Pool Room Stories: What's the most shady thing you've seen happen in a pool room?

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Last time I was in the pool hall I was walking to the dressing room with my son (5 years old) at our local city pool and there were some teenagers talking about drugs. I would avoid the hall but my son loves the water slide and you can't get to the dressing room without going through the pool hall.

On a serious note I google a whole list of pool terms weekly just so I don't miss any pool related stories. Ya know what you get most of the time when you google pool? DROWNINGS! lots and lots of drownings but no one ever accuses people of trying to kill the neighborhood kids when they install a pool in their backyard even though a pool is more deadly than a gun. Hell any parent with basic math skills should be dropping their kids off at a pool hall its way way safer then a swimming pool.

Just sayin...
 
Nine ball.... Player A and Player B are playing $30 on the 5 ball and $100 on the 9 ball.
Player A goes bust but wants another game. Says he'll lend his convertible to Player B
for the weekend if he loses the next 3 games. Player B smokes him. Player A picks up
a set of car keys from a table and hands them to Player B.

About an hour later someone starts asking if anyone had found a set of keys to his car.

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pt109 said:
Yep, I've seen some shady things happen in pool halls, especially the action ones.
....about one millionth of one percent of what happens in corporate boardrooms....
......and political backrooms.....
.....and big charity organizations.

I've seen some nice things happen in those same pool halls...
...percentage-wise, I suspect far greater than than in those other institutions.

I remember a black roadplayer at the Rack in Detroit having a heart attack....
...about a month later, someone called to say he was bringing him over for the afternoon..
.....$1.800 was raised for him in about ten minutes.
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I am sorry to say you reminded me of a story. A player had a heart attack in the pool room and was robbed before they came to take him away. To be honest, he was a scum bag who would have done the same thing.
 
It's 1969 maybe 70. A really big in shape guy, a known really tough guy, with a bad disposition is playing on one of the tables. He arm wrestles professionally. Playing on the table next to him is a skinny guy. They both lean down for a shot and bump into each other and neither one wants to give an inch. The big guy flicks the butt of his cue into the little guy's wrist. The little guy yells "Hey man you broke my wrist." and leaves the poolroom. A couple of hours go by and the big guy is leaning on the front counter with his back to the front door. The little guy enters the poolroom with a car antenna and whacks the big guy on the back three times so hard you can hear it all over the room and the little guy runs out of the room. The big guy turns and starts to go after him when the houseman yells for him to stay where he is. The houseman goes outside and the little guy is out there with a shotgun. When the place closed the big guy was escorted to his car. Names were left out to protect whoever.
 
About 2 months ago my sister had her cue switched in her case when she was in the ladies room. The next day she opened the case to clean the cue and discovered a warped junk cue with a cracked shaft and no ferrule. She cried for two days. Each day she would call crying and saying how she couldn't believe someone would do that.
The cue wasn't anything worth much money at all. I told some of my pool buddies about it and four of them offered to give me a cue to send to her. The next day one of them we all call Big Bill brought me a brand new McDermott and said "Send this to your sister." She cried when she opened the box.
It's nice to know there are pool players with character and I just happen to know a few.
 
Watched a very strong player (tourney favorite) borrow the $20 weekly entry fee from multiple people (6 or more) with the intent on splitting winnings. He goes 0-2 and walks away with $100.
 
Snake

Was in a pool room once to guys were matching up they got into a disagreement one of them leaves and comes back with a plastic tub with a rattle snake in it saying he was going to throw it on the other gentleman.
 
Eric. said:
So, what are you implying, Randy? :D


Eric
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Nothing, other than the obvious. That dump was both blatant and widely viewed. But more than that, it did more damage to our game than any other specific incident, ever. Where we are today, with the lack of broadcast opportunities and sponsorship has been a direct causation of that match, regardless of how many years have passed since.
 
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