Pool hall fights

beerpressure said:
Please post the clips from fresh prince of bell air and family matters. I love sitcom pool hustler episodes.
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TX Poolnut said:
My favorite is Married With Children where Kelly owns a bunch of bikers and roughs at a pool hall. :)
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I have not seen any of these episodes so if you guys can find them add them on...Thanks:thumbup:

uwate said:
there is a guy down here in south florida named rodney. Hes a roofer by trade. About 5-7 and 300+. Ears that go straight down into traps. Use to be an all state wrestler and is a gifted natural athlete. Plays jamup pool and even better at fighting. Anyways, Rodney has a daughter who was a national level softball player and he use to take her to tournaments around the country. At night, Rodney would go to the pool rooms and get matched up.

So he is at this pool room and he is playing for a decent amt of money. Unfriendly rooms dont really faze Rodney and this room starts getting hostile. At one point the backer of his opponent says F*Ck this guy hes not getting paid! Rodney sidles over to his opponent and grabs ahold of him and says....Oh im getting paid alright or we can just go ahead and fight for the money right now! All of you! Then he grabs his opponent even harder and says to him... And when the sh*t gets started, you and me are going to be in the bottom of the pile...and im going to gouge out your eye!" <turning to the hostile crowd> Well, whats it going to be?

Rodney got paid.
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The "ears go straight down into traps" needs a picture. I have known guys like "Rodney" and when they grab you they let you know there is very little you can do. Thanks for sharing.
 
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uwate said:
there is a guy down here in south florida named rodney. Hes a roofer by trade. About 5-7 and 300+. Ears that go straight down into traps. Use to be an all state wrestler and is a gifted natural athlete. Plays jamup pool and even better at fighting. Anyways, Rodney has a daughter who was a national level softball player and he use to take her to tournaments around the country. At night, Rodney would go to the pool rooms and get matched up.

So he is at this pool room and he is playing for a decent amt of money. Unfriendly rooms dont really faze Rodney and this room starts getting hostile. At one point the backer of his opponent says F*Ck this guy hes not getting paid! Rodney sidles over to his opponent and grabs ahold of him and says....Oh im getting paid alright or we can just go ahead and fight for the money right now! All of you! Then he grabs his opponent even harder and says to him... And when the sh*t gets started, you and me are going to be in the bottom of the pile...and im going to gouge out your eye!" <turning to the hostile crowd> Well, whats it going to be?

Rodney got paid.
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Rodney is my hero :yes:
 
Fatboy2 said:
i saw some dandys back in the coke days, I awalys stayed out of harms way, hell I seen the guns come out 2 times(you never saw someone jump under a box so fast in your life). No shots fired.


I almost got lynched by about 6-8-10 too many to count, guys one night the House man and Frank my snooker customer saved my ass from the hospital at least. I beat about all the guys in the lynching party and took one guys girl home(honest to God I slept on the couch, never touched her and didnt know I just beat her boyfriend out of his truck payment $550, it got re-po'ed). So you can see why they were fixin to fix my ass, I got out whole. About 6-8-10 guys just rushed me, I threw my cue on the snooker table and grabbed the balls-they stopped dead in their trax, someone told me a couple months before if your ever introuble in a pool room grab the balls. It worked, they stopped dead. But it was a 12' table and they started commming around both sides a bit slower, but the the rush was off. By then Frank and the house man had me covered, I let Frank keep what I was up $60, we played $20/game snooker-nice guy, man I didnt sleep until noon the next day i had so much adrenalin. The thing is they all asked me to play that 2 weeks I robbed them all. I didnt book a single loser. It might have been $1400 total. They were just dumb in that room(I wont say where). awalys remember if your not packing a gun grab balls-it really does work.

It can get a bit harry when your winning, I been in other spots but not like the one above, however I have never been punched or threw a punch in a pool room, but never say never-I'll say yet and hope its never. One short guy almost got a dose this year of me. but I let his insiginificant ass slide.
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Why did you take her home? Did you change your mind when you saw her in a more well lit room?
 
Fatboy2 said:
thats horrile, i dont get it. sorry abut ur friend

I beat a guy a game in bar for $100, just a game of 8 ball, iwhen it was my turn i flipped a c-note next to the balls i was racking, next thing i notice is a second c-note laying there, i hadnt hit a ball in 6 months or longer maybe 18 months my mom had just died in 05 this was-not a single ball, it could have been a year and a half. Maybe 2 years, the longest i ever went in 30 years without touching a cue.

