come on, tell us what the worst one was and under what circumstances.
the worst shot you've dogged
- Thread starter Egg McDogit
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evilmoody1
friends say i'm abrasive
ante up
Maybe you should ante up yourself first.
Maybe you should ante up yourself first.
Hill-hill against Catfish at the Golden Cue in Melbourne. Catfish is a STRONG player, so strong that he has to spot the 8 and the last two to everyone in the tourney. I am left with this:
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And I friggin jar it...I had beaten Bill Ferguson earlier in the day 3-0...if I would of made that ball I would of won that tourney perhaps. I could not get my cue comfortable on the corner of the side pocket due to the rubber and cloth meeting up. I ended up flubbing it and lost my chance at fame or glory...well...maybe just a good win
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OY!
Shorty
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And I friggin jar it...I had beaten Bill Ferguson earlier in the day 3-0...if I would of made that ball I would of won that tourney perhaps. I could not get my cue comfortable on the corner of the side pocket due to the rubber and cloth meeting up. I ended up flubbing it and lost my chance at fame or glory...well...maybe just a good win
.OY!
Shorty
Egg McDogit said:
I was playing a race to 7 in a local tournament. I started out horribly and before I knew it, he was on the hill and I had 1 game. Then something clicked and I started playing above my head, making few errors. I fought all the way back to hill-hill, ran the last rack to the 9...and you know the rest of the story.
evilmoody1 said:Maybe you should ante up yourself first.
hmm I think the worst one I dogged was an easy hill-hill 9 ball while gambling. It was almost straight in. I hit it right into the rail and laid it up right in front of the pocket
I saw this shot dogged hill/hill (on a bar box) by one of the best bar box players in the state of Az. (He came back and got 2nd or 3rd in the tournament though)
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A lot of jaws hit the floor after that shot...
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A lot of jaws hit the floor after that shot...
.....eightball, pot the black and the white goes of the table @ hotel comps....youve won the game then you lose the game but the worse 'shot', loosely was winning the toss in a final to see who breaks, letting the other guy break and he pots out.
evilmoody1
friends say i'm abrasive
my turn i guess
It was about 8 yrs ago & I still remember it very clearly.
APA team tourney, If I win my match we move on to next tourney, I had ball in hand on the 8 ball and I pulled my stroke up real short. ( I think I took the shot for granted) 8 ball went about 3 inches toward pocket, no rail. Other guy got ball in hand and ran out.
It was about 8 yrs ago & I still remember it very clearly.
APA team tourney, If I win my match we move on to next tourney, I had ball in hand on the 8 ball and I pulled my stroke up real short. ( I think I took the shot for granted) 8 ball went about 3 inches toward pocket, no rail. Other guy got ball in hand and ran out.
I have a couple that come to mind equally. First, I was giving the 8 back in 97. The set was a race to 9, for 800. If I make the straight in 8, I win 1600, if I dog it, I get nothing. I dog the shot (I had to reach a little but it was still straight) and she wins the set and quits.
Second story is I was down in a tournament 6-1 going to 7 against a very tough player, I needed to win the match to take over tour points, take over her position. I come back 6-6 and dog the nine that wasn't tough. I literally started to hyperventilate, and went outside. I am sure to this day I have not had such a strong reaction to missing a shot like I did there.
Second story is I was down in a tournament 6-1 going to 7 against a very tough player, I needed to win the match to take over tour points, take over her position. I come back 6-6 and dog the nine that wasn't tough. I literally started to hyperventilate, and went outside. I am sure to this day I have not had such a strong reaction to missing a shot like I did there.
Here is my nightmare...Perhaps by posting, it will quit haunting me...
It was the first (and only) time I have attended the BCA tournament in L.V. We were 4 first timers on the team and one veteran..
We were going into the last inning of our first match and our team needed only one win out of the next five games to advance. I was the first to play. I broke and got a good layout...I ran out to the 4-ball....I think everyone thought it was over.....until I decided to shoot it straight into the rail...
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It was the first (and only) time I have attended the BCA tournament in L.V. We were 4 first timers on the team and one veteran..
We were going into the last inning of our first match and our team needed only one win out of the next five games to advance. I was the first to play. I broke and got a good layout...I ran out to the 4-ball....I think everyone thought it was over.....until I decided to shoot it straight into the rail...
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How about this.
