Quirky pool room habits

[Gerry]

As I'm sitting here listening to the motorcycles go up and down A1A for bike week, I started thinking about some of the funny things guys used to do in the pool rooms I worked in. Like:

Pineapple used to change his socks during gambling matches, more than once!

surfer Phil used to flail around like he was surfing when he hit shots!

I can't think of any more right now, but thehouseman can help me out with some I bet...What have you all seen?

Gerry

 

[Rodney]

We had a guy in our room who use to rip his shirt off and start yelling when he made a nice run. Sad part is he was only a "B" player, but at the time he was the best in the house.

 

[cyrex]

awesome topic

The personalities of players has to be one of the most fascinating aspect to our sport. Sure, the challenge of the table at hand, the pressures, the 'journey' is all great.. but damn, when a guy rips his shirt off and starts yelling.. or your opponent changes their socks during a match something is going on. Just out of curiosity, how many pairs did he have? 2? Would he just go back and forth? Or one then the other? I have a mild case of OCD so maybe this is something I could start up.

Johnny is notorious for picking the lint off of the table. And for moving balls from pockets. Sure, that's understandable IF he were actually shooting at that pocket. I try to keep out superstitions because they can just be a handy excuse. But I still won't setup an 8ball rack with like colored balls next to eachother. Such as the 4 and the 12 or something. Oh yeah, and I noticed I play really bad when a good looking girl is standing nearby for some reason. =o]

 

[highrun55]

funny things guys used to do in the pool rooms

Gerry,
I remember Pinapple changing his socks quite a few times, I guess his feet sweat a lot. He had to have special chalk, a certain table, not to hot, not to cold, no whistling in the pool room, what a pain in the a$$ but he sure could play.
Surfer Phil had a substance abuse habit that made him contort all over the place when he shot.
I remember a guy that used some cremora for coffee on his hands since we don`t allow powder use.
A young black kid came in one time and didn`t see the house cue rack so he decided to take the head off of the bridge stick and started to use it as a cue, he is about 25 yrs old now and I still tease him about it.

Eric P. used to throw chalk when he missed a shot.
Rick C. stabbed a cue thru the panneling once when he lost a set of 9 ball.
Greg C. broke 3 shafts one day and 2 were not his own.

All that crazy stuff stopped in 1993 when I bought the pool room.
All those guys got married, got jobs, moved away or got thrown out.
And I still have a couple characters but not as bad.

 

[Gerry]

Gerry,
I remember Pinapple changing his socks quite a few times, I guess his feet sweat a lot. He had to have special chalk, a certain table, not to hot, not to cold, no whistling in the pool room, what a pain in the a$$ but he sure could play.
Surfer Phil had a substance abuse habit that made him contort all over the place when he shot.
I remember a guy that used some cremora for coffee on his hands since we don`t allow powder use.
A young black kid came in one time and didn`t see the house cue rack so he decided to take the head off of the bridge stick and started to use it as a cue, he is about 25 yrs old now and I still tease him about it.

Eric P. used to throw chalk when he missed a shot.
Rick C. stabbed a cue thru the panneling once when he lost a set of 9 ball.
Greg C. broke 3 shafts one day and 2 were not his own.

All that crazy stuff stopped in 1993 when I bought the pool room.
All those guys got married, got jobs, moved away or got thrown out.
And I still have a couple characters but not as bad.

And I miss it every day Mick!

G.

 

[JoeyA]

Ernie Sellers used to reach down and tug/pull up on his socks when he is getting ready to take a shot and/or he wets his fingers with his lips/tongue and then smoothes down his eye brows.
JoeyA

 

[The Kiss]

We got a guy up here Super Dave..he shoots 90 miles an hour and when he gets it going he fly's around the table and has been known to yell out Super Dave....

Another player is known as the meatman...Is known to consistantly hit lights, the ceiling on his follow thru guys in the head ect...Shuffles his feet like he's dancing on a close shot...Its a contact sport when he's around....He could also be that player who ledgend says fell out of a 2nd story building while shooting

 

[Gerry]

Greg C. broke 3 shafts one day and 2 were not his own.
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Mick, Are you talking about Nates son Greg?....How's Nate doing BTW, Missy was asking about him?

Gerry