Dumbest thing you ever done. (pool related)

Harvywallbanger

Harvywallbanger

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The dumbest thing I ever done was....

I lost $50 playing a set to a guy I should of beat. I was drunk as hell with one of my buddies and I was furious. Not over the money but because I was drunk again making a fool of myself. When I say drunk I mean DRUNK! So instead of giving him the $50 I gave him my $450 stick and he gave me $50 so I could go to the titty bar. I looked around the room and said who wants a case? My case was about a $200 case with a bunch of pro autographs on it and I gave it to somebody for $25. That was about 2-3 years ago and I haven't played since untill about a month and a half ago.
 
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Harvywallbanger said:
The dumbest thing I ever done was....

I lost $50 playing a set to a guy I should of beat. I was drunk as hell with one of my buddies and I was furious. Not over the money but because I was drunk again making a fool of myself. When I say drunk I mean DRUNK! So instead of giving him the $50 I gave him my $450 stick and he gave me $50 so I could go to the titty bar. I looked around the room and said who wants a ase? My case was about a $200 case with a bunch of pro autographs on it and I gave it to somebody for $25. That was about 2-3 years ago and I haven't played since untill about a month and a half ago.
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Well if your name is any indication, you may just top that one soon.

I havent had a drink since the 80's and i stated playing really in the 90's otherwise i'd have some real good ones for you.

As it is the stupidest thing most would say was breaking my first 5 sticks or so in anger but i would vote for the time i used the 9 Ball as a cue ball during a match. I hated those sticks and always played better for awhile with a new one anyway.
 
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:eek: You thought the 9 ball was the cue ball and actually hit it. LMAO. You dumbass.





:p just kidding. Just kidding.:)
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I tell ya i was real happy when about 3 years later, i saw an A player also do it during a tournament. You know dumbasses love company!
 
I've used the One ball as the Cue ball more than once.

And I've actually "lost" the Six Ball on the table. Just skipped over it. You know, went from the Five to the Seven. The Six was hiding from me.
 
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Dumbest thing I ever did was when I was playing 8 Ball -- after playing a few hours of 9 Ball -- I was shooting the 6 or 7 or something and decided to go play a carom off the solid into the 8B for an early out. Yeah, it was an early out all right -- an early loss for me.
 
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One time after I had finished a relatively long gambling session succesfully, I was goofing around at the table, and the people around seemed to be in a good mood just because lots of money had changed hands on side bets. This one girl wants to play me and for some reason a bunch of people offer me side bets that amounts to well over $100, I still have no idea why, but in any case I took the bet. I ran my balls out and had no shot on the eight, so I just rolled the cb to a tough spot, the girl missed and didnt leave me a shot, so again I just left her tough. She missed and this time left me a bank; I hit the bank hard, and it double banks right into the opposite side. I was so pissed because chances are if I had just kept missing the eight I would have had an open shot, this way I was out of a chunk of change and looked like an ass too.
 
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Same story. Playing in a all day partner tournament. There was no scheduled time, you had to be in the room when your turn came up. While waiting me and my partner were drinking. During one of the games I got ball in hand. Standing at the table, looking over the situation, I finally decided what to do and glancing out of the corner of my eye I reached down to pick up the CB but ended up picking up the 8 ball. FOUL.

Drinking and pool just don't seem to mix very well.
 
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shooting the 9 ball as the CB is pretty common
skipping the 6 is common too

YES I am not alone !!!
 
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Loosing a big game by shooting the nine as the cueball, or my favorite i played almost a year without understanding that the reason for my shitty game was that my eyes was bad. I needed glasses.:mad:

So i got me a pair of Oakley Romeos, and they work great.
 
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I have missed with ball in hand more than once, Coz I didn't like the angle!

I was playing races to 4 for $200 and was 3-3, 9b hanging in the hole, my opponent had scratched on the break. I was one happy...too BIH and made the 2-9, but the f'n 1 was still on the table!
 
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The Thing that haunts me............

