Do you guys have troubles like this with your wife over pool?

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deanoc

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
I came home the other night about 10 PM
The wife says"You didn't call and I ot worried,what happened?"

I says"you know i get caught up in action and can't be reporting in,
we've been through this before,same plan,besides I won $265"

$265 and you were gone all day?It's not worth it if that's all they play for!"

"i thought we agreed ,no more cheap pool!"

Now,I can't play pool because all of the guys are playing cheap>

Next thing she asks"why aren't these guys playing for $500 a game any more?"

I explain,they don't want to play because I have been winning too often"

Now she says"what's the point of playing if you have to lose ?"

Sometimes it is so hard to get her to understand the concept

Do you guys have this problem too?
 
pt109

pt109

WO double hemlock
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Years ago, after a seven year layoff, my wife bought me a cue for my birthday.
...so after a couple months, I started making some balls.

Came home late one night....she wondered why...said I was in action...won $2,500. :happydance:
She said “But what if you had’ve lost?” :confused::confused::confused::confused:
 
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deanoc

AzB Silver Member
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What if you'd lost

my mom used to ask me the same thing.
I would come home with $400 to 500 back in the early 60s
that was a lot of money,more than my mom and dad had sved

when she saw the money she always asked the same question

Often I had to explain,I only had $10 to my name,I could not lose more than that>

I still had to get the lecture,funnuy thing when I came home busted,
she always would slip $5 or $10 in my pocket with encouraging words
like you will do better next time.

I miss my mom.
 
Cuebuddy

Cuebuddy

Mini cues
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So far very little problems when it comes to "Wife vs pool". I guess I'm lucky with a Diamond pro in my own pool room and four M-cup tickets in my wallet every other year.
 
cuesblues

cuesblues

cue accumulator
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My wife would have divorced me sooner than she did, if I would have done that.
The main reason I had a thirty year layoff from pool...1973-2002

"if you go out and play pool I'm filing for divorce"

Now every time I'm at Matchup's in Fort Collins and that loud honking train rolls by, I think of her like it's a Deja vu
 
zpele

zpele

AzB Silver Member
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cuesblues said:
My wife would have divorced me sooner than she did, if I would have done that.
The main reason I had a thirty year layoff from pool...1973-2002

"if you go out and play pool I'm filing for divorce"

Now every time I'm at Matchup's in Fort Collins and that loud honking train rolls by, I think of her like it's a Deja vu
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You let your wife take away something that brings you joy and is important to you for 30 years?

I have an agreement with my wife- I play pool twice a week and that's it.
 
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RiverCity

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You guys have it all wrong..... :frown:

Back when I still gambled a little, on the good nights, I would come home, flip the wife a little jelly...... Then I would sit back and enjoy the freshly prepared sammich my wife would bring me.

I love her sammiches, she likes a free bit of spending money...... It all works out. :grin-square:

woman-sandwhich.jpg
 
cuesblues

cuesblues

cue accumulator
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zpele said:
You let your wife take away something that brings you joy and is important to you for 30 years?

I have an agreement with my wife- I play pool twice a week and that's it.
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She definitely held me up from getting back into pool.
Probably one of the biggest factors attributed to my cue addiction.
After my divorce in 2002, I went crazy buying cues, 200 cues over the next seven years, rarely selling one.
Didn't get serious about selling my cues until I retired early in 2012 and needed the money.
The fifty or so cues I currently own are completely different from what I had five years ago except for my Rambows, Kersenbrock, and a couple others.

I love dealing with cues now, buy, selling, trading.
Pretty much what I do 24/7, except for a 3-man VNEA over 60's league...


Peace
 
gregnice37

gregnice37

Bar Banger, Cue Collector
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Sometimes I wish i had this problem. My better half could care less. Only time she asks if I won or lost is if it's a tourney & if I came in anything except 1st she considers me a loser.
 
chefjeff

chefjeff

If not now...
Silver Member
Cuebuddy said:
So far very little problems when it comes to "Wife vs pool". I guess I'm lucky with a Diamond pro in my own pool room and four M-cup tickets in my wallet every other year.
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You can't be a real pool player until you've played "Guilt Pool" and won.


Jeff Livingston
 
HUKIT

HUKIT

F* ks Given...Zero
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I’m sure she’s just thinking ahead, if you win 50 games at $500 a Rack your new table won’t cost a dime!
 
lfigueroa

lfigueroa

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deanoc said:
I came home the other night about 10 PM
The wife says"You didn't call and I ot worried,what happened?"

I says"you know i get caught up in action and can't be reporting in,
we've been through this before,same plan,besides I won $265"

$265 and you were gone all day?It's not worth it if that's all they play for!"

"i thought we agreed ,no more cheap pool!"

Now,I can't play pool because all of the guys are playing cheap>

Next thing she asks"why aren't these guys playing for $500 a game any more?"

