It was nice meeting you Gene. You played some good pool. Billy.
On The Road Again with Perfect Aim....
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Eric would need plenty of help for any chance of beating Chip or Joey. I like either one giving up 10-8 in 1 hole and the 8 playing 10 ball. Sorry to hear about what happened in your match. I just hand the cue ball to the person when I foul, they don't need to tell me I fouled.
Eric i getting the 9 playing 10 ball
It's been quite a battle. they went at it until 6:00AM and I was at it giving lessons until 6:00 am. So I got to keep an eye on it.
This is one of these epic battles that will be talked about forever. It's fun to be here and see it.
Eric was getting a little weak but was smart enough to realize how tired he was and demanded that they sleep and continue today.
It's 10 ahead for 2000 bananas. Chip was on the hill about 3 times only to have eric not only get back to even but to be up about 5 or 6 games on his side.
They both keep battling back. What a great little battle.
I could have gotten some action with Nick nickerson but i was pretty busy doing lessons. i did have a break for a couple of hours so I hit some balls with Ricky, one of my students, but I wasn't happy with my focus. Still wore out from not enough sleep and the smoke from the weekend. It was pretty smoky in there again yesterday.
Wish I could go down there today but I have 3 lessons on the Ill. side of the border. One at 3:30 5:30 and 9:00. I'm going to miss out on the action but I have some good action of my own.
Got kind of an unusual student. i have a gal here that was in a car wreck many years ago and her right eye doesn't go up with the left so she sees double. I don't know for sure if I can help her but i need to try. I feel pretty lucky to have worked with so many players with eye trouble that I've gained alot of insight on how to approach this type of problem. I've thought about it and have some definite ideas on what might work for her.
What a great little poolhall here in Cape. Every hall needs an eric Durbin for sure to stir things up. He's a really nice guy.
Got to hurry. I want to go down to the room and see what's goin g on before I head to Ill.
Too much funnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yahoooooooooooo
One man, a van and the road. . .
It's been quite a battle. they went at it until 6:00AM and I was at it giving lessons until 6:00 am. So I got to keep an eye on it.
This is one of these epic battles that will be talked about forever. It's fun to be here and see it.
Eric was getting a little weak but was smart enough to realize how tired he was and demanded that they sleep and continue today.
It's 10 ahead for 2000 bananas. Chip was on the hill about 3 times only to have eric not only get back to even but to be up about 5 or 6 games on his side.
They both keep battling back. What a great little battle.
I could have gotten some action with Nick nickerson but i was pretty busy doing lessons. i did have a break for a couple of hours so I hit some balls with Ricky, one of my students, but I wasn't happy with my focus. Still wore out from not enough sleep and the smoke from the weekend. It was pretty smoky in there again yesterday.
Wish I could go down there today but I have 3 lessons on the Ill. side of the border. One at 3:30 5:30 and 9:00. I'm going to miss out on the action but I have some good action of my own.
Got kind of an unusual student. i have a gal here that was in a car wreck many years ago and her right eye doesn't go up with the left so she sees double. I don't know for sure if I can help her but i need to try. I feel pretty lucky to have worked with so many players with eye trouble that I've gained alot of insight on how to approach this type of problem. I've thought about it and have some definite ideas on what might work for her.
What a great little poolhall here in Cape. Every hall needs an eric Durbin for sure to stir things up. He's a really nice guy.
Got to hurry. I want to go down to the room and see what's goin g on before I head to Ill.
Too much funnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yahoooooooooooo
One man, a van and the road. . .
What are they playing and how?
playing 10 ball.
Eric is getting the 9 ball............
I guess they quit today. Eric was down 3 games. I don't know what happened.
I was over the border in Anna and Karnak, Il doing a few Perfect Aim lessons. When I got back it was all over.
Richie and Joey Gray were playing 200 one pocket and chip was playing poker so i didn't get a report.
More lessons tomorrow. Got to get it done so I can go to Tunica.....
