Stupid things you see in a Pool hall

ChrisBanks said:
I've never heard of guest fees before. I haven't been to every pool hall, but I've been to many of them, and never a guest fee!!!!
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Having lived in several HOA's with amenities, with as little as a swimming pool for residents, I know that some have GUEST FEES if you bring friends, or other then residents living in the same house to use the facilities.

The FEE I am talking about is a whopping $2.70/Day/Guest, and honestly if you can not afford the FEE, or your GUEST CAN NOT REIMBURSEMENT YOU FOR THE FEE.

So than if both You and or your Guest are too cheap to pay the FEE, or shall we say can not afford the FEE.

Just leave your Guest or Family Member outside the facilities, or move to a place where there are NO SUCH FEES.


IMHO the $2.70 FEE is fair when you consider it is for the privilege of using not only the Pool Room, but the other facilities like Gym, Swimming Pool, Miniature Golf Course, Tennis Courts, etc. also...
 
female player

Knew a gal that played alot of pool but she had a drinking problem.
And she was always argueing wth her husband.

She was upset about something and I was tired of hearing her complain.

I told her it was her it was her husbands job to listen to her complants, Or family ..

She got realy pissed and tried to hit me with her cue case,
the pocket on the pool case broke and it was full quarters.

She must of had 50.00 in quarters in the case and they were flying eveyrwhere. Her husband came running up and asked what her problem was, she got really pissed then and went out in the parking lot and shoved her pool cue through the windshield of her husbands car.:joyful:

The look on her husbands face was priceless.
He just hung his head low and shook it back and forth.

moral of this story.
I am glade that I only sold her one cue because my car was parked next to her husbands .:rolleyes:

MMike
 
I only get annoyed by arguing how an 8 ball game should be racked. I prefer BCA rules because it's simple and quick.
 
The Pocket Banger

One day me and the boys stopped after work for a cold beverage. After a while this idiot walks in like John Wayne and starts shouting out $20 a game over and over, so the guys know im a decent shot so they tell him ill play. We flip and I run and dog the eight. He starts yelling out obvious shots, 1ball while pounding on the pocket hes shooting in 7ball still pounding on the intended pocket, I cant wait till its over, so he gets down to the 8 ball and looks at me and pounds the corner pocket while nodding his head at me and blast the eght ball streight in and it pops right out . The jerk didnt realise he had knocked off the pocket liner of that old Valley, as soon as that eight ball hit it the ball bounced out and sat 2 inches in front of the hole. He paid up and told me how lucky I was and he left.
 
A silly thing I often see is when an opponent breaks their cue down for a jump shot and places the detached parts in one of the pockets on the table while they play their shot.
 
Don't you just hate the guy who come up to challenge your table in a bar and proceeds to take all freaking day to rack 8 ball. First he has to move the balls around for like an hour like the solids and stripes are confusing him, then he slides the rack back and forth up the table 5 or 6 six times and then after all that decides the balls need to hammered into the table so they won't move.
 
I played a guy eight ball in some bar in Penn. once who made up rules as we went along. We were playing call shot and I called a ball in the corner. The ball slid in the hole after skidding of the side rail slightly. Incidental contact you know? He calls out "You have to call that, it banked in!" Now ordinarily I would argue this point. We all know the rule for that one.

I wanted to have some fun with this guy so I said " Oh, Okay I didn't know the rule." What's good for the goose and all that. Next was unbelievable! I called a shot straight in making sure not to touch a rail as the ball traveled to the pocket and again he yells out "That ball went in off the facing and you didn't call it that way."

You can only imagine what he went through to pocket a ball when it was his turn. You see, the more rules regulating a game the better it is for the better player. He was putting himself in a deeper and deeper box. One he never got out of by the way.

Tom
 
TRWpool said:
I played a guy eight ball in some bar in Penn. once who made up rules as we went along. We were playing call shot and I called a ball in the corner. The ball slid in the hole after skidding of the side rail slightly. Incidental contact you know? He calls out "You have to call that, it banked in!" Now ordinarily I would argue this point. We all know the rule for that one.

I wanted to have some fun with this guy so I said " Oh, Okay I didn't know the rule." What's good for the goose and all that. Next was unbelievable! I called a shot straight in making sure not to touch a rail as the ball traveled to the pocket and again he yells out "That ball went in off the facing and you didn't call it that way."

You can only imagine what he went through to pocket a ball when it was his turn. You see, the more rules regulating a game the better it is for the better player. He was putting himself in a deeper and deeper box. One he never got out of by the way.

Tom
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You're right on all accounts. Very good!
 
to simple

playing pool and your oppenet racks the balls 3 inches behind the dot.
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The other night I was out shooting pool and was playing this guy, he was bragging on how good he could jump the cue ball ?

He said he never misses....................... we are playing ball in hand and he really wasnt up on the rules.

