jay helfert said:
Well all I remember was two time I played well recently, and forgot the detail, and they were not earth shaking.
What is the best match you ever played?
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Well all I remember was two time I played well recently, and forgot the detail, and they were not earth shaking.
In 1982, after a ten year lay off from playing, I got back into the game. A couple of weeks into knocking the rust off, I had my a$$ handed to me by a young player with a big mouth.
I guess to put it nicely, that inspired me and I went to work.
About six months later, I matched up with one of the better players in Houston.
Right out of the gate, the guy puts a 6 pack on me in a race to 9 for 2 bills. He broke dry and I put 3 back on him. I broke, made a ball, played safe, got a shot and put a 4 pack on him. I ended up beating him, 9-6.
I went on to beat him 3 more sets.
What made this so memorable was, after the match, I realized that I had a heart and had become a player.
Oh, and the loud mouth kid that handed me my rearend, I ended up giving him the 8 and ran over him so hard, he shattered his cue on the rail of the table after I won. He would never play me again.
Stones
I guess to put it nicely, that inspired me and I went to work.
About six months later, I matched up with one of the better players in Houston.
Right out of the gate, the guy puts a 6 pack on me in a race to 9 for 2 bills. He broke dry and I put 3 back on him. I broke, made a ball, played safe, got a shot and put a 4 pack on him. I ended up beating him, 9-6.
I went on to beat him 3 more sets.
What made this so memorable was, after the match, I realized that I had a heart and had become a player.
Oh, and the loud mouth kid that handed me my rearend, I ended up giving him the 8 and ran over him so hard, he shattered his cue on the rail of the table after I won. He would never play me again.
Stones
best match
well i will have to say matches, long ago, 1970 GERMANY i was ask to play in 14.1 tourny, well i was apool player or rotation never 14.1 but to make the story short I won region in BREMANHAVEN GERMANY then went to BERLIN GERMANY this was when it was still incerciled by the wall and the reds came on train and checked us out!! Well i won there 1st place. then went to GERPPEN GERMANY for the all EUROPE finals and came in 8th of all EUROPE. still got the tropheys and paper work. GOOD MEMORIES. p.s. i was in the army there 3yr, great country to see!!!:thumbup: :thumbup:
well i will have to say matches, long ago, 1970 GERMANY i was ask to play in 14.1 tourny, well i was apool player or rotation never 14.1 but to make the story short I won region in BREMANHAVEN GERMANY then went to BERLIN GERMANY this was when it was still incerciled by the wall and the reds came on train and checked us out!! Well i won there 1st place. then went to GERPPEN GERMANY for the all EUROPE finals and came in 8th of all EUROPE. still got the tropheys and paper work. GOOD MEMORIES. p.s. i was in the army there 3yr, great country to see!!!:thumbup: :thumbup:
My best match was the time I beat Mosconi 150-149 in the semifinals of the world championships. He was up 149-0 and scratched. I went 150 and out on him. I played Crane in the finals and won the lag. He broke and left me a shot and I ran 132 balls before I woke up. I tried to go back to sleep to see if I won but you never get back to the same place in the dream.
I was playing 1pocket against one of the Norman/OKC legends. He had beaten me every day for about two years.
The first time I won, I won the flip. and broke and ran the first rack. (Lucky.) I won 5-4, and my idol was playing great. I just made every shot I had, and played safe when I should have.
That was the first time he ever complimented me, saying, "You didn't dog it so much this time; you looked like a pool player."
Priceless. PM me if you want to know his identity, he wasn't a pro, but he certainly beat some of them.
The first time I won, I won the flip. and broke and ran the first rack. (Lucky.) I won 5-4, and my idol was playing great. I just made every shot I had, and played safe when I should have.
That was the first time he ever complimented me, saying, "You didn't dog it so much this time; you looked like a pool player."
Priceless. PM me if you want to know his identity, he wasn't a pro, but he certainly beat some of them.
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
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
tap tap tap
LMAO............
td
My best ...about 15-16 years ago before age related maladies. Bar box 8 ball tourney...won the flip and ran 5 and out, got moved to another table for the next match and did the same. I'll be trying in vain to recreate that one until I die.....won the tourney.
Most recently....nine ball on 9' this year...playing some smart aleck kid who says I'm slow playing him to get him out of his "rythm". I lose and make it back to the final with him...have to beat him twice going to 5...drilled him 10-1.....I think I only left him a shot 2-3 times the whole match....had it all, including captain hook going that night....
Wish those could happen more than every 15 years or so....
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Most recently....nine ball on 9' this year...playing some smart aleck kid who says I'm slow playing him to get him out of his "rythm". I lose and make it back to the final with him...have to beat him twice going to 5...drilled him 10-1.....I think I only left him a shot 2-3 times the whole match....had it all, including captain hook going that night....
Wish those could happen more than every 15 years or so....
