Most Embarassing Pool Moment!

kath13

kath13

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Okay, given the tone of some of the threads of late, I thought we needed a little lightness in the main forum to make some of our fellow AZer's smile.

I will start, I have several to share, they may not seem to be overly humiliating or embarrassing to some, but to me at the moment it happened I wanted to shrink away and disappear!

1. I had a long shot and was lazy and didn't want to use a bridge so I was on tip-toe with one foot and as I reached forward to hit the CB, I slipped and completely face planted on the table. Luckily my opponent didn't call foul on me, he was too busy laughing.

2. I was playing in front of a player whose game I respect immensely. After I shot the 6 ball and was moving around the table, I let my cue slip and I fouled on the cue ball and I wasn't even down on the next shot. I could hear him say to another, "What just happened"? I felt very little at that moment.

3. This didn't happen to me, but other half broke a rack and let the cue ball fly and did it ever fly. It flew right into a poor, unsuspecting player's nose that was 2 tables away. He didn't break his nose, but it was definitely an embarassing moment for him.

Okay, I searched the forum and didn't see another thread with this title, so I hope I'm not repeating anything. It was either this or "WHOSE THE HOTTEST GUY IN POOL." :p
 
kath13 said:
Okay, given the tone of some of the threads of late, I thought we needed a little lightness in the main forum to make some of our fellow AZer's smile.

I will start, I have several to share, they may not seem to be overly humiliating or embarrassing to some, but to me at the moment it happened I wanted to shrink away and disappear!

1. I had a long shot and was lazy and didn't want to use a bridge so I was on tip-toe with one foot and as I reached forward to hit the CB, I slipped and completely face planted on the table. Luckily my opponent didn't call foul on me, he was too busy laughing.

2. I was playing in front of a player whose game I respect immensely. After I shot the 6 ball and was moving around the table, I let my cue slip and I fouled on the cue ball and I wasn't even down on the next shot. I could hear him say to another, "What just happened"? I felt very little at that moment.

3. This didn't happen to me, but other half broke a rack and let the cue ball fly and did it ever fly. It flew right into a poor, unsuspecting player's nose that was 2 tables away. He didn't break his nose, but it was definitely an embarassing moment for him.

Okay, I searched the forum and didn't see another thread with this title, so I hope I'm not repeating anything. It was either this or "WHOSE THE HOTTEST GUY IN POOL." :p
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I'm glad you went with this instead of "Whose the hottest guy in pool" because I'd have to come out of the closet and name a few :o lol jk jk :D

Haha, the face plat was definately halarious:

I have a few to share, being a newbie, it is definately embarassing enough to hide under the table...

1. I was trying to point a shot out to my friend at the table, for some odd reason, my grip was so loose that my entire cue just slipped out of my hand and landed on the table :yikes: god, that was embarrassing :o

2. The other night, last shot on 8-ball, 8-ball was kissing the pocket and had to barely tap the 8-ball for it to fall. I shot and not only did the 8-ball not move, the CB got kicked into the opposite pocket of the 8-ball. Another one, same night, green and 8-ball touching each other and I had to shoot the green ball (forgot the number sorry) both OB on foot end right corner pocket, I shot, green ball went into the head end left corner pocket, 8-ball for some odd reason flew into the right side pocket, one of the most fluke shot, I even called it myself lol.

Thanks for sharing, have a good one.

Chino
 
I have had many. Here are the two that stand out playing 3-cushion tournaments:

1) The 1st time I played Sang Lee I won the lag. Set up the balls to break and I was so nervous I hit the red ball and the cue ball hit the bottom short rail first (should hit the side rail & come around the table). This was the only time I have done this since I learned the game.

2) First tournament I played in after they changed the balls to a white and a yellow in place of the 2 white balls, I had been the yellow ball and used the red ball as my cue ball. A color is a color.

...Here's your sign.

