The funniest/craziest shot you ever saw?

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And by that I don't mean some incredible trick shot. I mean funny, ridiculous, unusual, unconventional, retarded, psychotic. Whatever you want to call it. Stuff like playing with two cues at the same time, breaking with no bridge, running towards the table with eyes closed, a guy playing while so drunk he couldn't even stand etc. If you witnessed similar situation in any pool hall or bar, please share it with us :)
 
Push&Pool said:
And by that I don't mean some incredible trick shot. I mean funny, ridiculous, unusual, unconventional, retarded, psychotic. Whatever you want to call it. Stuff like playing with two cues at the same time, breaking with no bridge, running towards the table with eyes closed, a guy playing while so drunk he couldn't even stand etc. If you witnessed similar situation in any pool hall or bar, please share it with us :)
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I will try to describe the shot as best I can. It was in a golf game with several players. This was shot by a guy named Lou Esposito, the uncle of Gus Szamboti. He was going to the out pocket and there were two balls right in front of the pocket blocking him. He was going to try to take out both balls. He hit the cueball with draw and miscues. The cueball just clipped the top of his ball setting it in motion. The cueball then hit the back edge of the pocket and bounced forward knocking both of the balls out of the way and Lou's ball trickled in with him winning the game. This was for big money by the way.

Another shot was one that was not made. This was by Marcel Camp and was also on a 6 x 12 snooker table. Camp had bet a few hundred he could cut in a ball from the center spot with the object ball frozen to the bottom rail in the center. They dickered about the bet for a while and settled on 20 tries to make the seemingly impossible shot, Camp originally wanted 50.. Of course, anytime someone wants to bet you they can do something it is usually not as impossible as it seems. Camp on the second try cuts the ball right into the jaws of the pocket and it hangs. The guy Camp is betting with says, " OK, you got me, take a hundred and you don't have to shoot it again". Camp says, "No, a bet is a bet". Camp then proceeds to miss the shot 18 more times and loses the bet. This only confirmed Camp's reputation as a really hard luck gambler. He could bet on a lock and lose.
 
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And by that I don't mean some incredible trick shot. I mean funny, ridiculous, unusual, unconventional, retarded, psychotic. Whatever you want to call it. Stuff like playing with two cues at the same time, breaking with no bridge, running towards the table with eyes closed, a guy playing while so drunk he couldn't even stand etc. If you witnessed similar situation in any pool hall or bar, please share it with us :)
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Going strictly by what you ask for. My wife and I were in a coin laundry with a bar next door. While we are waiting we go in the bar. They have a pool table and there are a couple of guys playing. I ask if they are playing for anything and they say no. Mean time a guy sitting at the bar says, "What do you want to play for". I'm not going to say anything that may scare him off so I say, "I'll play you some for $5. a game. He says "Play for $50.00". I agree and he gets up and they give us the table so we can play.

Now this guy is pretty drunk so I have no idea what is going to happen here. He wants to post so we each give $50.00 to the bartender. I win the toss and get the break. Here is the best part, he picks out a cue with "NO" tip, I swear to God. We start playing the game and he is poking in a ball here and there with the ferrule and when he misses I have nothing, it was amazing. Long story short he wins the game collects his $100.00 from the bartender and sits down. He will not play another game no matter what. My wife asks him to play and he just says no and stares at the TV. He had showed me, he beat me out of my fifty.

When we left the bar my wife could not stop laughing, I guess I found it pretty funny as well.
This was like 30 years ago and my wife still loves to tell the story of me losing $50.00 to a drunk with no tip on his cue.
 
When I was a teenager I spent a lot of time in a very small pool hall run by a guy in his 80's.
This man taught me almost everything I know. Amazing guy all around and a great player. But you never knew what was going to happen there

Was in there one day just shooting by myself, waiting for others to show up and he asked if I wanted a challenge, so I said sure.
He beat me using his cane. :confused:
Not some weird cane/cue combo or anything special...a standard, run of the mill, solid wood drugstore cane with the big inch and a half or so rubber stopper on the bottom of it.
He would just shoot soft, and if he needed english he'd just give it a little swipe just as it hit the ball. And I'm not talking just banging them around...that old SOB came close to getting position on every shot he made LOL

Another time he was shooting, halfway through his stroke......his pants fell down LOL
I guess when you're 80+ you don't care anymore. He finished his shot and the next shot or two that were only a couple shuffling steps away, then finally pulled them up when he had to go around to the other side of the table
 
