Dumb things you do to lose

NINEBALLART

NINEBALLART

NINEBALLART
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I was playing league and my opponent broke and ran and missed the 8...I looked at the table and had all my balls on table but only one clean shot...A cut into side pocket on an extreme angle but makeable if hit perfect....If I make it I'm out...
I look around and see a safety if I hit my 5 and cue ball goes behind 3 of my balls..Maybe only a jump for him to hit the 8 and I've never see him jump...So I figure this is my best bet.
BUT.....At the last minute I take the cut shot, miss and leave him straight in on the 8..He makes it and I lose and we lose the round by 3 balls...
DUMB...
What have you done to lose a match and you felt it was a dumb move and don't know why you did it...?
 
I always assume that there is no way I can miss this shot, right up until I do.
 
In a pretty big 9-ball tournament I played perfect shape on the 6 to make it and run out.

The 5 was still on the table.

That game would have put me on the hill with a 3 game lead. Instead I ended up losing momentum, and the match......
 
Cuaba said:
In a pretty big 9-ball tournament I played perfect shape on the 6 to make it and run out.

The 5 was still on the table.

That game would have put me on the hill with a 3 game lead. Instead I ended up losing momentum, and the match......
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Bummer!! I bet you always look for the big pumpkin now.
 
^^I recently did something similar. Was playing the local 9-ball tournament against one of the best players (spots me 3 games on the wire in a race to 6) and he won the first 3, which put him even with me. I won the fourth game to make it 4-3 and felt I was gaining momentum and confidence. He won the next game to tie but I was still feeling good. Next game he breaks and I immediately know the 9 is going into the corner pocket. I stare at it the whole time as it meanders towards the hole and when it drops, I start to clear the balls off the table. My opponent immediately tries to stop me from clearing the balls off and when I look at him confused, he tells me he scratched. We didn't know what to do since I had moved 2 balls already, and the we called over the guy that runs the tournament and he said I forfeited the game. That put him on the hill and took the fight right out of me and he won the next game. Lesson learned.
 
Hill/hill, long straight shot for the match....
....I like to put some speed on these shots, but I guess I was a little too pumped....
.....hit two walls and a spectators foot.....

...well, I had a few things to do that day anyways.....:o
 
It's what I call the gamblers itch. Sometimes u see the right play percentage wise but at the last moment a flash of heroism, glory, and aww overcome ur rationalism.
 
Just the typical taking an easy shot for granted and not giving it the attention it deserves. I do it so much better than anyone else that I've thought about making an instructional DVD about how to take easy shots for granted.
 
Playing in a bar table 9 ball tournament. Guy snaps in the 2 and and leaves a 3/9 combo wired in front of the pocket. I gift him the game and rerack the remaining balls, replacing the missing 2 ball with the 10 ball (they are both blue) in order to save quarters. He breaks dry, I shoot the 1 ball than the 3 ball. My dumbass thought the 10 ball was the new 9 ball (they way you are supposed to do it). I totally forgot that I said the 10 would be the 2. Well I lost that match and I will never do that again. Always run the balls in numerical order not color order.

So dumb
 
It happens a lot!!

Grady Mathews told me that "you can never become a Champion until you have lost every conceivable way"....,

I have some more losing to do, but I never forgot his words.
 
Last night at a tournament really pissed me off. Hill hill I have ball in hand with the 7, 8, and 9 left all in one corner. I could have gone for the runout but it was relatively low percentage so I opted for a safety. It may not have been an easy safety but it was still one that should have been well within my skill level. I messed it up and gave my opponent an easy leave on the 7 with a natural leave on the 8 and 9.
 
Too much booze.
Buddy Hall once said to a few people at the bar as I was playing and winning. "J T would be hard for anyone to beat on a bar box if he didn't start celebrating before the match was over. Johnnyt
 
As mentioned earlier, the hero shot. Gets me too often. Sometimes I gotta know if it go, so...

And I have recently developed the maddening habit of lowering my bridge hand and cue to the table while looking at the ob. Occasionally I bring the cue tip down on top of the cb. Haven't yet tried that out in competition though.
 
Baron said:
^^I recently did something similar. Was playing the local 9-ball tournament against one of the best players (spots me 3 games on the wire in a race to 6) and he won the first 3, which put him even with me. I won the fourth game to make it 4-3 and felt I was gaining momentum and confidence. He won the next game to tie but I was still feeling good. Next game he breaks and I immediately know the 9 is going into the corner pocket. I stare at it the whole time as it meanders towards the hole and when it drops, I start to clear the balls off the table. My opponent immediately tries to stop me from clearing the balls off and when I look at him confused, he tells me he scratched. We didn't know what to do since I had moved 2 balls already, and the we called over the guy that runs the tournament and he said I forfeited the game. That put him on the hill and took the fight right out of me and he won the next game. Lesson learned.
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I feel your pain. I did something similar.

I wasn't paying attention to the two league matches being played behind me. Someone told me that I was up, I assumed, on table A. I walked over to table A and started raking the balls with my arm. I was on the wrong table. About twenty people yelled at me. I apologized several times and slithered over to table B..
 
ye old gimp stick

Not wanting to break the flow of things and grab a bridge has probably cost me more than any other one thing.

Some things like low percentage shots that wind up not going or safeties that don't work may seem like the wrong thing to do in hindsight however if they were the highest confidence shot at the time they were the right thing to do. Easy to only look at the results and say that another action would have been better. Very rarely do I play the wrong shot. Sometimes I get the wrong result!

Hu
 
Speaking of safeties... I cannot count the amount of times that the safety is perfect except the object ball in question goes a few rails and into a random pocket. Then I have to play out of the lockup safe I just gave myself...
 
IamCalvin06 said:
It's what I call the gamblers itch. Sometimes u see the right play percentage wise but at the last moment a flash of heroism, glory, and aww overcome ur rationalism.
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We talking awe? Or do you just think that balls are cue?
 
I would say self doubt is my nemesis. I usually make the correct decision the first time, then second guess myself, change my mind, then "F" it up. Once I make my decision, I go with it 100 percent. If I don't, I end up losing. Just the way it works with me.

Most of the time I play by this rule.... if the safe is easier the the shot, play the safe. If the safe is just as hard as the shot, GO FOR IT! This tends to remove the self doubt from my mind and I play better. At least my mental game is better.
 
I don't know why I do it, but if I don't restrain myself, I tend to smack the game ball in at 100 miles per hour. It's intimidating when it splits the pocket, but sometimes I'll put a little too much mustard on it and either fire it into the rail or send the cue ball into the drink.
 
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