Most Amazing Thing You've Seen in Pool

huckster said:
Here are my top three.

3. Antonio Lining playing the 9ball ghost race to 20 without ball in hand, and giving the ghost 10 games on the wire on an action bar box. Antonio loses the first 3 games he then strings a 13 pack togather scratches on the break and runs 7 more.

2. an instroke Jack Hynes running 14 racks of 9ball on a tight goldcrown (I was in Toledo when Johnny ran 13 on Busty and Jack's package was waaaayyyy more impressive) it was the most amazing shot making I have ever seen, every ball pocketed at 100mph with 3 and 4 rail shape

1. An older guy came in the pool room very late one night and started rolling the cueball 3 rails to pocket a spot shot. Eventually he suckered us into racking 15 balls and he would tose the cueball 3 rails and pocket all 15 balls wherever they ended up he had to posket them with 3 rail tosses. He asked for a one hour time limit for $100 about 9 or 10 of us went in and bet $300 and gave him something like 42 minutes. He did it in like 39 or 40 minutes. Five or six of us went ahead and gave him 33 minutes for $500. He did it around 30 minutes. The local bookie (D pool player) told him he would bet $1000 and a hundred North or South of 20 minutes. They both posted 2 dimes and the old guy took it down in 14 minutes to the tune of $1400. He offered Sam (the bookie) twelve minutes for 3 dimes and Sam declined. Before the older gentleman left Sam told him he could get 3 dimes worth of action if he ran a 9ball rack in rotation spinning the ball 3 rails in less then 15 minutes. If he potted a ball out of turn it spotted, all balls must be a legal (lowest first) hit. The older gentleman asked if he could choose a cueball to use. Sam agreed The older guy retrieved his cueball from his car, Sam racked the balls the older guy potted them all in rotation in 8 minutes, including cutting the 7ball about two feet down the rail. Every shot was perfect speed. Anybody ever meet this guy???
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I know the guy, a tall gentleman out of Texas. His name is Reed something. He is the greatest at rolling the balls I've ever seen, right there with Mike Massey. Actually he can do some of the same tricks that Mike can, with spinning the cue ball. He has big hands.

Reed would be in his late sixties now. I last saw him at CJ Wiley's tournament in Dallas ten years ago. He actually gave me a ride to my hotel one night. A soft spoken guy who does not brag and also does not need the money. He is well to do as I recall. He is friends with CJ. Reed used to come to some of the pro tournamants and occasionally fool around with the balls after the matches. He would not look for action, but if someone doubted his ability rolling the balls, he was always ready to put his money up.
 
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jay helfert said:
I know the guy, a tall gentleman out of Texas. His name is Reed something. He is the greatest at rolling the balls I've ever seen, right there with Mike Massey. Actually he can do some of the same tricks that Mike can, with spinning the cue ball. He has big hands.

Reed would be in his late sixties now. I last saw him at CJ Wiley's tournament in Dallas ten years ago. He actually gave me a ride to my hotel one night. A soft spoken guy who does not brag and also does not need the money. He is well to do as I recall. He is friends with CJ. Reed used to come to some of the pro tournamants and occasionally fool around with the balls after the matches. He would not look for action, but if someone doubted his ability rolling the balls, he was always ready to put his money up.
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Do you remember a guy called "Spin the ball George"? Same type of deal.
 
Man, I hate that Active X thing that pops up when I pull up this thread! :(

I've seen MANY amazing things in pool.

Tommy Kennedy juggling the pool balls on a field of green is phenomenal. Somebody needs to get that on a YouTube video clip. It's very cool! :p

At the 7-Ball Challenge on ESPN, promoted by Allen Hopkins, et al., I was awestruck when Danny Harriman broke the balls and made six balls out of 7 on the break. :cool:

Another TV amazing break was when Alex Pagulayan was playing against Santos in the semi-finals of the BCA Open in Vegas. He broke the balls, pocketed 7 out of 9 on the break, but didn't get out! :o

I saw Keith McCready accept a challenge that he could run a rack of 15 balls on a bar box in 1 minute or less at Hot Shots in Baltimore. The entire time he was pocketing balls, you could hear the sound of the balls after being pocketed rolling to their resting place. The racket was loud, those rolling balls inside the table, but it was a fine exhibition. He never missed a shot. :)

JAM
 
huckster said:
Here are my top three.

3. Antonio Lining playing the 9ball ghost race to 20 without ball in hand, and giving the ghost 10 games on the wire on an action bar box. Antonio loses the first 3 games he then strings a 13 pack togather scratches on the break and runs 7 more.
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Huck,
That is an awesome story. Being 13 in the hole in a race to 20 vs The Ghost....Coming back to win. Wow.
Did the rail have anything on the ghost?
 
