Hahahahaha! I like that story. Not too painful and kind of funny.
Cheating Stories- The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly.
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Hahahahaha! I like that story. Not too painful and kind of funny.
There is a guy that plays in one of the local joints that is on the umm ... large side. He's got a gut bigger than Chumlee on Pawn Stars. The thing is, this guy must have taken belly dancer lessons or something. EVERY time he leans over one of his object balls that is touching the rail it comes out about 3 inches and every time he leans over one of his opponent's object balls that is out a few inches it ends up tightly against the rail when he stands up.
Unless you jump out of your seat and squat down to try to look under his belly (not an enjoyable activity, I'm sure), you would never see it. He's a pro at this!
Unless you jump out of your seat and squat down to try to look under his belly (not an enjoyable activity, I'm sure), you would never see it. He's a pro at this!
Still a good story. Those guys who do the dark look thing are funny people. I know a couple on this forum that give the dark looks.
It doesn't bother me a bit. I actually laugh about it and like you, I talk about it especially if someone else sees the dark look. Lol
goes with the territory...Any time u got laws u got outlaws & everything else falls somewhere in between
Then the rules of one pocket would have to be changed.....
Naughty boy. I'll tell our naughty boy story tomorrow. You reminded me about our own Earl Heisler and his "moves".
If you'd let me get away with that...You'd have a customer for life..lol
That might break a record for being the lowest of the low-downs!
Yea, you're right.
It's just sad the crap that some people try (and some do) to get away with.
Not that it justifies it but the tournament, money sets, I could sort of see where they're coming from a little bit more. But to cheat in league play? It's no wonder one of the guys that replied in this thread never played again in that league.
The hall where we used to play was on the second floor of an old warehouse.
It had quite a few large cast soil stacks from the floor up to the ceiling.
There was a large group of natives partying and had approx a $150 tab with one of the waitresses. All of a sudden, two of the natives started what looked like a fight. One of the girls took a can of pepper spray from her purse and started spraying it. The fight and pepper spray were obviously started to create a diversion while the rest of them headed for the door to jump an unpaid tab.
When the bosses weren't around there was myself and a couple of others that had complete permission to do what ever we had to do to keep law and order. Well, it just so happened that one of the bigger boys, always looking for an excuse to hit someone happened to be sitting at a table close to the fight.
He went over to break up the fight and one of the natives ended up getting his head seriously slammed into one of those cast soil stacks that I had mentioned earlier.
So, quite funny that the small diversionary fight tactic turned into what I would consider a massive head ache for one of the scammers.
You would have had to been there to see the look on the guys face after his head ricocheted off the stack. Total bewilderment that he didn't expect.
Maybe they will change their tactics after that one.
It had quite a few large cast soil stacks from the floor up to the ceiling.
There was a large group of natives partying and had approx a $150 tab with one of the waitresses. All of a sudden, two of the natives started what looked like a fight. One of the girls took a can of pepper spray from her purse and started spraying it. The fight and pepper spray were obviously started to create a diversion while the rest of them headed for the door to jump an unpaid tab.
When the bosses weren't around there was myself and a couple of others that had complete permission to do what ever we had to do to keep law and order. Well, it just so happened that one of the bigger boys, always looking for an excuse to hit someone happened to be sitting at a table close to the fight.
He went over to break up the fight and one of the natives ended up getting his head seriously slammed into one of those cast soil stacks that I had mentioned earlier.
So, quite funny that the small diversionary fight tactic turned into what I would consider a massive head ache for one of the scammers.
You would have had to been there to see the look on the guys face after his head ricocheted off the stack. Total bewilderment that he didn't expect.
Maybe they will change their tactics after that one.
Cheating stories........somehow this title got to me.
It's like 10,000 competing voices created a tower of babel in my mind.
So I expect I'll be a contributor when I settle down. I like to gamble by
the rules of poker...where you are often misrepresenting.....
...so there's a fine line between competing and cheating.
I've tried to stay on the fair side...but I aint noticed no halo around my head
either.
So how about a little musical interlude....it's about cheating.
..
http://www.google.ca/url?url=http:/...+above&usg=AFQjCNGg0t7tNvaVgRsj7TmmLIGQnCfClQ
It's like 10,000 competing voices created a tower of babel in my mind.
