Willie Mosconi’s Record Falls

My Paternal Grandfather was a pool player, card player, and a Drunk. I never met the man, but my Dad told me he once played Mosconi in a game of pool. He lost.

I wonder how much money he lost as well....
 
I played with a guy from school who ran the table the first rack, we we're in junior high school! He obviously had been playing for a while, he hustled the adults any chance he got. Made me realize how bad I was! A friend got a table and we both learned all kinds of tricks and techniques and I became a better player. Of course I never kept up at it, and now I'm like that kid in junior high again.
 
I taught my son to play pool - he's pretty good now. The other day he was over and he mentioned that his buddy's dad has a table at their house, and he and his pals were playing.

I asked him how he did - "I smoked the whole lot of them."

Proud dad!!
 
Snotty said:
My Paternal Grandfather was a pool player, card player, and a Drunk. I never met the man, but my Dad told me he once played Mosconi in a game of pool. He lost.

I wonder how much money he lost as well....
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Most likely none. Mosconi was vocally against gambling. It’s one of the reasons he did not like Rudolph Waderone aka Minnesota Fats.
 
I never play for money - I toured with bands for a number of years in the same circuit, and played a lot of tournaments during my down time (during the day) when there was nothing else to do. I got a mild reputation for being a decent player - people get to remember you and look forward to challenging you, especially if you trounced them the last time you were there. Playing for money and soundly beating the local pool sharp is a sure-fire way to get your head kicked in with some of patrons that frequent the places I performed at back in the day.

Fun story - my buddy was the musical director for the Cirque du Soleil show "Eau" for a year in Vegas. My wife and I went to visit him, and we caught the afternoon performance and then got the "royal backstage tour" which was excellent. We were hanging out in the green room (performer's lounge) and chatting before we were leaving, and one of the main acrobats came in to chill. There was a pool table there, and he was banging the balls around a bit. My buddy introduced us to him (knowing that I was a player), and we got to chatting. During the conversation he mentioned that when he got too old for acrobatics, he was intending to take up a professional competition pool playing career.

"Oh, you like to play? Let's play a few."

I trounced him at least 3 games straight - I remember more, but my wife says it was 3... I have my good days and my crappy days, but I can hold my own usually!
 
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Ross Wooldridge said:
During the conversation he mentioned that when he got too old for acrobatics, he was intending to take up a professional competition pool playing career.

"Oh, you like to play? Let's play a few."

I trounced him at least 3 games straight - I remember more, but my wife says it was 3... I
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Gave him a free lesson, eh?
 
My Grandfather taught my brothers and I how to play, I was never as good as him. I find that like most things though the more I get to play the better I am. Some day's I am great, others not so much.
I taught my boy's how to play. The oldest is not too bad, my youngest is ok, but most of the time he get's just plain lucky.
My brothers have always been better than me, but when I was visiting my youngest brother (who now has Grandpa's table) I lit up both brothers and my son. Like I said though some day's I am better than others.
 
7 Rail Kick

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7 rails, and he knocked the crap outta cue ball, and look how slow its rolling at the end. rail 1 is also a glancing blow ... it still counts but hardly slows the cue ball like the other six hits.

I am diggin that high quality instruments/table and "English" can contribute ..but 11 rails is defying gravity to me. Cannot find any video evidence either .. just some guy online talking about he did it. .
 
There's little to no nap on that rag - the less rolling resistance the better for shots like that. However, depending on what one needs to do with the cue, some shots require a bit more nap.
 
rexus31 said:
Depends on the game.

8 Ball: Call pocket
9 Ball: Slop counts
10 Ball: Call pocket
1 Pocket: Slop counts
14.1: Call pocket
Bank Pool: Call pocket
Rotation: Slop counts
American Rotation: Call pocket
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My youngest son is the King of slop, I don't usually don't get too excited if were not counting slop and he is because I usually light him up.
 
amazinblue82 said:
7 Rail Kick

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7 rails, and he knocked the crap outta cue ball, and look how slow its rolling at the end. rail 1 is also a glancing blow ... it still counts but hardly slows the cue ball like the other six hits.

I am diggin that high quality instruments/table and "English" can contribute ..but 11 rails is defying gravity to me. Cannot find any video evidence either .. just some guy online talking about he did it. .
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I see what your saying about the 7 rail, it does slow way down.
The 11 rail I am calling BS unless someone has a video somewhere.:bs_flag:
 
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