New level of sharking witnessed last night.

master_cueist said:
So today is the birthday of two players that played our local tournament last night. They ended up playing each other and one of them is a much better player than the other and when he took the other one out of the tournament, as he was leaving he told him "happy birthday" about ten minutes later, that guys girlfriend called the bar and asked to talk to the better player and considering it was 1am he thought something was serious so he hurried away from his match and she told him "I do not like or appreciate you telling him happy birthday, don't do it again". I could not believe she actually did this, ironically it had the opposite affect of what she was obviously looking for and he started playing better. Has anybody else ever seen something like this?
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By new level of sharking you mean calling up the pool room to do it over the phone? Well I don't think she was trying to shark the guy but I am equally sure that using the phone to relay information intended to mess with a player's head has probably been used many times in the past.

To me it sounds like she was just pissy and thought that the winning birthday player was being a jerk about it when he was probably just trying to be funny and play on the fact that it IS his opponent's birthday.

Would this an appropriate time to say someone got their panties in a bunch?

:-)
 
A few of you seem to have misunderstood. The two guys that played, the two with the same birthdays are friends. There was no rudeness about it, it was a sincere happy birthday. What the shark was, she waited until the guy who was still in was playing his next match and was shooting to call the bar and make it seem like there was an emergency, her boyfriend had came back in by this point and was still there. She was simply trying to make him lose because she also lost to him and wanted to piss him off and make him lose. Her boyfriend wouldn't have done that, they are very good friends and she doesn't like that either. She is crazy.
 
master_cueist said:
A few of you seem to have misunderstood. The two guys that played, the two with the same birthdays are friends. There was no rudeness about it, it was a sincere happy birthday. What the shark was, she waited until the guy who was still in was playing his next match and was shooting to call the bar and make it seem like there was an emergency, her boyfriend had came back in by this point and was still there. She was simply trying to make him lose because she also lost to him and wanted to piss him off and make him lose. Her boyfriend wouldn't have done that, they are very good friends and she doesn't like that either. She is crazy.
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That's how I first took it, but it made no sense to me. It makes more sense now. She's a flake. Maybe she'll melt away & these two friends can stay friends.:wink: Good friends are hard to find. MY best friend just happens to be wife as well. That make's her twice as valuable. I know valuable is not quite the right word, but if I had said precious...Oh well, I can take it, she's twice as precious.

PS Maybe you should tell her about my sharking story. Maybe next time she'll give that a try.
 
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ENGLISH! said:
That just does not make sense to me, but it's not as bad as the young lady, that once I was down on the shot, walked behnd the pocket into which I was shooting the last ball before the 8 & lifted her dress up to her neck to reveal her totally naked body as she swayed her hips back & forth between her spread legs.

I was barely 22 years old. I missed the shot. I think that was the best sharking move I've ever seen or heard of because I did not even mind it or losing the $100.00. It was a lesson well taught & well learned.

Best Regards,
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This dis-proves the theory that a ball in hand is better than two in the bush. I'll take 2 in the bush anyday.
 
I experienced the most ridiculous case of sharking during one of the bar tournaments that we have here in florida every day.
This lady runs a tournament at one of the bars, and truly, I don't know how and why she does it. She cannot play at all, maybe level 2 APA at the most and she completely lacks any knowledge of the rules and pool etiquette.
I was in the middle of the match, it was an 8 ball tournament. I broke and made a couple of stripes after the break, then I missed, so my opponent was shooting. He was a semi-pro level shooter and the rack was open, so he started clearing the table, shooting solids.He was about to run out when this lady comes up to the table, looks under where all the pocketed balls are and all of a sudden right when he was about to shoot a pretty tough shot, loudly says : Why are you both shooting stripes?
He missed and couldn't even say anything to her. I, on my end, couldn't stop laughing, so I missed again and eventually lost.
She sharked both of us with one stupid sentence :thumbup:
That's what I call a real shark, when the tournament director does it in the middle of the match!:D
 
Medalist said:
Let me toss another great sharking tale in as a side note. My bro and I were playing and when our very cute waitress came over I told her he was having a tough night because he had just sent his live in packing that day, which was true. She told him she was sorry but was pretty much unfazed. A little while longer she came over and I mentioned we could only play another hour since he had something going on at work tomorrow, knowing she would ask where. His high profile job changed her tune from indifference to rubbing up against him like a cat etc. Done!!! He could not shoot a lick the rest of the night. It was the ultimate shark.
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Your screen name should be Brutal Bro. :D
 
ENGLISH! said:
That just does not make sense to me, but it's not as bad as the young lady, that once I was down on the shot, walked behnd the pocket into which I was shooting the last ball before the 8 & lifted her dress up to her neck to reveal her totally naked body as she swayed her hips back & forth between her spread legs.

I was barely 22 years old. I missed the shot. I think that was the best sharking move I've ever seen or heard of because I did not even mind it or losing the $100.00. It was a lesson well taught & well learned.

Best Regards,
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I bet you couldn't wait to flip the coin again for another set.
 
dabarbr said:
I bet you couldn't wait to flip the coin again for another set.
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Actually no. Remember I was only 22 yrs. old. My focus was totally transformed from pool to other matters. Remember males are visual beings. Once that visual image was etched in my minds eye the rectangular shape of a pool table was totally foreign & very unattractive. As I said, I was 22 yrs. old.

Regards to all,
 
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