So I expect I'll be a contributor when I settle down. I like to gamble by
the rules of poker...where you are often misrepresenting.....
...so there's a fine line between competing and cheating.
I've tried to stay on the fair side...but I aint noticed no halo around my head
either.
So how about a little musical interlude....it's about cheating.
..
http://www.google.ca/url?url=http:/...+above&usg=AFQjCNGg0t7tNvaVgRsj7TmmLIGQnCfClQ
As a young 15 year old player was playing the pool room scruff Stavy the greek a race to 9 for 1k he was getting backed by the pool room owner at 8 to 8 I was breaking for the set and I happen to snap in the 9. In a pool room full of people that were all watching the set he proceeds to quickly reach in the old brunswick drop pocket and pull out the 9ball leaving it by the pocket, pretending that I did not make it on the break. After the whole pool room witnessed it and he realized his ruse would not work he dumfounded me even more He faked a heart attack only in a pool room you cant make this stuff up. This was from the same guy that lost a bet once to a road player getting huge weight in onehole after losing 800 getting hijacked he asked the player if he would settle for 400 the player agreed since it was a heist Stavy then said to him "ok I owe you 400" only in America
Two guys are playing cheap on 9 foot GC. Race to 9 for like $50 and it's hill to hill. We all know each other so it's all friendly and for sport. The guy shoots, misses, but just barely, barely hooks his opponent where he can't see the object ball. As he is walking away from the talbe he just kind of glances at the table and says "I think you are hooked, too bad". He knows this one is in the bag.
Well he is standing behind the oncoming shooter so he can't really see the table. The shooter is leaning over the table, getting down looking, it is really, really close. He bends over a second time, like his is looking really close, but he puts his nose on the ball that had him hooked and moves is just a fraction so he can see the object ball. He back cuts the object ball in the corner pocket and runs the two remaining balls that were gimmies. The entire room falls out laughing, I mean it is pandamonium. The guy that lost can't figure out what the hell is so funny as he just lost $50.. After a few minutes, the guy that cheated, fesses up and shows his opponent how he was able to see the object ball, and pays off the $50. The place erupted again. It was hilarious. We still talk about that "move". :smile:
Well he is standing behind the oncoming shooter so he can't really see the table. The shooter is leaning over the table, getting down looking, it is really, really close. He bends over a second time, like his is looking really close, but he puts his nose on the ball that had him hooked and moves is just a fraction so he can see the object ball. He back cuts the object ball in the corner pocket and runs the two remaining balls that were gimmies. The entire room falls out laughing, I mean it is pandamonium. The guy that lost can't figure out what the hell is so funny as he just lost $50.. After a few minutes, the guy that cheated, fesses up and shows his opponent how he was able to see the object ball, and pays off the $50. The place erupted again. It was hilarious. We still talk about that "move". :smile:
I am retired USAF and back in the early 70's I was on Okinawa and would go into the Airman's club and play the bar box there for whatever action I could get. A big guy and several of his friends came in and wanted to play me 9 ball for 10 a game. We usually came out about even. I knew these guys were here on TDY and would one day leave with no warning. I always insisted that we pay after each game. The last time we played he kept giving excuses that all he had was a hundred bill and he would get change for it later. I insisted that he show it to me and he did. So on we played and I get up 60 and he "goes to the bathroom" and disappears, along with his buddies. So I make a few calls and find out his unit is going back to the states the next day. I had overheard them talking several times about the "weed" they were taking back with them. Called my buddy who was an MP and suggested that they check these guys bags. The MP's found a buch of pot and arrested the big guy. The morale of the story: Sometimes payback's can be a *****!
The rest of the story
Here are a few:
A good player we will call Dick was playing probably the worst player in the room we will call Joe. Well Joe was on my team in the in house league and he is arguably one of the nicest guys you will ever meet but he is challenged both in his pool game and in life. Well Dick is playing him a race 7 to 2 and Dick's team desperately needs the win in this winner take all format. He looked at two balls, his stripe and Joe's solid tied up on a rail and no way to make either. I watched him look at it several times during the game then watched him play shape where he was stroking over the combo. Strangely his knuckles drag the balls free (after he had just looked at them right before getting down on the shot). He saw me looking and asked what I wanted him to do. I told him to move them back. He moves them where they are still free and makable. I said "Really?" He moves them another 1/4 of an inch but still untied and makable. It was a waste of time and breathe. The bad thing is Dick could win legitimately, but always chooses to take the easy way out. He asked me if I wanted to practice a few weeks later before league. I told him "No thank you, I am not as forgiving when someone cheats me."
