What is the best win you ever had in a pool match up?

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A match up that meant the most to you in your pool matches , since you have been playing pool! And of course you won the the match. A match that you can look back on and be real proud of being able to pull the win off! The one match that you will remember for years to come!
Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
I remember about 7 years ago it was the first tournament on the 10k tour,I had the worst draw possible.The tournament drew 90+ players,I had to beat Dennis Hatch twice in the finals.I remember the first set went hill-hill and I won it,and I ended up winning the second.I've won tournaments before,but that was my highlight win so far.I don't play that much do to having a job and kids ,but when I get into tournament play everything seems to come back,thank God:smile:
 
Heartless

I ripped the heart right out of a 14 year old kid that had me 6-0 for 40$ a set. I was in the middle of a turkey sandwich when a wpba pro made it a point that "The Kid" asked me to play, before she walked off. It's all her fault. And no I didn't run 7...just did everything possible to get out. We broke even but I kept his heart in my pocket t-shirt which hangs in my closet.. still beating. I can still recall that moment when we shook hands as he looked up at me, before walking out with his dad. By now he can probably spot me a few balls.
 
over 20 years ago at west end billiards against allen hopkins, but more memorable was match against the miz even though he kicked my azz.
 
Hook, line and sinker....

There's been a few tournaments that were pretty special and a few gambling sessions that I'm proud of but as they say, "It's hard to top the first time".
The first time I ever went "out of my local area" to a tournament was in the spring of 1990. I had only been playing pool seriously at all for a short time, maybe 8 months, and really had just started to play any 9 ball at all. Never had really beaten anyone of any note at all. Went down to Univ. of Illinois to see a girl and had heard about a tournament in Charleston, Il that weekend at Stix. Don Yosts' place. Dave Miller was running the tournament. Over a hundred players. I buy myself in both calcuttas' for the minimum as I am a nobody and no one in the tournament has ever even seen me before.
I get a great draw. Guys dogging their guts out to me every chance they get. I get every imaginable roll known to mankind. And..... actually play pretty well under the gun and win the tournament. I win a nice, fat chunk of change and start to think that pool could be a fun, profitable and easy game.:thud: Well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.:smile:Been hooked ever since.
 
Lock N Load said:
A match up that meant the most to you in your pool matches , since you have been playing pool! And of course you won the the match. A match that you can look back on and be real proud of being able to pull the win off! The one match that you will remember for years to come!
Regards,
Lock N Load.
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winning a qualifer for the US Open 9-ball tourney at Bartlett Billards, Bartlett Tn., right outside Memphis.
 
C.Milian said:
I ripped the heart right out of a 14 year old kid that had me 6-0 for 40$ a set. I was in the middle of a turkey sandwich when a wpba pro made it a point that "The Kid" asked me to play, before she walked off. It's all her fault. And no I didn't run 7...just did everything possible to get out. We broke even but I kept his heart in my pocket t-shirt which hangs in my closet.. still beating. I can still recall that moment when we shook hands as he looked up at me, before walking out with his dad. By now he can probably spot me a few balls.
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After reading this I cant remember anything I have done......pool related or otherwise. Dang :embarrassed2::shocked2:
 
Best win

It wasn't a match , it was a tournament. Hope thats ok.
It was a race to 7, 10 dollar nine ball tournament here in Columbus in the 90s.
Lots of good players came to it every week.
I won vs Tony Mougey , could give me the 7 at least gambling at the time.
I won vs Steve Drumm , about the 7 ball better than me.
Several guys who played around my speed.
Dee Adkins {only about 13 or 14 but played about Tonys speed}
Kenny McCoy , he gave me and almost everyone else in town the 5 ball.
I won the winners bracket and faced a guy who won the tournament 9 out of ten weeks for 5 years with all those guys and several other real good players in it named Danny Tater.
He had me 4 to nothing and I somehow came back and won undefeated.
It was better than any money I ever won at pool , because I had been way the underdog in most of my matches.
Everyone played even, no handicaps.
 
I was a virtual unknown player and I entered The Eastern States Nine-ball Championships in 1982.

I found myself playing, the great Ray Martin, for third and fourth place. It was Sunday and I had won three previous matches. I had come from behind to win all three. Nothing changed, playing Ray. He went out ahead 8-3. I somehow changed the ,"Big Mo," and I caught him at ten games apiece.