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Wish I had video of this one ...
My father showed me the second ball 8-ball break shot the weekend I graduated from Navy boot camp in 1988. I was already somewhat hooked on the game, but had yet to receive much instruction or really learn the rules. I made my first 8-ball break that evening. For a long time, we played that as a win.
Well, I really began to cut my teeth on the game in Navy lodging that same year at Mare Island. We had 3 9-foot tables and 2 sets of balls, by the way. Outside the tables were 2 ping pong tables.
I made that 8-ball break so many times I lost count. One night I cracked 'em hard from the front and sent the cue ball up in the air. It came down over the side rail and managed to hit it just right to fire into the rack (without bouncing). Sure enough, it had a clear path to the 8-ball and sent it right into the side pocket.
Another night, a ping pong ball landed on my table. I was trying to be a hard ass and flip it off the table with my cue stick without paying any attention to the ping pong players. Somehow I flipped it up onto the light over the pool table where it stayed. That broke the ice and we all had a good laugh.
 
Craziest one I ever saw was on the table next to the one I was playing on, bar boxes.

I was shooting along the rail, with my bridge hand spread on the rail. At the next table, a guy was breaking, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw the cue ball go straight up, out of sight, but I knew it was coming toward me.

I just closed my eyes and kept very still.

I didn't move, figuring if I tried to dodge, I'd zig when I should have zagged, and get hit anyway.

The ball (according to witnesses, as I still had my eyes shut), hit about 2 inches from my bridge hand. But I definitely felt it.
 
Low Rider

When I was a teenager I worked in a poolhall. We were have a trick shot game. A lot of normal shots one handed behind the back or under the leg and so on! I get down to the eight ball and it a pretty slandered cut down the rail shot. I put my cue down grabed a house cue off the wall went into the back room where I keep my low rider bike, got on it rode thru the poolhall and jousted that eight ball straight down that rail one in a life time shot. True story hope y'all in joy it.
 
Not super crazy, but photographic evidence. This is was I was left with after a break while practicing at home one evening.

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I decided to play it out for fun.
 
I was practicing 9 ball with Hai Long at Yesterday's in Bryan, TX. Hai was a VERY good player from China.

I racked em up and walked back to my chair. Hai wound up and broke HARD. The cue ball hit the rack with a mighty BANG!

About a half second later, one of the 4' long fluorescent bulbs dislodged from its ballast in the light above the table, and came crashing down onto the cloth, shattering and leaving shards of glass all over the table.

That was kinda spooky.
 
I was playing 9 ball with a friend for fun and had a good angle on the seven in the side to slow roll the cue down to the end rail. The 9 was in the jaws of the opposite side corner with the 8 along the rail about 6 inches away.

Buddy says "I bet I know what shape you will play", so I had to come up with something different. I calculated the path to put the cue in between the 8 & 9 after seven rails and pulled it off perfectly. 8 straight in and a tap on the 9. The shot was made with low right. The first rail contact was close to the corner pocket and around the table it went.
 
the day before they were to recover the tables 9' Gandy tables we were given permission to do just about anything so we did.

they were lined up short rail facing short rail 4 tables long so about 50' total length, we wanted to see if we could jump a ball hop it from table to table to the last table, this was before jump cues, full cues worked fine.

getting rom the 1st to 2nd table was a hangar-only had to fly the rock 15' give or take, they were 5' apart or less, to get to the 2nd table. but no chance for the 3rd table. when it hit the 2nd table it didnt hop much, just rolled fast.

Then after a few tries we decided to try and fly over the middle table and land on the 3rd table and bounce to the 4th. This was on SLOW cloth. which dont bounce like the junk we have now. the guys with the lesser strokes couldnt fly over the 2nd table, the 3rd table was almost 9'+5'+9'+5' and a little more from the shot where we spotted the ball in the kitchen. I got to the 3rd table-barely once, the rock did bounce but not enuff to make it to the 4th table.

A friend with a monster Larry Nevel power stroke(actually more powerful:eek:) Flew over the 2 nd table and hit the cushion on the 3rd table(short rail at foot spot) the CB went straight up and landed on the rail and hit the floor.Nobody could reach the last table. We all needed new tips after this,

The windup is the room owner came in and heard the balls crashing into the slate-he was pissed, We reminded him "that we could do what we wanted", he said "yeah pool, masse' shots etc not ping-pong dammit!!!!" we didnt crack or chip any slates, it was good fun.
 
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Charbel's in Salem VA

This is a great thread.

