until about 3am at an all night pool room. I was up almost $400 by 9am, then around $200 or so up by noon when he had sobered up & I was about to fall over from exhaustion. He wouldn't let me quit winner, so I let him buy out for $100 & we called it a night. :p
 
A couple of weeks ago my buddy played a guy at 9-ball, race to 5. My buddy gave him the wild 8 and also had to shoot every shot with his jump cue. He beat this guy 5-2 lol.
 
I watched Efren give Jimmy Wetch 11-4 for 500 a game. Note:Jimmy Wetch just came off a win at some big 8-ball tourney in Vegas. So he was in stroke i would have to say. Efren won. :eek:
 
I went to a bar one night and played four girls. They all got to shoot one after another and then I shot. Thing is I had to play one handed with my eyes closed and I had to bank every shot. We played for almost three hours before they beat me. Unfortunately, we were only playing for drinks but man did I have a great time.
 
Efren spotted Amarillo Slim 16-3 and 17-3 in a Race to Five for $40,000 or more. They played three or four times, and Efren won all but once. This was about ten years ago.

I used to practice with Ronnie and he gave me 8-4 and the break for $10 a game in the 70's. We would break about even overall. 30 years later T-Rex offered me the same game in my poolroom for $300 a pop. I jumped on it, and promptly lost four straight games. He turned around the break on the first shot each time. We may play this game again someday. I have asked him to play and he just smiles.

I gave Archie The Greek 9-5 for $500 a game a few years ago and won $3,500. He came back a week later (must have been practicing), and got me to give him 5-3. I won the first game and then lost six in a row before pulling up. He is tough to gamble with.

My favorite game is to give someone the 5 and the break in Six Ball. Sounds good huh. If you play my speed you can get it.
 
probably so

poolchic said:
Is he still offering it,chewy?;)
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I would think that you can get that spot if your name isn't on the non amatuer list for Charlie Williams amatuer tournament. Stevie is around Atlanta most of the time and not to hard to find and Dougie(JR) who knows, might would be worth you asking either of them. Leonard
 
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Yea I think so

Andrew Manning said:
So what's the catch? I would think that in a long race with winner breaks, the player receiving that spot would always win unless they were absolutely pathetically bad. Basically as soon as they can make a good hit, they're out. Seems like the only way the guy playing regular 9-ball could win it is by demanding all the breaks, and then beating the ghost.

Is there something I'm missing? If someone came into my poolhall and offered the bet, would I prove myself a sucker?

-Andrew
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Since the rails are his pockets you wait till the right time say maybe the six or seven ball and when the cueball hits any rail you call it a scratch and run out with ball in hand, Helps to be well armed also. Leonard
 
poolcuemaster said:
Since the rails are his pockets you wait till the right time say maybe the six or seven ball and when the cueball hits any rail you call it a scratch and run out with ball in hand, Helps to be well armed also. Leonard
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Ah HAW HAW HAW!:D

Yes, being well armed would probably be a prerequisite for running this hustle.

Russ
 
jay helfert said:
Efren spotted Amarillo Slim 16-3 and 17-3 in a Race to Five for $40,000 or more. They played three or four times, and Efren won all but once. This was about ten years ago.

I used to practice with Ronnie and he gave me 8-4 and the break for $10 a game in the 70's. We would break about even overall. 30 years later T-Rex offered me the same game in my poolroom for $300 a pop. I jumped on it, and promptly lost four straight games. He turned around the break on the first shot each time. We may play this game again someday. I have asked him to play and he just smiles.

I gave Archie The Greek 9-5 for $500 a game a few years ago and won $3,500. He came back a week later (must have been practicing), and got me to give him 5-3. I won the first game and then lost six in a row before pulling up. He is tough to gamble with.

My favorite game is to give someone the 5 and the break in Six Ball. Sounds good huh. If you play my speed you can get it.
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One other interesting game I saw was when James Christopher gave a guy the following game. All the guy had to do was make the 9 ball hit the end rail (at the head of the table). And he could shoot directly at it every time he had a turn. James beat the guy and then offered the same game to someone else.
 
poolcuemaster said:
I would think that you can get that spot if your name isn't on the non amatuer list for Charlie Williams amatuer tournament. Stevie is around Atlanta most of the time and not to hard to find and Dougie(JR) who knows, might would be worth you asking either of them. Leonard
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What poolroom do they play at? I might give them a couple thousand if they can win. Also are you speaking of stevie moore?
 
poolcuemaster said:
Since the rails are his pockets you wait till the right time say maybe the six or seven ball and when the cueball hits any rail you call it a scratch and run out with ball in hand, Helps to be well armed also. Leonard
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I see. I agree that you'd have to be well armed if you want to collect any money after pulling that trick.

-Andrew
 
poolcuemaster said:
Since the rails are his pockets you wait till the right time say maybe the six or seven ball and when the cueball hits any rail you call it a scratch and run out with ball in hand, Helps to be well armed also. Leonard
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Now thats one to use at the kids down at the Student Union...
 
My ex used to play before he got married. The best spot I think I ever saw him give was he got the breaks and had to run out, because if he missed, his opponent got ball in hand. It's a shame he doesn't play any more.

A guy I know in Alabama will play with a bar stool... the leg side, of course.
 
"Since the rails are his pockets you wait till the right time say maybe the six or seven ball and when the cueball hits any rail you call it a scratch and run out with ball in hand, Helps to be well armed also. Leonard"

Who the hell would ever pay off on that?
 
> There was guy in Florida named Sam Blumenthal,that locals said could beat the ghost playing snooker with 9 reds. He had a standing offer that anyone in America he didn't recognize by face had the 5 and the break. He rarely or never lost with it. I have no reason to believe anyone I've asked about it wasn't on the square,too many people all said pretty much said the same thing. He either ran out,or ran out to a spot to play a lock-down safety,could make anything from anywhere,and just about couldn't be hooked. He'd go for days or even weeks without missing a wide open ball that wasn't a backwards cut off the spot or something ridiculous. Tommy D.
 
Tommy-D said:
> There was guy in Florida named Sam Blumenthal,that locals said could beat the ghost playing snooker with 9 reds. He had a standing offer that anyone in America he didn't recognize by face had the 5 and the break. He rarely or never lost with it. I have no reason to believe anyone I've asked about it wasn't on the square,too many people all said pretty much said the same thing. He either ran out,or ran out to a spot to play a lock-down safety,could make anything from anywhere,and just about couldn't be hooked. He'd go for days or even weeks without missing a wide open ball that wasn't a backwards cut off the spot or something ridiculous. Tommy D.
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Yeah-Not much is said about Sam-One reason i guess is that from what i hear, he wouldnt play anyone anywhere but his own pool room.
 
Firecracker said:
A few years back, a road player gave me the 2-out & the breaks for $20 a set, race to 5. We didn't start playing until about 3am at an all night pool room. I was up almost $400 by 9am, then around $200 or so up by noon when he had sobered up & I was about to fall over from exhaustion. He wouldn't let me quit winner, so I let him buy out for $100 & we called it a night. :p
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Just out of curiosity, who was it??? :-D

<-- Reformed Texan.
 
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