In candlepin, the dead wood is not cleared until after the third ball, so normally, dead wood lying broadside in front of a single pin is duck soup, but watch what happens to Paul Berger, one of candlepin's Legends, here:
OMG!!! now that was just WRONG!! LOL and here I thought I was the only one that got bad breaks. And then it just kept raining for him. You could tell that it got to him too.
Erin