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1ab

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I understand in our league I became a mark after winning the average title a couple of times. It seems as though some more than others take their best shot at me thinking that's going to raise their status or something should they win. A young man about 35 has got me on the ropes and misses a duck. Suddenly without warning he takes his cue and slams it over the table breaking it into a dozen pieces. First time I had ever witnessed such an event and felt fortunate as I turned away in time to not be hit in the face by some of the pieces. I didn't know how to react at first but I walked up to him and said I feel honored someone wants to beat me that bad. As luck would have it, his leave left me hooked like a tuna and though I made a good hit he picked up a house cue and ran out. Never thought of pool as being a combat sport but that flying debris could have hurt somebody.
 
" ...that flying debris could have hurt somebody. "

And, if verified, it will get you suspended from many an APA league. Like mine.
 
The day you shatter a pool cue during a league match is the day you should take a looooong look at yourself in the mirror.

You handled the situation very well.
 
1ab said:
I understand in our league I became a mark after winning the average title a couple of times. It seems as though some more than others take their best shot at me thinking that's going to raise their status or something should they win. A young man about 35 has got me on the ropes and misses a duck. Suddenly without warning he takes his cue and slams it over the table breaking it into a dozen pieces. First time I had ever witnessed such an event and felt fortunate as I turned away in time to not be hit in the face by some of the pieces. I didn't know how to react at first but I walked up to him and said I feel honored someone wants to beat me that bad. As luck would have it, his leave left me hooked like a tuna and though I made a good hit he picked up a house cue and ran out. Never thought of pool as being a combat sport but that flying debris could have hurt somebody.
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well, lets cut to the chase... nobody is gunning for you because it might "raise their status", I mean, geez, relax...

In league, it's about winning, and you try and take out the other players best player, cause if you do that, big advantage... best player on team is "suppose" to win... so in fairness, every team has a guy they really wanna beat.... this guy is just an idiot and h ad nothing to do with your skills at the table...
 
Mueccis will scatter like a Bouncing Benny or a Claymore.

I watched a guy do the same in the hall one night, only he gave his a serious going over. As much as it was funny, it was sad to watch at the same time.

He left it there. I got it and salvaged a couple of pieces from it. Didn't figure that he wanted it any longer.
 
I had a lower skilled player that wanted to beat me that bad during play offs one time during a hill hill match do something similar.

I think it was a 4-2 race and he won the first rack.

I had missed my last shot to get on the 8 and he had three balls left and missed his last one pretty bad.

He left me kinda awkward on the 8 but I made it. He put his stick over his shoulders on his back and cracked it in half at the joint. He had to get a new shaft.

I felt kind of bad for him but I didn't really understand why he was that upset... The games over, why cost yourself that kind of money...
 
ChicagoRJ said:
well, lets cut to the chase... nobody is gunning for you because it might "raise their status", I mean, geez, relax...

In league, it's about winning, and you try and take out the other players best player, cause if you do that, big advantage... best player on team is "suppose" to win... so in fairness, every team has a guy they really wanna beat.... this guy is just an idiot and h ad nothing to do with your skills at the table...
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In any case this thread was an explanation of an unexpected encounter that I thought might cause others to share similar events. I in no certain terms have ever felt so skilled that I may reference them other than actual occurrences. If I came across as self serving, I assure you it was unintentional. My apologies.
 
I quit playing with cheap cues when I realized they explode easily... The expensive ones may but I have yet to pull the pin on one of them......
 
I have snapped a cue once...I was 16 or 17 years old and taking a bad beat from a guy that I should of walked all over. He would ride the 9 any chance he got and was regularly slopping the money in. I was so frustrated after he made one that i slammed the butt of the cue hard into the ground and it came apart right under the joint. I was kind of a hot head back then and I would throw a temper tantrum from time to time...

A couple years later I saw a guy throwing a fit over a game and he snapped his cue over his knee...I thought to my self "Man...Thats how stupid I look when I throw a fit" and I swore I would never do anything like that ever again...

I have seen guys throw Q-balls, break cues, yell & scream obscenities but the worst temper tantrum I have ever seen was a guy just completely loosing it at a tournament. He was down on a game ball and rattled it...instead of letting his opponent shoot the ball he smacked the cue ball away with the shaft of his cue and broke it...he then proceeded to break his fist on the slate of the table...must of punched it at least 6 or 7 times really hard. His hand instantly swelled up to the size of a softball and his buddy had to drive him to the hospital...That was an expensive $10 tourney for that guy! He had to pay the medical bills and pay to replace the cloth on the table where he bloodied it all up plus he had a broken cue....LOL

Throwing fits is for 2 year olds not grown ass adults...
 
gunning for you to raise there status hahahaha oh apa players make me laugh like no other.

Who was it at the super billiards expo a few years a go that missed a ball and started head butting the slate. lol almost knocked himself out and was bleeding. lol
 
How I got hurt playing with someone like that...

I played 15 years ago in league with a guy that would absolutely lose it from time to time. He was unstable, and when he got upset...he would yell "dammit " and then his name...he would turn red in the face, start blurting out profanities left and right. He would just walk up to the table and hit the balls as hard as he could when he got into this mode. The balls would go flying off the table.

Here's where the story gets good...
So one night we were gonna be playing his team, so we made a bet to see who could get him to snap first...we we were all trying very hard to get under his skin, just a game, but my brother won the prize, he shot safety after safety, even when he had the out...and on the last safety, the guy missed his ball entirely, trying to kick at it, the guy finally snapped...absolutely lost it, slammed his cue against the table, yelled out his name at the top of his voice..he freaked...

I started laughing so hard that I passed out, and fell straight backwards, my beer in one hand, and my cue in the other. My head bounced off the concrete floor. I guess I must have cut the oxygen to my brain cuz I was laughing so hard, and I was hammered, lol.
Man, those were the days...
 
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