What is the best match you ever played?

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Ok... Funny but not so, my best match - I didn't win.

I was playing in a tournament in Wilminton, NC against Wade Crane. It was a race to 7 and the final score 7-6, his win. I held my own throughout the entire match and when I look back, I didn't make many mistakes. He was better at hitting my leaves and getting a better safe in the end. Still, I think this was a great match.... When I shook his hand and said nice match, I meant it!;)






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I traveled from Albuquerque, NM to Oklahoma City to play in a tournament a few years back... I was playing way over my head that weekend and won my first two rounds pretty easily. In the third round I got a top gun from the area. (dont remember his name but he went in the top 3 in he players auction) Anyway, its race to 7 and I win the toss... I then break and run 6! Come up dry on break 7 but don't leave a shot. My opponent pushes, but leaves me a shot and I run out. 7-0.

I missed ball in hand in the first game of the next match. Back to normal. Dammit!
 
My best match to date was about a year ago. I was playing a local guy who like to gamble. We were playing 5 ahead 9-ball and the stakes were really high for me....a whole 50 bucks. I was getting one game on the wire and the breaks because I suck lol. Anyway I happen to catch a gear and had him down 3-2 not counting the spot. He started giving me crap about 'hustling" him so I gave him back the one game. I ended up winning 7-2 and not because I ran out. I fouled him out 2 racks in a row and this guy knows howto get a hit. I was on top of the world when he came up and told me that was the first time in 20 years he had been fouled out. Everyone around here still talks about it.
 
I've two favorite sets played in tournament conditions.

The first was a race to 3, 9B. I travelled to the tourney with a buddy and we got plucked for the first match! He won the flip, dry broke, I rode the 1-9. Naturally, I snapped the 9. Finally, I broke and shot the 2-9. The match was over in about 2 minutes...we spent more time racking than playing. When I walked up to the TD to tell him, he couldn't believe a match had ended already. Not a great feat of skill, but hilarious when you do it to your travelling partner.

The second favortie was a recent race to 5, alt break, 8B...against the best player in the tourney...
Rack 1: He dry breaks, I run out
Rack 2: I B&R
Rack 3: He dry breaks, I run out
Rack 4: I B&R
Rack 5: He safety breaks, I play it like straight pool & run out anyway
 
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A long time ago in Dayton, Ohio. Joe Burns was having his big All Around event and I entered all three divisions. I won a couple of easy 9-Ball matches and then I had Dan Louie next. He had won the college championship a couple of years before and was considered one of the young stars of pool. I was in dead stroke and laid a bomb on him, beating him 11-6. I just kept him off the table most of the match.

Jersey Red sweated the match, and he was my next opponent. He congratulated me afterwards and told me he might as well not show up for our match. He said he wasn't feeling good or playing that good either. I fell for that line of BS and showed up the next day over confident. Red buried me 11-7, and it was then I realized I had been had! :smile:
 
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I posted a thread about this match here http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=83045&highlight=staubs

This weekend I went down to Charleston, SC for the Great Southern Billiards Tour hosted by Shannon & Marge. It was my first time playing in one of their events and I must say they do a great job.

I posted my best finish in a regional event by coming in 5th-6th place. Just in the money. I should have at least came in 4th place but I just ran out of gas I guess in my final match that I lost 9 to 7 which I had a chance to go up 8-7 but I dogged a long 9. It was tough because I had to play 4 matches back to back without getting a break.

Anyways, like the thread title indicated... I had the match of my life in this tournament. I had just lost a tough match on the winner's side to Biff Bowden 9-7, who also finished 5-6th, and I had to play immediately against one of the best players in the Carolinas, Mike Staubs.

I started out by breaking and running the first rack and then also winning the next, but I started to stumble by making a few careless mistakes which Mike took advantage of. He started running out, like Mike does, and began to run right through me by having 8-2 lead over me needing only 1 more win for the match with me needing 7. I got a few opportunities at the table but I was shooting straight up in the air due in part to seeing my opponent running over me. One thing I caught myself doing was being real negative and being mad at myself for looking like an idiot in front of a large crowd that was watching the match. I recomposed myself and just started taking it 1 game at a time.

