Name ways you have been sharked, and list the out come for you and the sharker?

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Were you sharked once, more than once, by different people in the same game or match, did it bother you into losing the match, How did you make out and what happened to the sharking person? Wow! I realize that is a lot to answer, but sharking is really a bad thing to do to a person.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
Lock N Load said:
Were you sharked once, more than once, by different people in the same game or match, did it bother you into losing the match, How did you make out and what happened to the sharking person? Wow! I realize that is a lot to answer, but sharking is really a bad thing to do to a person.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
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A of pool buddy of mine that I usually see that the local tournaments always pretends to shark and it ends up working usually. He will do something dumb trying to be funny, but I know he is doing it on purpose to distract.

And god forbid if anyone said anything while he was shooting because he cries like a baby..for instance he was shooting a shot against me and missed and said the guy at the table next to us called heads at the flip right when when he shot so that is why he missed. :rolleyes:

It's just annoying for anyone to try and win in such a matter. If you cant win fair and square, then you shouldn't be playing.
Tim
 
Back when I was a kid we constantly gave each other crap while shooting, "shoot your way out of that Mandrake" "You shoot like old people screw, slow and sloppy." etc. It was all in fun and didn't seem to affect our game, maybe because we were used to it?

After all it isn't golf!!
 
Lock N Load said:
Were you sharked once, more than once, by different people in the same game or match, did it bother you into losing the match, How did you make out and what happened to the sharking person? Wow! I realize that is a lot to answer, but sharking is really a bad thing to do to a person.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
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I could tell a really good story here but I won't.
 
wwweeeellll

Used to shoot pool in a place a pistol shot went off now and then. An unintentional shark but one never caught me in midstroke and I made a point of not letting it mess up a run out.

I have had young ladies straddle a corner pocket I was shooting at and bend over behind one also. Neither tactic was effective since one of the first places that would let me in to play pool even before I was fifteen was a topless bar. I played with the girls there in their working clothes and of course watched the show between turns at the table.

One of the few times I was effectively sharked was playing in a friend's bar. I was shooting for the tourney win and the other player was super obnoxious, deliberately trying to get me angry. Getting angry wasn't the problem. The problem was that I was angry and frustrated because I couldn't kick his ass in my friend's bar which he had recently bought and was trying to build a business at.

Pretty tough to shark me when I'm shooting regularly, pretty easy when I'm not. I loved action tables in bars more than anything and if you couldn't fade little things like people sitting on the table you were playing on, fights, and bottles breaking as you shot you were toast.

Hu
 
League play

Me and my two teammates don't do it, but both of the teams we played in the last two weeks used the tactic of starting a conversation with someone across the room/bar when I was over my shot. "HEY JIM! WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THOSE RAYS?!
Could you imagine a pro doing this while their opponent was over a shot.
Would they be afforded a warning or would they be disqualified on the spot.
Seems like if it was just a warning, they could do it every once in a while when they really needed a miss from the other player.
We all should consider it bad sportsmanship, but if it only results in a warning then it could be considered good gamesmanship to use your one warning if you were desperate.
It seems worse when you can tell they are doing it on purpose.
My one team mate doesn't like it when I say "great shot" or some other similar brief comment after he makes a great shot. He gave me the silent stare last week after he made a great masse' shot to keep his run out going. A couple players on the other team complimented the shot too, but I was the one who got the stare down. I have played a lot of team sports and pool is the only one where it seems like it's not encouraged to root for your team mates. I suppose it can distract them and take them out of their zone. I'll be very quiet this week. I want my team mates to play as well as possible.
 
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Bill Yerd said:
Me and my two teammates don't do it, but both of the teams we played in the last two weeks used the tactic of starting a conversation with someone across the room/bar when I was over my shot. "HEY JIM! WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THOSE RAYS?!
Could you imagine a pro doing this while their opponent was over a shot.
Would they be afforded a warning or would they be disqualified on the spot.
Seems like if it was just a warning, they could do it every once in a while when they really needed a miss from the other player.
We all should consider it bad sportsmanship, but if it only results in a warning then it could be considered good gamesmanship to use your one warning if you were desperate.
It seems worse when you can tell they are doing it on purpose.
My one team mate doesn't like it when I say "great shot" or some other similar brief comment after he makes a great shot. He gave me the silent stare last week after he made a great masse' shot to keep his run out going. A couple players on the other team complimented the shot too, but I was the one who got the stare down. I have played a lot of team sports and pool is the only one where it seems like it's not encouraged to root for your team mates. I suppose it can distract them and take them out of their zone. I'll be very quiet this week. I want my team mates to play as well as possible.
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I suspect your team mate figured you should know better. I do know about the ettiquitty thing but when my opponent makes a very nice shot I may simply say "nice". A fantastic shot may get a full comment. The usual player is taking a second or two to calm down after that shot anyway or should be.

