Billiards, and pool, What's a good story?...?

Question

you can add another one if you want, anybody.!!One more for me!, was playing in this bar killing time, ahd in walks this guy, with this fine looker with him. I had the table was just playing friends!. this guy was dressed Hollywood, had a stick in a nice case, and he sets everyting on a small table off to the side with his girl.

He had his chalk, baby powder, all set up to go. He says you want to play?. sure! how much? was my responce, He says : how aout .50Cents? I said you put a quarter in, and play for fifty cents? Yeah , ok, come on. I beat him 4 games, and I wasn't even shooting, hoping he'd win. so we can get serious. He comes up to me, and says, Hey man I don't have the deuce, I'll be in tommorow with it. I said ok!, no problem!. I din't see him for two months, and one night he comes in this other bar, same way, stick, girl and all. Hey man!, I said, what's up?, you owe me two bucks man, Oh yeah man!, he takes out two dollars gave it to me, left and never saw him again.

Answer 1

Playing in a little bug tussle bar in eastTx regular tournament that was like an atm machine for a couple of us. I walk in and see a non regular playing at back table with some girl. I ask tournament dir who the guy is and he says "some mex. said his name was John". I go back and say hi and we chatted for a while.  After "John " wins 1 of my buddies wants to play him some suggesting a race to 5 for 200. I ask John not to play as my buddy didn't know what he was walking into. John declines the game but my buddy becomes an *** insisting on a game. John askes me to introduce them and I tell my friend "this is Rudolfo Jon Luat"   Luat shows a billiard digest with him featured and autographs it. My buddy still wants to play!  Luat telles him to play his girlfriend 5 a game if my buddy wins 50  Luat will play a match for 200.  Luat's girl wins 50-60 bucks in straight games and then Luat lets go with the fact she had just taken 2nd in a trick shot contest a week before.

Like my friend but he has heard this story every time someone new sits down.     lol

Luck

K

Answer 2

Dragon Im still sorting through 50 years of BS trying to think of the best one .Ill have to get back with you on this one -The A-- Wipe that tryed to insult my daughter comes close the one where I started the Donald Chump stuff from.But I can do better

OH Man Dragon I bout forgot  But Ive seen some strange stuff over the years good and very bad but the funniest is a you had to be there thing but-I had a bar in Lexington NC about 30 years ago restaurant & gameroom downstairs  bar and 2 tables upstairs-One day this road player comes in  there were a couple of kids playing games I was trying to win my own money on a old 5 in line pinball machine -So hot stick sits down and starts bragging to quick bout how good he is and he wants a game ,Shocked hel- outta me but one of the kids that had never picked up a stick told him

he would play him for $200 if I would back him and let him pick the game hotstick ask him what game the kid said for sure its not gonna be 9 ball .Now im wondering WTF this kid cant shoot but the stick took him up on it ok kid you name the game he looks at me like -Come on man so ok ill back you -His game?? FOOSBALL he took that fool slicker than s**+- and we bout cracked up .not a word the guy paid him-Instant respect from me

Bout 5 shots into our second game he starts laughing I look up from my shot and ask What-He just shook his head and said Foosball and kept laughing Half the night.I even made a few $

Still like Lea's  Thats the first answer i ever got from her-I asked a question bout like this one

Answer 3

Got rooom for 1 more ? About 5 years ago a guy pulled up in front of the bar where I was working on a Harley chopper walked tgrough the door saw 4 or 5 people playing 9 ball still walking to the bar when he overheard one of them say something about $200 for a race to 7. He just turned around walked back outside got a cuecase off his bike came back in at closring time he had broke the bar and made a few freinds while doing it .Including me ,We have been togeather ever since he taught me a lit about pool but not enough to beat him "Yet " Thanks