I don't know the specifics of the rest of the match because when I am totally focused the games just feel like yesterday's dream... But I ended up coming back and tying the match 8-8 on the hill. I then wiped down my stick, took a few deep breaths, and then broke... I hit the break really nice but the cue ball heartbreakingly got kicked into the corner pocket and the table was wide open. Mike had a somewhat tricky position to get on the 2 and ended up hooking himself leaving a long jump shot which he drilled. He then played me safe on the 4 but left an edge that I could see. I tried thinning the 4 and leaving the cue ball up table but I hit it a little too thickly and left him a long 4 in the corner, which he made, but then hooked himself on the 5. He kicked at the 5 but left me a shot on it, which I ran out for the improbable comeback victory.

I've never came back from such a huge deficit before... especially against such a strong player that is favored so heavily against me. Definitely a match that I'll always remember.
 
I can think of (2), forgot the details, but one I took a 2nd, and the other was a 3rd. Both were in 2008.
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
I can think of (2), forgot the details, but one I took a 2nd, and the other was a 3rd. Both were in 2008.
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How could you be expected to remember something that had been so long ago. :grin:
 
Here's one other good one I remember. Billy Ray came in my poolroom in Bakersfield looking for action, and naturally I gave him some. We played a race to eleven for $200 (this was 1974 or 75). He had me 9-2 and was getting cocky as hell. Somehow, someway, I came back and beat him 11-10. I distinctly remember the long cut shot I had to make on the final nine ball. By then I KNEW I was going to make it, and I did!

He was so pissed he broke his cue. True story that won't be in my book.
 
Best match I ever played was in the world 9 ball championship against Jay Helfert race to 11 . Jay flipped the coin and I won the flip then went on to run 11 racks in a row . Just then my phone rings and wakes me up :eek:
Damn it was just a dream :( :sorry:

I went back to sleep and had a dream that I was eating the worlds largest marshmallow and when I woke up half my pillow was gone :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
iowa_player said:
Best match I ever played was in the world 9 ball championship against Jay Helfert race to 11 . Jay flipped the coin and I won the flip then went on to run 11 racks in a row . Just then my phone rings and wakes me up :eek:
Damn it was just a dream :( :sorry:

I went back to sleep and had a dream that I was eating the worlds largest marshmallow and when I woke up half my pillow was gone :eek: :eek: :eek:
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I just wish I was EVER good enough to get invited to the WPC. NOT!
 
You know, I really had to think this one out. I guess the session that I was down 22 games at twenty a game and then raised the bet to a buck a game and came back and tortured the guy. The fellow that was putting my cheese up got me pumped up and raised the bet. He told me that I was so many games down that I had lost my grit. So, I found it when the money was upped.
 
AdChalk said:
Ok... Funny but not so, my best match - I didn't win.

I was playing in a tournament in Wilminton, NC against Wade Crane. It was a race to 7 and the final score 7-6, his win. I held my own throughout the entire match and when I look back, I didn't make many mistakes. He was better at hitting my leaves and getting a better safe in the end. Still, I think this was a great match.... When I shook his hand and said nice match, I meant it!;)........................................................
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I can't say it was my best match, but one of my better matches was also against Wade Crane as well. I beat him 10-1 :thumbup: at the North American Pro Tour event in Destin, FL (Hilton).
 
I don't know about my best match, but the best game I ever won was the first time I beat my dad in 8 ball. :)
 
iowa_player said:
I went back to sleep and had a dream that I was eating the worlds largest marshmallow and when I woke up half my pillow was gone :eek: :eek: :eek:
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I had a dream I was plucking chickens, and when I woke up my wife was bald!
 
My story isn't quite as exciting, but it means a lot to me. I was playing a local guy who has beat some of the best players in the world in pro tournaments. He's not a pro but he can play world class. I went to his place and shot races to 9 in 9 ball. First set he breaks scratches and leaves a dead 1-9 combo. I elect to run out and he asks me why. I tell him that I'm just shooting to get used to the table and pocketing balls. He then goes to beat me 9-7 but I'm happy I got to shoot. Next set, I win 9-1 and missed 1 ball. Best pool I have played thus far. He claims nobody could have beat me and that he didn't have a chance. Just a memory, thanks for listening.

MD
 
Florida Pro tour, the yr Tommy Kennedy won the US Open, I played him twice that year...beat me 9-8 both times.

Countless 9-8 matches with top players...I guess I never could close the deal :mad:
 
I played David Howard in the 1988 Sands pro event. I won 11-8 mostly because I broke a lot better than he did. Unfortunately, Mizerak got me 11-3.
 
At almost 17 years old and playing my Dad 14.1 for years, I finally beat him to 150 points. Right after I beat him he said, "It's time for you to fly the nest and go play better players. I showed you all I know." I had seen my Dad run a 100 many times. Johnnyt
 
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