Don't become that guy who causes other people to think "pool halls are where all the losers and white trash hang out, I don't want my kids hanging out there." Don't be that ignorant sounding guy who walks around saying stuff like "yeah that kid was talking crazy shit so I fuċked him up."
You can grow up to be a person who has a little class, or you can be that guy on cops with his face blurred out, the kind of poor dumbass kid always walking around with a black eye asking to bum rides or smokes.
You're probably too young to believe it or listen, but you will get absolutely nothing out of fighting. You get a little misguided and stupid respect from buddies or on the forum but anyone who tells you "good job" on something like this doesn't know what the fuċk they're talking about. For one thing, you hit him first, you don't deserve any respect for that. But even if you didn't, if you can avoid fighting you keep a clean record, a good image, and you're not going to get anything broken. If you saw the hustler you know it's tough to shoot that way.
Even the best pool players in a world have a hard time making a living at it. I'm talking top twenty on the whole planet. If you manage just to make top 50 in the USA, you probably will still need a real job at some point in your life. That real job is going to be tough to come by with a record.
Being a professional and a decent human being needs to come first. Getting that kid to shut up is a distant second.