So I push the balls around the table to give my customer a good show. Letting him feel he is in the game. finally I came 3 rails with lots of spin to get to the other end of the box(bad plan, he knew right there he was f*cked), I should have never played that shot, it showed way too much speed, it wasnt a natural angle, so it was a tell I knew what I was doing(the comments from his friends didnt help) it wasnt necessary either, I just hadnt hit a ball in so long I was just seeing what I had left in me, it was still in me. I could have won and he never would have seen any speed but no, I had to see if I could still move the rock.Only play good enough to win. in tough games that shot comes up often and i'll use it, but it was stupid on a barbox that night. I broke the rule "only play good enough to win". It was on me


I could tell this guy was 5'7" and could have drilled my streiod loaded ass into the floor, I wanted none of him(ever), my hands are awalys wet, this made them sticky wet, I did miss the 8 not on purpose, I missed it(jawed it), but he had no out and the 8 rock is hanging in the jaws. I won. I told the security guard Justin to give the guy back his $100 right then, he stared me down, "Justin give him both bills", that didnt work either-he is still deciding how bad he wants to hurt me, I had no chance in a fight with this cat, sometimes ya just know. he walked away. "Justin thank bro its all yours". Justin is doing a bit of time for something at the moment, stolen property I think he calls once in a while. He saved my ass that night. had he not been sitting there holding the stake, I was done.

That was the first time I beat someone out of one game that went on tilt on me. It just aint worth it, there was a time I had no choice-its still better than working.:grin-square:
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Wow - that's a pretty amazing story. If you weren't looking to show off what
a good player you were, why throw a $100 on the table? $10 or $20 maybe, but
not $100. That's a big enough bill that the other guy should probably have
known you were probably good, or he figured he was great. If you're looking for
easy money, wouldn't you start by losing one or two $10-20 games, then
raise the stakes? And all he had to do was stare you down to get $200?
 
Cut and Shoot

Tramp Steamer said:
When ever there was a rukus at the poolhall it was always my policy to "cut and shoot". Cut for the corners and shoot for home. :)
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Funny that you used that term. Did you know that there is actually a town in Texas named Cut and Shoot. It's a fact, I got married there once. Bad idea. Seems there's something about the name that sticks in their mind and sooner or later, they act on it....
 
a guy named Rodney

uwate said:
there is a guy down here in south florida named rodney. Hes a roofer by trade. About 5-7 and 300+. Ears that go straight down into traps. Use to be an all state wrestler and is a gifted natural athlete. Plays jamup pool and even better at fighting. Anyways, Rodney has a daughter who was a national level softball player and he use to take her to tournaments around the country. At night, Rodney would go to the pool rooms and get matched up.

So he is at this pool room and he is playing for a decent amt of money. Unfriendly rooms dont really faze Rodney and this room starts getting hostile. At one point the backer of his opponent says F*Ck this guy hes not getting paid! Rodney sidles over to his opponent and grabs ahold of him and says....Oh im getting paid alright or we can just go ahead and fight for the money right now! All of you! Then he grabs his opponent even harder and says to him... And when the sh*t gets started, you and me are going to be in the bottom of the pile...and im going to gouge out your eye!" <turning to the hostile crowd> Well, whats it going to be?

Rodney got paid.
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Were you clever enough to use his first and last names in the first sentence of your post or was that just a Fruadian slip.
 
Fatboy2 said:
i saw some dandys back in the coke days, I awalys stayed out of harms way, hell I seen the guns come out 2 times(you never saw someone jump under a box so fast in your life). No shots fired.