Old school is to gently tap a cue on the floor to applaud a nice shot. With rubber bumpers and carpet that doesn't work. Snapping your fingers is also accepted many places. My finger snapping skills aren't the best and the snap might be anything from silent to like a firecracker popping so I never use the finger snap. If the single word "nice" sharks somebody or takes them out of their game they have a lot bigger problems than me saying "nice" once in awhile.

Hu
 
14.1 match in local tourney (fun only no cash). First rack run 10 to finish the rack, opponent racks then starts discussing a situation from the previous day with a bystander, goes as far as setting the shot up, five minute discussion followed. I made the break shot didn't get another shot and eventually lost the match, I was PO'd, guess the shark worked. (I no longer will play this guy)

Had another bad "shark" if you could call it that when one of my teammates interrupted me in the middle of a runout don't remember the reason but it did take me off my game.
 
I played one guy regularly who would wait until I was down on the shot. Then he would step up to the table, pick up the chalk, and start chalking, all the while trying to appear oblivious to the sharking move.

When playing him, I would get down on a shot, let him do his thing, then I'd stand up, and get back down for the shot I actually wanted to shoot.
 
there is a guy that comes in our place all the time and when he knows there is no one in there that will beat him or bet high enough for him, he yells real loud ill play anyone 100 a game. i played him couple weeks ago and he is always trying different things to make me mad. i was running out one pocket on him and tries something this time and i just stand up and say, " look your trying to get in my head this time and its not working, i promise. he looks at me and then i tell him, " i havent started on you yet and if i do you will go outside and hang yourself, promise to have your mind so messed up and so ready to kill me. if i recall i have done that multiple times before to you anyways. he just looks down and dont say a word to me and i just keep running out and take the cash. he never said another work the whole night.
 
I play with a lot of people sometimes so when we were all playing on 1 table there is this girl about our speed that plays the “good game” shark before its over she said “gg” loud and I just got up and put the balls on the table. She has not done that to me since.
 
Had a feller tell me once ,,at the end, of the match. That I had to call my shots,,after we had been playing for a long time ,,without calling them.


He did this as I was about to run out the last three balls of a game ,,for the match,,all straight in and close to the pockets.

I looked at him and laughed,,then never looking back at him or saying a word. I put the last balls in,,,nope didn't call them!!!!
 
shoulda called them

flash5153 said:
Had a feller tell me once ,,at the end, of the match. That I had to call my shots,,after we had been playing for a long time ,,without calling them.


He did this as I was about to run out the last three balls of a game ,,for the match,,all straight in and close to the pockets.

I looked at him and laughed,,then never looking back at him or saying a word. I put the last balls in,,,nope didn't call them!!!!
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Calling them:
"Here eight, commere boy, here nine, here girl, here ten ball, here, come here you hammer headed sum*****!"

Option "B" is an old favorite of mine, "Why call them, they won't come anyway."

Hu
 
Guy coughed on my backstroke so I shot him in the face.

Koop - known to over-react
 
Sharked once
2 Guys but only 1 was sharking. It bothered me. But I didn't lose.
On the 8 ball I asked him to move behind me and sit down. :cool:

Hubby lost a game against the same guy. Hubs says he didn't even notice the guy doing that :(
Loren
 
I've noticed that when I get upset about someone sharking me, it's always because I'm not concentrating well to begin with. Our minds see that we're not playing well, and we seize anything we can to cast the blame elsewhere.

I had a guy apologize for coughing during my stroke on a pretty tough shot the other day. I made the ball, and honestly didn't even hear him cough because I was focused on what I was doing, instead of what the guy in the chair was doing.
 
Lock N Load said:
Were you sharked once, more than once, by different people in the same game or match, did it bother you into losing the match, How did you make out and what happened to the sharking person? Wow! I realize that is a lot to answer, but sharking is really a bad thing to do to a person.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
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I've been sharked and I've sharked. Inadvertently or advertently.

Worst sharking that I was not able to recover from, I was shooting for the point in a tourney, up 3-0 on a race to 5 and I'm shooting with a relatively easy out. The guy I'm playing, his uncle's cell phone rings and he (the uncle) takes the call while I'm up shooting. He has to yell because he can't be heard and/or he can't hear the other person (we're of course in a pool room). S0, he stands 3 feet from the table and has a conversation *about the match*.

I got thrown off by the audacity of it and I dogged the next shot into the rail and just couldn't hold my form together and promptly lost the next three games. I needed to play nearly perfect pool to beat my opponent and that phone call shook me enough to play not quite perfectly. It would have been okay against a lesser player, but not that guy.

Yeah, that's on me but pool players who watch should know better.

Freddie <~~~ easily distracted
 
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