Saw someone at the Valley state tournament hold the $20 challenge table for half a day.
These are races to 1 in 8 ball.
What have you seen?
These are races to 1 in 8 ball.
What have you seen?
Longest you've seen someone hold a challenge table for $$
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InsertCleverNameHere
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Not sure about time, half a day is super strong though.
But many moons ago in South Georgia there was a spot with 8 bar tables and they played 5 ball. Win 2 out of 3 and you keep the table. $5 or $10 per game and a few folks would bet 20. If you split the first 2 racks the 3rd rack doubled. It was a pretty cool setup and there were generally 5-7 players on each table. Pretty strong. I went there twice and won over $500 each time. I may have held it for 2 hours a couple times, idk.
But many moons ago in South Georgia there was a spot with 8 bar tables and they played 5 ball. Win 2 out of 3 and you keep the table. $5 or $10 per game and a few folks would bet 20. If you split the first 2 racks the 3rd rack doubled. It was a pretty cool setup and there were generally 5-7 players on each table. Pretty strong. I went there twice and won over $500 each time. I may have held it for 2 hours a couple times, idk.
This reminds me ....
Back in the 80s or maybe early 90s, pn a week night in Totem Lake, The ladies league used one of the 2 tables in the bar..There was always a bunch of no playing young men that wanted to impress the gals. So I would make them play for a couple dollars a game on the one challenge table. The quarters would be lined up at least half a dozen on the rail and none of the challengers could shoot a lick. Shrug
Not big money but it was My table from 6 until close. There was even an occasional cocky one that wanted to play for 10. Never ran a rack and never lost a game. It was a soft field. Kinda like shooting fish in a barrel.
Back in the 80s or maybe early 90s, pn a week night in Totem Lake, The ladies league used one of the 2 tables in the bar..There was always a bunch of no playing young men that wanted to impress the gals. So I would make them play for a couple dollars a game on the one challenge table. The quarters would be lined up at least half a dozen on the rail and none of the challengers could shoot a lick. Shrug
Not big money but it was My table from 6 until close. There was even an occasional cocky one that wanted to play for 10. Never ran a rack and never lost a game.
It was a soft field. Kinda like shooting fish in a barrel. 
How do you play 5 ball?
Played in a bar in Lafayette from 6 pm till 2 am the next morning. Never lost a game walked out with a bunch of 10s and 20s. Towards the end of the night a hotty got up on the table and started dancing. I looked over at the bar tender to see if he was going to make her get off the table. He walked over and threw a five dollar bill on the table and she kept on dancing.
InsertCleverNameHere
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4 ball diamond with the “5” ball frozen to the center diamond in the kitchen.
Cool idea for bar table/coin op pool. Lot of value for your quarters.
I've held one from 6pm until close at 2am...
30 cent drafts. After 3 hours I just begged for a quarter instead!
30 cent drafts. After 3 hours I just begged for a quarter instead!
This may not be a record but still: yrs ago some friends were on the road when they hit Texarcana. They went in this bar and got a booth to scope the joint out. This guy walks over and says 'Do you see the mf'r right there?' He was pointing at Matlock. Both knew Dave and weren't knocking him so they said no. Well this guy said, 'that sob just hit me with a 22pack on that Valley.' They just smiled and said 'Wow'.
Long enough to have no more room on the tabletop for free pitchers, a complete inability to continue drinking, and a lack of willing participants to help me drink them
In chip tournaments where you keep the table and challengers keep coming I've gotten over 30 in a row a few times.
In chip tournaments where you keep the table and challengers keep coming I've gotten over 30 in a row a few times.
At the Super Billiards Expo in 2000 or 2001 they were playing $100 a game 9b on a Valley. Nobody you’d ever heard of and everyone running out. Rail betting on “the breaker” or “the racker”.
Up comes Jose Parica and he doesn’t lose a game in over an hour. Eventually challengers stop coming and the rail disburses. Jose walks away and magically everyone reappears and action resumes.
Up comes Jose Parica and he doesn’t lose a game in over an hour. Eventually challengers stop coming and the rail disburses. Jose walks away and magically everyone reappears and action resumes.
Many years ago a bar used to employ me once a week to play thirty-six racks of 8 Ball against all challengers. Anyone who beat me won a beer.
I went unbeaten a few times.
I went unbeaten a few times.
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I was asked to go play somewhere else a few times
I got in a 1 and 2 dollar ring game making the 5th. I got a shot at the 2 ball and ran out. Everyone unscrewed. I said excuse me , I will step down and you guys can carry on. They did continue and I had 12 bucks for my daily beer allowance.I was asked to go play somewhere else a few times
My longest run of wins, not break and run but break and win was 17. Started at 10 and went to 20 a game after 5 games. He surrendered at 17.
He never had an open shot.
I hope you used nicer balls then what was in the poster!
I don’t know why those balls were on the poster really, Mr B, because we only ever played with a plain red and yellow casino set.
Cord
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Back somewhere around 94-ish, my roommate & I used to often hold one of the tables at the Camp Schwab E-club on Friday nights from around a half-hour after liberty call til close, playing doubles 8-ball for pitchers of beer. Not sure how much relevance that has, but it was fun to remember. 