Eric is getting the 9 ball............
I guess they quit today. Eric was down 3 games. I don't know what happened.
I was over the border in Anna and Karnak, Il doing a few Perfect Aim lessons. When I got back it was all over.
Richie and Joey Gray were playing 200 one pocket and chip was playing poker so i didn't get a report.
More lessons tomorrow. Got to get it done so I can go to Tunica.....
Hope someone didn't have you in the calcutta.
Does this include you? I know.....I know....hustling is different right? I have enjoyed this thread quite a bit and I agree with your assessment about integrity, but remember that saying about people that live in glass kettles, or something like that.
Best of luck on your journeys.
We all live and keep learning........
Being out of the loop for so long I forgot how brutal and cutthroat pool can be on the competitive level. So many times players throw friendship and whatever else there is right out the window. To me life is more important than any other game.
I had one top player packing his cigs by slapping them on his hand during my first shot of a match. It got me and I missed. This guy was definitely not a friend but someone I've played before. Then he lite up a cig and had it right in the ashtray next to the chair we had to sit at. There was no way to get out of the direct smoke. It was kind of stupid. I moved it, then he moved it, then I moved it again.
Most of the players are great but there are some that have all the moves, some suttle but effective.
I can guarantee that what happened with Mark will not happen again. I will get in the players way to see the shot. Even at the risk of distracting him.
And your right, the player that bought me in the calcutta only had half but if he was watching the match and seen what happened it would all be on me for not keeping an eye on what's going on.
I relearned a valuable lesson that happens all too often in this pool world.
Keep your eyes on everything that's going on.
Thanks for the input there.
One man, a van and the road............
Being out of the loop for so long I forgot how brutal and cutthroat pool can be on the competitive level. So many times players throw friendship and whatever else there is right out the window. To me life is more important than any other game.
I had one top player packing his cigs by slapping them on his hand during my first shot of a match. It got me and I missed. This guy was definitely not a friend but someone I've played before. Then he lite up a cig and had it right in the ashtray next to the chair we had to sit at. There was no way to get out of the direct smoke. It was kind of stupid. I moved it, then he moved it, then I moved it again.
Most of the players are great but there are some that have all the moves, some suttle but effective.
I can guarantee that what happened with Mark will not happen again. I will get in the players way to see the shot. Even at the risk of distracting him.
And your right, the player that bought me in the calcutta only had half but if he was watching the match and seen what happened it would all be on me for not keeping an eye on what's going on.
I relearned a valuable lesson that happens all too often in this pool world.
Keep your eyes on everything that's going on.
Thanks for the input there.
One man, a van and the road............
Need to share rewarding experience..........
Every once in a while we have something happen in our life or we change something in someone elses life that really makes a difference.
After being crushed in my motorhome accident about a year ago I've had many people say to me it wasn't your time to go.
There's a reason your still her.
I just kind of shrugged it off but it got said alot.
Then I have an experience like yesterday and I think back to what had been said.
While I'm at the tourny this last weekend I have this very polite young lady,Wendy, came up to me and asked me if I thought I could help her. She was in a car accident 15 to 20 years ago when she was 16 and it really messed her up. not only the multiple broken bones, too many to mention, but her right eye got wrecked. She's had surgeries on it to try and get the muscles to move the eye with the other one.She can move it from side to side a little but not much.
It doesn't go up with the other one. When she looks at the pool shot her left eye is looking at the OB and the right eye is looking down.
I didn't want to give her false hopes and I was almost afraid to tell her I could help her but I knew if anyone could I might be able to help her some.
For three days I worry about how I'm going to help her. I rack my brain about all the players I worked with that only had one eye or had a damaged one. And there are alot of them out there. And their dedication to this great game of ours is very admirable.
I got to the house, about a 40 minute drive and it was beautiful. They have a small lake in the back yard that they share with one neighbor.
we got down in the basement and what a great setup. Excersize equipment and a great pool table. My kind of perfect place.
