The missed shot that still haunts you....

D

Darkridder

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
Well I'm curious if any of you guys have a shot that you missed that still haunts you. The pool shot that cost you the most money, or knocked you out of a tournament.. or even the chance you had to go meet Efron Reyes, or the girl you wished you would of asked out.

this doesn't have to relate to pool.
 
Darkridder said:
Well I'm curious if any of you guys have a shot that you missed that still haunts you. The pool shot that cost you the most money, or knocked you out of a tournament.. or even the chance you had to go meet Efron Reyes, or the girl you wished you would of asked out.

this doesn't have to relate to pool.
Click to expand...

I've had two or three that haunted me, but as an amateur I'm bound to screw up again. The best thing about screwing up today is that it helps to erase yesterday's pain.

And I got with that girl. It was worth it.

Freddie <~~~ living the dream
 
Darkridder said:
Well I'm curious if any of you guys have a shot that you missed that still haunts you. The pool shot that cost you the most money, or knocked you out of a tournament.. or even the chance you had to go meet Efron Reyes, or the girl you wished you would of asked out.

this doesn't have to relate to pool.
Click to expand...

I was playing a final of a tournament and needed one game. The 9 was near the corner pocket. I had a shot on the 8 straight down the rail from just above the side pocket.

All I have to do is make the 8 and it is over and I can see the whole pocket although the 9 makes it close. Instead of just shooting the ball in I slow roll it and it rolls off just enough to nudge the 9 to the bottom rail as the 8 goes in.

I have no shot at all on the 9. After a long time I try to spin it in but miss the whole ball and give Steve Cook ball in hand. He needs 3 games going to 11 and I don't shoot again. I felt like a real fool in front of a lot of people.

The shot cost me about $1500.00 but the worst was I had played so good the whole tournament only to throw it away like that.
 
The missed opportunity of not starting at an earlier age. Although I probably wouldn't be in college right now if I did start earlier....
 
I was in the 3rd/4th place match of the SD State B tournament. I was confident that if I won this match, the two remaining players would be easy to beat the way I was playing that weekend.

It was the last game in a race to 3. I played a masse to move a ball that was about 6 inches from the rail and the cue ball came right back to the rail next to my other remaining ball. A solid safe resulting in BIH. I shoot one ball in to leave a 3 ball right in front of the corner pocket and the eight was between the spot and side pocket. So easy, just knock the 3 in and get to the middle of the table for the win. I did not hit the 3.. went to the left and hit it to the rail for a legal hit. He made the tough long shot and won the match and went on to win the tournament.

Still bothers me that I went from near perfect pool to such a poor shot. It wasn't even hard enough to get the leave I should have been playing for.

The first place prize was increased from $600 to $1,100 after the tournament started. I ended up with $400.

My opponent is a current member of the VNEA HOF, and that win is mentioned in the write up.
 
Hill Hill 8 ball battle

I was the new guy in the pool room playing against the fellow who was considered to be the number one player there. He won the prior tournament and most of the past tournaments. He had a few balls on the table and I was shooting the 8 in the side at a difficult angle and it hit the tit and went into the corner. That cost me $150.

I had not been playing for a few years and after a few months I was sending him to the loss side in every match we had after that.

Oh, and the time I played in a college tournament for a new Joss West cue. It was not a haunted shot but a haunted match. Every break had his balls in the open and mine stuck together. He won the cue. After that I played him for a few dollars a game and must have won twenty something games before he won his first game.
 
I'm not sure if it will still haunt me a year from now but last weekend at state I lost a game that I still don't feel was my fault. It wasn't even a shot I actually missed. I hit a ball a bit to firm I guess.

I'm down to 1 ball and the eight, it's a longer shot and I'm more comfortable with draw so that's what I decide to use when I could have hit it softer and used top. I hit it pretty hard, I sink the ball and end up with the 8 straight in..... Oh, wait the ball that I sunk pops back out of the pocket to rest about a foot from the pocket. I'm not talking about rattling it out or missing it. I'm taking about the damn thing being down but due to me hitting it to hard it bounces back out of the pocket. Opponent didn't know what to do and asked if he was supposed to shoot now. Unfortunately I had to tell him yeah, it's on the table and a live ball. :mad:
 
Damn right I do!
I was at the pool hall a couple of years ago, standing at the bar, when this drop dead gorgeous woman comes up and asks if I would like to do a shot with her. I say. "Sorry, but I have to go play some One Pocket with my buddies, over there. Maybe later."
Well, later never happened. I saw her leaving with the night manager, and the bastard was grinning from ear to ear. :smile:
 
7 ball against mike zuglan 15 years ago while putting a four or five pack on him...he ran out from there..the set
 
Recently just the one, I was playing in league and had a tough cluster to deal with. About a dozen times in my head I thought "play safe" and it was an easy safe too. So I walk around the cluster and sight all the shots and they all had pockets so I took the chance and ran them to the 8 playing every shot perfectly. Not a single mistake or leave out of position whatsoever. Then my easy shot on the 8 I missed. I didn't take my time and the easiest shot was the most important one, my 10-1 win turned into a 10-6 only because my opponent scratched on his out ball but he should have beat me easy. I'm still kicking myself for that one.
 