Dave
 
Many years ago I was at the pool hall and ran into a few friends and started having a few beers . After a few hours of drinking and shooting pool I decided I better head home so I said good bye to everyone and walked out . So there I am standing outside looking around for my car . It was not there and I thought to my self am I just so drunk I can't find my car ?

I went back into the pool hall and asked a close friend to come outside with me . He did and I told him of my problem . He also did not see my car :frown: I said Holy Chit someone stole my car !!! :mad:

He and I went back into the pool hall and announced that my car had been stolen ! Everyone was shocked and said to call the cops and report it .

Just before I made the call another friend said Larry maybe you should call home and see if maybe your wife came and got the car without telling you !

So I called home and asked " Hey hun I think someone stole my car from in front of the pool hall did you by chance stop by the pool hall and get the car ? ''

To this she said Larry you dumba$$ you rode your bike to the pool hall !!!

Well you can imagine my embarrassment when I had to come out of the phone both and tell my friends :D :D :D
 
A quickie

I've got one. I was about 21 years old and sweating a big money match in Macon, GA. I was during a pool tourney there back in the early 1960s. At one point, the players both wanted something to eat and I was designated as the "go fer." I asked what they wanted and they both just said "sandwiches." I ran out and got two ham and cheese sandwiches and rushed them back to the pool hall. When they opened the sandwiches, one guy started laughing and said, "What are you doing bringing a Jewish guy a ham sandwich?!" For some reason, everyone thought it was funny, except me. These guys were my idols at the time and I would have given about anything to avoid embarrassing myself like that. It may seem minor to most of you, but it was probably the most embarrassed I have been in a pool hall.:embarrassed2: :embarrassed2: :embarrassed2:
 
I was shooting 9-ball in league one night against a woman who was a couple of skill levels below me. The match was about midway through when she left a 9-ball hanging in the corner pocket and scratched. In my laziness, I placed the cue ball about where the spot would be with the intention of just going rail first and kicking it in (I know, I know, I should have went and looked at how deep it was in the jaws). Well, needless to say I missed the ball completely, giving her ball-in-hand. I was so embarrassed and shook up that I couldn't have hit my a$$ with a stick of dynamite the rest of the match, which I lost of course. There may have been a more embarrassing moment somewhere else in time, but this is always the one that pops up in my head first. It was, to say the least, a good lesson learned.

Maniac
 
when i first started playing I had a mcdermott cue, i got mad and threw it on the floor when i dogged a easy shot, i was on the front table with about 40 people watching, the cue hit the floor and rolled away in 2 seperate pieces. It had a knot in the wood that wasnt visable until the cue broke, it would have broke soon anyways, its amazing it didnt break on the lathe, there was nothing holding it together it was all rotted out. I felt and looked so stupid. Since then I have thrown a cue on the floor 2 times in 24 years.:cool:
 
There is a trick shot that someone showed me that involves freezing the cue ball on the long rail next to the side pocket. The shot is made by trapping the cue ball, (using a house cue) against the rail with the joint area of the cue, then quickly raking the cue stick away, squeezing the ball against the rail...this squirts the ball out with a lot of spin, it goes 4 or 5 rails around the table and into a corner pocket...

One night at the bar, I was showing this shot to a new girlfriend I had at the time...I was going to impress her big time with this one....I whipped that cue stick away from the table and unbeknownst to me, there was a nice young lady shooting on the table right behind me....I swatted her in the ass SOOOOOOOO hard with that cue I probably nearly broke it in half.

I couldn't apologize enough to her, but I also couldn't stop laughing...I felt like a total idiot.
 
Like every beginner, I had trouble with cue ball control when I first started playing pool (and still do). My problem was (and still is) the opposite problem than most peoples. Instead of hitting the ball to soft, I would hit it to hard. One day I hit the cue ball off of the table and it landed... between a guys knees! I don't know how the cue ball stayed there considering he was standing (it was like he caught it), and he didn't find it funny at all. But I did! :D
 
kath13 said:
Okay, given the tone of some of the threads of late, I thought we needed a little lightness in the main forum to make some of our fellow AZer's smile.

