what is your most embarrassing moment playing pool

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lorider

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Here is mine and its a brain fart that I think would be hard to top.

I was playing apa 9 ball cities yesterday. In case you dont know..the 9 is worth 2 points and all other balls are worth one point.

I played a safe and subsequently got ball in hand. I knew I only needed 3 points to win the match. I took bih and combod the 9 in off the 4 ball. Then I hit the 4 ball in thinking I won the match. The 9 is worth 2 and the 4 is worth 1 which totals 3 points right ?

I stand up and shake my opponents hand thinking I won the match. My score keeper says ...you need one .ore point. I said whaddya mean I need one more point ?

He says....the rack was over when you pocketed the 9...the 4 ball don't count.

I am standing there dumfounddd at what I just did as every one on both teams..all the spectators...including the room owner and the lo is laughing their ass off.

A major brain fart by me ...lets hear yours.

On a side note my team mate tells me he over heard my opponent complaining about my skill level. He is a 5 like me and i only won by 2 points. Wtf ??? I think he is the epitome of a sore loser complaining about my s/l when its the same as his and he only lost by 2 points.

Now if it had been my next opponent saying that who was also a 5 and lost to me by 16 points I could halfway understand his complaining.

Guess some people are like that

My team mate ...who is also a 5 did not complain about his opponents s/l ...who was a 3 .when he lost 25-20. Well he did complain about his own lousy shooting :grin-square:
 
Embarrassing!

I just finished a salad and walked up to the table to break. Just as I bend over to break, I cough and up comes a complete unchewed crouton onto the the table from my throat rolling to the rack across the cloth! I am in shock. I completely ignore my action and pick it up and flick it into the garbage. My smart ass comedian friend says "Snake eyes!" Too funny and embarrassing.
 
The early years...had a little too much to drink. I'm breaking in 9ball.... thumb catches my pocket and rips the front of my pants. Didn't I feel stupid.
 
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back when I was living in the northeast, I was making a drive out to Providence to play at a Rhode Island Billiards Joss event. It's about a 45 minute drive, and I get to the tournament venue an hour and a half before it's to start. Go to reach into the back seat to grab my cues, and found that they aren't there...

Needless to say, I felt a little embarrased. I ran inside, spoke with Mike Z, paid my entry, and drove back to the house to get my cues. Got back with 10 minutes to spare. I'm glad there weren't any state troopers along 95. Sufice to say, it would NOT have just been a ticket had I been pulled over. Even with all that, a tournament I was expecting to do the 2-step out of the tournament, I made it to day 2...
 
Trying to get 9 rails with the CB, somehow the CB came off one of the rails and hit me square in the nuts. lol.
 
Too many to recall... A recent one was at a tournament where they had slipperly linoleum flooring. As I was stretching out over the table to reach a shot, my feet slipped out and I ended up crushing the family jewels on the rail. When I slowly slid off the table and curled into the fetal position, my opponent realized what happened and was nice enough to give me a moment to catch my breath.
 
Dagwoodz said:
back when I was living in the northeast, I was making a drive out to Providence to play at a Rhode Island Billiards Joss event. It's about a 45 minute drive, and I get to the tournament venue an hour and a half before it's to start. Go to reach into the back seat to grab my cues, and found that they aren't there...

Needless to say, I felt a little embarrased. I ran inside, spoke with Mike Z, paid my entry, and drove back to the house to get my cues. Got back with 10 minutes to spare. I'm glad there weren't any state troopers along 95. Sufice to say, it would NOT have just been a ticket had I been pulled over. Even with all that, a tournament I was expecting to do the 2-step out of the tournament, I made it to day 2...
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Done that myself..thankfully I only live 10 minutes away:)
 
So far...i think the 2 nut jobs:grin-square:.iusedtoberich and victorl have us all beat In embarrassing moments:thumbup:
 
I was breaking and miscued. When I did the cue ball grazed the top of the one and it flew off the table, went about 20 feet, and smashed an arcade machine. The room was full of people.
 
I usually just read threads like this instead of responding.....
...for me, it's like asking a guy with the world's best music collection.....
..."What's your favorite song?"

....but here is one of, uh, countless.

