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Luxury

Luxury

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My BCA team is in first place with two weeks to go but only ahead by two rounds with $800 for first and $600 for second. There are 4 of us 9s and we would love $200 each for Christmas shopping so there is a lot of pressure.

Well last night we are playing on the tightest table around and I'm shooting a classic one pocket bank on the winning eight ball (last ball on the table) with my opponent directly behind me. I hit it at a good speed and I think I've made it but it rattles.

My opponent who was in his fifties RUNS up to the table while the cue ball is still rolling and BATS the cue ball in the corner pocket with his hand (it was not going to scratch) and shakes my hand with a big smile on his face.

"What are you doing???" His team shouts and then the horror comes over his face as he sees the eight ball is still on the table. He thought I had made it. He was just trying to be silly and "make my shot scratch."

"What do we do now?" He asks. His team informs him that he just fouled and I go through the motions of taking ball in hand and tap the eight in.

The rest of the night we tried to tell him stories of the stupidest things we've done on the table to make him feel better. We couldn't really compete.

Anyone have a story to share?


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Hahahahaha that's priceless! Nothing better than the dawning realization that he just blundered away the match.

This is similar and is one of my favorite pool memories, I've posted it before. Two players that shared a mutual disdain for each other finally matched up one day. The bet was $50 but if you knew these two players you'd know that was blood money- neither had played more than a $5 set in their lives. The tension was palpable and it was clear someone's heart was going to be cut out that evening.

So of course it goes double hill, and equally predictably the 9 ball ends up where it always does on the hill- on the side rail just past the side pocket. The player at the table ran down to the 9 ball and left himself almost straight in- ALMOST. One of those shots that you have to cut just a little. Well- he didn't cut it at all and instead stopped the cueball dead on the side rail. The 9 ball rattled in the jaws.

He was so mad at himself that he grabbed the cueball in his hands as if to spike it, only to notice that the 9 ball hadn't quite finished rattling and that it had leaked over and froze on the end rail about 3-4 inches from the corner. Had he not grabbed the cueball his opponent would've been faced with no shot and a difficult safety at best. It's one of those memories that I'll never forget even though I couldn't for the life of me remember what happened right after.

Moments like that are why I play. Thank you for sharing. Let's keep this thread alive, I want to hear about more suffering as Danny D would say...
 
Luxury said:
My BCA team is in first place with two weeks to go but only ahead by two rounds with $800 for first and $600 for second. There are 4 of us 9s and we would love $200 each for Christmas shopping so there is a lot of pressure.

Well last night we are playing on the tightest table around and I'm shooting a classic one pocket bank on the winning eight ball (last ball on the table) with my opponent directly behind me. I hit it at a good speed and I think I've made it but it rattles.

My opponent who was in his fifties RUNS up to the table while the cue ball is still rolling and BATS the cue ball in the corner pocket with his hand (it was not going to scratch) and shakes my hand with a big smile on his face.

"What are you doing???" His team shouts and then the horror comes over his face as he sees the eight ball is still on the table. He thought I had made it. He was just trying to be silly and "make my shot scratch."

"What do we do now?" He asks. His team informs him that he just fouled and I go through the motions of taking ball in hand and tap the eight in.

The rest of the night we tried to tell him stories of the stupidest things we've done on the table to make him feel better. We couldn't really compete.

Anyone have a story to share?


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Ha,,,that's funny....and I've seen many folks bat the cue ball in as a way to be funny, of course nobody laughs cause it's lame, but to have a guy do it with the 8ball still on the table, now that's funny, at least he took the loss without some fight :D
 
I once broke while on the hill up 6-5 in a tournament at HardTimes. The 1 and the 9 lined up perfectly for a combination as the balls were still rolling around after the break, and I immediately got it in my head that I was going to shoot the combination for the win.

Then the 2 ball rolled up in front of the 1, and for some reason I got down and shot a three-ball combination, 2-1-9. I made the 9 and still didn't realize what I had done until my opponent came to the table and grabbed the cue ball, spotted the 9, and started shooting. It was only then that I realized what I had done.

My opponent ran that rack out to go hill-hill at 6-6, then broke dry in the last rack and I ran that rack out to win the match, all the while laughing at myself for what I had done.
 
I had been drinking during pool league and my team was set up at a table near both restrooms. I had been there many times and I knew there was a long ramp that lead to the ladies room so when I saw this black guy heading up the ramp I said,

"Dude, that's the ladies room." He kept coming and I thought I'd be a hero so I yelled, "Bro, that's the LADIES ROOM!"

It turns out she was a black woman in a black zipped up ski jacket.


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To this day I don't know how this can happen. But in league 9b semi's,
our captain lined up on his next object ball (taking warmup strokes on an object ball...
the way you might if you were gonna use that ball in a combo).