The last rack was incredible. We both kicked and safed each other four consecutive shots playing the two-ball. I know I played mine and I'm sure, Ray played his. I finially broke him and got a shot. I ran out to beat him, 11-10.

Crazy part of things. I had David Howard 6-1 and lost the next match.

Ray also got his revenge. The next year he won 11-10. We were also playing for third and forth place, AGAIN.


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2010 european championships 9ball division 1st round, I was down 2:7 in race to 9 with alternating break format against Ralf Souquet but I fought back and I won 9:8 in front of 100 spectators...sweeeet memory! :thumbup:
 
Beating Billy Palmer even in a race to 5 set dead even!!!! Alternate break format... I got out everytime I was suppose to and if I couldnt get out I sewed him up tighter than a Bull's A$$!!!! I never made a mistake and I barely won ;)
 
Thanks for your great favorite pool story.

RunoutJJ said:
Beating Billy Palmer even in a race to 5 set dead even!!!! Alternate break format... I got out everytime I was suppose to and if I couldnt get out I sewed him up tighter than a Bull's A$$!!!! I never made a mistake and I barely won ;)
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So many great favorite pool stories. I am enjoying reading them!
Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
Great pool story.

marek said:
2010 european championships 9ball division 1st round, I was down 2:7 in race to 9 with alternating break format against Ralf Souquet but I fought back and I won 9:8 in front of 100 spectators...sweeeet memory! :thumbup:
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And you beat a champion in your favorite pool story. That is great! Thanks for sharing this. I really appreciate it.
Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
Winning a $1200 nova pool cue. Played a buddy for cues and he lost 10-3. At the time it was the greatest thing that every happened. I look back at it and what a mistake. It cost me a friend. The guy quit shooting after that and I inherited a cursed cue. Shortly after winning it the cue was stolen. I was in a physical fight with the guy I suspected of stealing it. He did steal it and the police retrieved it. Ever since then I have it locked in my closet. Thats my story.
 
Sorry about the fight,

King Hester said:
Winning a $1200 nova pool cue. Played a buddy for cues and he lost 10-3. At the time it was the greatest thing that every happened. I look back at it and what a mistake. It cost me a friend. The guy quit shooting after that and I inherited a cursed cue. Shortly after winning it the cue was stolen. I was in a physical fight with the guy I suspected of stealing it. He did steal it and the police retrieved it. Ever since then I have it locked in my closet. Thats my story.
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Very glad you got your cue back. A friend is a friend to the end! The guy was not your friend! Thanks for sharing.... I do not shoot my friends for money!!!
Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
Lock N Load said:
A match up that meant the most to you in your pool matches , since you have been playing pool! And of course you won the the match. A match that you can look back on and be real proud of being able to pull the win off! The one match that you will remember for years to come!
Regards,
Lock N Load.
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Two years ago,Aboud came through baltimore,so we play a race to5 in 1pocket,iam getting 9 7 for 2 thou,aboud is ahead 4 to 2,he needs 2 to my 6or7,i fight back and win that game,then i go on to win the set 5 to 4,that was my best comeback and hard fought victory ever,but i got to add this to be fair,aboud came back through,this past july and we played the same exact way,he has me down 4 to 2 again,i come back and make it hill hill,only to miss or dog the winning shot,Aboud went on to win this match,but this match was just as good or better then the last match,except i lost,but i lost to a complete gentelmen that Aboud was an is,which ease the pain just a little!
 
measureman said:
How about the worst loss. I'm playing a guy 9 ball race to 5. I break the first game and run 4 straight racks and lose the race 5 to 4. :angry:
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I feel your pain, I was playing in our provincial 9 ball championship years ago and drew Bernie Mikkelsen in the semi-finals. He won the lag, broke and ran the first rack and then scratched on the break. I ran the next 3 racks to go up 3-1, broke dry in the 5th rack and never got another shot, losing the match 11-3.

The funny thing is that a month earlier Bill Ganne did the same thing to me in another tourney. At 1-1 I scratched on the break and sat parked in my chair while he picked apart the next 10 racks.
 
French Semi Pro

There use to be a semi from Quebec who use be realy good in nineball over in Quebec and when she came here she was in the nineball league with us here in Edmonton.When tournament started and when i got her and she was good but i ended up winning the match agains her in the nineball tournament.I even came in second place at the tournament.Because i hooked her a few times and to combination sinking the nine ball on her,I wasnt goin to let her have it and get away with it.
 
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