Answer 4

Ok guys I haft to get in on this one. Years ago down in West Palm Beach I was playing a match and had a brand new really jamming pool shirt on that my wife had bought me. I had already played and won my match when I was approached by a female player from the other team. She out of the blue wants to play me for my shirt. Not being a gambling man combined with it was a gift I just received from the wife I declined. I think she thought I was afraid to shoot her because I declined without as much as a thought. Well to shorten the story up she kept at me for the next 45 minutes about this. Her team mates advised against it, her boyfriend asked her if she was crazy and yet she was convinced she could beat me. To say she became an annoyance is a tremendous under statement. Finally I looked at her and I said “So let me get this straight, you want to play me one game straight up for my shirt so does this mean if I go back there and beat you you’re taking off your shirt right now and I keep your shirt? She said yep! But I don’t think you can. “OK, lets go”. Now I need to make you aware of a couple things before I continue my story. One is I had a female Captain heading the team I played for and two is I had just had my hip replaced for the third time just a few weeks before this match. So to continue we go back to an open table and she flips a coin for the break. I called heads and it was, I broke and ran on her and she never got a shot. We come walking back within five minutes and she’s in her bra mumbling "I DIDN'T EVEN GET A SHOT!" and I’m walking behind her whirling her shirt above my head in victory. As we returned into the playing area my Captain scolds me with “RICHARD! YOU DIDN’T TAKE HER SHIRT DID YOU?” I said “h*ll yes I took it, she wouldn’t leave me alone till I did” My Captain tells me to give her the shirt back I said h*ll no but I have something she can wear in my truck, this shirts getting hung on my wall with my other plaques. I went to my truck and behind my seat was a couple hospital gowns I had still from my recent surgery. I walked back in tossed her the gown and said “Here’s something you can wear while you heal up from that @ss kicking you just took back there!” You have no idea how rewarding it was watching her play her league match wearing my hospital gown.

Here’s my second favorite moment at the table. As before I was involved in a match which is the only reason I go into bars and I don’t mix drinking and competing. There was a game going on the adjacent table of customers playing for drinks. A young lady didn’t realize they were playing for drinks and place quarters on the table. Her turn came up and this cocky fu*k declares she must play for a drink to play on this table. Humbly she spoke in a soft tone pleading to play just a game that she was in no way skilled enough to play for anything. Nope, you play here it’s for a drink! I walked up and asked him if it would kill him to play her a friendly game? He quickly told me to mind my own business. I turned and walked up to the lady and asked her if I may play her game for her, she agreed. We flipped for the break which were my terms to play for the drink and he lost the flip. Pissed he goes and drops into his chair expressing displeasure, he’s sitting off to the right of the table by the rack end of the table. What happened next was pure luck because I was actually intending to hit him with the cue ball. I put high right English and hit the head ball off center to the right intending to fly the cue ball on a collision course with this idiot…well I missed him but smashed his drink, he jumped up fell over his own chair and I quickly apologized with a snicker hiding within. From there is was an eventless game lasting two inners and ended with him buying the lady her drink of choice. I surrendered the table to her and told her it was now her table and she can play any game she chooses. She smiled and thanked me; he bought her the drink and made his exit. I watched him exit and hollered out as the door closed ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!

One last one even worth remembering, we’ll call it the double break with a near miss.

This happened at the same Bar, match in progress. Set up is they have three coin fed tables in a line. We played our matches always on the center table. One match I’m lined up to break on the center table and as I hit it a guy on the table forward of me leans down to do the same. I must have skipped the cue ball because it hit dead center and climbed over the head ball flying on to the other table breaking his rack as well. The “near miss” was his left ear; it was so close I thought I had hit him till he said d**n that was close! I apologized only this time I meant it. Lesson learned I never break with anyone in range. This is not nearly as good as the others but what the heck since we’re just sharing memories. I owe you a note Dragon I have just been really busy with things here at home.

Answer 5

My best ever!! I was in this tourney which had a lot of good players. The you miss you lose type. (My kind of game, LOL) Out of 184 player field, I made it to 3rd place. So I get my $500 winnings, and go shoot around by my lonesome. The guy who ended up winning the tourney later comes over and makes small talk then asked to play. I jokingly said," I'll play you for your 1st place winnings!".  LMAO!! The b*****d said, "OK,...9-ball, call the nine, one game". I said," I'm kidding, heh heh". He says,"I'm not". That was a $2000 first place prize!!  I almost SH%T my pants. Now here's my problem....I only had $1100, and I usually don't back down from many challenges, and quite a few people were watching him make this 'deal'.  Pressured, I said ok. Why I said ok, I still don't know to this day. So, we put up $1100 each, flipped for the break, I win. My hands were shaking so bad I was laughing!