I almost got lynched by about 6-8-10 too many to count, guys one night the House man and Frank my snooker customer saved my ass from the hospital at least. I beat about all the guys in the lynching party and took one guys girl home(honest to God I slept on the couch, never touched her and didnt know I just beat her boyfriend out of his truck payment $550, it got re-po'ed). So you can see why they were fixin to fix my ass, I got out whole. About 6-8-10 guys just rushed me, I threw my cue on the snooker table and grabbed the balls-they stopped dead in their trax, someone told me a couple months before if your ever introuble in a pool room grab the balls. It worked, they stopped dead. But it was a 12' table and they started commming around both sides a bit slower, but the the rush was off. By then Frank and the house man had me covered, I let Frank keep what I was up $60, we played $20/game snooker-nice guy, man I didnt sleep until noon the next day i had so much adrenalin. The thing is they all asked me to play that 2 weeks I robbed them all. I didnt book a single loser. It might have been $1400 total. They were just dumb in that room(I wont say where). awalys remember if your not packing a gun grab balls-it really does work.
It can get a bit harry when your winning, I been in other spots but not like the one above, however I have never been punched or threw a punch in a pool room, but never say never-I'll say yet and hope its never. One short guy almost got a dose this year of me. but I let his insiginificant ass slide.
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It's a fact!!! You can see it for real at about 6:15 in this clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kToO5B9ZME

And it almost happened here @ 2:39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg4ZtEnLLmI
 
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I've always been told that if you get into a fight in a pool hall, grab some balls. DO NOT GO FOR A STICK! The reasoning is that the balls can be used from a distance and you get more than one shot. Plus they hurt like hell.

If you're using a stick, you have to get close and it will probably break after the first good whack. Grab some balls and haul ass for the door.
 
The old TV show "Fall Guy" starring Lee Majors had a pool episode.

It was episode #37 called "Eight Ball" and featured the acting of Lou Butera. :cool:

I can't find it on the internet.
 
runscott said:
Wow - that's a pretty amazing story. If you weren't looking to show off what
a good player you were, why throw a $100 on the table? $10 or $20 maybe, but
not $100. That's a big enough bill that the other guy should probably have
known you were probably good, or he figured he was great. If you're looking for
easy money, wouldn't you start by losing one or two $10-20 games, then
raise the stakes? And all he had to do was stare you down to get $200?
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Couldn't agree more! Tap! Tap! Tap!
 
Pool Hall fights

I spent a lot of time on the road with Scotty Townsend and for those of you that know him can imagine, there were a lot of incidents along the way. One that I remember best involved a fight that never happened.

I don't remember exacatly where we were at the time but Scotty had matched up with this big guy who was very fit. He loolked like he just got out of Marine Boot Camp. After a couple of sets the big guy realized he was far out-gunned on the table and had no chance. He began resorting to verbal abuse in an effort to intimidate Scotty. Scotty let the abuse slide for a while, but when he heard the words "Maybe I should just beat your ass", he had enough. Scotty put his cue on the table and said, "If that's how your gonna act we don't have to play any more pool, we can just double the bet, put all the money on top of the light, then you and I will go outside. Whoever comes back in gets all the cash."

I have never seen anyone's demeanor change so fast. The big guy looked like a puppy that had just been popped in the nose with a newspaper. He sat down and said, "we can just finish this set out, if that's ok with you".
 
Centennials or Aramiths

I wonder, does Seagal prefer using Aramith pool balls or Brunswick Centennial pool balls?

I think one of the reasons why he fights in a pool hall is because he knows a little bit of Filipino stick fighting or eskrima/kali (which is pretty bad ass if you guys haven't seen). In that Steven Seagal clip of Out for Justice, "Sticks" is martial artist Dan Inosanto. He was trained by Bruce Lee and is badass with nunchucks or a set of wooden sticks. :cool:

So guys, don't rob a Filipino man at the pool hall because he might know a thing or two in stick fighting. ;)
 
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M HOUSE said:
I spent a lot of time on the road with Scotty Townsend and for those of you that know him can imagine, there were a lot of incidents along the way. One that I remember best involved a fight that never happened.

I don't remember exacatly where we were at the time but Scotty had matched up with this big guy who was very fit. He loolked like he just got out of Marine Boot Camp. After a couple of sets the big guy realized he was far out-gunned on the table and had no chance. He began resorting to verbal abuse in an effort to intimidate Scotty. Scotty let the abuse slide for a while, but when he heard the words "Maybe I should just beat your ass", he had enough. Scotty put his cue on the table and said, "If that's how your gonna act we don't have to play any more pool, we can just double the bet, put all the money on top of the light, then you and I will go outside. Whoever comes back in gets all the cash."

I have never seen anyone's demeanor change so fast. The big guy looked like a puppy that had just been popped in the nose with a newspaper. He sat down and said, "we can just finish this set out, if that's ok with you".
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I don't know Scotty but he is a blast to watch and a fine player. I have heard stories about him and some of his antics and yes he looks like he is still a handful.
 
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