Do the pros do stupid sh*t like us amateurs do???

WOW!!!! I'm still laughing my ass off at the things here that I have done soooo many times, especially chalking the cue with paper side (in my defense, I keep it in my pocket, not just pick it up off the table) :cool:

Great thread

Poolhalljnkie <------- 9-ball, Race to 7, hill-hill, snookered from the 4 executes a perfect jump shot pocketing the 4 with a little draw to get back for perfect position on the 5......ball jumped was the 3 :banghead: Lost that set!!!
 
Tokyo-dave said:
2) Ball in hand against Keisuke Hanawa (Japanese Pro). Made the five with extreme left draw to go 3 rails around the table back to the same rail to land perfectly within a 4 inch area..............the only spot on the table I could possibly put the CB for a shot on the 7...............then I realized the 6 was still on the table and I was now hooked. Lost that match.
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hahah those are great, especially this one. I have played position for the wrong ball with ball in hand soooo many times.

Normally a sign you have had too many beers while playing...well at least for me. ;)
 
I wished someone would put up the match of The World Cup of Pool the year Shane and Rodney won it. The last rack they are running it out and Rodney almost hooks Shane on a easy out but didnt, and Shane has the last shot on the nineball. he goes back to his chair to slick up the cue and wipe it off. But when he is using whatever he uses to slick it up when he goes to put it down on the table he sorta drops his cue and almost pokes his eye out. He even says it "i almost poked my eye out"

After they win and celebrate you can see Shane still blinking his eyes making sure he didnt do damage to his eye. Ive always wanted to ask him about it, but never get the chance cause i never go anywhere lol.
 
I have seen pro's jump the cb over the ob while trying to draw (numerous times) and shoot the wrong ball with bih.

Stupid stuff I have done. Intentionally giving bih while shooting 8ball I tapped the cb into the pocket while on the 8 ball for a loss. Played perfect position putting the cb dead center of the short rail about a diamond away from the 8. Shot the 8 into the corner and realized my last ball was on the same short rail behind the cb. I had to bridge over my last ball to shoot the 8.
 
1) At the 10-ball event in Cherry Hill, NJ (1998, I think), Efren Reyes, in his match against Tony Ellin, missed with ball in hand twice in the same rack.

2) At the 2001 WPBA Nationals at Soaring Eagle in Michigan, Allison Fisher scratched on a "push out" by mistakenly knocking the cueball into the corner pocket.

In other words, even two of the game's greatest legends had their "amateur moments."
 
Two of the worse: I've seen a pro accidentally hit the cue ball while practice stroking on the nine ball and losing the match.

Another time a player pulled the cue ball out of the pocket after his opponent scratched and he accidentally dropped the cue ball onto some other balls and sat down and watched his opponent run out with ball in hand.
 
I was playing a match with Sal Butera. It was a pretty big tourny in Vegas.

He had the match won. Hill- hill . He had ball in hand and just had to put the cue ball down between 2 balls using his finger tips. Then shoot in the 8 ball.

He dropped the cue ball onto one of the balls as he was trying to place it.

Giving me ball in hand. I didn't drop the ball....................

If you see this Sal would you comment on if you remember that horrible moment.

I don't know if Sal would have been considered a pro but he played awful good.

You all know his dad. Lou (Machine Gun) Butera.
 
not just once

At my first Hardtimes, Bellflower, Ca '1st Sunday' 9ball tournament. I won the flip. I was real nervous.

On the breakshot, I missed the cb,rolled the cue shaft on top of the cb, trapping the cb between the shaft (about half way down the shaft) and the table --twice.

It was downhill from there.
 
Thankfully CJ Wiley had forgotten my most embarrassing moment or he did not recognize me when I met him again at the Open 2years ago... 15 years or so had passed so it could have been either.....

Early 90s I am playing in the Music City in Nashville and I am warming up before the draw trying to get my break dialed in for the small tables... At this time I weighed about 165 pounds soaking wet so I did everything I could to generate power... The everything included a lunge where I would literally donkey kick my right leg out behind me....

I wound up and rocketted the cueball at the rack.. I hit it dead solid nuts with the cueball squatting.... I also kicked CJ dead nuts... With CJ squatting on the bench behind us... He had walked behind me at the perfectly wrong time..... I think I literally lifted him up off his feet...... On helluva a way to meet the then World Champion.....
 
Call the 9ball

I seen Efrian rayes shoot the 9ball and not call the pocket which was repuired in this tourny
 
In the Open one year, didn't Gabe Owen shoot at the wrong ball...I believe the 3, and play shape on the 2? I wonder if that's on YouTube....
 
Heres 11 min of the best snooker players looking very human. At 5:15 Ronnie (one of the greatest cueists of all time) plays one of the worst shots I have ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6uSvU5dEKA&feature=related

At a recent exhibition in Quebec, Mika was losing 3-1 to a B player because he kept scratching/missing on the 8 and 7 balls.