I will start, I have several to share, they may not seem to be overly humiliating or embarrassing to some, but to me at the moment it happened I wanted to shrink away and disappear!

1. I had a long shot and was lazy and didn't want to use a bridge so I was on tip-toe with one foot and as I reached forward to hit the CB, I slipped and completely face planted on the table. Luckily my opponent didn't call foul on me, he was too busy laughing.

2. I was playing in front of a player whose game I respect immensely. After I shot the 6 ball and was moving around the table, I let my cue slip and I fouled on the cue ball and I wasn't even down on the next shot. I could hear him say to another, "What just happened"? I felt very little at that moment.

3. This didn't happen to me, but other half broke a rack and let the cue ball fly and did it ever fly. It flew right into a poor, unsuspecting player's nose that was 2 tables away. He didn't break his nose, but it was definitely an embarassing moment for him.

Okay, I searched the forum and didn't see another thread with this title, so I hope I'm not repeating anything. It was either this or "WHOSE THE HOTTEST GUY IN POOL." :p
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At the World Series of Pool in Vegas years ago, I was playing some guy from Florida and it was a tight match. There was a whole group of people watching as Richi Florence was on the table right beside us, so I was auite nervous.

He left me a 4-5 ball out and I was pretty jumpy at this point and took a rest room break to try and compose myself. I came back snorting like a bull, grabbed my cue and ran out in about 30 secons. When done, Richie said, nice out kid. I said thanks. I turned to see Willie Munson ready to rack the balls. He was not my opponet. I said, What's up and he pointed me to the other table. I had run out on the wrong table. Richie near busted his gut laughing at me and I wanted to run out of the building.

A ref was called and finally determined I had made a foul by practicing on the nearby table. The guy I was playing had ball in hand and missed. Everyone around was laughing at both of us.
 
woody_968 said:
One time, I lost a game to someone called Ken4fun, now THAT was embarasing!

:D
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No that was a set in a handicaped tourneyment. After I won, I was told I had that game for the rest of my life.

Like Bill Murray, says in caddyshack, "So I have that going for me...."

LOL

Ken
 
kath13 said:
Okay, given the tone of some of the threads of late, I thought we needed a little lightness in the main forum to make some of our fellow AZer's smile.

I will start, I have several to share, they may not seem to be overly humiliating or embarrassing to some, but to me at the moment it happened I wanted to shrink away and disappear!

1. I had a long shot and was lazy and didn't want to use a bridge so I was on tip-toe with one foot and as I reached forward to hit the CB, I slipped and completely face planted on the table. Luckily my opponent didn't call foul on me, he was too busy laughing.

2. I was playing in front of a player whose game I respect immensely. After I shot the 6 ball and was moving around the table, I let my cue slip and I fouled on the cue ball and I wasn't even down on the next shot. I could hear him say to another, "What just happened"? I felt very little at that moment.

3. This didn't happen to me, but other half broke a rack and let the cue ball fly and did it ever fly. It flew right into a poor, unsuspecting player's nose that was 2 tables away. He didn't break his nose, but it was definitely an embarassing moment for him.

Okay, I searched the forum and didn't see another thread with this title, so I hope I'm not repeating anything. It was either this or "WHOSE THE HOTTEST GUY IN POOL." :p
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At Kathy's pool room, Danny Sappington (house pro) was playing another gambling set and he did the novice act of swinging the rack up after racking a 9 ball rack.

The rack swung up and busted his lip.....I knew it had to hurt, but he immediately looked around the room to see who had seen the scene. Unlucklily, for him it was only me and I began uncontrollable laughter.....

Ken
 
ironman said:
At the World Series of Pool in Vegas years ago, I was playing some guy from Florida and it was a tight match. There was a whole group of people watching as Richi Florence was on the table right beside us, so I was auite nervous.