Terry Ardeno said:
Do you remember a guy called "Spin the ball George"? Same type of deal.
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Yes, George was around in the 60's and 70's. He could do everything Huckster was talking about and more. I think he passed away about 15-20 years ago.

George was from down South somewhere and may have had an influence on Mike Massey, because Mike does some of the same shots, like making a ball in the corner pocket and spinning the cue ball up the rail to pocket a second ball.

George was a gambler, always looking for action. But he avoided the tournaments because he preferred not to be recognized. Kind of like Jack Cooney that way.
 
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JAM said:
Man, I hate that Active X thing that pops up when I pull up this thread! :(

I've seen MANY amazing things in pool.

Tommy Kennedy juggling the pool balls on a field of green is phenomenal. Somebody needs to get that on a YouTube video clip. It's very cool! :p

At the 7-Ball Challenge on ESPN, promoted by Allen Hopkins, et al., I was awestruck when Danny Harriman broke the balls and made six balls out of 7 on the break. :cool:

Another TV amazing break was when Alex Pagulayan was playing against Santos in the semi-finals of the BCA Open in Vegas. He broke the balls, pocketed 7 out of 9 on the break, but didn't get out! :o

I saw Keith McCready accept a challenge that he could run a rack of 15 balls on a bar box in 1 minute or less at Hot Shots in Baltimore. The entire time he was pocketing balls, you could hear the sound of the balls after being pocketed rolling to their resting place. The racket was loud, those rolling balls inside the table, but it was a fine exhibition. He never missed a shot. :)

JAM
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They got Tommy K. from FLA on tape prior to the final match at the U.S. Open this year doing his thing. He juggled the balls for a long time, maybe a couple of minutes or more. It was fantastic! It should be included on the DVD of the final match.

By the way, in the final game of the Ralf Souquet/Ramil Gallego match at 4:30 AM, Ralf broke and made five balls on that tight Diamond table. It was amazing! Yes, he got out to win the match. I don't think anyone made more than three balls during any other match in the tournament.
 
this was a shot i saw Larry Nevel do in columbus in about 1998 ( and yes the cueball was frozen to the rail)

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and then he did it this way...

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jay helfert said:
They got Tommy K. from FLA on tape prior to the final match at the U.S. Open this year doing his thing. He juggled the balls for a long time, maybe a couple of minutes or more. It was fantastic! It should be included on the DVD of the final match.

By the way, in the final game of the Ralf Souquet/Ramil Gallego match at 4:30 AM, Ralf broke and made five balls on that tight Diamond table. It was amazing! Yes, he got out to win the match. I don't think anyone made more than three balls during any other match in the tournament.
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He also does that on the tape of his match vs Johnny Archer when he won the 1992 U.S. Open 9 Ball Championship. Accu-Stats has it.
 
9ball on breaks

Pops told me the story of him and Corey playing in the WPC in Cardiff around 2002 when Corey made 8 consecutive 9balls on the break in a race to 9. Referee racking, all went into same corner. Worst part was that it was in the single elimination knockout stages. Pops conceded last game because he couldn't stand it anymore. Jay, were you there???

Ronnie Wiseman was there spectating and told me it was the sickest thing he has ever seen in all the years he's played pool. He went across the globe to lose like that...brutal.
 
MexPoolPlyr said:
Pops told me the story of him and Corey playing in the WPC in Cardiff around 2002 when Corey made 8 consecutive 9balls on the break in a race to 9. Referee racking, all went into same corner. Worst part was that it was in the single elimination knockout stages. Pops conceded last game because he couldn't stand it anymore. Jay, were you there???

Ronnie Wiseman was there spectating and told me it was the sickest thing he has ever seen in all the years he's played pool. He went across the globe to lose like that...brutal.
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That sucks a big weenie for sure. I think that is when the so-called "soft break" first came to the fore. There weren't any rules against it at that time, I guess. Now the rule is that three balls must go past the side pocket after the break, to prevent this type of thing from happening.

I remember when players used to crawl up on all fours to make a shot on a pool table. They looked like dogs relieving themselves with one leg extended in the air. It was very unprofessional looking. Eventually, a rule was made that all players must have one foot on the floor.

JAM
 
MexPoolPlyr said:
Pops told me the story of him and Corey playing in the WPC in Cardiff around 2002 when Corey made 8 consecutive 9balls on the break in a race to 9. Referee racking, all went into same corner. Worst part was that it was in the single elimination knockout stages. Pops conceded last game because he couldn't stand it anymore. Jay, were you there???

