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Cornerman

Cornerman

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So, last night during 9-ball league, one of the opposing players was about to hit a 3 ball combination.

Opposing Player: I'm going to play the 2 into the 9 into the 7.

My teammate: You don't have to call it.

Opposing Player: Oh yeah, that's right.

My teammate: You just have to hit the 2-ball first.

So, the player stepped up to the 2-ball, lined it up and fired away. Right at the 2-ball. The cueball was still 4 feet away at the head of the table. LOL!!!!

I guess it could or should have either been some kind of repositioning of the table or a loss of game, but we decided just on a ball-in-hand penalty and my teammate ran out. The table was wide open after all.

Later on, that same player was using the bridge on the 4-ball. Yup. Just about to pull the trigger again when the whole bar was shouting out "you have to hit the cueball first!!!"

The worst I've done was I picked up a ball and tried to chalk my stick with it.

Fred
 
I have a color blind friend who mixes up balls alot. (especially the 2 and the 4) Its funny as hell.
 
Cornerman said:
So, last night during 9-ball league, one of the opposing players was about to hit a 3 ball combination.

Opposing Player: I'm going to play the 2 into the 9 into the 7.

My teammate: You don't have to call it.

Opposing Player: Oh yeah, that's right.

My teammate: You just have to hit the 2-ball first.

So, the player stepped up to the 2-ball, lined it up and fired away. Right at the 2-ball. The cueball was still 4 feet away at the head of the table. LOL!!!!

I guess it could or should have either been some kind of repositioning of the table or a loss of game, but we decided just on a ball-in-hand penalty and my teammate ran out. The table was wide open after all.

Later on, that same player was using the bridge on the 4-ball. Yup. Just about to pull the trigger again when the whole bar was shouting out "you have to hit the cueball first!!!"

The worst I've done was I picked up a ball and tried to chalk my stick with it.

Fred
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I did worse than that and to this day have no idea how I did it. I had ball in hand playing 9-ball, put the cueball in position so I could easily shoot it in with the object ball and did just that. Got great position on the next ball went to take the next shot and realized I'd just shot the cueball in with the object ball. My opponent was too dumbfounded to say anything. Felt incredibly stupid and slightly embarrassed.
 
Cornerman said:
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The worst I've done was I picked up a ball and tried to chalk my stick with it.
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In RSB, Paul Hahn's signature included:

"Foul? What the hell for?"
"Because you are chalking your cue with the 3-ball."
 
Bob Jewett said:
In RSB, Paul Hahn's signature included:

"Foul? What the hell for?"
"Because you are chalking your cue with the 3-ball."
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I've shot at the nine ball quite a few times thinking it was the cue ball. :o OH and the most embarrassing was when I had my opponent on 2 fouls on the 2 ball and I was thinking about where to put the cue ball so I could get him on three and dropped the cue ball right on top of the 2 ball. :o I think that's a foul.

After seeing that, a local guy that can't really play a lick thought you could do that all the time. So in the tournament, when he had ball in hand he just dropped it on top of all the cluttered balls....:D But he said he hit the lowest numbered ball on the table.....:D That was about a year ago and I have yet to hear the end of it. :(

Tony

Tony
 
Cornerman said:
... So, the player stepped up to the 2-ball, lined it up and fired away. Right at the 2-ball. The cueball was still 4 feet away at the head of the table. LOL!!!!...
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Reminds me of a story I recently heard about a carom player. In the old days, it was easy enough to confuse your cue ball with your opponent's cue ball as the only difference was two small black dots on one of the balls. These days it's harder since one cue ball is white and one is yellow. At one room there was a player who still had trouble remembering which cue ball was his to the extent that he sometimes shot the red ball. The rules don't cover this case.
 
Friend of mine loves to tattle on his teenaged son. Duane had a habit of jacking up about 30 degrees on every shot. One day, his Dad yelled at him, "Get your butt down!"

Duane quickly bent his knees, lowering his butt about a foot while the butt of his cue remained at about 30 degrees to the table.
 
Ruthless said:
:)

That's why league pool (beer and all) would get much better TV ratings than pro events. :D
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Also, I alwys thought that the right pool hall would be great setting for a sitcom.
 
Ok, since we're confessing to doing stupid things...

In a 9-ball tourney I once broke, made a ball, surveyed the table, then started to run the balls. I ran the 1, 2, and 3, looked around for the 9, and then realized it was the ball I made on the break!

My opponent knew it the whole time and just sat there while I ran the 1,2, and 3. I guess it was his way of getting back at me for breaking in the 9.
 
Cornerman said:
So, last night during 9-ball league, one of the opposing players was about to hit a 3 ball combination.

Opposing Player: I'm going to play the 2 into the 9 into the 7.

