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Pool player vs Enjoying Playing

Island Drive
BarTableMan said:
My Great Grand Uncle once told me I'm a "fisherman". He said my uncles and my dad loved going fishing, but they were not "fishermen" like myself and my grandfather. I think the same thing applies to pool players. Tons of people love playing pool, few are pool players. I think the difference is the constant urge to gain knowledge and apply it. Players who play in a league, play multiple nights and stay at a low level for 30+ years and LOVE playing...not pool players. Players who don't ask for help or seek information...not pool players. Thoughts...

Also: Are people that enjoy pool unique that they think asking for help somehow makes them less of a person. SOOOOO many players would rather make the wrong decisions 1,000 times in a row as long as the decision is their own. Is this the same for bowling, golf, darts?

"I can figure this out on my own" is some kind of an odd competitive "disease" for some 'sports'. Weird.
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Growing up on a lake in WI.
I learned from a man that fished our lake when it first settled.
He was Just like a Good pool player from the sixties, he'd Never tell you the good spots :).
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Pool player vs Enjoying Playing

336Robin
BarTableMan said:
My Great Grand Uncle once told me I'm a "fisherman". He said my uncles and my dad loved going fishing, but they were not "fishermen" like myself and my grandfather. I think the same thing applies to pool players. Tons of people love playing pool, few are pool players. I think the difference is the constant urge to gain knowledge and apply it. Players who play in a league, play multiple nights and stay at a low level for 30+ years and LOVE playing...not pool players. Players who don't ask for help or seek information...not pool players. Thoughts...

Also: Are people that enjoy pool unique that they think asking for help somehow makes them less of a person. SOOOOO many players would rather make the wrong decisions 1,000 times in a row as long as the decision is their own. Is this the same for bowling, golf, darts?

"I can figure this out on my own" is some kind of an odd competitive "disease" for some 'sports'. Weird.
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I'm nudging 65 and I have to watch it or I'll end up playing 5 days a week and then I don't like it as much.
I prefer a good day of playing and 1 day off in between. I also don't mind paying some players to get to play them
if its cheap enough until I get to that level, then its competitive. The best lessons are when you play someone heads
up and they don't mind it because they are going to end up in the positive when its done. I still love it. Every minute of
it and I really like when I get put in a position I have to think my way out of. 1-pocket. That to me is the best game.
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