I explain,they don't want to play because I have been winning too often"

Now she says"what's the point of playing if you have to lose ?"

Sometimes it is so hard to get her to understand the concept

Do you guys have this problem too?
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If I lose a few times against the same opponent Gail starts telling me to adjust the game. When I tell her I can't do that she gets all huffy. Meh, wimen.

Lou Figueroa
 
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deanoc

AzB Silver Member
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Boys

the point I was making
my wife has never set foot in the pool room
yet she had more sense than I did

she could easily see that I was playing too cheap

pool turned from a nice source of income
into pure entertainment
30 years ago I was playing $500 a game

these days I might as well be playing league pool

I might as well be playing computer games

It wasn't the long hours and high gambling,
it wasn't the risk of the family income
It was cheap pool she hates

Once about 30 years ago,Tommy Rey (one of the best action players in Dallas) came out to the house

my wife got on him for playing too good and bullying her husband

She explained that she would have to bar him unless he loosened up

He adjusted from giving me 10 to 7 to giving me 2 hit and the break

He also jacked the bet and I won $3000 right away

She invited Tommy and his new wife over for burgers,with Barry Szamboti,Dennis Glenn,Ronnie allen, Jersey Red and Verl Horn


Suddenly it was Johnson City in Celina Texas

Everything was fun,until I got a short black guy from the one on one basketball tournament
to play Barry head up one on one basketball
Tyrone impressed me with fancy dribbling and I decided to run in a ringer


Barry was sweating like a big stuck pig in the Texas sun

Barry Jr offered to bet $10 on tyrone

It was OK until Barry won,thus ruining a good day for us pool players
 
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Cuebuddy

Cuebuddy

Mini cues
Silver Member
deanoc said:
Boys

the point I was making
my wife has never set foot in the pool room
yet she had more sense than I did

she could easily see that I was playing too cheap

pool turned from a nice source of income
into pure entertainment
30 years ago I was playing $500 a game

these days I might as well be playing league pool

I might as well be playing computer games

It wasn't the long hours and high gambling,
it wasn't the risk of the family income
It was cheap pool she hates

Once about 30 years ago,Tommy Rey (one of the best action players in Dallas) came out to the house

my wife got on him for playing too good and bullying her husband

She explained that she would have to bar him unless he loosened up

He adjusted from giving me 10 to 7 to giving me 2 hit and the break

He also jacked the bet and I won $3000 right away

She invited Tommy and his new wife over for burgers,with Barry Szamboti,Dennis Glenn,Ronnie allen, Jersey Red and Verl Horn


Suddenly it was Johnson City in Celina Texas

Everything was fun,until I got a short black guy from the one on one basketball tournament
to play Barry head up one on one basketball
Tyrone impressed me with fancy dribbling and I decided to run in a ringer


Barry was sweating like a big stuck pig in the Texas sun

Barry Jr offered to bet $10 on tyrone

It was OK until Barry won,thus ruining a good day for us pool players
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Great story, sounds like a good time.....I don't remember getting an invite:p
 
jackpot

jackpot

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
She knew it going in

Never a bad word about playing or being out all night. I was doing
it when we met and she knew how it was. When we were young she
you go with me sometimes and enjoyed talking to all those characters.
She came to Dallas from a little town around Corpus Christ Tx when
she was 20, and had never seen anything like the action spots in Dallas
in the late 60's. She would talk with George McGann, Stanley (creeper) Cook, Johnny Ross and all of the gangsters that were around back then
with no idea about who they really were. When I told her, she would just
say "well that's none of my business, I like him". When someone would
say to her I wouldn't let my husband be out all night, she would cut
them off with I know exactly where he is and I can call him if I need
too. I also had a pretty good track record, and whatever I won we could
just blow it, and we did. After 47 years of marriage, it wouldn't bother her
if I started going out again, accept for worrying if I could find my way
home in the dark.
jack
 
jay helfert

jay helfert

Shoot Pool, not people
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When I knew I was done with my second wife was the night I won $600 and came home to find my wife curled up in bed reading a book. She wouldn't look up at me since it was after Midnight (my curfew), but I laid the six Benjamins on her lap and told her it's was hers to spend shopping tomorrow. She looked at the money and swept it onto the floor, declaring "I don't want your dirty gambling money!" That was it for me, the day I decided I was through with her.

Wife number three is Filipina and she knows I'm friends with many of the famous Philippine pool players like Efren and Django, who are celebrities over there. She went with me every time I played pool over there in the last year and I swear I only lost one game of Eight Ball when she was watching (all on big tables over there). That was in a league where I substituted one night. She got bored with it all, thinking I was never supposed to lose a game. When I finally lost that one game she looked at me like I must be sick. First thing she said was, "Are you okay?" She genuinely felt bad for me. What a gal!
 
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