He then just fired the object ball into the hole. He didn't use it as a cue ball...
Because you'd never just shoot the cue ball into the hole.
He just shot the OB into the hole hard.

We all stood there looking at each other like "wtf was that?! What's the rule for THIS one?"
They ended up just replacing the ball where it was originally.
 
Luxury said:
My BCA team is in first place with two weeks to go but only ahead by two rounds with $800 for first and $600 for second. There are 4 of us 9s and we would love $200 each for Christmas shopping so there is a lot of pressure.

Well last night we are playing on the tightest table around and I'm shooting a classic one pocket bank on the winning eight ball (last ball on the table) with my opponent directly behind me. I hit it at a good speed and I think I've made it but it rattles.

My opponent who was in his fifties RUNS up to the table while the cue ball is still rolling and BATS the cue ball in the corner pocket with his hand (it was not going to scratch) and shakes my hand with a big smile on his face.

"What are you doing???" His team shouts and then the horror comes over his face as he sees the eight ball is still on the table. He thought I had made it. He was just trying to be silly and "make my shot scratch."

"What do we do now?" He asks. His team informs him that he just fouled and I go through the motions of taking ball in hand and tap the eight in.

The rest of the night we tried to tell him stories of the stupidest things we've done on the table to make him feel better. We couldn't really compete.

Anyone have a story to share?


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My father in law used to play on a money league with me. We are in the playoffs and just need a couple balls. The guy he is playing scratches after running 7 balls. My father in law picks up the CB and as he's looking at the table and rolling the CB around in his hand he drops it on the table and fouls
WE BANNED HIM FOR LIFE
 
Close Lee. Why, just last week I was sparing in for a friends team. The division is called Modified and are the heavy hitters in the city.

I can keep up most nights but I am out of my League so to speak. If you make a mistake, chances are you get to sit and watch your opponent run out.

I was playing a Master, had 2 balls on the long rail. One stop shot all the way down and a short one into the corner. On the second shot, I called a safety and left him in a tough spot.

He hit his ball and safetied me back. Now I had no other choice but to aim for the short rail with left as my only ball left was behind 2 of his balls. I thought I had missed and hit his ball, according to my captain, I did breeze my ball.

I picked up the cue ball and handed it to my opponent. I guess the shocked look on his face should have told me that he thought it was a fair hit also.

So, yeah, a little red in the face in front of those who were watching.

Anyway, I fouled myself by picking up the cue ball. It was now his job to break his balls out from mine and the eight. He broke his out, mine as well and missed his shot.

I shot the last 2 in to win.

So, it was my mistake by fouling myself that did give me the opportunity to win.

Still, it was that red hot flushed feeling you get when everyone is looking at you, even your team mates and thinking, WTF did this guy just do.

Back down to Novice for Mr. terry until you learn to play pool.
 
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mine doesn't involve a league, so the only one mad at me was me....

playing cheap 1P, I'm playing pretty well, and run 5 balls to get to 9, so I rake the balls; completely forgetting we had changed the spot that we played FOREVER from 9-6 to 10-6 the last time we played. DOH. It happens. Got to talking with a buddy about this girl he was dating...was so into the story, that when I got to the table I ran a buncha balls, and looked on my side - 9, raked the balls again. Yep, 2 games in a row. My opponent said, "you did it again", it hit me; and I said, wanna go back to 9-6??? You're killing me with this new spot!!! :p
 
I shot the 6 ball out of sequence once and my opponent was so excited to call it and have ball in hand he rushed up and shot the 5 but the 4 was also still on the table. :)

JC

PS: I love those games where the money ball goes on the break and no one notices until later in the rack. Just the look of surprise on both players face is priceless.
 
CreeDo said:
To this day I don't know how this can happen. But in league 9b semi's,
our captain lined up on his next object ball (taking warmup strokes on an object ball...
the way you might if you were gonna use that ball in a combo).

He then just fired the object ball into the hole. He didn't use it as a cue ball...
Because you'd never just shoot the cue ball into the hole.
He just shot the OB into the hole hard.

We all stood there looking at each other like "wtf was that?! What's the rule for THIS one?"
They ended up just replacing the ball where it was originally.
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I have always waited for something like this only it was always when I watched a guy cue up a combo. I can't imagine someone firing an object ball into the hole. Wow.


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JC said:
I shot the 6 ball out of sequence once and my opponent was so excited to call it and have ball in hand he rushed up and shot the 5 but the 4 was also still on the table. :)
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Good, that's what he gets for not trying to stop you.