My teammate: You don't have to call it.

Opposing Player: Oh yeah, that's right.

My teammate: You just have to hit the 2-ball first.

So, the player stepped up to the 2-ball, lined it up and fired away. Right at the 2-ball. The cueball was still 4 feet away at the head of the table. LOL!!!!

I guess it could or should have either been some kind of repositioning of the table or a loss of game, but we decided just on a ball-in-hand penalty and my teammate ran out. The table was wide open after all.

Later on, that same player was using the bridge on the 4-ball. Yup. Just about to pull the trigger again when the whole bar was shouting out "you have to hit the cueball first!!!"

The worst I've done was I picked up a ball and tried to chalk my stick with it.

Fred
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Was he from Indianapolis?
 
How 'bout this one? I was playing today, my opponent shoots and misses. I look at the shot, get down in my stance to address the ball, take my practice strokes. Then, in the split second transition between back swing and forward swing, I kid you not, the gosh darn cue ball SHIFTS. Moves. By itself. I know I'm not crazy either because my opponent saw it the same way. He thought it was the funniest damn thing he'd ever seen.

They did just finish recovering the table about 1/2 hour before this happened. That damn Simonis is just so dang fast, even after the balls stop rolling, they still roll. Amazing.
 
Bob Jewett said:
Reminds me of a story I recently heard about a carom player. In the old days, it was easy enough to confuse your cue ball with your opponent's cue ball as the only difference was two small black dots on one of the balls. These days it's harder since one cue ball is white and one is yellow. At one room there was a player who still had trouble remembering which cue ball was his to the extent that he sometimes shot the red ball. The rules don't cover this case.
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I've only played 3 Cushion one time in my life. The best shot I ever made (went exactly as planned), was made with the wrong cue ball. :o

Tracy
 
There is a great one in the Accu Stats Bloopers tape, in which Mike Massey is playing 9-ball. Nothing was made and Mike is at the table looking over the full rack to run, from every angle and taking his time. All of a sudden Mike picks up the cue ball and moves it to get a good shot, shoots the shot and proceeds to run out. He and his opponent never realizing Mike committed a foul when he touched the cue ball.
 
Mystick Cue Fan said:
I've shot at the nine ball quite a few times thinking it was the cue ball. :o OH and the most embarrassing was when I had my opponent on 2 fouls on the 2 ball and I was thinking about where to put the cue ball so I could get him on three and dropped the cue ball right on top of the 2 ball. :o I think that's a foul.

After seeing that, a local guy that can't really play a lick thought you could do that all the time. So in the tournament, when he had ball in hand he just dropped it on top of all the cluttered balls....:D But he said he hit the lowest numbered ball on the table.....:D That was about a year ago and I have yet to hear the end of it. :(

Tony

Tony
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This would make a good proposition bet.
 
PoolBum said:
In a 9-ball tourney I once broke, made a ball, surveyed the table, then started to run the balls. I ran the 1, 2, and 3, looked around for the 9, and then realized it was the ball I made on the break!

My opponent knew it the whole time and just sat there while I ran the 1,2, and 3. I guess it was his way of getting back at me for breaking in the 9.
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I've done that more than once. One time I studied the table for a few minutes, trying to figure out what to do when my opponent came over and said, 'Here, would this help you?' and moved the cue ball about four inches to the left. I looked at him in bewilderment until I realized what had happened and then we all had a good laugh.

The next time it happened I shot in the one and two balls before my opponent spoke up and tried to claim that this was a foul. The referee came over and seemed uncertain. The following conversation insued.

I said, "Which game is it a foul in?"

He looked at me.

"I mean, in THIS game, the nine has gone in, so the game is over. So if it's a foul, then it has to be in the NEXT game. But, since we haven't racked the balls for that game, it hasn't started yet."

My opponent pipes up, "It's a foul in this game!" (I should point out that I wasa maybe 7-1 up in a race to 9 at this point, so this was a little much.)

"How?" I asked, "this game ended when the nine went in. How can I commit a foul in a game that ended on the previous shot?"

After a little more back and forth, he said, "Well then it should be a foul in the next game."

"But the balls weren't racked for that game, so it hasn't started yet. How can you make a ball-in-hand foul before a game starts? That's like penalizing a football team while they're still in the locker room. If anything, I'm guilty of practicing on the table between games. TD, what's the penalty for that?"

"First a warning."

"Fine, I'm warned." Then, to my opponent, "Can we play now?"
 
(drops the ball in the middle of the pile)
Island Drive said:
This would make a good proposition bet.
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It is. I think it's described in Byrne's Trick Shot book. Freeze two balls on the middle of the end rail about a ball apart. Bet the customer that he can't make a ball in each corner with ball in hand. Drop the cue ball between the two balls.
 
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