I had heard that she had 4 or 5 lessons from some pro players and some pro instructors. Nobody really could help her she said. In fact some of the things that she was trying to do I told her to forget about. I could see that we needed to work with just that one eye.
This lesson got pretty complicated and I had to rely on all my experience teaching to come up with some answers for Wendy. We would try this and then we would try that. I can't just tell her this is how it is. She needs to see it working with her own eye and it has to work right away. Not something to work at and work at and maybe see some improvement. We need to get those eyes in the most correct position just like all the other Perfect Aim lessons. When her eyes are there she will see the light. And then the smile.
Finally I could see the road that we needed to take. She absolutely had to get the left eye right over the cue like a one eyes player. This seemed to work pretty well. She was making every straight in shot that we were setting up compared to half before. it almost seemed like she wasn't ever going to miss one but on about the 10th one she did.
She was elated with that result and I was too but I knew the war was not over. We had just won a small battle.
Now we needed to work on the cuts to the right and the cuts to the left.
She cut the balls great to the right but was truggling with the cuts to the left.
It turns out that Wendy was probably right eye dominant before her accident. From my past experiences it seems like the dominant eye still works like the dominant eye until we lose around 80% of the vision in that eye. Then the other eye just starts seeing everything by itself.
But wendy didn't lose the vision. Her eye just isn't pointed right. Her right eye , even though it points down is still helping somehow, especially with the depth perception. And her right eye is still trying to be in the dominant position.
She is having alot of trouble cutting balls to the left, hitting them too thick. This is characteristic of a right eye dominant player.
It turns out her right eye is working as the dominant eye and pulling the left eye out of position when she was cutting to the left. I really don't know how this could be but it is what it is.
Once we figured this out and she forced the head over a little bit wendy was cutting those balls to the left as well as to the right.
I almost couldn't believe it. Wendy looked at me and said 20 years and I finally got it. I had to fight back the tears.
Then Robert got home and Wendy was all excited telling him what she had learned. We did the whole lesson with Robert. He plays pretty sporty already but he also got pretty excited when he found out how this really worked. I saved the second half of the lesson with Wendy so we could do it together with Robert when he got home. This was so much fun....
They both can't wait to play in the handicap tourny this week at the Billiard Center in Cape. And I wish I was there to see it.
This little gal is going to knock their socks off. And I am just so greatful to have been any part of it.
It's my birthday today and I couldn't think of a better birthday present for myself than the opportunity to be part of what happened yesterday.
I don't have to fight off the tears today.
Thanks Wendy, for one of the best birthday presents I've ever had.
Every once in a while we have something happen in our life or we change something in someone elses life that really makes a difference.
After being crushed in my motorhome accident about a year ago I've had many people say to me it wasn't your time to go.
There's a reason your still her.
I just kind of shrugged it off but it got said alot.
Then I have an experience like yesterday and I think back to what had been said.
While I'm at the tourny this last weekend I have this very polite young lady,Wendy, came up to me and asked me if I thought I could help her. She was in a car accident 15 to 20 years ago when she was 16 and it really messed her up. not only the multiple broken bones, too many to mention, but her right eye got wrecked. She's had surgeries on it to try and get the muscles to move the eye with the other one.She can move it from side to side a little but not much.
It doesn't go up with the other one. When she looks at the pool shot her left eye is looking at the OB and the right eye is looking down.
I didn't want to give her false hopes and I was almost afraid to tell her I could help her but I knew if anyone could I might be able to help her some.
For three days I worry about how I'm going to help her. I rack my brain about all the players I worked with that only had one eye or had a damaged one. And there are alot of them out there. And their dedication to this great game of ours is very admirable.
I got to the house, about a 40 minute drive and it was beautiful. They have a small lake in the back yard that they share with one neighbor.
we got down in the basement and what a great setup. Excersize equipment and a great pool table. My kind of perfect place.