It happens to everyone, it's a reminder that Pool, Snooker and Billiards are very very very hard games.
 
Yep................we've all been there and done that.......and new dumb thinks just keep on keepin on.
 
DallasHopps said:
...some just have better luck with who's watching when it happens...I'll admit that I've totally done the draw-shot-jump into a pocket. It makes me feel like I should be wearing a helmet and a drool bib...
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You hit the nail on the head with "who's watching"! I just did the fancy "jump-the-cue-into-the-pocket-draw-shot" two days ago...it'd been 10 years easily since I've done that...thanks for putting that into my subconscious! :p

Pushout said:
...He was chalking his cue with the 3 ball...
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I have a lady in her 60's who comes in to shoot...I don't think she's all there sometimes...especially on the days when she REPEATEDLY picks up the cue ball and begins "chalking" her cue with it during a game...

Tokyo-dave said:
...One of the pockets had 3 balls in it, and I reached my hand in, grabbed all three balls and couldn't get my hand out of the pocket while gripping the 3 balls. I did this as I was walking around the table with some nervous momentum, so my body kept going as my hand with the three balls remaind stuck in the pocket nearly tearing my arm off. Ever see thos monkey traps where they dig a hole in a mound of dirt just big enough for a monkey to stick his hand into, but once the monkey grabs the goodies and cups them in a fist, can't break free unless he drops the goodies in his closed fist? That was me!

dave
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Ummmm...I couldn't stop laughing for 15 minutes after reading this one! I had tears running down my face I was laughing so hard!!!!

Thanks Dave...you made my day with this one!

poolhalljnkie said:
...chalking the cue with paper side...
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Yep...if this doesn't happen 3-4 times A NIGHT, something is definitely "wrong" with my pool game...I too keep it in my pocket...and in all "fairness", there's only a 12.5% chance that you ARE going to pick the unpapered side to chalk with...

TheConArtist said:
...he sorta drops his cue and almost pokes his eye out. He even says it "i almost poked my eye out"
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What's that saying? "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye!" (Then it's just fun...game over!) :p


stumpie71 said:
...Intentionally giving bih while shooting 8ball I tapped the cb into the pocket while on the 8 ball for a loss.
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Yep, watched an APA player do this in the divisional playoffs! His captain told him to give his opponent ball in hand...so he shot the cueball straight into the pocket! The entire room looked like a herd of deer caught in the headlights...with the player looking around at all the "dumb-founded" looks for a few seconds (that seemed like minutes) until he realized what he had just done!

genomachino said:
He dropped the cue ball onto one of the balls as he was trying to place it.
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Yep...captain for the APA player in the above comment...got the cueball ready to place it for ball in hand...just as he was getting ready to place it next to a cluster...someone said something...he looked up...the cueball gave in to gravity and graciously scattered the "cluster"...followed by a tremendous amount of stifled chuckles...and a stifled "Thanks" from his opponent...

The Renfro said:
...I would literally donkey kick my right leg out behind me....I hit it dead solid nuts with the cueball squatting.... I also kicked CJ dead nuts...
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I about fell out of my chair laughing so hard on this one!!!


PLEASE KEEP THE STORIES COMING - THIS THREAD IS GREAT~!!!!
 
Haven't seen much stupid stuff from pros personally, though recently I saw a vid where Buste got called at IPT for adjusting a BIH using the ferrule of his cue (it was a sideways motion too)... arguably that's just a stupid rule which doesn't apply elsewhere and that he wasn't used to.

I'm usually focusing on the rack when I reach for the chalk and I end up trying to use the paper side more often than not... definitely one of those things where you play it off nonchalantly and pretend that chalking with the wrong side first is part of your pre-shot routine.
 
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Here's four,
I had ball in hand with an easy 4 ball out, I didn't look closely at whitey, put my fingers on it, it was still spinning and took off and hit another ball, I sold old.
1965 Wheaton IL, Lord Lady pool room, broke my opponents collar bone when I broke and miscued, he was standing directly behind the rack, usually a safe place, but I was in high school.
Also, same room another day, broke the balls with such a viscious miscue, whitey went straight up about 9 feet and broke a night light fixture that was hanging down from a high ceilinig.
Oh yeah, playing Howard Vickery yrs ago on a bar table, broke the balls lifted the cue up and broke both flourscent lights, my shaft had about 50 nicks in it from tip to joint. We quit.
 
I know a guy who was in the 9-ball event at the Derby City a few years ago who was hill-hill and racked the 9 out of place. His opponent broke and made a ball. Someone in the crowd noticed the issue and called it out. The tournament official looked at the replay on video and made them re-rack. He didn't make a ball and his opponent ran out. What a turn!
 
Tokyo-dave said:
I'm not a pro, but 3 of my most embarrasing moments in pool have happened in pro/am events and against pro opponents.
1) Farted while breaking the oppening rack against a Japanese ladies pro. She obviously heard, but kindly pretended that she didn't. I went on to win the match.

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