Your Most Embarrassing Poolroom Experience?

I'll share one, not embarrassing but funny. It was right after I saw mike Massey do that trick shot where he shoots the cue ball down in the rail and it bounces up and catches it. We'll I was trying this and the cue ball doesn't come back just goes forward and hit a guy dead in the center of the back. Luckily no one liked him...
 
Was playing in the early stages of a big tourney and was a bit nervous because two pros were battling it out on the next table while my opponent and I were both dogging our brains out. I win a game, smash the break shot and the cue ball glances off the 1 ball, lands on the next table, rearranging a couple of balls as the guy is studying his next shot. They were in the last stage of a tight game, and he gives me a "WTF" look and I just freeze, not sure what I'm supposed to do.

The ref rules that the balls should be replaced as near as possible to their original positions, and they spent the next five minutes try to relocate the balls in the correct position. In the end, the guy loses the game and the match and gives me the death stare as he's packing his cue away.

I spend the rest of the match slumped in my chair, wishing I could be somewhere else, and my wish came true as my opponent finished me off quickly from there. I've never been so relieved to lose a match, ever.
 
victorl said:
Was playing in the early stages of a big tourney and was a bit nervous because two pros were battling it out on the next table while my opponent and I were both dogging our brains out. I win a game, smash the break shot and the cue ball glances off the 1 ball, lands on the next table, rearranging a couple of balls as the guy is studying his next shot. They were in the last stage of a tight game, and he gives me a "WTF" look and I just freeze, not sure what I'm supposed to do.

The ref rules that the balls should be replaced as near as possible to their original positions, and they spent the next five minutes try to relocate the balls in the correct position. In the end, the guy loses the game and the match and gives me the death stare as he's packing his cue away.

I spend the rest of the match slumped in my chair, wishing I could be somewhere else, and my wish came true as my opponent finished me off quickly from there. I've never been so relieved to lose a match, ever.
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That's pretty funny, that guy was prob so mad. Haha
 
the six ball was frozen to the top rail and that I hadn't run out at all.
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I have done that enuff times playing 9 Ball. Skipped the Six and went to the 7. Maybe the 6 blends in with the cloth.

I haven't done anything overly embarrassing other than the odd little sneak fart. The ones that give you no warning that they are coming. Usually when you stretch out for a shot.

Seems that you're always playing a female when it happens.

Great laughs here, some gooders.
 
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Great thread' keep em coming!
I was working in the kitchen of a pool hall and closed up the kitchen' which had closed a hour or two before the poolroom closed up so I had a hour or so of hitting balls.
I clocked out and drove about a mile up the road for a pack of smokes and hurried back-this was about 10 years ago-
I pulled in the parking lot and parked the car and hopped out to hurry inside to screw the cue together, I hit balls till close then the owners son showed up to close the cash registers and deal with the safe... He comes in the door and says where did you park?? I said right up front of the parking lot... He said your cars in the ditch!
I left it out of gear! Oops' It was in the ditch pinned up against a tree with the tie-rod busted and the fender can openered'.
The car was my ex wife's! I wasn't even supposed to be driving it and she was out of town!!
I was glad I was already divorced!!!
Needless to say it did not go over well with her, when she got back I had the car repairs done myself but the fender was primer gray....she still *****es about it if and when I talk to her and anything about a car is mentioned....
Oh' and I have a few good ones about working at the pool hall but don't think they can be told without a lot of bleep censoring.

Rob.M
 
OOPS! Funny now but was not so funny then.

At one of the very first tournaments Str8 Shots sponsored I had one of the staff members set the video camera up on the table to record matches. About an hour later a friend and I decided to take a break and go outside. I picked the camera up, turned it off, and we went outside.

There was a gentlemen outside that was mad as hell at his wife and he was ranting and raving. I had met the guy, at church, several times before and he was always very nice so this behavior seemed odd. He went on for about five minutes, apologized to us for his little rant, and went back inside.

About an hour later, he was outside again and said he felt like an idiot for overreacting so badly about his wife and asked us to forgive his behavior. He also asked us to keep what he had done between us, as we were the only three outside when it happened. We said no problem and we all went about our business.

A few weeks later, I get a call from the friend that was outside with me when this happened. She told me that this gentlemen was pissed off because I had agreed to keep his rant private and instead shared it with the world. Having no idea what I had done I asked her to explain.

She told me to go to our Youtube page and check out the videos that had been posted from the tournament. Apparently I had never turned the camera off and recorded the guys rant. Several days after the tournament, my staff posted all the videos on the youtube and started sharing them on FB. This particular video had been shared and his wife heard his rant.

Needless to say I was mortified, apologized, and we removed the video. However, every time I run into this guy, he reminds me that he slept on the couch for several days. Him and his wife always give me a hard time and ask if I have my video camera.

Thank goodness they have a sense of humor and realized it was not done maliciously.
 
I was in a little English Pool tournament a few years ago and it had about 15 tables or so being played on that were quite compact. I'm moving around the table to pick up my chalk when I hear someone shout "HEADS UP". No sooner had I heard "HEA..." a cue ball smashed straight into my nose passing over the guys table and my table. Broken nose, blood streaming over my mouth and eyes watering so bad it looked like I'd just lost my nearest and dearest.

I wouldn't have minded so much, but the barmaid saw and I had a thing for her :(
 
My most emberassing moments were when I snapped two cues. No, not in the cool "Bo Jackson breaking baseball bats across his head, knee, etc...." manner. I rainbowed a house cue on the table after a missed break shot once and pretty much the entire room heard it snap (or so it felt like). The other time i broke a cue i merely dropped it on the ground tip first (it was a friends cue, nothing special, but still...). I did end up buying him a new cue though!

Lesson learned: Don't rainbow cues on the table, control your emotions...and don't break other peoples sh*t.
 