Made it to the finals of my first one pocket tournament in a local hall against the heavy favorite. It was a race to three. I was up 2-0 and led 7-4 and had a short Straightback bank to close out the match. There were two balls blocking the uptable corner pocket so I couldn't scratch.... I thought. I hung the bank and sent the cue miraculously around those two balls to scratch in the upper corner. You know the rest of the story....
 
I don't really have any way I see it is we learn from our misses and mistakes I take them look at all I did wrong and fix it so next time it won't happen :thumbup:
 
I learned a tough lesson a very long time ago.

Guys, you can not change the past. You can only effect the future. If you want the best for yourself,

"Quit pissing, moaning amd pitching a fit! GET OVER IT, GET OVER IT"!
Don Henley....The Eagles

Dwelling on past mistakes will subconsciously make them repeat and make it harder to execute. Create positive learing ecperiences and do not think coud wouda shoulda.
 
Playing the Vegas Tournament a few years ago. I would always put myself last all season for a couple of reasons.

I missed a down the rail shot on the 8. Nerves? I don't know. If I had made the 8, we would have played the team that put us on the B side and still had a chance to go.

I have made shots like this hundreds of times. I went outside to get some fresh air.

I actually had tears in my eyes. So close and so far away. I seriously felt like I let my team down. Could have happened to anybody and we all mess up an important game on occasion. But it was me and not anyone else. That is all we needed is the extra 3 points that this win would have brought us.
 
The is one shot that i would like to not have missed and that i can recall like if it just happened.


I play with my team in the "honour" devision, highest in my state, and for years it has been a battle between 2 teams for the n°1 spot. our team and the other team. we won the rankings one time in our first year, and have been second ever since. we did win the championship in between (where you play DKO against every single team) , but we never managed to win the ranking event since. the difference always was very small. last 3 year the difference was less then < 3 racks after over 300 racks played in that whole year. and the top5 teams are so close , every year its an insane battle. i love it

Last year, we had one match to play and the other team had finished there matches. i dont know exactly how many points we needed, but it was supposed to be a walk in the park. everybody was already congratulating us. now surprisingly our captain lost with a donut in 9ball (just one of those days where everything goes wrong), and my teammates who took all there matches to light, left some important points.

i had to play the final match. I had to win my match 6-5 and we would still be champion by the smallest difference with the other team = one rack won more.

The match (alternate break)started ok, i got a 4-1 lead but missed an easy seven that would have put me on the hill. no big deal 4-2 in front , and playing a not so greath player (D player and i'm a B+ player).
7th rack: i break empty and he gets an hanger 1-9 combo = 4-3 :o
8th rack : he breaks and flukes the 9 on the break = 4-4 :confused:
9th rack : i run the next rack = 5-4
10th rack: he breaks and runs his first 9ball rack of the year = 5-5 :angry: from there on i'm really starting to feel the heat. one rack to take it all.

11the rack: i break, make a ball, but very hard rack. (now for the story: in my team i'm the weakest link. i always feel like everything we won as a team, was mainly due to the other strong players, never really felt like i was there for something (even if i was, i usually play the weakest players, its not like a beat top players), so winning this rack , winning this match, winning the ranking would finally give me that sense of : hey , i made this team win, especially since our captain lost with a donut a hour ago , and i could be the one recovering the lost points.) this match was HUGE for my personal ego and for the title. I gave this rack my 200% , i don't think i've ever concentrated so hard on a rack.

I played one of my best pool to run the last racks. I opened 2 clusters, made some very hard 3 rail positions with tight margins, and i finish perfect on the 9ball. the 9 ball is 1 foot of the pocket, cueball one foot of the OB, all straight. this is a hanger. I took my time, didn't stand up on the shot, even today i still have no idea what happened (miscue? kick?) i don't remember, its all black at that moment, i didn't even touch the side of the pocket. i missed that ball by at least a ball wide.... I totally lost it after that. a guy woofed me after the shot, i started a fight, want total nuts and showed the worst sportsmanship ever. I'm embarrassed of how i conducted myself after that miss, especially since 2 of our teammates are under-aged , exactly opposite of what i try to teach them. take a loss like a man (woman).

i stopped playing pool for a half year after that, and i'm now slowly getting back into the ring. I learned more on that one shot then i did the whole year.
 
None

None of them haunt me. I have made some of the worst misses possible. I just move on from it. Once the shot is over you can't get it back and stressing over it does no good. I try to learn from it and not repeat the error.
 
None of them bother me in the slightest. In fact there is only one miss that I can even remember - and that was from over 30 years ago.

I had played a fair amount of 8 ball on a bar box, and thought that I was a fair player. Then I got to play on a 12' snooker table for the first time. It looked huge - far bigger than it had appeared on a TV screen. My first attempt to pocket a ball was from distance: The ob was probably about 11' away, but less than a foot from the pocket and a half-ball cut. I was so confident I didn't give it a second thought.

Not only did I fail to pocket the ball - I missed the ob completely! I couldn't believe it.

It was at that point that I realised that a bar box might not be a good teacher of fundamentals.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top