Somebody gotta be the boss
No feeling like waking up with OPM.....other people's money.
Ahem.... OPP ain't so bad :grin:
Somebody gotta be the boss
No feeling like waking up with OPM.....other people's money.
"What else do you expect from a sandbagger?!!"
You walk into a shoe store with 50 bucks you come out with a shoe string.
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Hi buddy,
very first: it s a difference to "gamble" or "to play to win". If you play for money even players- or "a bit" stronger opponents it s just about gettin yourself out of the comfort zone--- and then finally how you handle this.
Many recommend to gamble "to get mentally tougher"-- well- it s just about your own attitude. You can also see it as a sport and never gamble. There are enough exmaples, who are fine with this-- and (just my serious own opinion) for me it s the way to see it as a sport.
I have no problem with playing for money, if the circumstances are plain serious- to just let two players have a real fair game, without these sharking kiddy stuff-- where some clowns just start to make the other part crazy, angry or whatever.
i know, that many ppl like those "road stories" about how someone being sharked, and talking about how high the stakes are etc. -- but each to its own.
How Deanoc said: there is a border-- and if you don t know who you are- and what YOU want-- what YOU expect from this "game" (i say sport)...then you or any other player has a problem.
I have seen so many (also fanastic great players) players being torn down, jjust because they re not used to get mentally abused, intimidated. it s not just everyone s thing.
Everyone has to learn for himself, if he really likes to gamble- or if he s seeing really a sense in it.
Makin a living from pool on the road...well-- i have my very own sense about that. It s brutal-- and I strictly recommend everyone to get rid of such an idea.
That won money tastes twice as much better than earned money--- ok won money is nice.
I love to watch a big match between two great sportsman-- no matter how high the stake is-- if the players just try to demonstrate their abilites- and the pure skill will decide--- and not the circumstances around it--
I know enough guys, who say gambling is the way to get better--- but if I see some ppl already recommending teenagers to play for money.....i can drive nuts. again- that s about attitude, and for me it s the wrong way-- my own attitude. I ve seen too many guys around me who are just got lost outthere and finding themselves later in their life at a point- which is nothing but a one way street.
anyway- you gave that guy the right answer- funny story- and one thing i already loved to read: that you just played for the money that YOU have to gamble for. This is imo the very first thing you have to learn.. that if you play for money, it SHOULD be your OWN money.
And i don t know that many players who play for their own money
Like Bert K says: there are talkers and do ers -- and once you start to really gamble....you should be a Do er! If you re just a Talker.....you end like your opponent. I ve seen never make a Talker being able to talk a ball into a pocket
Dude....that's deep ..