Was pool better 50 years ago?

I tend to disagree with that statement that I highlighted. I live in a town used to have about seven pool rooms between real pool rooms and bowling alleys. They were all great with championship equipment. Today we have one bowling alley and it doesn't even have a pool room room.

You read it on here all the time people complaining there's no place to play where they live. I wouldn't call this an improvement in the game when it's almost has no accessibility unless you play on a bar league.


Except among the small subculture and professional players and there's not that many of them that could make a dime, pool is almost nonexistent in the US anymore.
in my area, it's different. when I moved to where I am now, the first thing I did was to find a good pool room or atleast something that resembles a poolroom. I only found 3 and they have no players to go up against within 3 miles and 1 around 12 miles. you can't even find a single shop where to buy some good cues locally except ordering from Ebay. one of the main reasons why I quit and stopped playing pool 15 years ago. now that I got back to playing pool, there are atleast 6 pool rooms within my vicinity and 20 within 12 miles. what is also nice is that there are now leagues, tournaments and communities that got established after when I was playing by myself. atleast, that's my experience.

Fedor Gorst - looking for action in Louisville, KY tomorrow. If you could - would you?

so do that then.

and i would rather beat a better player out of a few hundred getting a spot i can win at. then donating a few hundred to a top pro just to watch him run balls and then say thank you.

two hundred up rather than two down is a 400 dollar difference that really is the cost. if you have the choice of each.
Nice tangent to something you clearly don't understand.

This is what you wrote
although the lessons part.

there is so much more you can learn on improving from videos and on the net reading. than you could ever really get from a live teacher.

but neither will do much good unless you take that and apply it.
With some teachers you can learn so much more from them in person. Do you think every bit of knowledge that they have is put out in videos or in some magazine? So you statement is completely false & just your misinformed opinion.

Fedor Gorst - looking for action in Louisville, KY tomorrow. If you could - would you?

I would rather meet with my instructor live than watch one of his videos.
so do that then.

and i would rather beat a better player out of a few hundred getting a spot i can win at. then donating a few hundred to a top pro just to watch him run balls and then say thank you.

two hundred up rather than two down is a 400 dollar difference that really is the cost. if you have the choice of each.

Was pool better 50 years ago?

I used to love to watch the play of the game. I used to often not even care who won. Strategy, cheating pockets to get amazing positions, great shot making, thin cuts, backward cuts under pressure. Risk and reward playing.

Today it's headline news if a player even goes for a shot. They never make thin cuts or anything that is even difficult if they can play safe. All they do is cinch shots anymore. It could not be more boring.
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I would say that some are overrated although there are a few that are really worth the highlights.

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