What's your worst luck shot?

kolaas

kolaas

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Everyone has a bad luck shot in his 'poolcareer' that seems like yesterday because the odds of that happening where so unbelievable small.

Whats yours?

Mine was this year in competition. I had a really thin cut to the sidepocket, but I was pretty confident that I would make it because the 7 made the pocket huge. Didnt matter much where the cueball would end up as the 5 was in the jaws.. Well it did matter (see diagram) I ended up shooting a 3 rail kick shot and managed to hit the 5, but it didnt go and left an easy shot :mad:

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^That's pretty brutal.

I was spotting this filipino guy the last two playing 9 ball in a money game...I was on the hill and my opponent needed two. I broke dry and he ran up to his last ball in which he missed sooo badly that it moved the 9 also...when the balls finally came to rest, all three balls were lined up against the side rail with the 9 laying inbetween the cue ball and the 8 ball.

now it's hill/hill...

he breaks, runs to the 7 (8 is off the table) misses it badly again...only this time it's the cue ball ramming the 9...and the EXACT same thing happens! Only difference here is the remaining three balls are now laying on the bottom rail. I end up losing.

I swear on all that is holy ^ that this is true.
 
That's a hilarious roll kolaas :D

Memory of this one is hazy but was playing with the owner at First Break, playing 9b, and he had a situation where he had an easy 6 in the side,
and the next two balls near the middle of the table.
I think he was trying to quick draw into the 7 and nudge it, leaving the CB close to the 8.

"but why didn't he just go up to the head rail and..."
I don't know lol. the exact situation is hazy but he's an A player so there was a reason :p

He draws right through the tiny gap between balls, and then it visibly curves into the pocket.

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Another one... back when I was a total noob, I'd ALWAYS thin cut into the side
rather than play for the corner. I've seen the same error from countless others.
Somehow the little 'fish computer' we use for pool calculates that the side is easier
than the corner cuz it's closer, nevermind that it's almost a 90 degree cut with wild cue ball.

I left my opponent this after hitting the nipple from overcutting. lol.
I guess it was my best luck shot and not the worst, but unlucky for him anyway.
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I had been playing in an APA 8-ball league for several years and still without an 8-on-the-snap. One night in a hill-hill match I broke and finally made the 8-ball in a side pocket for the win....................until the cueball got kicked several times into one of the lower corner pockets..........for the loss :mad:!!!

My first 8-on-the-snap ended up costing me the match :frown:.

Maniac
 
I have a DVD of a match between Nick Varner and Mike Sigel where Nick comes all the way back from a huge deficit (9 or 10 games) and at hill-hill misses an almost straight in nine ball in the side pocket ruining one of the great comebacks of all time. Or it looks that way until, the two balls take off in opposite directions and come back together frozen in the middle of the table at an odd angle giving Mike absolutely nothing to work with. Sigel is so disgusted he takes almost no time and blasts the cue ball so hard the nine ball flys off the table. Talk about bad luck for Mike and good luck for Nick.
 
This one has to be up there

JC said:
I have a DVD of a match between Nick Varner and Mike Sigel where Nick comes all the way back from a huge deficit (9 or 10 games) and at hill-hill misses an almost straight in nine ball in the side pocket ruining one of the great comebacks of all time. Or it looks that way until, the two balls take off in opposite directions and come back together frozen in the middle of the table at an odd angle giving Mike absolutely nothing to work with. Sigel is so disgusted he takes almost no time and blasts the cue ball so hard the nine ball flys off the table. Talk about bad luck for Mike and good luck for Nick.
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It's also on the accustats blooper DVD. Crazy stuff there
 
JC said:
I have a DVD of a match between Nick Varner and Mike Sigel where Nick comes all the way back from a huge deficit (9 or 10 games) and at hill-hill misses an almost straight in nine ball in the side pocket ruining one of the great comebacks of all time. Or it looks that way until, the two balls take off in opposite directions and come back together frozen in the middle of the table at an odd angle giving Mike absolutely nothing to work with. Sigel is so disgusted he takes almost no time and blasts the cue ball so hard the nine ball flys off the table. Talk about bad luck for Mike and good luck for Nick.
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Funny but half way reading this I started to remember it!! Mike can be a poor sport in general but man was he fuming!! :lol:

Im glad that Nick won that match. He earned it for sure and the pool gods reward him for a lapse in concentration :D
 
Too many to name but mostly the good luck of other players. When it comes to my own worst luck shot has to be anytime I play a good safe and luck a ball in playing 9 ball. Pretty frustrating to say the least :angry:
 
My bad luck shot was when I won my second wife in a game of nine ball.
Had I known she was the prize I would have dogged that last ball three ways from Sunday. :smile:
 
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