Two local heroes were playing some several years back for a good sum of money. They were hill/hill when one guy is running out but getting worse shape for the next ball as he goes. Each shot, worse shape on the next shot but finally gets down to the money ball. He makes an extremely tough cut but has to put some force on the cue and it zips around the table as the last ball falls. The cue hits the head rail in perfect line for a scratch at the other end corner pocket. The cue had scrubbed off speed at this point and was rolling slow but going for the pocket. The shooter gets down on the table and starts to yell at the ball, telling it to stop, which finally stops about an inch or less from a scratch. Then the argument starts. The other guy refuses to pay saying the guy breathing on the rolling ball slowed it from scratching. Multiple BS! started flying around the room. I do not know if that debt was ever paid.
To go along with the last story I did watch a very large man try to blow on a cue ball one time to try to get it to move while talking about this story at a later date. Well this big guy jumps up to the table trying to prove his point that it could be done and starts blowing his lungs out trying to get the ball to move. After a few seconds the guy is out of breathe and light headed and close to passing out but still wouldn't shut up about it and catch his breathe. He finally sat on the floor, out of breathe but pleading his case between panting. It was alarming but funny as hell afterwards.
Here are a few:
A good player we will call Dick was playing probably the worst player in the room we will call Joe. Well Joe was on my team in the in house league and he is arguably one of the nicest guys you will ever meet but he is challenged both in his pool game and in life. Well Dick is playing him a race 7 to 2 and Dick's team desperately needs the win in this winner take all format. He looked at two balls, his stripe and Joe's solid tied up on a rail and no way to make either. I watched him look at it several times during the game then watched him play shape where he was stroking over the combo. Strangely his knuckles drag the balls free (after he had just looked at them right before getting down on the shot). He saw me looking and asked what I wanted him to do. I told him to move them back. He moves them where they are still free and makable. I said "Really?" He moves them another 1/4 of an inch but still untied and makable. It was a waste of time and breathe. The bad thing is Dick could win legitimately, but always chooses to take the easy way out. He asked me if I wanted to practice a few weeks later before league. I told him "No thank you, I am not as forgiving when someone cheats me."
Two local heroes were playing some several years back for a good sum of money. They were hill/hill when one guy is running out but getting worse shape for the next ball as he goes. Each shot, worse shape on the next shot but finally gets down to the money ball. He makes an extremely tough cut but has to put some force on the cue and it zips around the table as the last ball falls. The cue hits the head rail in perfect line for a scratch at the other end corner pocket. The cue had scrubbed off speed at this point and was rolling slow but going for the pocket. The shooter gets down on the table and starts to yell at the ball, telling it to stop, which finally stops about an inch or less from a scratch. Then the argument starts. The other guy refuses to pay saying the guy breathing on the rolling ball slowed it from scratching. Multiple BS! started flying around the room. I do not know if that debt was ever paid.
To go along with the last story I did watch a very large man try to blow on a cue ball one time to try to get it to move while talking about this story at a later date. Well this big guy jumps up to the table trying to prove his point that it could be done and starts blowing his lungs out trying to get the ball to move. After a few seconds the guy is out of breathe and light headed and close to passing out but still wouldn't shut up about it and catch his breathe. He finally sat on the floor, out of breathe but pleading his case between panting. It was alarming but funny as hell afterwards.
Yes, I agree. Lame rule..It's Valley League.
Once a Ref shows and is informed on what is going on. His question(to me) was,,did I ask if it was BIH? He did not care if original BIH/foul even happened.
I believe they only enforced this rule at state tournament.And may have modified this rule since ,,IDK.
But out of the 1000's of games played since or even before this. This is the only meat whistle ,I know of,, that abused the rule.
He has not been seen since!!!