I had heard that she had 4 or 5 lessons from some pro players and some pro instructors. Nobody really could help her she said. In fact some of the things that she was trying to do I told her to forget about. I could see that we needed to work with just that one eye.
This lesson got pretty complicated and I had to rely on all my experience teaching to come up with some answers for Wendy. We would try this and then we would try that. I can't just tell her this is how it is. She needs to see it working with her own eye and it has to work right away. Not something to work at and work at and maybe see some improvement. We need to get those eyes in the most correct position just like all the other Perfect Aim lessons. When her eyes are there she will see the light. And then the smile.
Finally I could see the road that we needed to take. She absolutely had to get the left eye right over the cue like a one eyes player. This seemed to work pretty well. She was making every straight in shot that we were setting up compared to half before. it almost seemed like she wasn't ever going to miss one but on about the 10th one she did.
She was elated with that result and I was too but I knew the war was not over. We had just won a small battle.
Now we needed to work on the cuts to the right and the cuts to the left.
She cut the balls great to the right but was truggling with the cuts to the left.
It turns out that Wendy was probably right eye dominant before her accident. From my past experiences it seems like the dominant eye still works like the dominant eye until we lose around 80% of the vision in that eye. Then the other eye just starts seeing everything by itself.
But wendy didn't lose the vision. Her eye just isn't pointed right. Her right eye , even though it points down is still helping somehow, especially with the depth perception. And her right eye is still trying to be in the dominant position.
She is having alot of trouble cutting balls to the left, hitting them too thick. This is characteristic of a right eye dominant player.
It turns out her right eye is working as the dominant eye and pulling the left eye out of position when she was cutting to the left. I really don't know how this could be but it is what it is.
Once we figured this out and she forced the head over a little bit wendy was cutting those balls to the left as well as to the right.
I almost couldn't believe it. Wendy looked at me and said 20 years and I finally got it. I had to fight back the tears.
Then Robert got home and Wendy was all excited telling him what she had learned. We did the whole lesson with Robert. He plays pretty sporty already but he also got pretty excited when he found out how this really worked. I saved the second half of the lesson with Wendy so we could do it together with Robert when he got home. This was so much fun....
They both can't wait to play in the handicap tourny this week at the Billiard Center in Cape. And I wish I was there to see it.
This little gal is going to knock their socks off. And I am just so greatful to have been any part of it.
It's my birthday today and I couldn't think of a better birthday present for myself than the opportunity to be part of what happened yesterday.
I don't have to fight off the tears today.
Thanks Wendy, for one of the best birthday presents I've ever had.
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Great story, Gene. I'm glad you've had a lot of luck with her, because I have a very, very similar problem. I see double all of the time, but it's a condition I was born with.
I have to close one eye to get it down to a single image. After that it's a struggle at times to shoot with one eye (my non-dominant one at that) and make it look right for me visually.
I head out for Tunica tomorrow and I'll be giving you a call in a day or two.
What day are you going to make it to Tunica?
I have to close one eye to get it down to a single image. After that it's a struggle at times to shoot with one eye (my non-dominant one at that) and make it look right for me visually.
I head out for Tunica tomorrow and I'll be giving you a call in a day or two.
What day are you going to make it to Tunica?
Tunica Here I come.........
Hi there everyone and thanks,
Now i know how it feels to be 59. I already thought i was 59 until I added up the years. I thought I was going to be 60. hueyyy
want to hold that off as long as I can. Can you imagine being 60.
:grin:
I'm going to Tunica and I'm only going to play in the 9 ball. I want to really concentrate if I can on Perfect aim. I get to wraped up as a player and I ignore my real goal here is to teach.
it's been great here in Cape Girardeau. Met alot of nice people here and I'm going to come back for sure. Too many lessons to do and not enough time here.
Out of the smoke for 2 days and I feel pretty good other than the heat. It's going to be a scorcher here today. I heard that the heat index is going to be 110. Don't know if that's right but if it's even close to that, Ouch.
