Just curious, need to ask, what rules are you using? Most of rules I know of, BCA, ACS for example, the table is always open after the break. Fortunately i can't seem to remeber any really dumb thing I might have done, however, I do remember a lot of missed opportunities (dogs) in a variety of games.
Your most bone-headed move in pool
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APA-If it falls on the break, that's your group. No open table unless you make balls in both groups.
Ok, thanks, forgot that was an APA thing.
I'm sure you'll never do that with your new $1000 Predator.
Based on the emoticon, I guess this is a dig that I don't deserve the cue I won because I've made such a stupid mistake at the pool table? What skill level is appropriate for winning a drawing or owning nice equipment?
I'm sure it's not going to prevent me from making a huge mental mistake like this again though to answer your statement.
lol Not a dig at all. I had just read about the winners and meant to convey mock jealousy of your win. Apologies for the ambiguous red face.
<- sorry did it again. :sorry: :grin:lol Not a dig at all. I had just read about the winners and meant to convey mock jealousy of your win. Apologies for the ambiguous red face.
No worries, that's why I ask before being too much of a jerk in response. Too hard to read intent via tiny smiley faces. I do wish it could prevent my bonehead mistakes though.
Major Fail Hardtimes Bellflower/twice
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About 10 years ago, I started playing again after 25 year layoff(school, marriage, kids, career...yada yada) and joined a league.
Was getting back on the bicycle..
Decided to step off the comfort of the porch and try my first HT tournament with the big boys.
We flipped, I break.
I was nervous. I tried to break hard. Really hard. Too hard.
Lunging forward, out of control,I totally missed the cueball, and ended up with the cb wedged under the shaft about midway between the tip and my bridge.:embarrassed2:
Opponent said break again.
I did it again...same fkn thing..:embarrassed2::embarrassed2::angry:
Opponent was trying not to laugh and said break again.
I decided instead, that I wasn't ready for HT, the home of champions. I unscrewed and returned to the porch for more practice and seasoning.
...I've never had that same break result again in the 10 years since.
but have still managed to embarrass myself often enough other ways.
:embarrassed2::embarrassed2:
About 10 years ago, I started playing again after 25 year layoff(school, marriage, kids, career...yada yada) and joined a league.
Was getting back on the bicycle..
Decided to step off the comfort of the porch and try my first HT tournament with the big boys.
We flipped, I break.
I was nervous. I tried to break hard. Really hard. Too hard.
Lunging forward, out of control,I totally missed the cueball, and ended up with the cb wedged under the shaft about midway between the tip and my bridge.:embarrassed2:
Opponent said break again.
I did it again...same fkn thing..:embarrassed2::embarrassed2::angry:
Opponent was trying not to laugh and said break again.
I decided instead, that I wasn't ready for HT, the home of champions. I unscrewed and returned to the porch for more practice and seasoning.
...I've never had that same break result again in the 10 years since.
but have still managed to embarrass myself often enough other ways.
This is not about me but a team mate on my Sunday night 8 ball league. He likes to break with lots of top spin on the cue ball. He apparently enjoys shooting while the cue ball is frozen on the foot rail if he makes a ball on the break. Who am I to question his strategy? He has been playing pool for at least a couple decades, without really improving much. I don't usually drink alcohol, my team mate has enough scotch for me, my wife and himself, and that's usually before our 7pm league even starts. Everyone gets to break 2 of 4 games each match. It has become common to hear the sound of the cue ball clanking the ferule and seeing the cue ball trickling down the table at about 1/2 mph often missing the entire rack, sometimes on both of his break opportunity's.:rotflmao1::rotflmao1::rotflmao1:
This happened to me as well.
Was playing 8-ball scotch doubles. My turn at the table, I just stepped up to bat, zeroed in on the next ball and fired it into the corner pocket, fell on the next object ball perfect when my friend pointed out I was using the 9-ball as the cue ball.
Bonehead move.
In my defense however, the cue ball we were using was an ultra stained yellow measles ball, almost the same yellow as the 9-ball stripe.
