Dumbest thing you ever done. (pool related)

hill hill match, opponent scratches on the 8ball. he takes the cb, places it tight against the topcussion. Instead of taking the cb in hand, i shot it from there (impossible shot to make) , didnt realise i had ball in hand. ofcourse i missed it, and lost the match.


other hill hill game, we both had missed the 8 in 8ball 2 times, he ends up with 8ball in the jaws, and cb 3 inches from it, i screw slighty more then to make a stopshot, just to be sure i dont scracth in the same pocket, but the nerves made me screw 2 tables, and bank the cb into the corner pocket.
 
Mine was just the other night!

Breaking 8 ball in a tournament. Had a decent spread with only one cluster. Took stripes, played down to my last two balls, one was in the cluster and the other was sitting pretty to break up the cluster and drive my ball towards the corner. Executed it perfectly. Played in my last strip and drilled the 8 ball in the side pocket. Break and run, right? WRONG. My 14 ball was sitting on the other end of the table right out in the middle, no excuse that it was "camoflauged" in a group of balls or sitting close to something that might obscure it's view. Just didn't look up there to see it. Oh, well, even I had to laugh.
 
I was drinking and playing pool with an ex-girlfriend and for some reason I had an overwelming desire to give her my good cue. It didn't take her more than a couple of months to lose it at some bar:(
 
Solartje said:
hill hill match, opponent scratches on the 8ball. he takes the cb, places it tight against the topcussion. Instead of taking the cb in hand, i shot it from there (impossible shot to make) , didnt realise i had ball in hand. ofcourse i missed it, and lost the match.
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Was playing the other night against the owner of the pool hall. He made an incredibly tough cut into the side pocket, coming off 4 rails for position on the next shot. He looked at me and said "Nice shot, huh?"

"Yeah - especially considering you had ball in hand."

He had put the cue ball down to go ring up some customers, and had forgotten by the time he returned.
 
One of the dumbest things I've ever done related to pool included pain and embarassment...lol. I was jumping the cueball of the end rail, from the head of the table, and catching it. Well, the ball was coming back a little low so I tried to block it with my hand. The ball proceeded to bounce just below my hand and hit me dead square in the nuts! OUCH...lol.
 
After playing far too much 9 Ball, in an 8 Ball game I got down to my last ball, which was right beside the 8 ball near the side pocket, and I think to myself "cool, I can run this last ball down to the corner and carom the 8 into the side for the win" ... of course just as I made the shot I thought to myself "OOOOPPS, wrong game".

Dave
 
Playing TAP 8 ball, there's a rule called "Safe ball down" where you can pocket a ball of your own category, and still turn the table over to your opponent.

Well, during a tournament, I called "Safe ball down", executed a great shot. Made my ball, and left my opponent snookered. I really felt good about myself and the shot.

My plan was foiled when I picked up the cue ball and handed it to my opponent after my masterful Safe ball down call, giving him ball in hand of course.
 
I've posted this a few times on other threads, but of course not marking the pocket for the 8-ball in the hill-hill rack of the hill-hill match of the APA Gold Cup for our region is something I'll never forget. We won our division in the Fall, won three matches to make the Gold Cup in the Summer, and won three more to reach the Final, and it all went up in a puff of smoke when I made the 8-ball.
 
I have a buddy who played in the DCC a few years ago and was taped for an AccuStats video. Loser racks, and it was, if I am not mistaken, hill-hill or close. My buddy racks the 9 out of order and his opponent breaks, and makes a couple with seemingly a runout at the table. Someone watching yells out about the 9 being out of place and the tournament director gets involved, and ends up calling for a rerack and replay of the game. The same guy breaks and doesn't make anything. My buddy runs out and wins the match! Needless to say, there was one hot player at the table!
 
When I was younger, poorer, dumber, and full of piss n vinegar (aka Gamble) I watched a cocky "kid" walk into a pool room and offer anyone of us the 7 ball sight unseen. I was probably the weakest of my roomates at the time, plus I was pretty much on tilt kinda drunk.. So I bet everything I had (which wasn't too much, but was alot to me at the time) rent money included, as well as a cue I had custom built for my father (hadn't given it to him yet) etc.. etc. Race to 16 with my roomate playing.

As the kid proceeded to run racks, on top of the general cocky attitude, my roomate just fell apart. (He was a low A player) he ended up missing the 7 ball with ball in hand at one point.)

That was probably the dumbest thing I've ever done in pool. Kid turned out to be John Schmidt, and the final score was 16 : 4, and the race took about as long as one of my average races to 7..

I will say though, I picked up a good line that night from him.. :D After my roomate was so shaken that he missed the 7 with ball in hand, I called over to John and said "If you wouldn't mind I'd really like to finish this set out, I'm drunk off my ass, and it is my money on the line."

Very cooly (point in fact it was the very thing I remember most about the match) this kid looks over at me and says "Nah, I'm good where I'm at."

