What's the best or worst moves you have ever seen over a pool match !

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I was in my late teens in LA and the "Hustler" had just come out and I was winning at the local "family billiards". I drove "downtown" and walked into a downstairs pool hall on 5th and Main St. An old man approached me with the usual patter and I was eager to give it a try "cheap". He was wearing a wool shirt with long sleeves in summer in LA, I had good young eyes and noticed he would move his balls off the rail with some smooth sleeve action. I thought "he is just old and cant see too good". At the end of the session I did not have enough money to get my car out of the parking lot and had to call home. That was beginning and end of money pool for me.
 
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We were in Fort Smith, Arkansas and Bartram was playing John Gabriel (from Tulsa) an 8 ahead set of 9 ball. John had Chris stuck 6 or 7 a couple of times and Chris found a good spot to break from and got it back to even. John seen he wasn't going to like it from there and wanted to switch tables. Chris refused to switch tables and after a few minutes John decided to continue. The first time John broke after that, he broke from the head spot with the butt end of the cue elevated, hit the one and jumped the cue ball into the table light. Glass all over the table!! He immediately said something like "Well I guess we'll have to play on another table..." Chris came right back with something like "Well, I guess we'll have to clean this table off cause I'm not moving..." After some tush hogging from our side they cleaned the table off and Chris beat him with a quickness.
 
I predict this thread will die soon. I mean, I doubt anybody can top Johnny's story! :thumbup:
 
houmatroy said:
Claude been around forever & he & I use to run together..maid pretty good money with old Claude.....but to hear Claude tell story with his accent..It's a pure classic...
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Claude is hilarious. He told me once ... in his thick accent ... how he went into a room with another guy selling pool items acting as the hired help. The other guy claimed to have pulled something so he couldn't play and he would stake his "laborer". It was hilarious to hear Claude tell how he kept begging the guy not to make him bet higher all the while getting the 7 when he should have been giving the 8 or more.
 
iba7467 said:
Claude is hilarious. He told me once ... in his thick accent ... how he went into a room with another guy selling pool items acting as the hired help. The other guy claimed to have pulled something so he couldn't play and he would stake his "laborer". It was hilarious to hear Claude tell how he kept begging the guy not to make him bet higher all the while getting the 7 when he should have been giving the 8 or more.
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those were the days when you could hustle.
 
Best I saw was my friend playing a top local master level player in a big tournament. The match is on and he is getting just killed, the master player is getting out from everywhere and before you know it the score is 7-0 in a race to 9. The tournament is big enough it has the TD, set rules on breaks, and the whole 9 yards. So my friend seeing that his opponent is on fire decides to call for a break. He proceeds to go straight to a stairway where I and afew others are sitting only 15 steps from the table he is playing on, light up a smoke, and takes the entire length of the break just sitting there slowly smoking his cig while the master sits there at the table staring at him not more then 15 feet away. After the break period is up he goes back to the table and finally lets the guy break the balls, which he scratches on because he is so uptight now over the long break in which his opponent did nothing but make him cool off. The final score in the match was 9-7 for my friend.
 
Not the best or worst, but one of the funniest. When I was in the military eons ago I would sometimes hang out at a dive which had a lot of college/hippie types. There was a small group who ran a game on strangers where if the stranger won they wouldn't let him leave with the cash. The stranger had to keep playing until they won their money and they had a lot of money so it was hard to take it all, and if you did they would simply physically prevent the stranger from leaving with the cash.

One day I'm running balls on the table next to these guys when a middle aged guy comes in and asks if I want to play some cheap. We play for awhile and I was no expert but this guy couldn't run three balls and yet his mannerisms suggested it wasn't his first time in a pool hall. After each game this guy pulls a wad of cash out of his pocket and peels off a bill and tosses it on the table in full view of the college/hippies on the next table. Finally he says "I quit, you're too good for me" and leaves.

The next day I walk in the place and the stranger is playing the college/hippie boys. He must have been playing just good enough to win because after awhile I hear a commotion over there about the stranger trying to "quit winner" to which the stranger replies well if you don't want me to quit let's play for some real money or something to that effect.

I quit what I'm doing at that point and watch the show, and needless to say the stranger/road player picks his game up a little and drains the college/hippes of probably a couple thousand or more which was big money back then.

After he wins the last game and gets ready to leave a couple of them go to the door to keep him from leaving and one of them says "you hustled us, we want our money back". That's when a tough looking guy who I hadn't been paying any attention to left the bar and walked over to the college guy who was doing the talking, put his face up against the guy's face, and said "That's right, you got hustled you f+++ing p++sy, and now we're leaving with your money". And they did.
 
There used to be these two guys that always hung out in the same pool rooms, but they never really cared for each other. Player A says he knows a guy who will go off, but he plays too good for him. So he says he'll take player B to him, and they can split the cash.

Player B meets the guy and they start playing for five a game to just bang the balls and get things going. Player B peels off about 10 games real quick, and the guy says he wants to bet more. He says let's bet 50 a game. Of course player B says yes because he thinks he has the nuts, but it only took him a few games to see that player A had double steered him. Player B loses the first four games and hands the guy 60 bucks. The guys says, "What's this? It's supposed to be 200." Player B says, "200? I thought you said fifteen...I wouldn't have bet 50!"

Even though I don't like when anybody gets aired or only some of the money, I was always impressed that player B could come up with something like that so fast.
 
About 2 years ago a local shortstop is playing a guy that doesnt know who he is. The shortstop wins a little over 900 and talks the sucker into splitting the table time. The local shortstop walked to the bar where i was sitting and told the bartender he needed to cash out the table. The bartender tells him the time is $32.00. He returns to the table and tells the guy the time was $84.00 but he realizes he just won a lot of money so if the guy will just give him $40.00 he will call it even. The sucker gladly hands him $40.00 and says thanks for covering the rest. I figured I would get a free beer out of it so I told him I would stay quiet for a beer. lol
 
The Manny Pacquiao Cup last month was 10-Ball, call shots among over 150 participants. Player A sinks the 10 without having called the shot. Player B right jumped out of his seat to declare the foul and gloated on the give-away. In fact, Player B was enjoying his gift too much (while the ref brought back the 10 on the table) that he forgot to call the 10 too! Game to Player A.

But that was not the end of it. Through the match, Player A must have been thinking of his loud opponent that he who laughs last laughs the best. Hill-hill, Player A forgot to call the 10 again! Match to Player B.

Do unto others as you want them to do to you.
 
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