Anybody that's been though charbel's in Salem VA know that stories about Charlie Nakhle could fill its own thread, but here are two:

During a pre league five handed ring game, Charlie breaks makes a money ball and one more and can see the one ball. It's a thin cut on the bottom rail that he really has to stretch for and when he does one of his sandals (always worn with socks) falls off. He makes the shot and gets shape on his next ball. He gets off the table, walks right past the fallen sandal to his next shot and proceeds to run out. When the ten ball caps he turns around and slides his sandal on and starts to collect his money. When a comment was made his only response was "What? I had a run going"

In another pre league ring game, Charlie breaks, makes all three money balls and nothing else. It was like the money balls had eyes and all the others just got out of the way. He looks around at is and says "I've never seen that before!" As he walks around and collects his money he asks each of us if we've seen that before then. I said "No Charlie, that's my first time seein' that." He then holds up the money and says to all of us "Me too, the difference is y'all had to pay to see it! HAHAHA"
 
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I will try to describe the shot as best I can. It was in a golf game with several players. This was shot by a guy named Lou Esposito, the uncle of Gus Szamboti. He was going to the out pocket and there were two balls right in front of the pocket blocking him. He was going to try to take out both balls. He hit the cueball with draw and miscues. The cueball just clipped the top of his ball setting it in motion. The cueball then hit the back edge of the pocket and bounced forward knocking both of the balls out of the way and Lou's ball trickled in with him winning the game. This was for big money by the way.

Another shot was one that was not made. This was by Marcel Camp and was also on a 6 x 12 snooker table. Camp had bet a few hundred he could cut in a ball from the center spot with the object ball frozen to the bottom rail in the center. They dickered about the bet for a while and settled on 20 tries to make the seemingly impossible shot, Camp originally wanted 50.. Of course, anytime someone wants to bet you they can do something it is usually not as impossible as it seems. Camp on the second try cuts the ball right into the jaws of the pocket and it hangs. The guy Camp is betting with says, " OK, you got me, take a hundred and you don't have to shoot it again". Camp says, "No, a bet is a bet". Camp then proceeds to miss the shot 18 more times and loses the bet. This only confirmed Camp's reputation as a really hard luck gambler. He could bet on a lock and lose.
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That second shot you described is pretty awesome. Either the guy shooting is greedy or very respectable. Either way, he's right, a bet is a bet!
 
i saw a guy once fire hard at a ball off the bridge, problem is he drew his cue too far back and shot the bridge across the table, he wasnt holding it very tight(correct) it crashed into everything.
 
The best break shot I ever saw was when Jimmy Reid made six balls on the break, leaving only the 2, the 7 and the 9. Naturally he was hooked behind the 7 and had no shot at the 2! He had to push out. :grin:

I'll think of some more later, but that one came to mind first.
 
another good one that i'm sure lots here have seen is the banger coming into the pool room and racking the balls on a 3C table, they look around and see no pockets and move on.


well thats not what happened here its 88 in Sacramento in Family Billiards Gene Ahola's room, i was the best player in there at the time, B player. real weak room, lots of easy $$. I'm playing a guy some $50 sets when this long hair 80's rock hair band walks in with 3 girls acting like the big shot. u guessed it, he racked he balls on the 3C box. racked them real loud, made a big show for the girls, he said i'll break, he smashes them, nothing goes in, cause there aint no holes, the girls get down to shoot and not one noticed there were no pockets, all the girls shot 2 times and he hair guy once and the break. this lasted about until the hair guy called "corner pocket" his 3rd shot including the break. looked at it and FROZE, we stopped playing our session to see this. man that guy turned red, by then there was 20 or so people watching, all laughing their asses off. Accidents happen, but not noticing there are no pockets for 10-15 minutes and as many shots makes you wonder sometimes....
 
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jay helfert said:
The best break shot I ever saw was when Jimmy Reid made six balls on the break, leaving only the 2, the 7 and the 9. Naturally he was hooked behind the 7 and had no shot at the 2! He had to push out. :grin:

I'll think of some more later, but that one came to mind first.
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90% of the 5, 6 ball 9B breaks end up with a hook, almost saw 8 go in at the Joint once, last second they came to the pocket at the same time and knocked each other out, so 6 down and he was locked up, had 8 fell in, he was real bad on the 9. funny how that works
 
I was playing 9 ball made a good hit on the object ball but missed the shot, somehow the ball hit a piece of chalk or something bounced up onto the edge of the rail ( not the grooved part ) roll down the edge of the long rail and come back onto the table and pocket another. We stoppd the game looked in the rule book did not say anything about riding the clothed part edge of the rail and got out.

I have seen a cue ball jumped off the table land on another table and pocket the 8 ball in the corner like it was a called shot.

Playing bank the 9 I saw a 9 ball get elevated off the end rail jump in the air and ran all the way down a 9 foot light fixture shattering the bulb all over the table.

I have seen a guy totally hooked playing razzle just smash the balls and make a good hit, make 3 money balls on more than 1 occassion this guy had a knack for sheitting balls in like you would not believe
 
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