Way to get more time at the pool hall

mel_smOg

mel_smOg

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My ex never really liked me playing a lot of pool that's why she is my ex :grin-square:

So I told to my new girlfriend right away that I will be playing lots of pool and snooker ahah

this weekend we went to exhibition and along with bunch of stuff there I found a pool table and pretty cool prizes for my gf, she said she wanted a big bear (5$ to get in and chance to win small toy or 10$ for a chance to win huge one)

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You have to break the balls (dont have to make one on the break) and then pot them without missing or scratching, not in order, bar table with really tight pockets, aweful balls of different sizes and garbage pool cue which did not slide lol
so I ran it and won this

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was pretty proud of myself, and my girlfriend told me that I can play even more haha

bear is extremelly huge, and she is still super happy about it
 
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They had this game on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Md.....I took a girl there and played it after 3 games and 3 new stuffed animals the guy made me leave! lol The trick is to soft break ; )
 
so you just run 4 balls......The average banger probalby cant do that, on that table

cute bear
cute GF
good story!
 
It was 3 balls the last time I played at a fair, and the table, cloth, balls, pockets, cues... Well, Everything made it a challenge. I was successful, but I saw some pretty good players I knew dump a lot of money to that game!

I don't care what anyone says, that's an accomplishment! Good job!
 
Nice lots of times those tables are made so tough it damn near impossible..


Reminds me of 1996 at the Iowa State Fair... Myself and two buddies struck out for some R&R going crosscountry stopping anywhere and everywhere.

One of us was a A+ to AA player.. we were B and C...

We find the pool game and we think our Buddy will rob it but we laid down a couple times hoping the carnie guy would bet. He doesnt bet so my buddy says he is just going to win and be done with it.

Well the champ couldnt win so my buddy the C(at best) player jumps up and says he will try and runs out no problem!

we laugh so I get up there and run out no problem.. we had 2 other friends with us that we were visiting and they ragged the champ to beat it.

I think he quit after about 10 more tries... but not before woofing at the carnie guy something fierce...
We died laughing but I am sure everyone around thought he was an ass...

A locak guy there asked how he played and said he played APA.. he named off some people he played even with and he busted out laughing.. my buddy went nuts and started woofing at him too!
Good part is the guy ended up telling us about a bar there in Des Moines and we went there and got action. We brought in one of the stuffed animals and told the bartenders and people that it was a 100 stuffed animal from the pool game at the fair...
they all laughed but we got action....

At the end of the night one of the guys said he never seen a hustle with people coming in drinking and having the pool game at the fair story and having the stuffed animal...
We told him it was the truth ... not sure he ever believed us;)
 
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Nice lots of times those tables are made so tough it damn near impossible..


Reminds me of 1996 at the Iowa State Fair... Myself and two buddies struck out for some R&R going crosscountry stopping anywhere and everywhere.

One of us was a A+ to AA player.. we were B and C...

We find the pool game and we think our Buddy will rob it but we laid down a couple times hoping the carnie guy would bet. He doesnt bet so my buddy says he is just going to win and be done with it.

Well the champ couldnt win so my buddy the C(at best) player jumps up and says he will try and runs out no problem!

we laugh so I get up there and run out no problem.. we had 2 other friends with us that we were visiting and they ragged the champ to beat it.

I think he quit after about 10 more tries... but not before woofing at the carnie guy something fierce...
We died laughing but I am sure everyone around thought he was an ass...

A locak guy there asked how he played and said he played APA.. he named off some people he played even with and he busted out laughing.. my buddy went nuts and started woofing at him too!
Good part is the guy ended up telling us about a bar there in Des Moines and we went there and got action. We brought in one of the stuffed animals and told the bartenders and people that it was a 100 stuffed animal from the pool game at the fair...
they all laughed but we got action....

At the end of the night one of the guys said he never seen a hustle with people coming in drinking and having the pool game at the fair story and having the stuffed animal...
We told him it was the truth ... not sure he ever believed us;)
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The ol Stuffed Animal Hustle...
 
Lol! Great story SMOG!

I've found that when I split any winnings from pool with my wife she is suddenly okay with me playing. In fact, the last time I was in action she came and watched and was standing there with her hand out as the guy payed me.
I teased the guy and said that if he wants to play again that he has to double the bet to keep momma happy!
 
that's how it's done ^^ When I played this you had to make one on the break. I had no idea how to do that so I just hit hard and something went in after 4 rails. I managed not to choke even though I wasn't able to get an inch of draw with that equipment. I think I was more pleased than she was.
 
i did it one time in Cali for an X' huge tweety bird one' cost me 20.00 @ 5 a pop. Fun times. Knotts berry or magic mountain Cant remember, 1994 or so

Just fired the balls, through the roll of the table, all center ball.

There was a complete stranger standing there, trying to win his girl one, it took him about 40.00. After he won, he looked at me and asked if i wanted to trade, i said "the stuffed animals? He said, No the girlfriends" Gotta love Cali!

Gratz on winning that for her, my gal at the time sure loved carrying it around, for bout' 5 mins. :grin:
 
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Ypu're a big winner if you don't make a ball, Mel...
....your old lady is a knockout.
 
I was with my wife and our son at the county fair. They wanted to go down the big slide. Right across the way was the pool game - run 4 balls. My wife didn't fully know about this part of my misspent youth. I said, "Which stuffed animal do you want?" She says, "The big Bulldog." I said, "It will be here when you get to the bottom", and she says, "Yeah, right."

When they get off the slide I'm standing there with the bulldog in my arms. She didn't believe me and insisted I bought it off the guy. :grin-square: As mentioned, the key is to soft break to keep the balls at one end and just hard enough to separate them without bouncing off cushions and coming back together to cluster.

Many years before this I was in Vegas with a girlfriend and her little daughter. We were on the arcade mezzanine at Circus Circus where the carny games were. We're walking around and we get to this one game and the little girl stops and says, "Try this one!" I said "OK honey, I'll try my best but that this game is really hard and you can tell because all the prizes are big ones" - life size Bugs Bunnies and Sylvesters.

It was tossing softballs into a milk jug, 3 tries and two must go in. So I give the nice young girl working the game my money and she hands me the balls, I throw the first one - swish - right in! I think to myself, "OK, that was a fluke." Toss the second one and again, right in!

At this point I can't believe there was anyway I could have won so I start reading the rules on the wall again. Then I said the girl behind the counter, "Did I just win? What happens now?" She looks at me and says, "I don't know. I've never seen anyone win before." She looked like she was afraid that her supervisor wouldn't believe the story about why one of the prizes was missing at the end of her shift, but she tentatively hands me a Bugs and I turn it over to the smiling face of my girlfriend's daughter. I felt so guilty I offered to give her more money and try again and she says, "You can't play again if you win. If I let you I'll get fired." LMAO!

So that's my story of the time I got banned from a Las Vegas casino. Well, not the casino itself, just their softball toss game. :embarrassed2:
 
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thanks guys, honestly it was not as easy as I thought it would be, broke it fairly soft but 2 balls ended up on the top rail and 2 on the bottom. pockets were really small- good thing I play snooker!!

She loved the amount of attention she got from people in there and on the streetcar/subway
 
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