Weird things you have seen in pool ?

Colin Colenso

Colin Colenso

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The funny things you have seen in pool thread reminded me of some strange / weird stories that are worth sharing but don't fit into the funny category so much.

So to start the ball rolling....

In a league match a buddy of mine was breaking. This is English style pool on 7' tables and an underweight CB.

He made the biggest smash of a break I had ever seen and for a moment nobody new what had happened and dared not call foul because they didn't actually see a foul. However, I was on the same team, but had to declare that he had actually fouled, even though what he did was too fast for the human eye to see.

He had broken powerfully with a big follow through. The CB had jumped back from the pack at rapid speed and connected perfectly with his tip as he was following through, sending the CB back into the splitting back for a second powerful break.

There was no sound of miscue and it was so fast that the only way I could tell way because I noticed the path of the CB after the second hit and heard the pack smash sound twice in succession about 1/5 second apart.

He had actually felt the second hit but wasn't going to call it on himself as about 5 balls had gone into the pockets.

I'd never seen this before, I'd never even see a cue touch the CB on the follow through. It couldn't happen in the same way with a normal CB and larger tables, not in such an undetectable way anyway.
 
I think back when only Children played on coin tables..... A real game would be played on 9 ft.... Then I think about the price of cues.... I paid more for my cue than I did my 9 ft brunswick table.... gosh ... i think this fits under weird....
 
Common Collin, u can do better. I know u are the weirdest guy i've met on this forum :p u dissapointed me with this post :p now tell your TRUE weirdest story! i wont laugh i promise *crosses his fingers behind his back*

ps: gratz on the avatar :D
 
Solartje said:
Common Collin, u can do better. I know u are the weirdest guy i've met on this forum :p u dissapointed me with this post :p now tell your TRUE weirdest story! i wont laugh i promise *crosses his fingers behind his back*

ps: gratz on the avatar :D
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Well I can't recall any really interesting weird stories at the moment.

One that was a bit strange was playing in the semi-final of a tourney in a biker's bar and playing position for the 8-ball a big bug (about 1cm high)landed on the table and walked right where my CB was heading. My CB rolled up onto the bug's back and then rolled back about 6 inches leaving be a bank shot instead of perfect position. I missed the bank and lost...cursing that bug all the way home. :mad:
 
thats more like it :D i KNEW u where just keeping info back to make up for the weird last posts. :p
 
Sad but true

Alcoholic friend of mine has $2.50 on him and the owner of the bar, rich guy, wants to play him some $20, 9 ball. My friend asks me to borrow $20 and I give it to him. They flip a coin and my buddy wins the break. While the owner is racking the balls my buddy orders a drink with his case $2.50, takes a sip and sits it on a drink rail at the end of the table. He breaks the balls, at light speed and the cue ball jumps the table and crashes into his glass sitting on the drink rail. Glass and alcohol go everywhere. My buddy is a bouncer, real tough guy and yet he is on the verge of tears. Yea, you got it, the bar owner runs out on him too.
 
Not reall weird, but kind strange.....

I was playing in this old pool room with some pretty nasty tables. I played a shot down the side rail and the object ball turned quite a bit towards the center of the end rail as it got towards the bag, so i thought the the table just had a bad lean on it. Anyway i did a almost exact same shot from the opposite side rail and that turned towards the center of the end rail to!! it was like the slates were concaved! I haven't been back there since.
 
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Not reall weird, but kind strange.....

I was playing in this old pool room with some pretty nasty tables. I played a shot down the side rail and the object ball turned quite a bit towards the center of the end rail as it got towards the bag, so i thought the the table just had a bad lean on it. Anyway i did a almost exact same shot from the opposite side rail and that turned towards the center of the end rail to!! it was like the slates were concaved! I haven't been back there since.
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Yeah, that's sounds like bowl table. I've seen plenty of those. At some places we had to kick the skateboarders off the table before we could play :rolleyes: :p

I played at one place where someone had jumped on the table, cracking the slate leaving about a 1" ridge diagonally across on end of the table. They played comps on that table for weeks like that. Sure made for some interesting shots!
 
This happened to me in a critical game in a 9ball tournament not too long ago on an 8 footer. I thought I was out. The tables were lightning fast and I got a little straighter than I wanted to on the 8. I had just enough angle to 2 rail up to the 9. I used high left and ended up scratching in the side! The cueball never hit the 2nd rail! The start of the green arrow shows the path of the cueball after following through the 8.

I thought this was so weird because a. It was almost straight in. b. How could I not hit the 2nd rail; I wasn't force following?, and c. That is such an acute angle to scratch on! Just bizarre.

