Whats the strangest thing you played for?

Monkey Hustlin

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So i was recently in Ohio trying to get some action. I noticed two average players who didn't really get into any action. One night i saw these guys playing each other, going hard like they were playing couple hundred dollar sets. It ended up they were playing for chicken wings, that's right orders of chicken wings from the bar. While i am watching a guy calls me out for 5 a game 9 ball. I win the first two games and he pulls up. He pays me with a ten dollar gift card to Walmart. I laughed at him, he said check the card so i did. Sure enough it had a ten dollar balance on it. I can't turn down, it's real money. All in all it was a funny night.
 
I seen 2 guys playing $20 sets. The one guy loses 3 sets straight but only pays $45. I thought that was strange.
 
I put up my 1951 Indian Chief against a 1950 Chevy with a 1956 Buick engine in it. I lost. Johnnyt
 
I had a friend I used to play to see who was going to buy the food after the local weekly tournament. The last time we played it was for of all things Taco Bell, as the place was really close to the pool hall and what else can you get at 2am when there isn't a diner in sight. This last time, I ended up about $50 ahead, playing for one Burrito Supreme or Steak taco at a time. Oh no, I didn't collect all at once, that would have been dangerous!

I had a friend years ago who wasn't that great at winning, so I guess he was braver than he was smart, that thought that pool was ONLY for gambling. He had a bit of an issue in gambling period. If you asked him what the strangest thing he had played for was he would have said," for fun." LOL

Have a good one!
Kevin
 
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Not me personally but I remember two players (not gonna mention names) at Hollywood Billiards in San Francisco playing nine ball sets for... Get this... A 10 dollar rock of crack!! Passing it back and forth on the rail. Real screwed up these two were :shakehead:
 
Our local pool room had a regular ring game for pushups at one time years ago.

I also played the room owner once for a week's worth of bows. The loser (me) had to bow to the winner the first we saw each other each day. This was during a time when I was at the pool room every day.

Mike
 
Gottcha all beat!

When cash flow is slow...

My Brother, and a few buddies play for "On Call (as requested by winner, good anytime anywhere) "Mickey Mouse Pushups" (each time you count them aloud by number you add a (high pitched Mickeys voice) "Ha ha" ergo "ONE ha ha, TWO ha ha, THREE ha ha...."

Try explaining why your doing that, in the middle off your taco bell drive thru, to the talent working the window! Ha ha!
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Also, my Wife and I play for some very "Interesting Things" shall we say, on more then one occasion, I've played the best games of my life against her! Been just as happy to loose a few also!! ;)
 
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Monkey Hustlin said:
So i was recently in Ohio trying to get some action. I noticed two average players who didn't really get into any action. One night i saw these guys playing each other, going hard like they were playing couple hundred dollar sets. It ended up they were playing for chicken wings, that's right orders of chicken wings from the bar. While i am watching a guy calls me out for 5 a game 9 ball. I win the first two games and he pulls up. He pays me with a ten dollar gift card to Walmart. I laughed at him, he said check the card so i did. Sure enough it had a ten dollar balance on it. I can't turn down, it's real money. All in all it was a funny night.
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When I was about 12 or 13 I lost my Soap box derby car playing pool with a 16 year old who played a lot better then me. I practiced like crazy and within a few month I won it back plus a lot more over the next year or so from him.

I once won a painting business, car, ladders sprayers and all from a sick compulsive gambler. I later sold it back to him for about half of what everything was worth. It was a waste though, because he lost it all again to someone else playing cards, then left town and we never saw him again.
 
Wasn't really me betting but I was playing in a bar and my opponent asks if I'd dump the game. He had a bet with some lady. If he won he would have her. I agreed but in the end I'm on the 8. I tried to dog it and hit it really bad. It sank. He was not happy. At closing he's sitting in his car waiting. With a Gun. Turned out to be an off duty cop.
Well not any more.
 
An Old freind of mine that passed away a few years back from Rocky Mt Virginia--he was in the Battle of the Buldge--tough old buzzard--he swore to us when he was a young kid he played for and won a PIG--I asked him if it belonged to a Mckoy--he said it wasn't that far away from where that happened when he won that PIG--LOL
He grew up with a freind who was one of the starting pitchers with the New York Yankee's --in like 1950 they were in the poolroom back home and the pitcher lost almost 500 bucks in a game--cold November day--he was drinking heavy--he put on his Navy Pea coat and left the room--no one noticed that when he left he had pulled about a dozen balls and slipped them into the coat--they noticed though when he got across the street and took his coat off and started doing his warm up's--then he let loose with them pool balls from across the street back throught the glass window of the room It was said some of them was approaching 90 mph--they was a heading clean through the room and sticking into the sheet rock walls on the other side of the room as I remember his story on that one--but he did win a PIG
 
LOL, pretty good ones so far. I was at a bar playing this mouthy drunk for small money. He had this bright pink skull cap on trying to look like Bret Michaels or something. He asked to up the bet to 10 bucks a game and I said " Sure, but it's my 10 bucks against your girlie pink skull cap!"

He lost and I gave the trophy to the bar owner to nail to the wall over the bar......last time I looked it was still there!


Another time when I was younger me and another guy bet on a pool game, the wager was taking this girl out to a movie. She was not an attractive girl. I lost, and I had to take her out!

Before I get slammed by the women on this forum let me say this; I was a teenager then and didn't make the best decisions, but, I took her to dinner and a movie. It turned out she was one of the coolest girls I ever met and we have remained friends ever since. So, in a way, I won!
 
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Monkey Hustlin said:
So i was recently in Ohio trying to get some action. I noticed two average players who didn't really get into any action. One night i saw these guys playing each other, going hard like they were playing couple hundred dollar sets. It ended up they were playing for chicken wings, that's right orders of chicken wings from the bar. While i am watching a guy calls me out for 5 a game 9 ball. I win the first two games and he pulls up. He pays me with a ten dollar gift card to Walmart. I laughed at him, he said check the card so i did. Sure enough it had a ten dollar balance on it. I can't turn down, it's real money. All in all it was a funny night.
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I played for $10.00 and a hair cut.my hair againest $10.00.
that was many moons ago.
 
Way back in the day people were gambling like he!! was freezing over betting Marlboro Miles.... Pretty funny seeing two guys that can't run three balls say bet a thousand, then post Miles.
 
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I played a guy for my wife against his. I tried to lose on purpose and he kept deliberately scratching.
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I was sitting here laughing out loud and my wife asked me what was so funny..... I told her...

She didn't think it was funny.........


LOL

Kim
 
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