NYC cue dude said:
Some of thes posts had me literally laughing out loud. Great stuff, and everyone lived to play another day.

Without question, I had 2 bad incidents myself.
1). I was playing straight pool at Chelsea Billiards with a steady partner. I was melting down before my very eyes. Before I knew it, I brought my cue overhead and wielded it like a sledge hammer, into the ground. It was a mid 80's Meucci that I turned into toothpicks. I walked away from the game for over a year after that incident.

2) when I finally came back, I swore I would never repeat that type of incident again. And I meant it. And I kept my word. For many years. Until I didn't. I was playing at Amsterdam West. Joel Shapiro was torturing me with his slow play. Before I realized it, I was embroiled in the NyQuil Cup. When I say slow, he makes Charlie Williams and J Archer look like Butera and Drago. Finally I snapped. Ha, no I didn't. That was my Gina Cue. Yep. Over the knee. God, it makes me sick, still, when I think about it. The whole room got quiet. I'll never forget it.

There is a silver lining. Not long after that I got my New Gina, which I play with everyday. It's become a part of me. I'll have her forever. I just steer clear of Joel on the table.
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You snapped a freakin Gina?


KK9 <-- remind to NEVER tell you any Yo Momma jokes
 
JoshStodola said:
One of my teammates was so flustered in a finals
match of a tournament, they picked up the cue
ball when they meant to pick up chalk. The foul
cost us the match and still to this day I have
no idea how a mistake like that is even possible.
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I don't know how it happened either, but an older guy in my first local league lined up to find his angle
on an object ball... then just fired it into the pocket. I mean hard. For no apparent reason.
He had some kind of brain fart and just shot the 6 ball like it was the cue ball.
I can't imagine how you do that but I witnessed it and felt his embarrassment keenly.

My own worst moment was probably when I was like 18.

I thought I was a real player shooting with the owner on table 1. I had bad pool manners
and like to chirp about every successful shot and cry about every miss.
Over time I got worse and worse with my theatrics. I would really overreact
to show the depths of my despair over a missed shot and how unfair the pool gods were.

One one miss I literally yelled and collapsed and basically made a snow angel
on the filthy gray carpet.

The owner just sort of disgustedly says "Get up."

I have since learned to tone it down though I still cry too much after I miss.
 
CreeDo said:
I thought I was a real player shooting with the owner on table 1. I had bad pool manners
and like to chirp about every successful shot and cry about every miss.
Over time I got worse and worse with my theatrics. I would really overreact
to show the depths of my despair over a missed shot and how unfair the pool gods were.

One one miss I literally yelled and collapsed and basically made a snow angel
on the filthy gray carpet.

The owner just sort of disgustedly says "Get up."

I have since learned to tone it down though I still cry too much after I miss.
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Truth.

But you are still our carpet angel.
 
There was a thread like this years ago, and searches aren't popping it up. : (

The funniest story from there is lost, now- hopefully the guy reposts it. If he does, I'll delete my paraphrase.

He was playing an open tourney and was extremely nervous, esp. because a super pro was on the next table and a crowd had formed to watch him. This guy gets so nervous during his match that he takes a break, goes outside, and washes his hands. Gives himself a pep talk. Comes back in, focused and determined.

He grabs his cue, runs up to the table, and blam, blam, blam, blam-blam! He runs out the whole table. Dead silence. Then the pro says, "Good shooting- but YOUR table is that one over there," pointing one table over.
 
blah blah said:
There was a thread like this years ago, and searches aren't popping it up. : (
The funniest story from there is lost, now- hopefully the guy reposts it. If he does, I'll delete my paraphrase.
He was playing an open tourney and was extremely nervous, esp. because a super pro was on the next table and a crowd had formed to watch him. This guy gets so nervous during his match that he takes a break, goes outside, and washes his hands. Gives himself a pep talk. Comes back in, focused and determined.
He grabs his cue, runs up to the table, and blam, blam, blam, blam-blam! He runs out the whole table. Dead silence. Then the pro says, "Good shooting- but YOUR table is that one over there," pointing one table over.
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Great story. :)
 
blah blah said:
There was a thread like this years ago, and searches aren't popping it up. : (

The funniest story from there is lost, now- hopefully the guy reposts it. If he does, I'll delete my paraphrase.

He was playing an open tourney and was extremely nervous, esp. because a super pro was on the next table and a crowd had formed to watch him. This guy gets so nervous during his match that he takes a break, goes outside, and washes his hands. Gives himself a pep talk. Comes back in, focused and determined.

He grabs his cue, runs up to the table, and blam, blam, blam, blam-blam! He runs out the whole table. Dead silence. Then the pro says, "Good shooting- but YOUR table is that one over there," pointing one table over.
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lmao!

that is hilarious. FTW
 
playing a game of 9 ball with toilet paper attached to my heel for 5 games.....

was wondering why everyone was smirking......
 
"sharting" while bending over to shoot a one rail bank 9ball

it went two rails

opponent says to me, "you sure shit that one in"

he had no idea just how right he was! :D
 
I joined a league a month ago. Last Monday night I'm playing for the third time so I am nervous. I reach over the table for a shot up in the corner, I make the shot and the guy I'm playing says "Ball in hand" I'm clueless . My captain and this guy are arguing what to do next , the other captain is in the mix. I'm still clueless. It turns out that in reaching over the table my very large gut pocketed a hanger in the corner.

That is not the end of it. My nerves were really kicking in after the last incident. I take a shot miscue over the top my cue almost comes out of my hand and bumps another one of my balls in. That starts the whole "discussion" all over again. My opponent was drinking a bunch and it got a little hot for a while. It passed. I won my set and this guy figures I sharked him, but forgives me. Oh well.
 
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