Splinterhands
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Since my $1 a game nine ball action didn't interest too many people, I have a question. What is the most you've played for? This can be per set or per game. Mine is $50 per set.
The most Action?
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I play with my friends all the time, but we are stupid in the sense that we play on credit (but we always pay each other up). But because its on credit system, we do it a lot. In a night, up to $2000 US change hands, with one game (not set) worth about $200US
As for most biggest game, that was about $2000 US for a set - and seriously, i cant play
As for most biggest game, that was about $2000 US for a set - and seriously, i cant play
i'll_bust_you
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Actually there's someone who posts on this forum regularly with the initials FB who I would say has played for a lot more than Keith...
gregory said:
Actually there's someone who posts on this forum regularly with the initials FB who I would say has played for a lot more than Keith...
OldHasBeen
Tom Ferry
I Have bet the Highest of all........
I once bet "ALL I HAD"!
TY & GL
Splinterhands said:
I once bet "ALL I HAD"!
TY & GL
Splinterhands said:
Now, I'll play ANYONE just to play, and will gamble if we can get the match right, but I had a guy in my pool room woofing at me pretty hard one night, so I call him on it and told him to post up and we'd play a set for $100. First he says "i've got the money, don't worry about it", so I tell him, OK, then just give it to the girl behind the booth and we'd play. He said he wanted to start "easy" and proposed that we play for a buck a rack, and I just told him that if he wanted a dollar, I'd pay him a dollar a rack just to rack while I practiced. He didn't think it was funny. Everyone else did. I sure wasn't trying to high roll him with a damn c-note, but hell, if you're going to woof at the room owner, then get ready to stand up... Fricking nit... Haven't seen him since. Like I said, if someone just wants to play pool, then I'm game, I don't have to gamble to play, but I'm not going to play for a damn dollar a rack, PERIOD!
Standard around here to start out is $50 a short set (r-3 or r-5). The most I've played for is r-17 9-ball for a dime... we won't discuss the outcome... That was 20 years ago when I you could get a good match at a local pool room.
Since I started back playing in 2002, I haven't played for near that. $200 a set is the most I've done since then. That guy just had more dollars than he had sense... couldn't hit the end rail and wouldn't take a spot. About halfway through the set I offered him the breaks and last two, because he was getting his brains beat out (I'm not "great" but this guy couldn't play even with my girlfriend, and she can't run 3 balls) and he said spots were for wimps... Wish I knew where a room full of guys with that attitude were!!! He watched too much C.O.M., I guess. Twirling his stick, dancing around the table, woofing while I was shooting (didn't bother me, I just kept on playing). He was travelling through and I guess he just hated his money!!!
Only one guy around here will play for more than $100 a set and he's my travelling buddy and good friend. We don't gamble with each other.
Later,
Bob
I am guaranteeing that there are some players on here that have bet it up.
The most I have ever played for was $800 on one game of snooker. I was young and not used to playing for bigger money at all. I nearly crapped myself on the first couple shots of the game. Then I settled in and beat the guy.
Most per set of nine ball was $500 for a 7 ahead.
$100 a game one-pocket.
Nothing really big.
Most I ever won in a single night was 3200. It all started with
$2 a rack 8-ball if you can imagine that.
The most I have ever played for was $800 on one game of snooker. I was young and not used to playing for bigger money at all. I nearly crapped myself on the first couple shots of the game. Then I settled in and beat the guy.
Most per set of nine ball was $500 for a 7 ahead.
$100 a game one-pocket.
Nothing really big.
Most I ever won in a single night was 3200. It all started with
$2 a rack 8-ball if you can imagine that.
Betting a LOT
I hope you don't mind if I make a little revision to your question....I would like to know what is the highest amount anyone has seen or heard anyone bet on pool? I myself watched Tony Annigoni win 5K in a nine-ball game (ten ahead) in about 45 minutes after a Reno tournament one year...Also I watched Keith play Bucktooth once for 500 a rack of nine-ball and I think Keith was spotting him the 5-ball....I also heard Earl beat Morro Paez out of 20K in Las Vegas way back when (spotting Morro the 8-ball)
I hope you don't mind if I make a little revision to your question....I would like to know what is the highest amount anyone has seen or heard anyone bet on pool? I myself watched Tony Annigoni win 5K in a nine-ball game (ten ahead) in about 45 minutes after a Reno tournament one year...Also I watched Keith play Bucktooth once for 500 a rack of nine-ball and I think Keith was spotting him the 5-ball....I also heard Earl beat Morro Paez out of 20K in Las Vegas way back when (spotting Morro the 8-ball)
This story should maybe be in the gambling story thread but the $ part of it is what's important. A guy comes in to the pool hall I worked at occasionally and I end up playing his "little brother". Seems like easy money. I end up losing every nickle I have. Every nickle my buddy the counter guy has. And I'm down to the last few bucks in the register! We've been playing on a bar table for hours. We started out on the big table but he immediately wanted to switch to the bar table. I decided to quit him stuck just about all the money in the room. I ask him if he'll switch back to the big table and because he was beating me to death on the barbox, he say OK. With 2 barrels left, I procede to win all of my, the counter guys and the register money back. I assume the guy will want to go back to the bar table. He soesn't and goes completely off. I end up making one of my bigger scores. Turns out this was a prelude of how this kid gambles. BTW I would not want any part of this guy now! Just because he's a bad gambler doesn't mean he can't play.Moral of the story is that I should have been smart enough to see much earlier in the night that I couln't win on the bar table and that I was the go-off until I wisened up and switched to the big table.