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This is another one I thought I had won. It's hill-hill. At the same venue, but different tournament, my opponent misses and leaves me a thin shot on the 8 which can easily scratch in the corner. I could have used a little low right to avoid the scratch, then bring it back down towards me, but because of the speed of the tables (super fast) I thought there might be a chance, given the thinness of the cut, to scratch back down in the upper right corner. I elected to draw it 2-3 rails so I could hit it firmer without the chance of scratching. See table. The problem is, the cueball hit the one totally dead place on the rail and died, then went wide. (Blue arrow). My cueball ended up at B. It was so amazing that with the speed on those tables I could not make it around 2 rails! I was so frustrated, I just tried to bank into pocket C, hoping the speed of the table would make it there or back down at D if I hit it bad. I sold out. :(

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I was playing in a weekly tournament at least 10 years ago and there was a vertically challenged B-player with a quite hard break. There was also a semi-alcoholic spectator with a beer in his hands sitting nearby the rack end of the table but still full cuelength away on a bar stool. I think he was half-sleep when this player was about to break. The break was really hard, but the cueball picked up air and after hitting the rack, it went up almost vertically at least a height of 10'-12' before landing smack in the middle of this poor guys head. The beerguy went unconscious and dropped flat on the floor and woke up maybe 10 seconds after the impact. He really didn't notice the break and the cueball and told us that he thought someone had hit him in the head with a shovel or something. All he got was a major bump on his head and the breaker bought him a new beer :)
 
Here's one that comes to mind

While in the Air Force I was in Biloxi, Ms for training. I played in most of the local bar tournies. In one such tourney I was playing in the finals against a local who had won the tournament several weeks in a row. He kinda told me/suggested to me that if he won that week he would be the overall champion for the year. I think it was race to two. At 1-1 he has a shot he can't reach. If he doesn't make the shot, I'm the favorite to get out from there. Since there is no bridge in the bar he asks if he can go to Kmart to get one. What can I say? He comes back about 20 minutes later, they wittle down a house cue put the bridge on, he makes the shot and wins. Sometimes its rough being the "out of towner". Ha Ha
 
My team was playing in a Vegas qualifier. My brother needed to make the 12 ball and draw back for the 8. The tangent line wasnt exactly on but the follow transferred to the 12 put it dead on...we think!!! The blue line is as far as the 12 ball went as it split in half!!! My brother still has the ball. Any way the opponent argued it was his shot since no ball was pocketed. To make a long story short they ended up replaying the rack.

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Before the smoking ban in Georgia, our pool hall was open to all ages. People would bring their very young children, and even babies, in at night when it was terribly smoky from all the cigarettes.

I once saw a couple set their (occupied) baby carrier in the corner and then leave to go shoot pool. They also had a toddler with them that they let run rampant. I saw the kid go up to his parents at one point, and the mother kinda kneeled so she was face to face with her son, and said "GO... AWAY..." like he was some dog.

I was so disgusted, but I wasn't allowed to say anything about it.
 
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Okay, the weirdest thing that ever happened to me was on a 9-ball break. The cue ball 2-hopped on the slate, then came down on top of the foot rail, where it proceeded to spin....and then come to a rest.

There I am with an otherwise nice break and the cue ball sits on top of the rail, which is, of course, a foul. The table is a local brand with flat-topped rails, unlike Gold Crowns, etc. All I could do was laugh and turn the ball over to my opponent.
 
Sweet Marissa said:
Before the smoking ban in Georgia, our pool hall was open to all ages. People would bring their very young children, and even babies, in at night when it was terribly smoky from all the cigarettes.

I once saw a couple set their (occupied) baby carrier in the corner and then leave to go shoot pool. They also had a toddler with them that they let run rampant. I saw the kid go up to his parents at one point, and the mother kinda kneeled so she was face to face with her son, and said "GO... AWAY..." like he was some dog.

I was so disgusted, but I wasn't allowed to say anything about it.
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last time my girlfriend did the same thing when i was playing, and kinda kneeled so she was face to face with my "son", but she didnt say go away.... :rolleyes: but guess thats not weird, but just being horny...
 
renard, for the record: i run out my rack first :rolleyes: talking about loving the game... ;)
 
I have a couple:

Playing league 8 ball, the player is on the hill and breaking. He tries the 8 ball break from the left side. He hit it well and the 8 went straight in the side. The wierd part is that his tip flew off and landed in front of the corner pocket. You guessed it... The cue ball comes off the rack, hits a couple balls and heads for the corner where it hits the tip and rolls away from a sure scratch.

Practicing 9 ball with a friend, he breaks (big hitter) and gets the cue ball in the air off the front of the one ball. It flys off the end of the table, hits a glass block window/ledge about 7' away and bounces back onto the table. Incredibly, he had a shot and ran out(after we quit laughing).
 
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Gentelman where I play use a Rubber Band to hold his Shaft to the Butt Section of his Cue, and when playing the Rubber Band stay on the Cue. Why no Cue Case. He is too cheap to buy one?
 
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