Crazy pool story

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iba7467

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I just found this looking through old threads. It was posted by member gromulan who hasn't posted in a while. I thought those who haven't seen it should...


A few years ago I was new in town and I started playing a guy who is a very well-known player in the Southeast, who is famous for playing very well for all stakes, for being pretty much totally crazy, and for the amazing amount that he drinks.

We start playing for about $50 a game and the match goes on for several hours. For almost the entire time my opponent is drinking double Jack Daniels, one right after the other. I'm stuck a few hundred, but I play straight and I figure that eventually, the drinking has to get to this guy. Hours pass and the game continues. Finally we get to the point where my opponent has a long, back-cut shot on the eight ball the length of the table. The cue ball is near a rail and he has to jack up and draw the ball to keep from scratching in the opposite corner.

He is preparing to make this shot but, unknown to us, the bartender in this place had a dog, a big German Shepherd, who he was messing with, tickling it and getting it all worked up. He must have turned away from it or something because just as my opponent was about to shoot this shot, the dog came running out from behind the bar, put both of his front paws up on the rail of our table, and barked.

BAM, my opponent shot the eight ball in like it had eyes, the cueball danced across the table and back and ended up four inches from the nine ball, straight in.

I went to rack the balls and said, "Man, didn't you even see that dog?"

My opponent replied, "You mean that was a real dog?"

That was a little over-the-top for me, so I just quit a couple of games later.
 
That's crazy! I've never played really drunk...... have you? I wonder if there's a secret there that we're all missing...
 
lmao great story, are you sure he was drinking booze and not just shooting a whisky barrel your way?
 
lmao. thats hilarious. Ive gotten pretty drunk playing pool a few times(more than a few) but ive never hallucinated.



I guess i gotta try harder:)
 
TXsouthpaw said:
lmao. thats hilarious. Ive gotten pretty drunk playing pool a few times(more than a few) but ive never hallucinated.



I guess i gotta try harder:)
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From this story we can learn that it is not hallucinations that are needed. Simply be drunk enough to believe you are having hallucinations!
 
Lesson number two - Do not play pool with Scotty Townsend when he has been drinking and think you have an advantage! :smile:
Lesson number three - Insert the name Keith McCready and say the same thing.
Lesson number four - Used to be the name Ronnie Allen would be on top of this list, with Louie Robert's name second.
 
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True Story. I'm in Knoxville in the early nineties in a place called the Cellar Bar. Alcoa, actually. My partner is waking me up when it's my shot. And I'm winning for $30 a game. I would lay my head down, drink again, and get the "hey dude, you're up." Man, what a trip. Thank God I'm still alive. Fresh outta college and just plain stupid.

I would like to add that I got robbed on that trip. Once again, thank God I'm alive.
 
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The reprobate known as "Detroit Whitey" used to have a German Shepherd that would growl and/or bark on command, including during the opponent's back-swing. His other antics with the dog are not worth repeating here. GF
 
George Fels said:
The reprobate known as "Detroit Whitey" used to have a German Shepherd that would growl and/or bark on command, including during the opponent's back-swing. His other antics with the dog are not worth repeating here. GF
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He was the most disgusting, nastiest character I ever saw. He drove that pick-up truck with a camper on it.

Once years ago {I was a kid} and he let the battery go dead so I was giving him a jump late one night behind the Family Fun Center in Denver. When he reached inside that camper to grab the cables, well there were three dogs in there and it was sthe most awful smell I had ever experienced. THe next day he came in, saw me, thanked me, and then asked if I wanted to go eat lunch with. I darn near puked.
 
ironman said:
He was the most disgusting, nastiest character I ever saw. He drove that pick-up truck with a camper on it.

Once years ago {I was a kid} and he let the battery go dead so I was giving him a jump late one night behind the Family Fun Center in Denver. When he reached inside that camper to grab the cables, well there were three dogs in there and it was sthe most awful smell I had ever experienced. THe next day he came in, saw me, thanked me, and then asked if I wanted to go eat lunch with. I darn near puked.
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Lewis,
There's no doubt Beuchene would have stuck you somehow for the lunch tab. NO WAY he would have paid. I'm glad you didn't go with him! If he asked you to break bread with him, he was hatching some sort of a scam that you smartly dodged! :)
 
Terry Ardeno said:
Lewis,
There's no doubt Beuchene would have stuck you somehow for the lunch tab. NO WAY he would have paid. I'm glad you didn't go with him! If he asked you to break bread with him, he was hatching some sort of a scam that you smartly dodged! :)
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Come on Terry, give the guy a break. I have never heard anything bad about Mr. Whitey!:p
 
jay helfert said:
Lesson number two - Do not play pool with Scotty Townsend when he has been drinking and think you have an advantage! 😄
Lesson number three - Insert the name Keith McCready and say the same thing.
Lesson number four - Used to be the name Ronnie Allen would be on top of this list, with Louie Robert's name second.
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And that is a talent that one does not just decide he is gonna have either.

Gotta train hard to get there!

I've known a few big drinkers and it is pretty shocking what they can put away. I can't hang a whole hour with that.

Now that I think of it...Iba b a thirsty dude hizzelf. What's your record.for a day, 7467?
 
I got at least one more thirsty
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Both Luther Lassiter and Eddie Taylor could find a very high gear while drinking, too. I once watched a very inebriated Lassiter run 140 at straight pool (best guess is 1976).

And, more famously, Greenleaf played well while drinking, although it eventually caught up with him. Mosconi, in an interview, was told that Greenleaf had been inebriated every time Willie beat him. His reply was that Greenleaf was also inebriated during the games that Ralph won. If you haven't read Sam Korte's biography on Greenleaf yet, you've missed something special.

It all brings to mind Minnesota Fats in "The Hustler" film. In his very first match against Eddie Felson, he kept on drinking but his game didn't slip.
 
Taylor used to stop in the dc rooms and share a bottle with some of the crowd that was still around when I was a wee lad.

By all accounts I heard, the liquor did not slow him down one bit.

Of course, when you play that well, losing 20% of one's speed isn't that much of a speedbump on the road to good pool...
 
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