A couple of weeks ago Tony Watson gave this guy for 2K a set races to 9. The wild 6 out, all the breaks and ball in hand after the break
How did that turn out?
Ken
Tony got robbed.
Melvin Sharpe at a national league tournament in Denver. I think BCA. Long time ago. Was giving all comers on the challenge table:
Rack nineball.
Opposing player is the stripes with just the 9 & 8.
Melvin has to play rotation and bank every ball.
He was running racks this way.
I was new to pool and I'm sure it's a gaffe spot but I never wanted to try and give it to anybody.
Of course it is huge gaffe. Melvin starts out with seven blockers and can play safe all day long if he can't bank out on a bar table.
I can't wait to swing through Colorado next year.
Yeah. But the impressive thing was that Melvin wasn't playing that way too much. He was running out and running out.
He is one of those guys that could catch a really, really high gear.
I gave a player the 6,7,8,9, every break and ball in hand after break both playing one handed...races to 5 for 100 I beat him 4 in a row...then we played even me one handed he played normal...I won 3 sets...and so on and so on...we ended up me one handed giving 7,8,9 all breaks and ball in hand after break...plus raising the bet...I finally lost some sets and we ended up even...
Biggest spot I probably gave was playing the 12-ball ghost without ball in hand race to 9 for 500 a set...I won 3 sets and they quit...
Also played the rotation ghost 500 a set getting 1 game race to 9...I ended up even...3-3 in sets...
The biggest spot I've seen is "if you drive a ball to the rail" on a legal hit you win
Playing 9b
I played my wife once 8 ball where she played normally, but I played bank the 8 ball wherever my last ball went... And I shot one handed on every shot.
It was an even game.
Short Bus Russ