I once heard of a guy going to the bathroom and pissing away $17,000.
wahcheck said:
I'd rather not name names, but those who regularly frequented the Golden Q in Elmhurst, NY in the early 1980's will already know this story.
A fairly well-off Chinese fellow who owned a nice little restaurant in Chinatown gambled for about thirteen hours against one of the regular action players there in what I seem to recall was 1982. It started out for 1,000 a set, but the stakes got higher and higher, and before long the game was race to seven 9-ball for 10,000 a set. By sunrise, the Chinese fellow was stuck over 60,000 and was nearly out of money. He wasn't giving up yet, however, and asked for a double or nothing game. Not too surprisingly, his opponent protested that he had nothing left to bet with. The Chinese fellow said "How about if I put up my restaurant in Chinatown?" Sure enough, the wager was accepted, and sure enough the fellow lost his restaurant! It was quite painful to watch. By the end of the night, the fellow had lost 60,000 and a restaurant worth the same.
In short, the highest stake I've ever seen played for is "one Chinese restaurant".
GeraldG said:
When i lived in NYC i play some guy .14.1 race to 100 for 200.00 He beat me .so we played one more time .I talked him to give me 25 race to 100 for 400.00 he took it .i beat him 100 to 50 ..He never saw it coming .. .the most i ever played in life .With my own money ..
Splinterhands said:
I'm good for $5, $10 and $20. I once played 14.1 for $250 a game. I would not give the guy a spot because it was for $250.
I have a friend of mine that played for $25,000 a game years ago. I do not think this kind of action is as popular anymore.
O
onepocketchump
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OldHasBeen said:
So have I, more than I want to remember. Once it was my car and my last $30, 80 miles from home, giving up 3 on the wire to 6. Down 5 to 1, I won the set.
But for those who want more $ I once played for $2500 a set and lost two sets. Other times I played for $600 a game and was up $5400 before breaking even.
John
Most I've played for was $2K on one match.
In my younger days (when I had more money than sense), I challenged a guy to a "golf" game (least amount of strokes per rack).
Race to 3 of "French pool"
[okay... okay... "French Pool"... 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10 ball are set at the mouth of each pocket. {1-9 is set up like a 9-ball rack in the center of the table. Head and Foot balls are set on center lines, center outside balls are set on center pocket lines.}
Object of the game, pocket outside "lipped" balls before attacking rack with the opponent calling what "lipped" balls shoot. I.E. 15-10 have to be pocketed before attacking the 9ball rack]
Was a close game, I lost, by one stoke.
Payed up, and just sat and watched. Best money I ever spent.
Edit (once one approches the 9 ball rack, you only have 9 stokes (including the break shot) to pocket the 9 balls)
Best I've been privy to, has been 7 strokes.
Personal best has been 8 strokes.
In my younger days (when I had more money than sense), I challenged a guy to a "golf" game (least amount of strokes per rack).
Race to 3 of "French pool"
[okay... okay... "French Pool"... 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10 ball are set at the mouth of each pocket. {1-9 is set up like a 9-ball rack in the center of the table. Head and Foot balls are set on center lines, center outside balls are set on center pocket lines.}
Object of the game, pocket outside "lipped" balls before attacking rack with the opponent calling what "lipped" balls shoot. I.E. 15-10 have to be pocketed before attacking the 9ball rack]
Was a close game, I lost, by one stoke.
Payed up, and just sat and watched. Best money I ever spent.
Edit (once one approches the 9 ball rack, you only have 9 stokes (including the break shot) to pocket the 9 balls)
Best I've been privy to, has been 7 strokes.
Personal best has been 8 strokes.
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