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Really funny, Nordic Champs back in the 90s. In the loser side, I was playing against an opponent I was the favourite to win. He played a match of his life (he admitted that later) and we were stuck at hill-hill 10-10 and he scratched from the break and left me this. I thought about it and thought to go for the 1-9 combo. Well, the shot was a little bit hard to reach and I wanted to place the cueball near the 1-ball of course. Well, I lined up and was reaching for the shot and was a little bit uncomfortable with the shot... and touched the cueball with my tip during my first warmup stroke. Duh ! Ball in hand for my opponent, he's also a tall guy and was able to reach for the combo (not comfortable but..) and made it for the win. It wasn't an easy combo, but I still gave away the match.
I was able to laugh over that shot after an hour or so. It was the worst "deed" I've done in a tournament match considering the situation.
An for sure the one to remember for my whole life.
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Really funny, Nordic Champs back in the 90s. In the loser side, I was playing against an opponent I was the favourite to win. He played a match of his life (he admitted that later) and we were stuck at hill-hill 10-10 and he scratched from the break and left me this. I thought about it and thought to go for the 1-9 combo. Well, the shot was a little bit hard to reach and I wanted to place the cueball near the 1-ball of course. Well, I lined up and was reaching for the shot and was a little bit uncomfortable with the shot... and touched the cueball with my tip during my first warmup stroke. Duh ! Ball in hand for my opponent, he's also a tall guy and was able to reach for the combo (not comfortable but..) and made it for the win. It wasn't an easy combo, but I still gave away the match.
I was able to laugh over that shot after an hour or so. It was the worst "deed" I've done in a tournament match considering the situation.
An for sure the one to remember for my whole life.
This one haunts me .... Till the day I die.
I had been playing a Midwest 9 ball tour event at SidePockets
here in Wichita. I usually try to pick up some side action if the
right game comes along. On Sunday, the last tournament day,
and things were slowing down, I got into a 9 ball game with a
guy from Kansas City, and a high school buddy of Kim Thompson
here. The guy was pretty humble about his playing ability, but
I knew he was better than what he had indicated, and I had
watch him some to judge for myself. We played $400 sets, race
to 10. He won the first set, and I won the 2nd. The 3rd set, he
was breaking and running several games, going through me like
melted butter. Before I knew it, it was 9-1 in his favor. He seemed
to have shifted gears, and I was going, "oh, woe is me". It got to
the point that the money was not the top concern, I had to save
some face, so I beared down all I could, I was very calculated,
thinking of every possibility on each shot and what might go wrong.
Slowly, I started winning a couple of games. Feeling a great deal of
pressure, I kept plugging away, only wanting the score to not be
so lopsided. Suddenly, I was 6 games. Toughing it out, I made it
to 7, then 8. My god, dare I hope to win this set? The 9th game
was a real tough one, but I did it. Here we were sitting 9-9, hill to hill,
and I was breaking. Damn, nothing on the break. The balls weren't
sitting too good, and he missed the 3 ball. The 4 was already gone,
and I shot the 3, oops, the 5 went too, leaving the cue ball in bad
position for the 6. If I just make the 6 ball, I am out.
At least 2,000 thoughts rattled through my head, I was stressed
because for the last 8 games, I had given it all that I had to give it.
The 6 was pretty close to side pocket, don't draw too much. Can't
use high right, because the cue could slide off the 6 into the corner
pocket. Use low right with quite a bit of spin to hold the cue where
it comes out just uptable from where the 8 is. You really have to
concentrate to be absolutely sure you make the 6, you can not miss.
This is what happened:
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I had so much spin on the cue, that is just slowly spinned off of the
long rail, and just kind of slid right up behind the 8 ball. I should have
been on the other side of the 8, but I wasn't. Did that cue ball just
do what I saw it do? Needless to say, after I kicked at the 7 and
missed, the other guy ran out, and became $800 richer. That shot
still haunts me... and will till I die.
I had been playing a Midwest 9 ball tour event at SidePockets
here in Wichita. I usually try to pick up some side action if the
right game comes along. On Sunday, the last tournament day,
and things were slowing down, I got into a 9 ball game with a
guy from Kansas City, and a high school buddy of Kim Thompson
here. The guy was pretty humble about his playing ability, but
I knew he was better than what he had indicated, and I had
watch him some to judge for myself. We played $400 sets, race
to 10. He won the first set, and I won the 2nd. The 3rd set, he
was breaking and running several games, going through me like
melted butter. Before I knew it, it was 9-1 in his favor. He seemed
to have shifted gears, and I was going, "oh, woe is me". It got to
the point that the money was not the top concern, I had to save
some face, so I beared down all I could, I was very calculated,
thinking of every possibility on each shot and what might go wrong.
