[alphadog]

Originally Posted by Black-Balled

I dunno...sounds pretty mellow, compared to the ring game group I used to play with.
Dollar on the 5 and 2 on the 9...no holds barred. People would kick legs or tap elbows, sneak up on you and shout in your ear, hide the chalk, throw the chalk at you, forget to pay at the end of each game, claim they had paid when the hadn't.

Ahh, the things a man will do to avoid real work.

Good times.

The bangers I play with now dont understand sheettalking. I wouldnt play with them if it wasnt easy money. Hard to keep my mouth shut so as not to hurt their feelings.

[ChicagoRJ]

That is MORE than gross. I'd walk over, hand him the $50, and tell if he needs it that made take it, then go buy a handkerchief. I'm not fading that shit for $50.
If anyone thinks it ONLY got on the carpet is fooling themselves lol

[lfigueroa]

Originally Posted by ChicagoRJ

That is MORE than gross. I'd walk over, hand him the $50, and tell if he needs it that made take it, then go buy a handkerchief. I'm not fading that shit for $50.
If anyone thinks it ONLY got on the carpet is fooling themselves lol

ahh, such a delicate flower.

I guess you pay no attention to the drunks pissing and vomiting outside on the sidewalk you walk on, the countless passersby who spit on your pathway, and the dogs who urinate and shit on the yellow brick road to the pool hall.

Lou Figueroa

[iusedtoberich]

Ha ha, well this reminded me of a story. I was playing my nemesis a set for 200 about 20 years ago. He was in love with a lady who was the gf of my buddy. (we were all pool hall buddies, including my opponent). I paid her 20 and her time to play on the table next to us. I won the set

[JazzyJeff87]

Originally Posted by iusedtoberich

Ha ha, well this reminded me of a story. I was playing my nemesis a set for 200 about 20 years ago. He was in love with a lady who was the gf of my buddy. (we were all pool hall buddies, including my opponent). I paid her 20 and her time to play on the table next to us. I won the set

Lol that’s pretty funny. I’d definitely be more distracted by a pretty girl playing than watching.

Did they ever hook up? I don’t like unrequited love.

[Shuddy]

I get unintentionally sharked in Korea constantly. They’re just clueless. Got sharked by a guy not even playing at my table the other night. He was playing in the other semi on a nearby table. Came over and grabbed the rest from my table right in my line of sight just as I was pulling the trigger. I blew up at him and asked what he was doing. He calmly told me there was no rest on his table, laughed and walked off.

Used to play a Thai guy at snooker years ago who would call your break as he was respotting the balls. However, as your break got higher and higher he would start to add his own exclamations of disbelief. “62....incredible!” “84....amazing!” He was playing my mate one day and getting extremely frustrated, to the point here he must have lost count, his exclamations become louder and more vibrant, till the final black went in on a total clearance and he yelled out, “165!!! Disbeliebadable!!!” Mate and I looked at each other with blank faces and then completely lost it.

[ChicagoRJ]

Originally Posted by lfigueroa

ahh, such a delicate flower.

I guess you pay no attention to the drunks pissing and vomiting outside on the sidewalk you walk on, the countless passersby who spit on your pathway, and the dogs who urinate and shit on the yellow brick road to the pool hall.

Lou Figueroa

So, you start a thread, talk about a guy with the worse shark move around that does something disgusting. So, I agree with you and you still get pissy. holy shit, there is no winning with you...

Sorry, the places I play don't have guys puking in the pool hall, or pissing on the sidewalk. And if someone does puke in the parking lot, that's not really the same as puking right next to where I'm playing pool.

So, yeah, I don't like to play in dirty, dingy bars with folks blowing their nose on the carpet. If that makes me delicate, so be it, its' better than the alternative.

[gregcantrall]

Originally Posted by MattPoland

Most places frown on unscrewing your cue while your opponent is at the table and consider it forfeiting.

What do you think about taking your glove off as your opponent successfully breaks and returns to the table from getting their playing cue?


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That is a surrender.

[Ipmtim]

Not sure if this falls under the sharking category, but definitely in the disgusting one.
At a local 8 ball tournament a guy was using his dentures to mark his pocket for the 8.
Officials told him to stop after 2nd infringement.
Can you imagine putting those back in your mouth

[jrhendy]

A player who is not in CA anymore was an awful shark when he was a younger player in CA. Playing one pocket he would lay the chalk down in your line of vision when you were ready to deliver the final stroke on your break or another key shot when he was in the line of sight. We had a nickname for him since he was a young player. I won’t put it on here, but many out west will know who I am talking about. We were so used to it that it became kind of funny. As he became a better player he toned it down. He is a good guy and I have not heard of him reverting to any snarking for years.

Once in a 9 ball tournament at Hard Times, Sacramento, they had so many players we had to play our match out front, out of the usual tournament area. It was so crowded we had to lean our cues on one of the chairs around the table. As I was getting ready to pull the trigger on the nine ball to win the set, he hip checked the chair and his cues went tumbling, making quite a bit of noise. I won the set anyway.

[Celophanewrap]

So after reading this thread and some of the "Shane cleaning hip tip" thread I began to
wonder, Is sharking really disrespectful? It's not very sportsmanlike, but does someone
respect or fear my game so much that they feel like they need some kind of advantage?

I know that in some sports there are some things that you just don't do, some things that
are intended to show disrespect, in swimming you spit in someone else's lane, in track
you intentionally walk in someone else's lane, in Hockey you intentionally spray another
skater, and so on.I had no idea that cleaning your tip on the carpet is disrespectful, I see
people do that all the time and I have never considered that to be disrespectful or sharking. Why is it?

[JazzyJeff87]

Originally Posted by Celophanewrap

So after reading this thread and some of the "Shane cleaning hip tip" thread I began to
wonder, Is sharking really disrespectful? It's not very sportsmanlike, but does someone
respect or fear my game so much that they feel like they need some kind of advantage?

I know that in some sports there are some things that you just don't do, some things that
are intended to show disrespect, in swimming you spit in someone else's lane, in track
you intentionally walk in someone else's lane, in Hockey you intentionally spray another
skater, and so on.I had no idea that cleaning your tip on the carpet is disrespectful, I see
people do that all the time and I have never considered that to be disrespectful or sharking. Why is it?

The tip wipe isn’t a sharking move, just (in some minds) a slightly disrespectful gesture, as in “I’m wiping my stuff off on your stuff” lol. Disrespectful to the establishment not the opponent.

This thread was about a different subject, brought on by and loosely associated with the now infamous tip wiping thread.

[MattPoland]

Originally Posted by gregcantrall

That is a surrender.

SVB did that in the DD match too


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[Jack Justis]

Originally Posted by lfigueroa

ahh, such a delicate flower.

I guess you pay no attention to the drunks pissing and vomiting outside on the sidewalk you walk on, the countless passersby who spit on your pathway, and the dogs who urinate and shit on the yellow brick road to the pool hall.

Lou Figueroa

Keep it coming, Lou.

You have some funny stuff right there.

[Jack Justis]

Originally Posted by lfigueroa

ahh, such a delicate flower.

I guess you pay no attention to the drunks pissing and vomiting outside on the sidewalk you walk on, the countless passersby who spit on your pathway, and the dogs who urinate and shit on the yellow brick road to the pool hall.

Lou Figueroa

Keep it coming, Lou.

That is some funny stuff right there.