Playing 9-ball for $50 a game...not a big bet in the action days, so a bit casual.
...guy leaves the 9 hanging....whitey's three feet away.
So I roll to go rail first....miss it altogether.
I start laughing.

Guy on the side says "Why do you laugh at stuff like that?"
...told him..."A smart man would grimace and vow to never do that again...
...a very competitive player might break his cue...
...but I'm a
moron....we laugh at shit like that."
:lmao:
 
Bunch of people watching at a tourney, got dead straight on the eight ball, need to draw the length of the table for the nine against the rail.Miscued into outer space off the table.
 
Playing in a match years ago when I gambled; 8 ball, race to 11, hill-hill, I lost track of what I was shooting (or how much I was drinking) and ran out the last 3 of the wrong set for $220.
I didn't think I would ever live that down.
 
Another time I was playing one pocket and the game went down to the last ball. He leaves me a long, tough back cut and take my time and fire it in, center pocket. My opponent just sits there in disbelief and I was all smiles until I realized I had just passed up a straight-in shot into my own pocket and cut it into his pocket instead.
 
The time I broke my $2000 Tim Scruggs in half over a $20 game of 9 ball. Oh wait that was stupid not embarrassing.... sorry wrong thread.:confused:
 
EL'nino said:
The time I broke my $2000 Tim Scruggs in half over a $20 game of 9 ball. Oh wait that was stupid not embarrassing.... sorry wrong thread.:confused:
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Dang near spit coffee all over myself reading this.

Way to get my morning started lol 😁
 
I had been playing pool for about 3 years. First season playing in a 9 ball league. I am giving my opponent the 8 ball. He makes his 8 ball and scratches. We have a 5 minute discussion to figure out if the 8 stays down or is spotted. We finally figure out it stays down. I have ball in hand with the 9 ball on the short rail middle diamond. I casually walk up and make the 9 ball and walk over to shake his hand when I see out of my peripheral vision the cue ball follow the 9 right into the same pocket. The look on my teammates faces I will never forget. Talk about wanting to crawl into a hole. I am proud to say 2 years later NO ONE in that league wants to tangle with my game.
 
Very first match in APA league, got ball in hand on the eight ball. Like a dummy I lined up a straight shot for the corner pocket less than a foot away. At the last second before shooting I thought about the possibility of following the eight in so I shot low, a little to low. I scoped the cue ball right over the eight and landed in the pocket! The captain and owner of the pool hall said " you will go far in pool, because you have so far to go".
 
One night at league I was packing up, my cues and case on a nearby table. Got talking with someone and when the conversation was finished I zipped up my case and went home. The next day I went to a local room to practise and opened my EMPTY case. I had left the cues on the table. A phone call to the league place was unproductive...the cues are gone and no one knew or saw anything. Sh......t!!!
League next week and a player came in and asked if anyone lost THESE. I thanked him profusely and he wouldn't even let my buy him a drink. He said he didn't know who left the cues behind but figured it was a league player and he didn't want someone to steal them so he had taken them home for safe keeping. Made my day after my stupidity ruined my week. Mitch
 
It was about 1988. I used to stop and play for an hour on my way to work.

One day I stopped the place was empty. I started working out and this old guy walks in. Long story short I got hustled. Expertly.

Nobody saw it.

Nobody else has ever even heard about it.

Never saw him again.

Still turns my guts inside out to think about it. So I won't be saying anything more about it.


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Here's a couple - Playing an exhibition with Mosconi and he lets me win the lag. He breaks and leaves me a long cut shot in the corner. I'm so nervous I shoot and nearly miss the whole ball, just grazing the edge. It barely moves! The crowd sits in stunned silence and my 'friend' Pancho shouts out, "He hit it!". Laughter fills the room.

I'm playing in a big tournament at Caesars Tahoe and I draw Pete Margo, way out of my league. In the first game Pete leaves me a long shot with the cue ball on the end rail. I'm having trouble focusing and can't seem to get down comfortably on the ball. Finally I get down, take my cue back just a little too far and the cue comes out of my bridge and falls on the floor. There are ripples of laughter and shock as the crowd is embarrassed by my ineptness. I lose 11-3.
 
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