So I thought ok lets see this guy jump , so snooker him so he has to jump or kick.

He does a scoop jump shot , shoots the cue ball off the table and screws up the cloth.

MMike
 
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1. Somebody asks you to play, and then takes long phone calls and side conversations during their turn.

2. Opponent "physically reminisces" over similar shots to the present layout, by marking ball locations with spit and chalk and moving them to show you their past situations.

3. Opponent/spectator gives stroke advice in the middle of your run or after a miss, exacerbated by standing close and expecting you to execute your next shot as they suggested and commenting on the results.

4. Feeling the need to position your body FOR YOU after seeing a slight elbow drop on follow-through on a perfectly executed shot, so as to help you look more textbook. You're not my wife, why are you touching me?? And then, #3 again.

5. Trying to grab your cue out of your hand to "show you something."

6. Listening to another player on the next table swear after every other shot loud enough to hail a cab.

7. Opponent getting upset if you decide to inspect the rack as to determine from which position you should break from. A rack of pool balls isn't a work of art, but some people act like it is.

I'm nice, quiet, and modest, and usually let the offenders in the list above finish their motions. But since I like to play with the nice, quiet, and modest players, I can usually identify the offenders as well.
 
Dumbest things in a pool hall

Getting ready to play a game of 9 ball and the bar owner walks over, with a stern voice and says " I DON'T ALLOW 9 BALL IN HERE!!!". My buddy tries to find the reasoning in this with the owner.Theowner says " I have seen too many people get hurt over this game because of gambling. My friend still trying to reason with him for a few, and gets kicked out! I'm still standing there, the owner looks at me like "well?". So i take a sip of my beer , shrug my shoulders, and say ok man. I grab the rest of the balls and rack 8 ball. I figured I would get him to kick me out as well when I asked him to play me $20 a rack. Proving to him that his point about 9 ball gambling was stupid, you can gamble at anything on a pool table. I also didn't want to pay this DB my tab at the bar. My jaw dropped when he said "SURE"!! I gave him a thousand yard stare for a solid 5 seconds, and we started playing. I did eventually get kicked out after I beat him out of $100, hahaha!!!. The next night I went back in there, and got a 10 man 3 ball game started, in which he was involved. I never laughed harder when he went bust at that too and broke up that game too, exclaiming that 3 ball was banned as well. Because it promotes gambling!!!!! GOTTA LOVE THESE PEOPLE!!!
 
shooting pool

I had a bar owner jump my shit because I chalked up every shot.



I played league for a few years and one year the bar owner told me the team captain , that if we did win we didnt get a free drink:thud:

I drink water with a lime wedge ? but the rest of my team drank.
I told him that in the by laws of the league the hosting bar buys both teams the first round .............................................................................
He said He owns the team and he can do any f thing he wants.
I told him that he sponcers a team and he doesnt own me or the rest of the team.
He looked at me and 86 me from the bar...

the team had taken first place years in arow. 22 weeks in a row 1st place in the paper that season.
The whole team walked, and another bar picked us up and we still took first place that year.

just more stupid shit.

MMike
 
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Last year, some drunken 25’ish guy decided my coat belonged to him. I had my keys and iphone in it also. I would have just walked away with my coat and let it go but Rambo decided to pick up a pool cue. It did not end well for him.:grin-devilish:
 
In the dark

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Me and a friend shot for about 4 hrs yesterday and the guy shooting next to us didn't turn his table light on.

The pool hall was pretty dark but could still see the balls pretty good.
I didn't say anything to this guy that was shooting by himself.

After a while the guy said I practice in the dark that way when they turn the lights on I can really shoot.

I was watching him practice his banks and kicks and he was missing allot of them,
I was just about to offer him some advise when he said allot of people do the mathematics of banks and kicks, and I only shoot them in, :eek:
That pretty much shot down anything I could of suggested.
 
I think it's fair to say that many of us have seen it all.

Freddie <~~~ and then see something new
 
mortuarymike-nv said:
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Me and a friend shot for about 4 hrs yesterday and the guy shooting next to us didn't turn his table light on.

The pool hall was pretty dark but could still see the balls pretty good.
I didn't say anything to this guy that was shooting by himself.

After a while the guy said I practice in the dark that way when they turn the lights on I can really shoot.

I was watching him practice his banks and kicks and he was missing allot of them,
I was just about to offer him some advise when he said allot of people do the mathematics of banks and kicks, and I only shoot them in, :eek:
That pretty much shot down anything I could of suggested.
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Yeah, that would shut most ppl up.

Shoot a little on GC's with those convex rails and some glare and you will forget about those diamonds too ! :(
I will admit to shooting "straight -ins" in the dark. yeah, It's for a reason.
 
I played a guy who would make a cocking sound of a shotgun before he shot, I'm laughing as I type this, ill never get over it. hahahahah, ****ing moron:lol:
 
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