I have one that is not as easy to explain:

I was playing 8 ball and had one stripe left in the rack area, the 8 was about 5 inches below the side on the rail and my opponent had a ball by that side and three other balls in the kitchen. He had hooked me up table where I couldn't even really kick, but left an option of me locking up his ball by the side with the 8 ball. So I shot that safe to give up ball in hand and hope for a better kick. My speed was perfect and I froze his ball up to the 8 dead straight by the rail below the side. He was in a big hurry to run up the table and act like my safe meant nothing. He took his ball in hand and lined up to shoot the balls apart, sending the 8 down the rail and sticking me to his ball. He shot it too hard and the 8 went all the way to the pocket for the loss.
What makes it funny is this was no APA 4 or something. This was someone who is a 7 in that league, but is even better than that level of play. (I'm sure some of you know what I mean by this)
 
i do stupid things at the table all the time. i was in vegas in august for masters and team play. In masters im playing josh newman and in the first game im running out in 8ball and get to the 8 only to realize there was another ball on the table. ive actually fired in the 8ball before in other matches only to be told I have another ball on the table.

In team play that same trip its deep in the event, both teams are in the $ and its 1-1 in match score. my capt tells me im going to play next so I leave the tourny room and go to the practice room to hit some balls. I get the text...your up come to the table. So i go. I screw together, we lag and i win the lag and break. Im feeling a little tight and as im playing this first game i remember thinking well, ill be warmed up completely in a game or two. So not really even taking my time alot, im running out and I end up missing. Big groan from my team. Im thinking jeez ease up guys, its early...relax.... My opponent comes to the table and starts running out, only to get out of line and leave himself tough on the 8 which he misses. I run the last few balls and get out, and there is this huge roar from my team. Im already down grabbing the balls out of the table and getting them ready for the next game and I remember thinking..wow my team is really obnoxious today. Then my opponent is there sticking his hand out. im like hunh? he says yeah its over...that was sudden death. Boy did i feel stupid once again.

Another time me and my buddy Ray are there watching a TAR stream match at my house. Ill be honest and say ok....i was intoxicated at this moment. So the balls are tied up and the camera zooms in close to see if SVB can see a shot. You cant really tell from the camera angle if he can see the whole ball. So I lean up and kinda move to the side of the monitor. I guess at that moment I thought maybe I could get a better look....

Ray constantly makes fun of me now when we watch streaming pool. If its a close shot he will get up close to the monitor and then look at me and say I think he can see it!
 
Playing in a 9-ball tournament once, it's my opponent's break. He hits them solidly, and as everything's rolling around the 1-9 line up for a dead combo, close to the hole, unmissable.

But other balls are still rolling and nothing's gone down, so we're both still staring eagerly to find out which of us gets to win the easy rack. The 2 ball is the last ball rolling, and it slowly makes its way into the jaws of the uptable corner, but doesn't drop. It's my shot, I'm already celebrating.

I shot the hanging 2 and played position for the 1-9. Got immediately down to shoot the combo before my opponent, astonished, called foul. Took me a moment of staring blankly at him before I realized what I had done.

I don't remember who I was playing or whether I won that match, but it was tough to swallow that mistake.

-Andrew
 
One night playing league I hit the 8 ball in when I had 1 ball left on the table. I didn't see my object ball left and just fired the 8 in. I was really embarassed. I still won the match though so it was all good. My team got a big laugh though. lol
 
This is a true story and the guy got very mad at me.

He was running out playing 8 ball, pretty easy runout and got down to the final 2 or 3 balls and I mean this was a routine runout. There is like 2 stripes and 3 solids and the 8, nothing tied up.

I am watching but not just paying real close attention.

He gets down and shoots the wrong ball, I was stunned. He didnt even notice it until I mentioned it. He said, "You let me shoot the wrong ball?", I said I have a hard enough time taking care of me, and I really didnt look close at what you were shooting. Which is the absolute truth.

I was absolutely stunned that he shot the wrong ball, and then I was stunned that he thought I "let" him shoot the wrong ball. :eek:

He was pissed the rest of the night.

Ken
 
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There is a video of Massey playing a match. Mike was at the table as it was his shot. He concentrated so hard as did his opponent, the Obvious was missed. After a long thought out plan of attack, Mike moved the cue ball with his hand, a few inches to improve his position then ran out. He did NOT have BIH.
 
I've done this so often that I've given it a name: the Self-Safety.

I've got no pocketable shot on the OB, but I've got an easy lock-down safety by banking the OB up-table and freezing the CB behind another ball.

Except, it's such an easy shot that I forget to check the potential path of the banked OB...and end up banking it into a pocket. Now I'm frozen on a ball and probably have a 3-railer to contact the next OB.

A friend did this one: He had BIH and an easy stop-shot on the 3 to be in good position for the 4. He puts the CB on the table in its approximate position. The CB isn't exactly where he wants it...so to make sure it's a straight-in shot he moves the 3-ball (OB).
 
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