Ronnie Wiseman was there spectating and told me it was the sickest thing he has ever seen in all the years he's played pool. He went across the globe to lose like that...brutal.
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I wasn't there that year, but I heard about it. You couldn't question the officials rack and Corey figured how to break on the table. The ref was a little lame for allowing that to happen. He was clueless. He kept putting the same bogus rack up there.

Tang got the worst of the racks in Cardiff in 1999. He was on a roll and the ref took ten minutes to put a rack up there. It was a joke! After the second time, Tang cooled off and he lost to Micheal Schmidt in the round of 32.

Earl also figured out how to break the balls on the table he ran ten racks on in Dallas. I was able to put a stop to it in rack number seven, but the damage was done and he had the first six racks down by then.
 
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Aaron_S said:
I'm having a hard time putting a finger on the most amazing thing I've personally seen, but this thread brings to mind a shot I've heard about, and I think if I saw it executed it would become my new "most amazing thing I've ever seen in pool".

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I know what you're thinking, "yeah, yeah it's just a simple little 3-rail draw shot...", lol, but I heard that a few guys were able to execute it one-handed :eek:

Has anyone here seen somebody shoot this shot one-handed, because I would think that would qualify as pretty friggin amazing?
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This a shot seen alot in 3 cushion billiards. of course you dont have to pocket a ball in 3 cushion but it takes on hell of a move to get it back three rails.
 
Neil said:
I know it stretches the imagination, but it did happen, and I had to pay for it happening. Two of us complained about the racks, but got outvoted. Ended up even in the game and quit.
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Not sure what the amazing part of this story is neil.......that many 9's on the break or that you were playing in a 100 a man ring game......lol just razzin ya...see ya sunday
 
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Thanks for the post of the Kennedy video. That is the first I've seen it, great character there.

Back to shooting pool ... I had a ball hung in the side pocket and my balls protecting the path of a friends 8 ball. I had just 2 rail kicked a bank shot in to win the last game, so you understand he had to try to one up me. He proceded to pop the 8 off the side rail and make a perfect arc into the side pocket. The 8 hit the back of the pocket, ricocheted into the lip and off the table. It was the most perfect shot I've ever seen someone lose a game off of.
 
amazing shots

Several come to mind...

1) best shot in a pool room? ...a guy came to the local room in West Monroe, LA and threw a thin dime into the freakin' coin slot of the pay phone from about 12' for the cash. He said he needed 3 tries and made it on the third. Think about it...

2) Scotty Townsend is playing 9-ball with Buster Merchant for $200 set on a fairly tight 4.5x9 in Greenway Billiards in Baton Rouge, LA. Buster leaves Scotty ON the end rail with the 8 and 9 on the opposite end rail just INSIDE (to center table) of the first diamond of either side (maybe an inch or so off the rail. Scotty jacks up a little (to get to the cueball on the rail) shoots the 8 in real slow curving the CB about 3-4" AND kills the CB for the 9. He looks up at me and says "hit it pretty good" while it's on its way...moseys on down and one strokes the 9 for the win.

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bigdaddygerald said:
This a shot seen alot in 3 cushion billiards. of course you dont have to pocket a ball in 3 cushion but it takes on hell of a move to get it back three rails.
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Sure, but one-handed? I've seen plenty of incredible draw shots with the cb frozen to the rail, even hit a few myself, but I've never seen a one-handed one. Actually, Larry Nevel, who has already been mentioned in this thread, is one of the people I who I heard was capable of making this shot. It's possible, however, that someone was exaggerating, and the shot was not as it was described to me; the only thing I know for sure is that I've never seen anyone do it. So I'm just wondering if it's true, and, if so, if there's video of it somewhere. If I tried the shot I'm sure I'd miss the cb entirely, snap my shaft, rip about a 2 foot tear in the felt, and possibly, no make that probably, injure myself in the process. :o
 
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asn130 said:
this was a shot i saw Larry Nevel do in columbus in about 1998

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and then he did it this way...

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I have to agree with this shot. But not when he did it with two hands.....when he did it with just one hand and drew the cuball back past the side pocket. Amazing stroke! JMO.

Southpaw
 
Southpaw said:
I have to agree with this shot. But not when he did it with two hands.....when he did it with just one hand and drew the cuball back past the side pocket. Amazing stroke! JMO.

Southpaw
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i didn't see him do it 1 handed, but i'd like to see that....he had to come down on the cueball at about a 45 degree angle to do it 2 handed....i can't imagine sombody doing that with one hand, AND pulling off a shot like that.
 
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