My hat is really off to Ray Hansen (Big truck) for his tireless devotion to making this whole pool world down here pretty cool. He makes it more important.
I really admire what he does. it takes a special person for sure and that's him.
If your at the show just watch how hw works hour after hour.
Amazing...............
Onr the road again.......On man, a van and the road.......
Hi there everyone and thanks,
Now i know how it feels to be 59. I already thought i was 59 until I added up the years. I thought I was going to be 60. hueyyy
want to hold that off as long as I can. Can you imagine being 60.
:grin:I'm going to Tunica and I'm only going to play in the 9 ball. I want to really concentrate if I can on Perfect aim. I get to wraped up as a player and I ignore my real goal here is to teach.
it's been great here in Cape Girardeau. Met alot of nice people here and I'm going to come back for sure. Too many lessons to do and not enough time here.
Out of the smoke for 2 days and I feel pretty good other than the heat. It's going to be a scorcher here today. I heard that the heat index is going to be 110. Don't know if that's right but if it's even close to that, Ouch.
My hat is really off to Ray Hansen (Big truck) for his tireless devotion to making this whole pool world down here pretty cool. He makes it more important.
I really admire what he does. it takes a special person for sure and that's him.
If your at the show just watch how hw works hour after hour.
Amazing...............
Onr the road again.......On man, a van and the road.......
Can you imagine being 60.
Not anymore.
Dave
Not anymore.
Dave
Hi there dave,,,,,
Ain't that somethin,
I still remember when i turned 30. I remember thinking, you got to be kidding. I am really 30.
How that high run coming along there Dave? When I get back up to Chicago I'm going to stop by and play a little 14-1.
Maybe you can get it when we play. That would be sweet....
Good Luck........
Ain't that somethin,
I still remember when i turned 30. I remember thinking, you got to be kidding. I am really 30.
How that high run coming along there Dave? When I get back up to Chicago I'm going to stop by and play a little 14-1.
Maybe you can get it when we play. That would be sweet....
Good Luck........
I'm looking forward to it Gene. Maybe with some advance notice we could scare up a few more students to make it worth your while.
The run situation is dismal. I think my high for the year is 19 in practice and 13 in a match. I really blew it just a couple of days ago. I was on a run of 13, the rest of the table was wide open and I had a hanger. I mis-cued.
As the barefoot boy said when he stubbed his toe on a rock, I'm too old to cry, but it hurts too much to laugh.
Dave
The run situation is dismal. I think my high for the year is 19 in practice and 13 in a match. I really blew it just a couple of days ago. I was on a run of 13, the rest of the table was wide open and I had a hanger. I mis-cued.
As the barefoot boy said when he stubbed his toe on a rock, I'm too old to cry, but it hurts too much to laugh.
Dave
Here we are in Tunica......
Got in late and was really beat. Got to sleep at 5:00AM and had to get up at 11:00 to sign up for the 8 ball open.
I'm going to play in the pro 9 ball event but not the one pocket or the banks. I don't play much of either but I can see I need to. This is the direction that pool is going.
Need to catch an hour more of sleep before I go down and play at 4:00.
I also got Joey A entered in the Senior 8 ball event.
Also saw Big truck, Ray Hansen. Somehow it just don't seem right to see him without a camera and a microphone. Almost don't recognize him without the headset on.
This will be fun.
First the 8 ball. Then the 9 ball. And then next weekend the pro nine ball.
Fun Fun and more fun........ Just wish I wasn't so tired today.......
Got in late and was really beat. Got to sleep at 5:00AM and had to get up at 11:00 to sign up for the 8 ball open.
I'm going to play in the pro 9 ball event but not the one pocket or the banks. I don't play much of either but I can see I need to. This is the direction that pool is going.
Need to catch an hour more of sleep before I go down and play at 4:00.
I also got Joey A entered in the Senior 8 ball event.