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The other dumbest thing I've ever done in pool, was years ago while I was sitting there taking my practice strokes for a 9 ball I said to myself (even though it was a duck) "I'm going to miss this.." and I did. Let me tell you, that phrase will make you miss everytime, as well as turn you into the worlds biggest choker for awhile. Dunny why I said it to myself, but here it is 10 years later and it still pops in my head from time to time and makes me choke out. Now all I'm thinking about on key balls is "Don't say the phrase Dave.. Don't say it!!" instead of thinking about the shot. :(

DJ
 
Superman Shot

When I first started playing, I used to go to the local American Legion and play for free with a couple of friends of mine. The place had three 8 foot coin tables all on a slick tile floor. One time, I was reaching way out over the table with only one foot on the floor and I slipped. I couldn't really catch myself and just sort of laid down on the table. They called me superman for quite a while after that one.
 
Seems like I'm not the only one to scratch on BIH, miss with BIH, shoot the wrong ball, shoot the oneball and forget what game we were playing.

As a teenager I repeatedly let my temper get the best of me. Besides the usual such as 3 broken cues (all Abe Rich Sneaky petes), I also lost tons of respect from others that even today still remember me from those days instead of who I am now ( I hope I have changed at least a little). One time (around 1982)a player brought in a good woman player from Texas and got me to give her the 7 and 8. After she robbed me I went into the parking lot and ended up kicking that players Caddy and denting his door. Later that week I paid him $400 to get his door fixed and he further stuck it to me by never getting the door fixed (old caddy) so everytime I saw his car it made me remember that night.

Lets see, plenty of other stupid moments...hmmm

Shooting an airbarrel at a drunk redneck (1983 another teenage mistake)

Playing $500 sets against a guy who I later found out could give me the last 3 (1991 Tampa).

Keeping all my money in my wallet in my back pocket at a Chicago tournament in 1992 (hello Mr Pickpocket, not so happy to meet you)

Buying a New Joss for 1k and passing on buying a used Szamboti instead (1986).

I forgot my pocket and shot my opponents case money ball in playing $100 a game one pocket. (2006)
 
dumb thing someone ELSE did

Dude shot the eight ball .. in eight ball league... and as it was rolling towards the pocket he bangs his stick on the table and breaks it because he thought he missed it... guess what =... he didn't ... it went right into the heart of the pocket....
 
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 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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Harvy:

Dude! I can't compete with that... BUT.. The stupidest thing I have done is: I was playing in a ring game and after we finished, I threw a barstick (like a spear) underhanded onto the table... well the tip deflected off of the slate and the cue bounced just enough to miss the end rail and it flew off the other end of the table and speared a hot chick right in the back. I am still embarassed over that one and it was 9 years ago.

She probably still has a 13 mm bruise on her back...
 
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Hmm... the dumbest thing I ever done? That's easy, the dumbest thing I ever have ever done is pick up a cue in the 1st place and play this game. I've been addicted ever since.
 
hobokenapa said:
I've posted this a few times on other threads, but of course not marking the pocket for the 8-ball in the hill-hill rack of the hill-hill match of the APA Gold Cup for our region is something I'll never forget. We won our division in the Fall, won three matches to make the Gold Cup in the Summer, and won three more to reach the Final, and it all went up in a puff of smoke when I made the 8-ball.
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Ohmygod! That hurts! Guess you were to excited to mark the pocket! The scorn evident in the expressions of your teamates must have been... priceless!
 
I was just a B player, but I had a Southwest and I really liked it. I just did not really play well with it because I was simply a bad player. I was not able to tell the difference at all.

Anyway, I sold that cue, and to this day I regret it. That is one of the dumbest thing I have done. I have not found another one with the same hit, (except one that I tried from Paul) but then I am not sure if I really remember how it hit, becasue I was really a very bad player back then. (not that I am really good now)

Then I got my first Layani cue, with a shorter shaft, and I was starting to play well with it, I was winning tournaments. For some stupid reasons, I sold that cue to a friend in Japan. I think it was because I did not like the wrap.

I had a Josey, real plain sneaky pete that I was planning to use as a break cue but ended up playing with. I was winning tournaments, and the cue just felt right in my hand. It was super plain, just looked like a house cue. I could not stand how plain it looked so I sold it.

I have done this kind of thing many times, I have gone through so many cues some of them I would not even recognize if I see them again.

I feel so stupid when I think about it. I love the game but I know I can enjoy it more if I would have kept the same cue.

Another dumb thing I used to do was to change my tip, and my weight bolt, and my wrap all the time. It was almost like an obsession for me, that I had to change something and then again and again.

But it is not really all that bad when I come to think of it, at least now I am a lot more deserning on the hit of a cue regarding balance and taper. I am able to tell little differences between cues that I could not tell before.

But still, I should have my own cue and keep it. I just can't seem to be able to do that. It is bad.
 
This one was pretty embarrassing. I was playing a match in a Tri State Tour event aganst a fellow named Antonio (I think his last name was Guerrero), a rock solid player, and we were playing even in a race to seven.

At 5 - 5 in the race to seven, I played the seven ball two ways, and even though I hung it, he had to kick at it. I didn't watch the kick, but saw him return to the chair, and the seven was still leaning over the pocket. I picked up the cue ball, ready to run the last three balls, which were sitting really easy. I was about to go up 6 - 5, and would own the break, so I'd be in pretty good shape to win the match.

Unfortunately, Antonio had made a good hit, barely shaving the seven, but since I didn't watch his kick, I didn't know. Sure enough, when I went to have a closer look, the position of the seven ball had changed marginally.

So, by picking up the cue ball, I had fouled. He ran out the last three balls and also broke and ran the next rack to end the match.

Ouch! That hurt.
 
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