Well since you asked,
In the summer of 1986, a bunch of friends were hanging out at my place
and we decided to go shoot some pool. I went into the bedroom and got my Palmer and was ready to go. My friend Rick asked if he could use one of my cues, as i had 6 of them. I said yeah grab one, he picked my Dad's old Brunswick. It was in a Black/Red plaid soft case, and it had a leather grip, and many different colored woods in the points and a really strange joint with big coarse threads and a piece of Brass in the Butt end cap where you could have it engraved. It had a thick shaft and i never liked shooting with it, so i said ok to him and we went off to shoot all night.
Now Rick was a good shooter and we had been on a Busch league team together, so i was not worried the least bit about him using the cue. He
had his own, a Joss with 2 shafts in a tube case and always took care of it.

I wound up leaving cause this girl, Gloria a hot Blonde with great legs, called the pool hall looking for me, as she had done before, they paged me and it was a "Booty call" so i took off to get some.

A few days later my band (i am a Bass player) left to go on the road.
We were gone for 6 month's. I thought about the Brunswick a few days later and i figured it will be fine, i will just get it from Rick when we get home. Between getting laid and getting all my Gear and stuff together to leave i had forgotten all about it before i left.

By the time i got home, i had really forgotten about it. When i did remember i went down to the local Pool Hall, and there were a whole bunch of new faces there. I asked the lady who worked there, she was one of the owners wife. If she had seen Rick, she thought about it for a second or two and said Ya know, i have not seen him in a long time. So i hit all the other Pool hall's Bowling alley's, & bars and he was not around.

So i went to the Titty Bar where his girlfriend danced and they had not seen her in month's and none of the other girls knew where she went or how to get in touch with her. One of the girls said she had broken up with him.

So to this day i still think about that Brunswick and it was one of the only things i had of my Dad's and how careless i was with it. I was a young guy in band and did not think about the long term effect that it would have on me.

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Thanks for letting me vent.

"CH"
 
When I was eight or ten years old . . .

When I was eight or ten years old I went over to a cousin's house and they had a bumper pool table. I picked up a stick and it has been downhill since then! :D :D :D

Hu
 
While racking, I once spent 5 min (oponent was in the restroom) looking for the 10 ball to complete a 9 ball rack. Before he came back, I realized my mistake and racked up 9 balls, and was silently embarassed.

After a few games, I found myself racking again and asking the guy if he'd seen the 10 ball anywhere.

In my defense, I had been previously involved in a ring game for several hours.
 
Dumberer

Playing 8-ball. Had ball in hand. Only the 11 and the 8 left on the table. Set up and put the 11 in the side with perfect position on the 8 in the corner.
Just one small problem: I was solids.
 
Nice Break

This happened only about three weeks ago, as much as I wish I could claim it was when I was just starting to play. I was playing 8-ball, and it was my break. It was league night, but on a practice table, not a match, so I decided I was going to see how hard I could smash the rack, control be damned. So I got into my break stance, set up like normal, and tried to put more muscle than usual into my stroke. I missed. Not "miss" like fail to make a ball, not "miss" like fail to hit the head ball, not "miss" like fail to hit the rack, but "miss" like fail to hit the CUE BALL. I almost fell down on the table having stroked that hard and met nothing but air resistance. There were plenty of witnesses who know me well enough to laugh out loud at me. I was told I turned a very amusing shade of red.

-Andrew
 
While playing in a team tournament all weekend I was 11-0 in my individual games of 8ball. The 12th game was in a match that would put us in the money. We were up 3-2 race to 5. After I had a few cracks at the table and I was solids, my opponent who was running the table missed a duck and I was super surprised/excited. I walked up to the table, surveyed the situation, and played a perfect safe off of my opponents stripe leaving him buried behind another stripe. he walks up and says "ball in hand?"...I looked at him like a deer caught in headlights..."yep, go ahead". That loss cost us the game and eventually the match. Ding-dong...anyone home!!
 
Talk about a dumbass!

I played a number of good players for a few hours when an attractive woman steps up. She says she's a beginner and doesn't want to bet. I politely let her know that we were gambling, and offered to help her find a game on one of the other tables. She counter offers with a public humiliation bet. Loser gets their bare a$$ spanked infront of everyone.

She was truly a beginner, and I took a wild fly at an 8-ball kick. Made the 8 and scratched off of one of her 7 balls! I payed up and asked for a rematch with no success. It's a shame, too. Guess I wasn't to 42Nate that day!
 
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