Also saw Big truck, Ray Hansen. Somehow it just don't seem right to see him without a camera and a microphone. Almost don't recognize him without the headset on.
This will be fun.
First the 8 ball. Then the 9 ball. And then next weekend the pro nine ball.
Fun Fun and more fun........ Just wish I wasn't so tired today.......
it finally happened..
It finally happened. I got so pissed at myself for what I did in my last match. I have an open table and have to break up to balls. I went 2 rails to break up the balls and missed. it was pretty stupid. I scratched. That's the only way the guy could win. Ball in hand.
I also forgot to take my pill for diabetes. That won't happen again either.
I have to get mad at myself to get to the next level that I am capable of. Not just in spurts but consistently.
I only have one loss in the 8 ball and play tomorrow at 10:00.
If I get knocked out of the 8 ball I still have the 9 ball on the bar table and then the Pro 9 ball that starts Wed. I need to get my focus on real quick. This will be my focus tomorrow is to stay focused no matter what and always put out that maximum effort. Non of this halfway stuff that I did today.
Bedtime. Need to get some power rest. That's the first part of the formula.
GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrr
It finally happened. I got so pissed at myself for what I did in my last match. I have an open table and have to break up to balls. I went 2 rails to break up the balls and missed. it was pretty stupid. I scratched. That's the only way the guy could win. Ball in hand.
I also forgot to take my pill for diabetes. That won't happen again either.
I have to get mad at myself to get to the next level that I am capable of. Not just in spurts but consistently.
I only have one loss in the 8 ball and play tomorrow at 10:00.
If I get knocked out of the 8 ball I still have the 9 ball on the bar table and then the Pro 9 ball that starts Wed. I need to get my focus on real quick. This will be my focus tomorrow is to stay focused no matter what and always put out that maximum effort. Non of this halfway stuff that I did today.
Bedtime. Need to get some power rest. That's the first part of the formula.
GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrr
Got some much needed rest.....
I'm going to the convention center to see what's going on.
Mostly to meet players that I've met on AZ and maybe give a lesson or 2.
It sure feels good to feel good today.
Who knows. Someone might push me into a game.
Played someone last night that got a surprise. Maybe I can dish up another surprise.
Teacher and old guys can still play.
Got to go have some fun............
I'm going to the convention center to see what's going on.
Mostly to meet players that I've met on AZ and maybe give a lesson or 2.
It sure feels good to feel good today.
Who knows. Someone might push me into a game.
Played someone last night that got a surprise. Maybe I can dish up another surprise.
Teacher and old guys can still play.
Got to go have some fun............
Finally won a tournament.
Things were looking pretty dismal here in Tunica as far as being able to play. Had a sinus infection that finally lead to an ear infection.
I played in the $200 midnite madness tourny here and was ahead 5-1 and all of a sudden couldn't see straight and was totally exhausted. Opponent didn't shoot well, I just couldn't function anymore. Pretty sad.
Could hardly get to the car. Reached in my pull along case and ended up on the ground sitting. real dizzy. As I got up Daryl from KC walked by. I think he saw me getting up and asked if I needed help. I told he no. If I can get in the van I can drive. Just having trouble walking. No balance.
The 9 ball tourny starts the next day so I asked Ray Hansen to put me in so I could sleep late and sleep I did. I slept 11 hours.
I opted for the senior 9 ball over the open. I didn't even know If I could even play the next day. Smaller field and less matches.
Woke up at 7:00AM in a puddle. Had to move over on the other side of the bed. It was just soaked. Went back to sleep and slept until about 1:30 PM. The tourny was suppose to start at 3:00.
Got down there at 3:00 but I had a bye so I went back to the room.
Won My first match and won the second but the second match was kind of tough. Had to listen constantly to the guy complaining about this and that. Then when He got back to his chair or standing next to the table he was constantly mumbling to himself just loud enough so i could hear it and nobody else could.
He's either going senile or this is a sharking tactic. I'm assuming it was sharking because there was much more to go with it.