He left me a 4-5 ball out and I was pretty jumpy at this point and took a rest room break to try and compose myself. I came back snorting like a bull, grabbed my cue and ran out in about 30 secons. When done, Richie said, nice out kid. I said thanks. I turned to see Willie Munson ready to rack the balls. He was not my opponet. I said, What's up and he pointed me to the other table. I had run out on the wrong table. Richie near busted his gut laughing at me and I wanted to run out of the building.

A ref was called and finally determined I had made a foul by practicing on the nearby table. The guy I was playing had ball in hand and missed. Everyone around was laughing at both of us.
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Wow! Love that one:thumbup:
 
ironman said:
At the World Series of Pool in Vegas years ago, I was playing some guy from Florida and it was a tight match. There was a whole group of people watching as Richi Florence was on the table right beside us, so I was auite nervous.

He left me a 4-5 ball out and I was pretty jumpy at this point and took a rest room break to try and compose myself. I came back snorting like a bull, grabbed my cue and ran out in about 30 secons. When done, Richie said, nice out kid. I said thanks. I turned to see Willie Munson ready to rack the balls. He was not my opponet. I said, What's up and he pointed me to the other table. I had run out on the wrong table. Richie near busted his gut laughing at me and I wanted to run out of the building.

A ref was called and finally determined I had made a foul by practicing on the nearby table. The guy I was playing had ball in hand and missed. Everyone around was laughing at both of us.
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I haven't read the rest, but I say you win.
 
I guess you could call this vicariously embarassing but a friend of mine in a scotch doubles tourney just won a match and went over to his teammate and jumped on to the table to high five him and landed in kind of a squat position on top of it. Well of course the table gave out with a full pitcher of beer and glasses on it. He went down hard on his ass with a huge splatter of beer and shattered glass. Amazingly he walked away with no cuts but was pretty stiff and sore for a few days.
 
Fatboy said:
when i first started playing I had a mcdermott cue
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Dude. That sux. I think they have support groups for you guys. They hand you Bushkas, or Boti's or somthing.

Sorry, couldn't resist. I was so "po" I couldn't afford a Mc-Dammit, and had to start with a $54 Helm-stutter. But a dreamed about that shiny vermicelli hitting Smoochy and maybe one day, the black, fishing line wrapped Mc-Dammit.

But I digress. I have had most of the bad moments mentioned above but one recently springs to mind. Mike Siegel play regularly in our local room. Well, he hangs out, and talks golf, fishing and old tournament / road stories, but I HAVE seen him hit some balls.

Anyway, he's on the table next to me, and I am (supposed to be stealing) in a $20 set of 9-ball, but I can't get it going. I get funny on a five ball forzen to the rail. Just as I start to shoot it, Mike stands up from racking and there's this huge glare off a car out side the front window.

So, you guessed it, I actually asked, my hero the living legend, to stand there a second and block the glare for me. :cool:

He did, everyone stopped to watch the key shot in this "big money game" and of course I hardly made a good hit, let alone pocketing the ball..... and everyone except me, had a nice, loud horse laugh at my expense. :thumbup:


Winner, Winner, chicken dinner.:speechless:
 
CharlesUFarley said:
One night at the bar, I was showing this shot to a new girlfriend I had at the time...I was going to impress her big time with this one....I whipped that cue stick away from the table and unbeknownst to me, there was a nice young lady shooting on the table right behind me....I swatted her in the ass SOOOOOOOO hard with that cue I probably nearly broke it in half.

I couldn't apologize enough to her, but I also couldn't stop laughing...I felt like a total idiot.
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Isn't everyones ass already broken in half? :)......sorry, had to do it!


my story...

I had just picked up my new Black Boar and went to the pool room to play in a tourney, and show the cue off to everyone. There I was playing in the finals running out on the hill and I DOGGED the 6 ball......BAM!!! I slammed the butt of the cue down on the floor and shattered the ivory buttcap.....:eek:

I felt like such a tool!
 
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