   I ended up breaking the balls so hard, I made 7 balls on the break, and left the 6 ball and the 9 ball on the table! After I almost missed the 6 in the corner straight in, I almost missed the 9 in the side2 inches away from the pocket!! But I WON!!

Come to find out, the guy I played was a Canadian pro out of Montreal with a ranking of 12 out of 14. A Decent payday I thought, AND I USED A FRIGGIN HOUSECUE!!!

Answer 6

Hey, that's one of Johnny's hustles! Here's my story; I've told it before, but it's my favorite :)

So I was playing by myself one time, and this guy I'd talked to a couple of times (very good pool player), comes up and asks me if I want to play. I say okay, and he asks what I want to play for. I tell him I don't play for money, and he says, "We'll play for who gets to pick the movie we rent when I cook you dinner."

So anyway, that was that...we were married six months later (it'll be nine years in December)...

Oh, I've got one more...I was warming up with a teammate a couple sessions ago, and he had a shot at a 9-ball combination, and he said, "Nah, I won't do that to you. We're just knocking them around." I told him to go ahead, and he said, "If we were playing for money it'd be different; you wouldn't stand a chance." I unfortunately can't remember my response, but he asked if I wanted to play a race to 5 for $100. I'd never played for anything before, and didn't want to lose anything, and so I said, "You'll have to talk to my backer," gesturing to my husband, and expecting him to decline. But he didn't. I was as nervous as I could be, and just about the whole pool room was watching, but I won 5-3.

Answer 7

Honest to God, this is a true story.

I'm practicing with Julia Gabriel, a well-known player from the St. Louis area, and to date the only female to win the Missouri 8-Ball "open" tournament. And we've had 65 of them.

Her boyfriend is in a 9-ball match at $10 per game.

The guy her boyfriend is playing walks by our table and Julia casually asked how things were going? He answers in a ho-hum kinda attitude, "I'm up five games for 50-bucks."

Julia says, "You're up $50?"

He says yes.

Julia says, "Tell you what, I'll bet you 10-dollars I can make the '8' on the break. But you have to give me 5 to 1 odds."

The guys says okay. He racks the balls, Julia strokes a couple times and... wham... right into the side pocket.

The guy about strokes out.

Julia walks down to the table where her boyfriend is playing, takes the coin from the 5-diamond and put it back to zero.

As she's walking away she looks over her shoulder and says, "There, you're even. See if you can keep your head outta your @ss now."

Julia Gabriel is one cool customer.

Hey, Johnny... now that I think about it she did use the side cushion break. She had been practicing that 8-ball break on another table and made it three times. She came over to my table to show me how she was doing it. That's when the guy playing her boyfriend walked by acting all hot-shot-ty about being ahead of her boyfriend $50.

Wow, somebody didn't like the story. I got a downer on it.

I like all the stories. For every pool game ever played there is a good story.

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Answer 8

I was at the music city classic last year Shannon Dalton and Clift Joiner were playing in the tourment when a drunk got up and went to there table pick up a stick and shot it cause a big comotion and stop the tourment for a little while until they got things worked out

Answer 9

I gotta get in on this too. This happened in a league match. The other team sent up a '2' skill level player. I countered with my girl, also a '2'-level player.

She wins the toss and the guy racks. Rhonda places the cue ball in the center of the table and drives it into the head ball. The rack opened and parted like the Red Sea and the '8' slowly rolled toward the right corner pocket and dropped in.

As this is in an APA match, there are no "innings."

The opponent racks again and I tell Rhonda, "I don't know how you did it but do it again."

She places the cue ball in the same place as before, drives it into the head ball... and we couldn't believe it - the rack split open as before and the cue ball had enough top spin that it followed into the rack, hit the '8' ball and kinda hugged it nudging it toward the same corner pocket where it barely had enough speed to fall in.

Rhonda turns to me and says, "You mean like that?" It was incredible. She wins 2-nothing in "no innings". Needless to say she wasn't a '2' very long.

And to add a little insult to injury, it was her opponent's birthday. So Rhonda bought him a beer.