But does that mean my concentration was just so peaked, I was in ultimate focus on the object ball, contact point, etc? Or was it the double shot of vodka that I was served before the game?
lol yeah didn't even know it after I hit it. I blame practicing with object balls when the cue ball is crappy.This happened to me as well.
Was playing 8-ball scotch doubles. My turn at the table, I just stepped up to bat, zeroed in on the next ball and fired it into the corner pocket, fell on the next object ball perfect when my friend pointed out I was using the 9-ball as the cue ball.
Bonehead move.
In my defense however, the cue ball we were using was an ultra stained yellow measles ball, almost the same yellow as the 9-ball stripe.
But does that mean my concentration was just so peaked, I was in ultimate focus on the object ball, contact point, etc? Or was it the double shot of vodka that I was served before the game?
How do you deal with the shame?
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Last year I was playing in a doubles game, which is to decide the match winner after singles went 3 all.
First game, race to 2, versus a former pro-snooker player and his less accomplished partner.
Toward the end of that first game, we succeed with a snooker, achieving 2 shots carry with the black pretty much over the head end corner pocket.... a gift win....
I'm high fiving my team mates and then notice my doubles partner heading to the bathroom. Bladder under pressure, I follow, thinking I may have some uncomfortable time ahead at the table if I don't take the opportunity.
Upon returning to the room, murmers alerted me that things weren't all right. When arriving at the table I was told we had 30 seconds to play our shot. My opponent had thought it was my turn, when in fact it was his. I'd assumed he'd pocketed the black before heading to the toilet
Panicked, with him still in the bathroom washing his hands, I potted the black ball, shortly thereafter called a foul upon for playing out of turn.
Never seen this happen in 30+ years of league pool, so was quite surprised when I broke and ran the next rack... but the ex snooker pro returned the favor in the deciding rack.
We were destined to lose that match, I'm sure. LOL
First game, race to 2, versus a former pro-snooker player and his less accomplished partner.
Toward the end of that first game, we succeed with a snooker, achieving 2 shots carry with the black pretty much over the head end corner pocket.... a gift win....
I'm high fiving my team mates and then notice my doubles partner heading to the bathroom. Bladder under pressure, I follow, thinking I may have some uncomfortable time ahead at the table if I don't take the opportunity.
Upon returning to the room, murmers alerted me that things weren't all right. When arriving at the table I was told we had 30 seconds to play our shot. My opponent had thought it was my turn, when in fact it was his. I'd assumed he'd pocketed the black before heading to the toilet
Panicked, with him still in the bathroom washing his hands, I potted the black ball, shortly thereafter called a foul upon for playing out of turn.
Never seen this happen in 30+ years of league pool, so was quite surprised when I broke and ran the next rack... but the ex snooker pro returned the favor in the deciding rack.
We were destined to lose that match, I'm sure. LOL
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This happened to me as well.
Was playing 8-ball scotch doubles. My turn at the table, I just stepped up to bat, zeroed in on the next ball and fired it into the corner pocket, fell on the next object ball perfect when my friend pointed out I was using the 9-ball as the cue ball.
Bonehead move.
In my defense however, the cue ball we were using was an ultra stained yellow measles ball, almost the same yellow as the 9-ball stripe.
But does that mean my concentration was just so peaked, I was in ultimate focus on the object ball, contact point, etc? Or was it the double shot of vodka that I was served before the game?
While I've never mistaken an OB for a CB, I twice, in 2 frames, hit the wrong ball in the 9 ball Nationals, not being familiar with the set colors they were using. I lost from 4-0 up, in a race to 7 I think. After that, I began to doubt my bone head self on every decision.
Colin
I've missed several balls in hand over the years...not from lack of focus of course. It's because the shots were really at a very tough angle! Mitch
The 1/2mph miscue break can be a fabulous strategy! Perhaps you're not recognizing yours mate's genius? LOL
Upon returning to Australia, where UK 2 shot rules the pool landscape, after having played US pool in China for 6 years, I picked the CB up to place it BIH about 6 times in league play my first year.. once as an umpire.\Playing 8-ball, my opponent scratched from the break. I took a ball in hand from the kitchen but from the foot end of the table.
I got called all kinds of versions of Bone Head from my team mates! :grin-square:
Colin