I beat him but it was a battle. I missed alot of shots because of distractions directly related to my opponent.
I knew that I would be playing this guy in the finals if I got there. All his moves would help him get there.
Sure enough. The last 3 guys in the tourny other than me all traveled together so they all decided that I just play this guy. I was hoping to wait until 2:30 so I could rest an hour or 2. Only got about 6 hours of sleep. Gave a guy a Perfect Aim lesson and then when I was leaving another young man stepped up and wanted to learn.
Anyway we're playing the first set and I have to admit that this guys antics were getting to me. I had to ask him 4 or 5 times to go sit down instead of standing right next to the table while I'm shooting. I constantly had him moving all over in back of the tables so he was in my side vision. And the mumbling kept up pretty continuously and a conversation with a buddy while I was shooting was pretty steady also.
Combine this with not enough sleep and it was prett tough to swallow.
he was ahead 6-3 the first set and has to beat me twice. I'm racking and all of a sudden he jumps up and complains about my rack is above the spot. I thought to myself. Oh boy, another one of these.
The ball was on the spot. Not on the very top but about 1/4 inch from being perfectly centered. I called a ref down. It took the ref about 5 minites to get there while this guy ranted about the high rack. Then to my surprise this ref tells me that the spot is too high on the table so I need to move the rack back, so the one ball was centered perfectly in the middle.
I thought this was a little rediculous but OK. I made up my mind to really bear down and win this set somehow being down 6-3.
I got up to 6-5 and broke and made 2 balls and played a perfect safe. He had to kick 2 rails and barely nicked the 2 ball and craped in the 9.
I didn't win that set but I set the stage for the second set. I know from experience that I needed to get in that killer mode for the second set and even though I didn't win the first I was getting prepared. Plus i had to put on the blinders. see nothing but the balls and what I need to do on the table.
I put the one ball right on the center of the spot. I broke almost Perfect each time knocking in the corner ball everytime.
I got out on 2 extremely tough outs making some difficult shots and finished him of 7-3.
His constant griping continued until he was out of sight.
Not a good display for pool. He guaranteed he would never come back and I don't think anyone will miss him at all.
Good news is there we'ren't very many people around to see this grand display of poor sportsmanship and sharking.
He's probably a pretty nice guy but it sure was tough to find the nice while playing against him.
This is the first time I played in a senior event ever. It was fun and alot of these guys can play. I had some tough matches.
Plus we all had something in common. All the aches and pain from getting old.
I'm going to get some much needed rest and see what I can do in the pro 9 ball event wed. Don't have any high expectations there. Havn't been able to practice to much on the 9 footers for about a week.
It will be fun though but I'm no where near being ready to compete on this level.
Maybe it will get the fire burning more.
I can tell you one thing though. Whoever I play they better be ready or they will get a quick trip to the losers bracket.
That's for sure.......
Things were looking pretty dismal here in Tunica as far as being able to play. Had a sinus infection that finally lead to an ear infection.
I played in the $200 midnite madness tourny here and was ahead 5-1 and all of a sudden couldn't see straight and was totally exhausted. Opponent didn't shoot well, I just couldn't function anymore. Pretty sad.
Could hardly get to the car. Reached in my pull along case and ended up on the ground sitting. real dizzy. As I got up Daryl from KC walked by. I think he saw me getting up and asked if I needed help. I told he no. If I can get in the van I can drive. Just having trouble walking. No balance.
The 9 ball tourny starts the next day so I asked Ray Hansen to put me in so I could sleep late and sleep I did. I slept 11 hours.
I opted for the senior 9 ball over the open. I didn't even know If I could even play the next day. Smaller field and less matches.
Woke up at 7:00AM in a puddle. Had to move over on the other side of the bed. It was just soaked. Went back to sleep and slept until about 1:30 PM. The tourny was suppose to start at 3:00.
Got down there at 3:00 but I had a bye so I went back to the room.
