Let’s not go to extremes! :yikes:
Putting cheats on a home table
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Let’s not go to extremes! :yikes:
That’s kids stuff. American pool table pockets are so big that we stuffed a Grizzly Bear down one. However, still too much room. The bear got comfortable and fell asleep.
At one pocket you have a lot of bank shots, especially cross-corner near the foot rail. You stick straight pins (or needles) into the rubber at 1/4 and 3/4 diamond positions on the left long rail and 1/2 and even diamond positions on the right long rail. You have to work them in far enough they aren't visible. Banks at those certain spots will go screwy.
What are they teaching kids in school these days? It couldn't be anything practical.
Jeez I was thinking voodoo but this is pure evil.
Swapping out cue balls
I could see where having three or four cue balls and swapping them out every time the other player wasn't watching could make them crazy!
The owner of an old pool hall slipped a weighted cue ball in on me one day just for chuckles. Took awhile to figure the deal, it only really went wonky off of the third rail. He didn't charge me table time that day. After that we would play with that ball for hours trying to master something that was impossible to master!
I have never rigged a table but did consider learning tables part of playing pool. There was a little dead spot on a rail on the table I played a young Danny Medina on. He was a good guy to play with and we were having a hell of a battle. Being sporting I showed him the spot. A few games later he fired a bank directly into that spot. Despite shooting extra hard the ball died.
"I told you that spot was dead."
"I had to see for myself."
Only later did I consider that claiming a dead spot to distract a player would be a very good sharking move!
Hu
I could see where having three or four cue balls and swapping them out every time the other player wasn't watching could make them crazy!
The owner of an old pool hall slipped a weighted cue ball in on me one day just for chuckles. Took awhile to figure the deal, it only really went wonky off of the third rail. He didn't charge me table time that day. After that we would play with that ball for hours trying to master something that was impossible to master!
I have never rigged a table but did consider learning tables part of playing pool. There was a little dead spot on a rail on the table I played a young Danny Medina on. He was a good guy to play with and we were having a hell of a battle. Being sporting I showed him the spot. A few games later he fired a bank directly into that spot. Despite shooting extra hard the ball died.
"I told you that spot was dead."
"I had to see for myself."
Only later did I consider that claiming a dead spot to distract a player would be a very good sharking move!
Hu
The snooker pockets are so small the only balls that will fit in them are European ones. How did we get on pocket sizes here? I call this "snoob", a snooker player that posts how much smaller the pockets in snooker are in every pool video or post, so a snooker snob. They usually travel in the same herds that the people that have to add in how Efren can beat anyone or that Efren is the greatest no matter who else is playing.
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I did something similar to a friend and competitor at the PH. I waxed up the cue ball, put a ball by a corner pocket, and bet he couldn't play a stop shot from the kitchen. He kept drawing the cue ball a couple of diamonds.:grin:
And the "pins in the rubber" is said to be a real thing but I don't think I've ever seen it. Or maybe I have.
Much easier to rig the balls, not the table. While knowledgeable players would likely soon get wise to the old gag re: waxing odd #s & oiling even #s (or stripes vs. solids), you could always only fiddle with and memorize a specific code of numbers, which would take your opponent forever to learn.
Pins in Rubber
I have seen the pins in the rubber. Somebody didn't hide the heads planning to pull them back out I suspect. Another time I bridged across the rubber and happened to put my finger on a pin.
All long ago. Maybe I haven't paid enough attention or bet big enough but I haven't noticed a deliberately gaffed table or balls in decades.
Hu
I have seen the pins in the rubber. Somebody didn't hide the heads planning to pull them back out I suspect. Another time I bridged across the rubber and happened to put my finger on a pin.
All long ago. Maybe I haven't paid enough attention or bet big enough but I haven't noticed a deliberately gaffed table or balls in decades.
Hu