What is the most that you ever lost in one session at pool?

davidhop

davidhop

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Another thread got me to thinking. It seems like everybody always talks about the better nights that they have playing pool. I thought that it would be interesting to have a thread about the worst.
The most that I have ever lost was $300 at once. I would have lost a lot more, but that was all I had on me. Please keep in mind that I work a 40 hour per week job at a furniture factory for $9.50 an hour. For me, $300 is quite a bit.
 
davidhop said:
Another thread got me to thinking. It seems like everybody always talks about the better nights that they have playing pool. I thought that it would be interesting to have a thread about the worst.
The most that I have ever lost was $300 at once. I would have lost a lot more, but that was all I had on me. Please keep in mind that I work a 40 hour per week job at a furniture factory for $9.50 an hour. For me, $300 is quite a bit.
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In all my trips to Las Vegas I have never lost... well I’m a little ahead… well maybe I’m even… ok, ok well I’m almost even. ;)
 
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I've lost $100 on 2 occasions; both short races to 5 in 9-ball. Both times to the same kid I beat for $500 at straight pool.

I rarely gamble for over $100 sets. If I was a better player, I would lose more. :) :) :)
 
Williebetmore said:
I've lost $100 on 2 occasions; both short races to 5 in 9-ball. Both times to the same kid I beat for $500 at straight pool.

I rarely gamble for over $100 sets. If I was a better player, I would lose more. :) :) :)
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This is soooo true for most of us! :p

I think my biggest loss was around $500. However, that was over 20 years ago, so with inflation it equates to 50 dimes. Am I right???? :rolleyes:

I'm not a big gambler either. :D
 
Lose - Why Would You lose?

davidhop said:
Another thread got me to thinking. It seems like everybody always talks about the better nights that they have playing pool. I thought that it would be interesting to have a thread about the worst.
The most that I have ever lost was $300 at once. I would have lost a lot more, but that was all I had on me. Please keep in mind that I work a 40 hour per week job at a furniture factory for $9.50 an hour. For me, $300 is quite a bit.
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Seriously - I once (about 1972) lent $2 to a friend because I wanted to try out a spot I had thought up.
We played for .50 cents a game.
He beat me out of $180 after about 6 hours and many raises.
I have never tried to invent any more new spots again.

TY & GL
 
I lost all the money I had...., then I broke my Cue... it was a Rambo.

I was 17, it was 1959
 
My nit-like tendencies usually keep me from going off buuuuut, this one time I lost $700 to a world champion caliber player. I thought the spot was big enough buuuuut, unfortunately....it was not. :D
 
davidhop said:
Another thread got me to thinking. It seems like everybody always talks about the better nights that they have playing pool. I thought that it would be interesting to have a thread about the worst.
The most that I have ever lost was $300 at once. I would have lost a lot more, but that was all I had on me. Please keep in mind that I work a 40 hour per week job at a furniture factory for $9.50 an hour. For me, $300 is quite a bit.
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The most I've lost was $300 but that was when I was a teenager and didn't know any better. Since then, it's $200. I have a simple rule of quitting after opening with consecutive losses. It doesn't mean I won't play the guy again. It just means I won't play him again that moment and I never start off for more than $100 a set. I work and have bills to pay so for me, caps are rather important.
 
I dropped 1000 in a session to a guy...playing 100 a game one hole. Boy was I stupid. He was spotting me and he had never even played one hole. The guy was just a good ball maker, and I was playing horrible defense. My game was just off...

Nowadays, most I will lose is 20-40.

Shorty
 
OldHasBeen said:
Seriously - I once (about 1972) lent $2 to a friend because I wanted to try out a spot I had thought up.
We played for .50 cents a game.
He beat me out of $180 after about 6 hours and many raises.
I have never tried to invent any more new spots again.

TY & GL
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OHB,
Don't think of this as a loss, just think of it as a Research and Development expense. Of course, with this kind of R & D are you sure you weren't involved with the R & D on those foam thingies on the Space Shuttle that keep breaking off??????
 
I only lost about $300 in any one session. I was always pretty good at cutting my losses. The manager of the underage hall I went to years ago... not so much. He lost a '67 Camaro (in very good condition) to a regular.
 
davidhop said:
Another thread got me to thinking. It seems like everybody always talks about the better nights that they have playing pool. I thought that it would be interesting to have a thread about the worst.
The most that I have ever lost was $300 at once. I would have lost a lot more, but that was all I had on me. Please keep in mind that I work a 40 hour per week job at a furniture factory for $9.50 an hour. For me, $300 is quite a bit.
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I don't lose. My favorite game is called Hondo Wins. If I lose $50
it's because I'm supposed to be winning or I'm in a new pool room
trying somebody. Pretty pathetic, huh?
 
here's a little story about a guy we all know...

it was mid-late 90's i live about 50 miles from mississippi line in a little town called tuscaloosa well this guy comes in wanting to play some "cheap" well i had just played a road player a couple days before and didn't win of course so say where you from he says mississippi i said yeah right let me see your ID... he whips out a miss license... i said ok lets play we play for an hour or so for 10, then double it to 20 after about 3 hours i'm bout 300 loser so i ask for the 8 he agrees and we play some more well the guy who was working the room that night was being an ass and tells us we gotta leave at 12 so i wind up getting down to like 180 loser with the 8 and tell the guy to come back anytime and give him my number... well the guy never calls or comes back so bout a month later i get my billiard news in the mail and almost fainted here's the kid i had played on the cover who had just won the world bar table championship or something to that effect in reno or vegas... some guy by the name of Corey Dueul (sp?)

ps. glad he never called me back! he shot balls at warp speed with no english on a gaffed up gandy like nobody i've ever seen.
 
davidhop said:
Another thread got me to thinking. It seems like everybody always talks about the better nights that they have playing pool. I thought that it would be interesting to have a thread about the worst.
The most that I have ever lost was $300 at once. I would have lost a lot more, but that was all I had on me. Please keep in mind that I work a 40 hour per week job at a furniture factory for $9.50 an hour. For me, $300 is quite a bit.
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I guess mine would have to be somewhere around the $300 to $500 range playing both 9 ball and 14.1 the same night. could not win a game. Played lousy.
now on a 3 cushion billiard table it would have to be the time i won $900.. playing a couple of little vietnamese players called little hy and big hy. 2 great players and friends. we played 25 point games for $100 a man. first man to 25 points wins the $200. then the other 2 players play out the rest of their game to see who pays it all out. so in the end of a game here is how it unfolds...Player A the winner wins $200.00 and player B breaks even and Player C loses $200. it was definately a great way to play as i had never played that way before. would love to se a ring 9 ball game that way. $100.00 per man races to 4. Just to see how it would turn out. worked out great for me.......mike
 
I lose all the time...

I seem to lose all the time. People seem to step their game up when they play me. And I seem to step down...lol

The most in one sitting for me would be in 1995 against the Preacher man in Oneonta, New York. He took me for almost a grand in a night. He consistently beat me night in and night out but always drove me home and bought me a pizza for consolation.

I don't mind losing because I figure I am paying for a lesson, or two, or three...

So if you need some extra cash, lets play a set or two...lol
 
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