Unusual things won playing

Michael Andros

Michael Andros

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So... what is the most unusual thing you've won ( or know of someone else winning ) gambling on this silly game? For me, it was a large box of albums ( @ 100 or so... and some really good ones, at that ). And then, someone I know once won an entire rental truck full of potted plants ( just the plants, not the truck ) and another time, same guy, an entire car-trunk-full of frozen hams.

I'm guessing there's a few really good ones out there... pile on.
 
1940's Yankee's signed ball

I have a buddy that won a mid 50's Yankee ball, signed by the whole team with Mantle on the sweet spot. I think it was something like a 500$ set and the guy paid off with the ball.


(title is wrong, it was mid 50's)
 
ugotactionTX said:
I have a buddy that won a mid 50's Yankee ball, signed by the whole team with Mantle on the sweet spot. I think it was something like a 500$ set and the guy paid off with the ball.


(title is wrong, it was mid 50's)
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Coincidentally, I just posted to a thread yesterday, listing 5 or 6 players from the 61 Yanks, saying ( with those players, of course ) "Yankees win this year!"
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I won a second hand thrift/antique store called "Such a Deal" about 35 years ago. I put up $1,000, a lot of money at the time. The guy who owned it was a big talker and did not even know I played pool. I hated the way he treated his Japanese girl friend, like a slave, and I really wanted to beat him. We played a Race to Five, Eight Ball on a junky bar table in a joint he hung out in. The table gave him a small edge, but when I saw his stroke I knew I could beat him. He could make the shots but couldn't move the big cue ball that good, depending more on luck than skill. I won 5-2 and his girl friend left with me, never to return to him.

I rented a double garage and moved all the stuff in there. She and I ran a series of garage sales for the next couple of months on the weekends and sold almost everything. I still have one very old trunk in my bedroom all these years later. She wanted to move in with me and get married but I was coming off a divorce with two kids and just wasn't ready. Eventually she found a new guy and I lost her. Probably the best gal I ever had until I met my present wife.
 
jay helfert said:
I won a second hand thrift/antique store called "Such a Deal" about 35 years ago. I put up $1,000, a lot of money at the time. The guy who owned it was a big talker and did not even know I played pool. I hated the way he treated his Japanese girl friend, like a slave, and I really wanted to beat him. We played a Race to Five, Eight Ball on a junky bar table in a joint he hung out in. The table gave him a small edge, but when I saw his stroke I knew I could beat him. He could make the shots but couldn't move the big cue ball that good, depending more on luck than skill. I won 5-2 and his girl friend left with me, never to return to him.

I rented a double garage and moved all the stuff in there. She and I ran a series of garage sales for the next couple of months on the weekends and sold almost everything. I still have one very old trunk in my bedroom all these years later. She wanted to move in with me and get married but I was coming off a divorce with two kids and just wasn't ready. Eventually she found a new guy and I lost her. Probably the best gal I ever had until I met my present wife.
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Great story, Jay. Infinitely more value on her than anything he possibly could've had in stock. And the best part, to me, anyway, is she left with you 'cause she wanted to. The best things in life can't be won. :yes:
 
I didn't do it but yrs ago in OC Md I was playing next to 2 guys playing 6 ball the one guys busted on the way out the guy says hey what size are those shoes looked like alligator sandals forgot size but the guy says I'll go 50 on the shoes , the guy walked out barefoot lol


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jay helfert said:
I won a second hand thrift/antique store called "Such a Deal" about 35 years ago. I put up $1,000, a lot of money at the time. The guy who owned it was a big talker and did not even know I played pool. I hated the way he treated his Japanese girl friend, like a slave, and I really wanted to beat him. We played a Race to Five, Eight Ball on a junky bar table in a joint he hung out in. The table gave him a small edge, but when I saw his stroke I knew I could beat him. He could make the shots but couldn't move the big cue ball that good, depending more on luck than skill. I won 5-2 and his girl friend left with me, never to return to him.

I rented a double garage and moved all the stuff in there. She and I ran a series of garage sales for the next couple of months on the weekends and sold almost everything. I still have one very old trunk in my bedroom all these years later. She wanted to move in with me and get married but I was coming off a divorce with two kids and just wasn't ready. Eventually she found a new guy and I lost her. Probably the best gal I ever had until I met my present wife.
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I won a set of mini screw drivers in a tournament. The entry fee was too low to pay out much cash. Some local stores donate gifts for the advertising. I won the screw drivers.
 
Michael Andros said:
So... what is the most unusual thing you've won ( or know of someone else winning ) gambling on this silly game? For me, it was a large box of albums ( @ 100 or so... and some really good ones, at that ). And then, someone I know once won an entire rental truck full of potted plants ( just the plants, not the truck ) and another time, same guy, an entire car-trunk-full of frozen hams.

I'm guessing there's a few really good ones out there... pile on.
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I won a roof painting business, truck and all the equipment. Because the guy was a sick gambler I decided to sell it all back to him for like 25 cents on the dollar. Its not like I was really gambling he had no chance.
 
When I was 16 I was in Boulder, CO, and I won $100 from a guy. He told me he'd get me the money but to hang tight, until he could put it together he gave me an ounce of pot to hold on to. I was squeaky clean and am not sure I'd even seen it before, I felt like he gave me a live snake. I was extremely uncomfortable!

Funny how memory works, I don't remember the outcome. I have a hunch I got paid later and nothing went off the rails. I just remember how weird that was for me.

