Played a bit of Pool

[audiopro]

So with all the haste lately with the hurricanes, I've not played any pool at all in the past few weeks.. Our APA league session had ended and we had 3 weeks off anyway, and I just did not feel like wasting gas on a trek to the pool hall..

Well league resumed last night and I played about 6 games of practice. Won every single one. I only missed maybe 2 shots that I should not have missed. I was surprised, it actually seemed I was shooting a bit better after the break...

So I played the second match game of the night, and it was against my normal opponent on this particular team. She a BIG lady, who really does not like losing.. One of those who blames all the missed shots on the table.. "These rails are messed up, This felt does not roll right, This table is not level" Or other equipment screw ups "I would have made that if I used a bridge, it's to humid the chalk doesn't hold" Well throughout playing the first four games, I was very happy at the end to have had a rackless night and got it over with quick.. I dunno if I could stand much more....

So out of curiousity, what are the persona's of some of the people at your bar? The good, the bad, and the ugly.. lol....

[Deb]

I remember one very well. It was a murky night at a local bar in Michigan. I had been playing pool with a friend of mine, when a gentleman (obviously very drunk) decided to challenge me.

"Bring it on" I said.

We had played 5 games in a row. Bet was that everytime one of us win, we pay for the drinks. I had won 5 in a row.

"Give it up man. You are too drunk" I said to the gentleman.

"I AM NOT DRUNK!" as he raises his stick like he's going to swing it at me.

I grabbed my cue and my cue case and hauled ass out of the bar.

He was later arrested for disorderly and bunches of other lessor charges.

I guess that's what I get for playing in a crummy bar or something.

[audiopro]

Yikes... Not cool, gonna swing on a girl!?!?

I have been the local peace keeper at my bar several times. One of our regulars, a good friend of mine, and an old co-worker named Jeff, although we all call him Nib.. Well he gets to drinking a bit much sometimes, and he can be a little obnoxious to begin with. Not a mean person, just kinda... A Jim Carey wannabe, good guy though. However some non-regulars who dont know him often taken offense and want to start trouble. Nib not being one to back down, ex USAF Football player, has to keep his mouth going.. I cant count how many times I've had to hold him back and a few times bring him down to the ground and restrain him...

Actually I've an even better story about us going out one night, but will have to save that one.... But wow, we have so many different people, most decent enough though really. We dont see to much trouble, although last night we had a major drug bust right outside..

[9balldiva]

One night I am sitting with girlfriend of mine, and a fellow pool player. As usual we are watching all the interesting personalities pass us by. Well, there's this one particular kid, yes K-I-D...who is just oh so arrogant about his pool game. He can maybe run 2 balls, and if he gets REALLY lucky he'll run 3. He tries to teach the people around him how to play pool. So I am telling my friend, "I would so love to play that guy for 10 a game, and stomp out that cockiness." So, she proceeds to ask him if he'll play me for money...10 a game. He agrees, but wants to shoot some practice games first. For 30 minutes he plays 8 ball by himself, and he wasn't egtting any better. Finally he is ready. He says, "We are getting to three for 10 dollars right?" (He meant a race to 3 for 10)...so, I don't want to be pushy, and I say okay. So, I let him win the first. I win the second, and third, and I break and almost run one fourth...except I scratch on the 9. So now this twirp has me hill to hill. So the story ends, I pound him the last game. I played incredible safes...I didn't even know I knew how to, I make some awesome cuts, just beautiful all the way around. He hands over 10 bucks and tells me that I am almost a pro and he can't play me!!! LOL...since then I haven't seen him back in the pool hall!

[audiopro]

ha ha ha... Sweet victory!! I had a game like that once. One of those games you just really remember. Was playing doubles with a buddy on a Friday night. All amongst friends. I had 4 balls to go, but all really difficult shot setups.. No easy way to get at anything. Did a long bank, a perfect masse, a jump, and finally a lengthwise rail runner to finish up.. We all stood there kinda awed by the game I shot. Wish I had a video... :(

[9balldiva]

Those are the best ones to remember!!!

[DEATHTRON]

Lets see, nothing bad around here..however, the one night i decided to go to the university pool practice..some chump thought i wasnt very good so being the competitive person i am i prove him wrong, balls he pocketed that game=0, balls pocketed that game for me=9, go figure, he wouldnt play me anymore after that though.

Zach

[StB]

The people at my local establishment are all pretty cool...I'm probably the one that they'd be talking about.

Got a little drunk one night and bought this girl a drink and asked her to come shoot pool with us. She said that just buying her a drink is not the way to approach her...so I said, "Ok then, how many drinks will it take?"

Not one of my finer moments.

[audiopro]

Got a little drunk one night and bought this girl a drink and asked her to come shoot pool with us. She said that just buying her a drink is not the way to approach her...so I said, "Ok then, how many drinks will it take?"

Um.. Well... She was in a bar right?? Buying someone a drink IN A BAR, is not a good way to approach them? Whatever.. I would have said the same thing sober if I was you...