Slowly, I started winning a couple of games. Feeling a great deal of
pressure, I kept plugging away, only wanting the score to not be
so lopsided. Suddenly, I was 6 games. Toughing it out, I made it
to 7, then 8. My god, dare I hope to win this set? The 9th game
was a real tough one, but I did it. Here we were sitting 9-9, hill to hill,
and I was breaking. Damn, nothing on the break. The balls weren't
sitting too good, and he missed the 3 ball. The 4 was already gone,
and I shot the 3, oops, the 5 went too, leaving the cue ball in bad
position for the 6. If I just make the 6 ball, I am out.
At least 2,000 thoughts rattled through my head, I was stressed
because for the last 8 games, I had given it all that I had to give it.
The 6 was pretty close to side pocket, don't draw too much. Can't
use high right, because the cue could slide off the 6 into the corner
pocket. Use low right with quite a bit of spin to hold the cue where
it comes out just uptable from where the 8 is. You really have to
concentrate to be absolutely sure you make the 6, you can not miss.
This is what happened:
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I had so much spin on the cue, that is just slowly spinned off of the
long rail, and just kind of slid right up behind the 8 ball. I should have
been on the other side of the 8, but I wasn't. Did that cue ball just
do what I saw it do? Needless to say, after I kicked at the 7 and
missed, the other guy ran out, and became $800 richer. That shot
still haunts me... and will till I die.
Shorty said:Hill-hill against Catfish at the Golden Cue in Melbourne. Catfish is a STRONG player, so strong that he has to spot the 8 and the last two to everyone in the tourney. I am left with this:
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And I friggin jar it...I had beaten Bill Ferguson earlier in the day 3-0...if I would of made that ball I would of won that tourney perhaps. I could not get my cue comfortable on the corner of the side pocket due to the rubber and cloth meeting up. I ended up flubbing it and lost my chance at fame or glory...well...maybe just a good win
OY!
Shorty
Shorty,
Help me out here. Periodically I see these sorts of things:
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...and I figure that if I had the right software on my machine, I could somehow see a pooltable with some sort of situation depicted. But, what is it that I would need to do this, and where would I go to get it? etc.?
Many thanks,
Cardinal2B
Snapshot9 said:
Auch, talking about making too smooth of a stroke in a tense situation ! Your shot somehow reminded me of this. I wouldn't say I dogged it but I made this jump shot at hill-hill after my opponent lucked this safety. Verrrry disturbing...
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Class A nightmare material, yes.
Cardinal2B said:
Copy everything including the words start and end into your clipboard, ie highlight them with the mouse then click Edit, Copy. Then go to http://www.onepocket.org/table/pooltable2.html and click the paste button when it loads...just click the OK's when it asks and...TAH DAH!
Shorty
It was the 1987 Atlanta reagonal USPPA, I was in the finals, I was on the hill and got a easy 5-9 combo to win the tournament, I missed it and never got back to the table. My opp. was Frank Bitterman He needed 2 games to win, but he got them, thanks to old dummy missing. Beatle.........Egg McDogit said:
Aha, another chance to tell the tale again! I've posted it before of course. In the hill-hill rack of the hill-hill match in our APA Gold Cup, I run the table and had a straight 8-ball in the side to win for my team, and get an all expenses paid trip to the APA National Team Championship. This was after a whole year to qualify and 24hrs of play that weekend. I make the shot but didn't mark the pocket. So we lost.
evilmoody1 said:It was about 8 yrs ago & I still remember it very clearly.
APA team tourney, If I win my match we move on to next tourney, I had ball in hand on the 8 ball and I pulled my stroke up real short. ( I think I took the shot for granted) 8 ball went about 3 inches toward pocket, no rail. Other guy got ball in hand and ran out.
I just saw the same thing happen at our National qualifier a couple weeks ago. Last game, last match with the trip on the line. The guy missed a tough 8 initially and the other player proceeded to run out, but scratched on his last shot before the 8. The other guy takes ball in hand, patches the pocket and proceeds to hit the 8 ball about 6 inches. Unfortunately, it was about 15 inches from the pocket.
Now I didn't know the guy, but I have to admit I felt sick for him. His teammates were great about it, but it still had to hurt.