The Unluckiest Roll Ever

[LastTwo]

So I played the weekly tournament again tonight, I was returning as the defending champion. I went thru the whole thing undefeated again, and in the finals I was spotting my opponent 2 games to 7 and he was shooting very well. He had me down 6-1 and I clawed back to make it double hill. In the final game I came up dry on the break and he made a great shot on the one, but hooked himself behind the 6-ball. He was so frustrated because he made a tough shot to get to the 2-ball, and if he had rolled an inch further he would have had a fairly easy 2-9 combo. He takes a minute to line up the kick, and he hits it picture-perfect, kicking off the rail sending the 2 into the 9 and making it. I was about to get up and shake his hand, but the cueball kept rolling, and suddenly this happened:

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The cueball drifted off 2 rails and barely dropped into the side pocket. I couldn't believe it, he hit that kick so good and he got rewarded with such an unlucky scratch, and at hill-hill!! I took ball in hand and ran out for the win. Before I got down to shoot the 9 I was actually contemplating missing it on purpose because I glanced over at the guy and he was just steaming, I knew he wanted to win so badly, and he had me down 6-1 before I came back. I needed the money so of course I made the 9, but I really have to say that scratching like that after making such a great shot at hill-hill is the worst roll I've ever seen. Oh well

 

[mjantti]

How about this one. My friend was playing at the Amsterdam (NL) Open last January and the score was tied at 6-6, race to 11 against Thomas Engert. He was terrible on the 2 and played position for the combination on the 3-9. 9 blocked a part of the pocket so he went for the long straight in combo and made the 9-ball with a stop shot... buuut 3-ball hit the short rail after contacting the 9, hit the cueball in the center of the table and cueball went to the far corner pocket (black arrow). I think he didn't see an open shot after that before trailing 10-6, when he scratched very unfortunately...

Here's the shot, the turning point of the match

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[DrCue'sProtege]

how can you say these are unlucky rolls??? somebody was responsible for hitting the cue ball, and there's a valid reason/explanation why these things happened. i can understand a bad roll or kick off of the break shot, but not in the middle of a rack.

i hate it when people whine and cry about getting a bad roll every so often. that stuff is part of the game, live with it, deal with it, accept it. bad rolls will make you a better player.

now, if you know of someone that has nothing but bad rolls/luck, etc, etc all the time, well, now thats a different story. . . . . . . . . . . .

DCP

 

[Black-Balled]

Well I cannot get the WEI to copy, so I will have to use words.
I am playing a guy $100 sessions to 7 and we are in a very uncrowded room. I get 4 sessions winner and the place has really filled up to where there are no open tables. There are some real gangstas next to us and they are pushing eachother and fake fighting and drinking beers. Everytime I say 'excuse me" or "mind if I squeeze in here", they look at me like I am in their way. I start feeling a bit uneasy about the whole situation.
I get to $300 winner and tell my opponent that the place is too crazy and I will play 1 session or pull up there, his choice. He says bet the $300, OK, bet. We get to 6-5, him, and be plays a carom( that I don't think could be made) on the 8-9. Leaves the 8 on the side rail, about 1st diamond and the 9 sits on the side of the side pocket, so I have to keep the cue on the bottom of the table (the 8 is also there). It is about a 93deg cut on the 8, or I canbank it 4-5 rails arount the table for a safe. I go for the cut w/ inside english and the ball hangs deep in the pocket. Now, here's the roll part- the cue comes 2 rails and, if the 8 didn't hang, would've scratched. Instead, the CB makes the 8, the 9 is a duck. 6-6. I break and run the last rack. $600 winner!
I think WEI would've been easier than all this typing. Thanks for reading!!

 

[BigLip]

Well I cannot get the WEI to copy, so I will have to use words.
I am playing a guy $100 sessions to 7 and we are in a very uncrowded room. I get 4 sessions winner and the place has really filled up to where there are no open tables. There are some real gangstas next to us and they are pushing eachother and fake fighting and drinking beers. Everytime I say 'excuse me" or "mind if I squeeze in here", they look at me like I am in their way. I start feeling a bit uneasy about the whole situation.
I get to $300 winner and tell my opponent that the place is too crazy and I will play 1 session or pull up there, his choice. He says bet the $300, OK, bet. We get to 6-5, him, and be plays a carom( that I don't think could be made) on the 8-9. Leaves the 8 on the side rail, about 1st diamond and the 9 sits on the side of the side pocket, so I have to keep the cue on the bottom of the table (the 8 is also there). It is about a 93deg cut on the 8, or I canbank it 4-5 rails arount the table for a safe. I go for the cut w/ inside english and the ball hangs deep in the pocket. Now, here's the roll part- the cue comes 2 rails and, if the 8 didn't hang, would've scratched. Instead, the CB makes the 8, the 9 is a duck. 6-6. I break and run the last rack. $600 winner!
I think WEI would've been easier than all this typing. Thanks for reading!!

i woulda felt bad but i think that was better explained w/o the wei!