[9balldiva]

Last night we played league at the nastiest pool hall in town...damn traveling leagues! I was keeping score and knocking some balls around at the same time (lots of talent you see!!), and this guy asked if I wanted to shoot a little with him. It was right next to where my team was playing, so I said okay. So, I play like I would any other time, and I am winning. He asks if our team needs another player, and tells me he is a 2...a 2...a freakin' 2 who can run 4 or 5 balls and get shape. So, I am not stupid, I hang out with a bunch of "gamblers and hustlers." I just agree with him. So, not 5 minutes later he misses and says, "that's why I am only a 3" (?????) AT this point I am irritated, but I am enjoying dragging all of the glory behind me! After playing for about 20 minutes he asks if I want to play for 10 a game...hahahaha...I knew I was winning but I am no sucker, so i tell him I don't play for money. He gets cockier and cockier, and at this point he is hitting on me, he's drunk, and he keeps asking me to get on our team. Finally, a friend takes him off my shoulders...he talked the kid into playing snooker for 20 a game! This kid was about to be robbed! 10 minutes into playing, he comes over to me and asks me to come sit with him...(Note: I have a boyfriend and it isn't a secret)...I refuse. He says, "You know, you play really good...for a girl." That comment infuriates me coming from the wrong person, in the wrong tone...so, being the type of person who can't keep their mouth shut, I cuss this guy out. I am in his face, telling him what an arrogant, ignorant peice os sh*t he is, that he's a loser from a dead end family, and will prbably end up in jail. Everyone around me is loving it all...apparently I am not the only one who felt that way. After I finished and my teammates pry me away from my stance he went back to play snooker, and I called my friend this morning about 9...they were still playing, but for 100 a game and this abnoxious kid was 2,500 in the hole!

Note: I knew about his family because his uncle claims to be my boyfriend's best friend, meanwhile neither of us can stand his drug addic, losin' his mind behind!!

[audiopro]

Holy S Diva.... You laid the smack down on his candy ass!

[9balldiva]

I have NO tolerance for people like that. He wasn't a bad looking guy, which I am sure was the reason for acting the way he was!

[DZ314]

Are you saying that because he wasn't bad looking is why he was acting like an a-hole? :lol: He must be the opposite of me, I am real nice until you get to know me then my a-hole side comes out. j/k :P

[9balldiva]

No, I am saying because he was nice looking, he was cocky, which creates a not so good situation when you have been drinking pitcher after pitcher. This is just pretty typical...it isn't every guy.

[StB]

I hope so...because up until you said he was good looking, I thought you may have been talking about me.

[CJK]

For the most part, our area has a lot of good pool players, and almost everyone is courteous. However, two years ago we shot in a VNEA league that included a few teams from a bar in a not-quite-so-nice part of town. (StB -- you may know the place from its reputation, The Last Stop around 18th and Raspberry)

Our team was doing fairly well, and we were playing their best team. First, one of their players shows up late. Technically, we didn't have to let him play, but we did. That was our first mistake. The second one was when we got to my second-to-last game. To win that round, I just needed a win, no matter what his score. He left me with the eight almost frozen in the middle of the end rail, and the cue ball frozen on the other end rail. He had two balls up near the cue ball. So I called safe, and snugged that cue ball up against the 8. His teammate started saying, in a loud voice and while I was lining up my shot, that this was bullsh**, you can't play safe on the 8. I played my shot, then walked over to my case and took out the rule book. I threw it to him, then told him if he found a rule against it, I'd give him $100. He and his friends searched for the rest of the night, and of course found nothing. They were the same people who earlier tried to tell us it was a foul for us to use our own bridge (I carry a leather bridge head that can be stuck on a house cue). Again, the rule book.

Anyway, I played the loudmouth my last game. He needed 3 balls to win. He told his teammates that he was going to run out on me (again, very loudly). I broke, ran 6, then safed him so tight behind my last ball that he couldn't have gotten out with a crowbar. He fouled, and I finished the table. The only ball he had down was the one I made on the break. We ended up having to leave quickly, because he and his friends were threatening my team with bodily harm. Had the odds been better than 20-4, I wouldn't have been as worried. We tried to get the team thrown out of the league, and found that the charter holder wouldn't do anything because it would have meant less money in the league. Later, someone from that team actually broke someone's nose during a match. They still didn't get thrown out.

[9balldiva]

Hee hee...

[skor]

Just got back from a 4 days vacation, and I tried to stay away from computers and pool tables, staying a way from computers was easy, away from the pool tables was a bit harder... Last night was the last night of the vacation and after drinking heavy at one bar, we moved to another bar that had a pool table, a group of franch guys were playing doubles 8ball with 2 local girls, another girl that I was talking to wanted to shoot pool so she asked me to her partner, I challenged the franch guys to play for drinks and since they notice I was a bit drunk and my partner was a girl, they went for it, turned out the girl CAN shoot :) we beat easy and got our drinks, as I was going to shoot the 8 ball they noticed I was wearing a shirt with the "world pool championship" logo.... none of them wanted to shoot with me anymore regardless who my partner was, althogh I was drunk and my partner did most of the pocketing, well I guess one free drink is better then none :)