It struck me that I was playing pool more hours than I was working so I logged pool hours for three weeks several times years apart. The longest I have played pool was 48 hours straight, on the natch. I have played 36 hours straight probably over a dozen times. Eight to twelve hours was pretty much the norm.

I would go ten days or two weeks on about two hours of sleep a night then I would crash twelve or fourteen hours and start over again. When I would crash I crashed hard. I've slept against a stage with the band playing hard rock many a time. Same thing at race tracks, put a leg either side of the pit wall, tell another crew member to wake me up in 30 minutes or thirty-five laps! Back before speed limits on pit row cars might pass within a couple feet at sixty or eighty miles an hour. I would wake up, change tires, and go back to sleep.

I crowded a lot of living in from fifteen to twenty-five. After that I cooled my jets and slept more. Aside from anything else I was naturally nocturnal. I could easily stay awake all night then sleep an hour or two and do it all again. Owning my own businesses I was there but I might be just chilling in a chair.

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garczar said:

would YOU risk it for a fkn pool tournament??? you talk a lot of how its safe so ARE YOU GOING??? If not just stfu about it.

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I did not ’talk a lot’ about how safe it is or ever say it was safe. I merely pointed out that no tourists - or athletes for that matter - have been killed in the Mideast due to the conflict.

A hundred top pool pros have weighed the risks and decided to travel to Qatar to play. Clearly they looked at it like I looked at it. Their decisions speak for themselves. Would I go there if I was a top pro? I have no way of knowing.

I’ve been to dangerous places for work and other reasons and one always has to weigh the risks. Heck, I’ve lived in Boston, NYC and Washington when murder rates were high - 2,000 killings in my first year in NYC. Someone with a knife tried to mug me in Boston and I fended him off. My dentist in Brooklyn shot a man five times after he grabbed his secretary in an attempted robbery.

Some American live with lots of risk every day.

HBD again.