 

[BigLip]

how can you say these are unlucky rolls??? somebody was responsible for hitting the cue ball, and there's a valid reason/explanation why these things happened. i can understand a bad roll or kick off of the break shot, but not in the middle of a rack.

i hate it when people whine and cry about getting a bad roll every so often. that stuff is part of the game, live with it, deal with it, accept it. bad rolls will make you a better player.

now, if you know of someone that has nothing but bad rolls/luck, etc, etc all the time, well, now thats a different story. . . . . . . . . . . .

DCP

they arent even talking about their own rolls man

 

[Black-Balled]

i woulda felt bad but i think that was better explained w/o the wei!

I didn't feel bad about the win, if'n thats what you mean. I've lost similarly too.
But the lack of WEI support, that kinda sucks

 

[Opie]

You guys ever play a set-deciding game where you break and the 1 and 9 roll together and stick in a corner pocket while the cue ball sticks to another object ball and you can't push, jump, or kick to make it? Talk about a bad roll. (Sorry, don't know how to use WEI either)

 

[LastTwo]

i hate it when people whine and cry about getting a bad roll every so often. that stuff is part of the game, live with it, deal with it, accept it. bad rolls will make you a better player.


DCP

You know whats even worse? Someone repeating the same thing millions of people have said time and time again, and they are just saying it for attention

There are things that happen in pool that are just out of a player's control, i.e. there is no way someone could have foreseen that, hence the term 'bad roll' is used.

And no, none of us were talking about bad rolls that happened to us. We are talking about something that happened to somebody else, genius.

 

[sjm]

Here's the worst thing that happened to me in competition. It happened in 1996 in the Chelsea weekly handicap event. I'm up 6 - 5 in a race to seven and have my opponent on two fouls and facing the tough kick diagrammed in the above table. If he makes a bad hit, the set is over, and I don't reckon he'll hit it. The approach he took is shown in the middle table below. He absolutely slammed it, and hit it so bad that the result he got is that shown in the bottom table, fluking the nine after "missing the kick." Of course, he followed it with a break and run and I lost the set! Nine years later it still stings.

 

[Cory in DC]

Here's the worst thing that happened to me in competition. It happened in 1996 in the Chelsea weekly handicap event. I'm up 6 - 5 in a race to seven and have my opponent on two fouls and facing the tough kick diagrammed in the above table. If he makes a bad hit, the set is over, and I don't reckon he'll hit it. The approach he took is shown in the middle table below. He absolutely slammed it, and hit it so bad that the result he got is that shown in the bottom table, fluking the nine after "missing the kick." Of course, he followed it with a break and run and I lost the set! Nine years later it still stings.

Maybe the five was actually blocking the straight 3 rail kick, so he realized that he had to play off the tip to get the hit?

Cory

 

[cubswin]

how can you say these are unlucky rolls??? somebody was responsible for hitting the cue ball, and there's a valid reason/explanation why these things happened. i can understand a bad roll or kick off of the break shot, but not in the middle of a rack.

i hate it when people whine and cry about getting a bad roll every so often. that stuff is part of the game, live with it, deal with it, accept it. bad rolls will make you a better player.

now, if you know of someone that has nothing but bad rolls/luck, etc, etc all the time, well, now thats a different story. . . . . . . . . . . .

DCP

from you I have to say this is the single funniest post I've seen on AZ, thanks for the laugh

 

[XzyluM]

Haha...you ain't lying. All he ever gets is bad luck or bad rolls...or so he says.

 

[wayne]

Here's the worst thing that happened to me in competition. It happened in 1996 in the Chelsea weekly handicap event. I'm up 6 - 5 in a race to seven and have my opponent on two fouls and facing the tough kick diagrammed in the above table. If he makes a bad hit, the set is over, and I don't reckon he'll hit it. The approach he took is shown in the middle table below. He absolutely slammed it, and hit it so bad that the result he got is that shown in the bottom table, fluking the nine after "missing the kick." Of course, he followed it with a break and run and I lost the set! Nine years later it still stings.

Man, that has to be the saddest thing I ever heard, 9 years later and it still hurts, LOL. I swear I don't remember a bad roll or a bad break after my next session, sometimes after my next game.

Tonight, I was playing in a tournament and we moved this chair that was in the way. My opponent runs a rack to the 8 and has an easy out and his cue grazes the chair and he misses and I win (someone had moved the chair back to where we had moved it from). We move the chair again and I break and run out to the 8 and have an easy out and I shoot and be danged if I don't graze the chair and miss (someone had put the chair back in the exact same spot again). We both had a good laugh since we basically came out even on being sharked by a chair.

Wayne