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Bob Jewett said:
Quit stallin' Bob, You beat lots of pros. In fact you may be one! :smile:
Pretty telling when you say you out broke David Howard. He only had the best break in the game back then. Where's that leave you? :thumbup:
A 30 MPH break doesn't help much if the cue ball ends up off the table three times per match. I'd rather break at 19MPH and have a shot at the one. Then all you have to do is not miss.jay helfert said:
jay helfert said:
Back in about 82 or 83 I was matched up with a guy called Don Locotta in Denver . I gave him the 7-8 on the bar box for $50 per game. I was aheadd about $2-300 when we raised it to $100 per game. I was then ahead about $5-600 when he raised it to $200. Then to $400. We ran back and forth for about 18 hours after that.
We had now been playing for about 26 hours when he raised it to $800 a game. I won 18 straight games and went into such a zone that I had no earthly idea how many games I had won. I ended up winning $19000.
My other favorite, Jay was there. It was the Denver Open about 81 or 82.
my first match was against Dave Yeager from Clinton Iowa. It was a race to 11 and he had me 10 -0 when everything changed. I beat him 11 in a row and when it was over he went over by the front door and grabbed the reciever off the pay phone and beat the s****out of himself. I may never forget that.
my buddy Billy Young and i played a couple guys in KY $500 a man scotch doubles about 10 years ago.the game was matched up pretty close,but i played over my head and missed maybe 1 ball in 2-3 hours.we won $29,000 very fast.i made a few other pretty good scores,but none quite that big or that fast.it was just one of those nights where everything clicked.
I don't have any HUGE wins like some of the others on here, so I'll list a different unlikely sports accomplishment....7 RBI in one inning (yep GRAND SLAM and a 3 run dinger). Bad thing about it was the cleanup man (I batted 5th) struck out on ball 4 before my 2nd plate appearance. We batted 21 that half inning; 2 away from me batting a 3rd time
Pool related - I won a race to 5 in an 8 ball tourney once without a single miss (only 3 games were break and runs though...other two wins included safties).
Pool related - I won a race to 5 in an 8 ball tourney once without a single miss (only 3 games were break and runs though...other two wins included safties).
ironman said:
I believe that was the year of the big storm when the snow got several feet deep. It was in December, and Burgess guaranteed a $25,000 purse, with $5,000 to the winner. I do remember that match, I couldn't believe that happened to Yeager. He was a good player. I just remember when the score got to about 10-5 and people started watching the match. There was this big buzz like everyone knew you were going to win. Even Dave seemed to know it.
Sigel lost his first match and won eleven in a row on the Losers side to snap it off. Am I right or wrong? He beat me on the losers side early on.
Someone else came back from 10-0 at the Sands one year. I think it was Little Al. I'm not sure now.
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Bob Jewett said:
I know, I know. You got lucky, Efren.
How'd you win all those other matches?
One of my greatest comebacks involved me playing the ghost. About ten years ago I was in a pool room I frequented when some of the locals asked I wanted to play. We matched it up where I would play the ghost, race to thirteen for $500. I lose the first set, 13-10. I lose the second set, 13, 2! (don't ask). Then, my road partner comes in and gets hot that I'm sending in our roll and losing. He says, bet $1500. The locals, thinking they got us, jump on it. We even got a few hundred on the rail. In the end, I hit the ghost with a 13 and they quit. NITS!!!
jay helfert said:I believe that was the year of the big storm when the snow got several feet deep. It was in December, and Burgess guaranteed a $25,000 purse, with $5,000 to the winner. I do remember that match, I couldn't believe that happened to Yeager. He was a good player. I just remember when the score got to about 10-5 and people started watching the match. There was this big buzz like everyone knew you were going to win. Even Dave seemed to know it.
Sigel lost his first match and won eleven in a row on the Losers side to snap it off. Am I right or wrong? He beat me on the losers side early on.
Someone else came back from 10-0 at the Sands one year. I think it was Little Al. I'm not sure now.
That was the BIG STORM. The warmest it got in Denvr in Decmeber of that year was like -7. That was a rough one indeed.
MS played so good in that tournament. I think our own Island Drive got 3rd in that with Jr Brown of Wichita Ks. getting 2nd.
ID put me on the losers side and then your buddy Swannee delivered the knockout punch.
Remember Gary Pinkowski playing 3 cushion in the back and got those leg cramps and fell to the floor. We thought he was having aheart attack. Surfer Rod was staking him and yelling at him to get up and play. LMAO!!
Playing a guy race to 8. I am down 2-1, he comes up dry on the break, I run out then run out the set with a 6 pack.
We played two more sets afterwards and I lost both. Couldn't play at all after that cause I had a smile from ear to ear and was giggling like a school girl.
Christian
We played two more sets afterwards and I lost both. Couldn't play at all after that cause I had a smile from ear to ear and was giggling like a school girl.
Christian