Won My first match and won the second but the second match was kind of tough. Had to listen constantly to the guy complaining about this and that. Then when He got back to his chair or standing next to the table he was constantly mumbling to himself just loud enough so i could hear it and nobody else could.
He's either going senile or this is a sharking tactic. I'm assuming it was sharking because there was much more to go with it.
I beat him but it was a battle. I missed alot of shots because of distractions directly related to my opponent.
I knew that I would be playing this guy in the finals if I got there. All his moves would help him get there.
Sure enough. The last 3 guys in the tourny other than me all traveled together so they all decided that I just play this guy. I was hoping to wait until 2:30 so I could rest an hour or 2. Only got about 6 hours of sleep. Gave a guy a Perfect Aim lesson and then when I was leaving another young man stepped up and wanted to learn.
Anyway we're playing the first set and I have to admit that this guys antics were getting to me. I had to ask him 4 or 5 times to go sit down instead of standing right next to the table while I'm shooting. I constantly had him moving all over in back of the tables so he was in my side vision. And the mumbling kept up pretty continuously and a conversation with a buddy while I was shooting was pretty steady also.
Combine this with not enough sleep and it was prett tough to swallow.
he was ahead 6-3 the first set and has to beat me twice. I'm racking and all of a sudden he jumps up and complains about my rack is above the spot. I thought to myself. Oh boy, another one of these.
The ball was on the spot. Not on the very top but about 1/4 inch from being perfectly centered. I called a ref down. It took the ref about 5 minites to get there while this guy ranted about the high rack. Then to my surprise this ref tells me that the spot is too high on the table so I need to move the rack back, so the one ball was centered perfectly in the middle.
I thought this was a little rediculous but OK. I made up my mind to really bear down and win this set somehow being down 6-3.
I got up to 6-5 and broke and made 2 balls and played a perfect safe. He had to kick 2 rails and barely nicked the 2 ball and craped in the 9.
I didn't win that set but I set the stage for the second set. I know from experience that I needed to get in that killer mode for the second set and even though I didn't win the first I was getting prepared. Plus i had to put on the blinders. see nothing but the balls and what I need to do on the table.
I put the one ball right on the center of the spot. I broke almost Perfect each time knocking in the corner ball everytime.
I got out on 2 extremely tough outs making some difficult shots and finished him of 7-3.
His constant griping continued until he was out of sight.
Not a good display for pool. He guaranteed he would never come back and I don't think anyone will miss him at all.
Good news is there we'ren't very many people around to see this grand display of poor sportsmanship and sharking.
He's probably a pretty nice guy but it sure was tough to find the nice while playing against him.
This is the first time I played in a senior event ever. It was fun and alot of these guys can play. I had some tough matches.
Plus we all had something in common. All the aches and pain from getting old.
I'm going to get some much needed rest and see what I can do in the pro 9 ball event wed. Don't have any high expectations there. Havn't been able to practice to much on the 9 footers for about a week.
It will be fun though but I'm no where near being ready to compete on this level.
Maybe it will get the fire burning more.
I can tell you one thing though. Whoever I play they better be ready or they will get a quick trip to the losers bracket.
That's for sure.......
Trying to prepare for tomorrow.......
After the tourny final today I came back to the room and got some much needed rest. Slept for about 5 more hours. Ear infection is better but the need for sleep is huge.
I'm going down to the action room to pick a game with someone. Anyone. Play some sets for $100 or $200 to get my mind set right.
Need to get focused. that's the key here.
I got there today in the tourny but this will be extra hard to focus.
Little bigger stage. The same but different...........
After the tourny final today I came back to the room and got some much needed rest. Slept for about 5 more hours. Ear infection is better but the need for sleep is huge.
I'm going down to the action room to pick a game with someone. Anyone. Play some sets for $100 or $200 to get my mind set right.
Need to get focused. that's the key here.
I got there today in the tourny but this will be extra hard to focus.
Little bigger stage. The same but different...........