Good ol' pool.
 
middleofnowhere said:
I won a roof painting business, truck and all the equipment. Because the guy was a sick gambler I decided to sell it all back to him for like 25 cents on the dollar. Its not like I was really gambling he had no chance.
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Many moons ago, I was in Tampa, @ 150 or so up on this guy, playing 9 ball by the game. Suddenly his wife walks in with a baby and a 2 or 3 yr old. She was really pi**ed off and crying saying their electricity had just been turned off. I caught this for @ 2 minutes, broke my cue apart, told the guy "I'm done." and before he can say "You can't quit me winner!" I handed the 150 to his wife. Probably shouldn't have, but I did. Then I left. Never heard anything more about it.
 
Well, what I won was not unusual, but the method was a bit rare.
...guy had a snooker cue made by Ray Schuler..not too many made in the 80s.
...we couldn’t come to an agreement on the price so I said I would gamble for it.

I put a ball on the black spot on a 6x12..and the cue ball in the D....
...asked him what his chances were of making both balls hit the balkline rail....
...200 times....he said it would take too much time...
....I said “But I’m putting up $27,000 and my truck against the cue...
...that got his attention

He was a very good snooker player, but a little bit malakas.
What he forgot to calculate was that he had the attention span of a house fly.

Soooo, he does the first 15 shots perfect, both balls are coming off the end rail and back
past the side pockets....I rolled the cue ball back to him and spotted the object ball...
...he looks up from the cue and said “By the way, where did you park my truck?”...
...and then hit the ball so thick that whitey barely got off the first rail....:rotflmao:

Only played with the cue for a couple days...didn’t suit me
 
have a couple

Years ago I had a Triumph Bonneville that I had painted all black, it was
was really cool.There was this custom bike painter and pinstriper that
had a shop on Main St. in Dallas. I had stopped in and discussed getting
my bike pinstriped a few times but the cost was too much for me.Well
late one night I arrive at the office (Time Square Pool Room ) and guess who
is on a table hitting balls, Mr. Fink the pinstriper. I strike up a conversation
and in no time I lay him two to one on the money 5 ahead for the pinstripe
job.Now he could play a little, not totally helpless. Anyway, I cracked him
out in quick order and he did a great job on my bike.
Another one, and this kind of made me feel bad,but he wouldn't shut up.
We were having all of carpets cleaned and stain guarded. When the
guy comes in to do it the first thing he sees is my 9' Gold Crown as I had
it in the formal dinning room at the front of the house.Well he is a pool
hustler, paid his way through school, road partner with Wimpy, blah,blah.
All the while he's hitting balls while his partner is getting the equipment, one
working.The whole time they are cleaning the carpets he is telling me one
goofy pool story after another I'm going nuts. While his partner is writing up
the invoice he is still talking. I tell him I will play him double or nothing for the
job, 5 ahead. I just came into some money and they did such a splendid job.
Bam Bam I whack him out and he doesn't know whether to s---or go blind.
What am I go tell the boss, oh no, his partner tells him I don't give a shit what
you tell the boss I want my part. My wife comes in as they are leaving and I
run it down to her,and naturally I'm the bad guy. That's a terrible thing to do.
I just don't understand how women think.
jack
 
Michael Andros said:
Many moons ago, I was in Tampa, @ 150 or so up on this guy, playing 9 ball by the game. Suddenly his wife walks in with a baby and a 2 or 3 yr old. She was really pi**ed off and crying saying their electricity had just been turned off. I caught this for @ 2 minutes, broke my cue apart, told the guy "I'm done." and before he can say "You can't quit me winner!" I handed the 150 to his wife. Probably shouldn't have, but I did. Then I left. Never heard anything more about it.
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Very similar thing happened in my first poolroom in Bakersfield. Some guy comes in looking for a game and we end up playing $5 9-Ball. I beat him out of all his money (like $60) and his wife walks in with a baby. He tells her what just happened and she starts crying, saying they have no money now to buy food. I felt bad and gave him back his money.

Come to find out later that it was just a move. He had done it elsewhere before. The guy who told me laughed at me for being a sucker. I told him that I was glad it wasn't true and that they really weren't starving.
 
jay helfert said:
Very similar thing happened in my first poolroom in Bakersfield. Some guy comes in looking for a game and we end up playing $5 9-Ball. I beat him out of all his money (like $60) and his wife walks in with a baby. He tells her what just happened and she starts crying, saying they have no money now to buy food. I felt bad and gave him back his money.

Come to find out later that it was just a move. He had done it elsewhere before. The guy who told me laughed at me for being a sucker. I told him that I was glad it wasn't true and that they really weren't starving.
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It occurred to me as it was happening it could've been a curveball but I just said to myself I wasn't gonna keep the cash if it was real and, being fairly intuitive, I really did feel it was on the natch... plus, the guy was pretty much a regular around the rooms in Tampa and I'd played him a few times before ( never seen the wife n kids act though ) and I never heard anything about him pulling that before and never heard anything after either, though I never played him again. Nothing like that had ever happened to me before or after. I felt really bad for the girl... she was really upset.
 
Some odd ones that I can recall:

1). I beat a stranger for 50, but he said he didn't have any money, however he said he had a set of pocket knives in his car. My friends couldn't believe I accompanied him to his car. Back in I came with a box of knives, lol

2). In college they had a 5 dollar entry fee tournament and the winner gets a brand new groovy 3 foot glass bong. There were a lot of stoners in the tournament but no real shooters, so it wasn't much of a contest. My roommates got a kick out of that "trophy" that was put to good use, lol

3). I was at a strip club and there was a dancer playing a game on the lone table. She didn't play half-bad. She had all the right curves and was looking for a lap dance from her so propped her instead of a 20 dollar lap dance, I would play her a game of 8 ball. I lose and I pay 50 for a lap dance, I win and I get a free lap dance. She agreed and almost won ;). I didn't feel bad until I found out she has to pay the DJ $12 for each lap dance, so she had to pay to give me a lap dance. It was the best dance I've ever had too, so I ended up just throwing her a 20 out of guilt, lol.
 
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