I'm telling you for sure........
Just when I thought I had this smoke problem solved by playing in it alot I play in a place that is just mega smoke with 100+ players there.
What's really rediculous is when there is only one chair for you and your opponent to sit at and he lights up a cig. Takes on puff and then leaves it sitting in the ashtray right next to you going in your face while he takes his turn at the table. If he was sitting there and the smoke was going in his face he would surely move it?
One match I had a spectator was sitting on the bench that me and my opponent were sitting on. He was smoking. My opponent was smoking and the player on the next table was smoking. It was like a comedy skit from Saturday Night Live. My only option here was to tell everyone to stop smoking or go stand at the other end of the table. I stood up the whole match. Had no choice.
The problem is my health overall has really taken a hit. The reason I can play in it at all is I just got used to feeling sick all the time from the smoke. I just got used to playing when feeling like crap all the time.
Like at Legends. My last opponent and my games had diminished terribly in our last match that started at 2:45AM. Got done at about 3:15AM. We both shot so bad it was rediculous.
I asked the guy running the charts when was the latest time possible to get there in the morning and his answer was you need to be here for the calcutta at noon. I told him I didn't care about no calcutta. I needed the sleep.
I got to the room and had trouble breathing even with my machine I use for sleep apnea. My chest just hurts and feels like I have a chest cold with a little tickle way down deep when the air goes in and out. Couldn't actually fall asleep until about 4:30.
I get to the poolroom at 12:30 and they are just getting the womens calcutta under way. I'm thinking how stupid is this for me to be there. This is going to take an hour. Then even more stupid is the second mens calcutta takes another hour.
Why did the guy tell me I had to be there at 12:00. I guess he wants all the players he can there to bid. For me this is real stupid again. i need my sleep. I'm not interested in the calcutta. With the smoke and being diabetic 8 hours of sleep is a must. 9 prefered.
Needless to say I just hung out not knowing how long things were going to take.
Then when they called the matches I was one of the 4 matches that didn't get to play right away. So I really didn't play until about 4:00.
I tried to hit some balls before my match and knew the outcome before it happened. I couldn't beat anyone. I might have just packed up my cue and went back to the room.
If a person can get some sleep your body can undo a little damage that is done by the smoke. In my case I also need to get enough sleep to undo the damage that diabetes does to your body everyday. For any diabetic you have to get enough sleep or you have trouble even functioning the next day. Everyones body repairs itself when they sleep and goes through a cleaning process.
I really don't know what the motive was for the guy running the charts to tell me that I had to be there that early but that ensured my tournament end for sure. I had no chance. Maybe it was to get one more maybe bidder there for the womens or mens second calcutta. I really don't know. But for me it was really bad and wrong information.
I will absolutely not waste a nickel on myself though, in any calcutta from now on. it's a waste of money for me. I could get plenty of sleep and still be all messed up just from the smoke.
I think I'm the only diabetic that is stupid enough to try and play in the smoke week after week. Who knows I might be getting a disguised death wish the way my body and health react to it.
Today the wheezing is better in my chest but the headache is still there. My right ear are ringing. That means ear infection and draining for the next few days.
I have some lessons lined up but I'm going to call and cancel them unless we can go where there is no smoke. I don't feel able to be in the smoke for even a few short hours.
Some day people in the USA are going to look back and say:
Do you believe that they used allow smoking at these pool tournament. Some times so bad you couldn't tell who was on the other side of the room.
Like right now it's hard to believe that they used to let people smoke in a restuarant. If you go to Mississippi. You can still enjoy your diner next to a person smoking a cig if your right next to the smoking area.
In a Waffle house that's only 25 feet long it's really ignorant. Smoking section and non smoking section. Your almost always right next to them.
Someday Mississippi will get it right.
And someday these states that still allow the smoking in the poolhalls will get it right also.
But in the meantime, what a tragedy for the poolplayers. It can be almost unbearable at times with so many people in such a small place.
I talk to the players and they all hate it.
If everyone hates it so much, incluing most of the smokers, why does it continue?
Just when I thought I had this smoke problem solved by playing in it alot I play in a place that is just mega smoke with 100+ players there.
What's really rediculous is when there is only one chair for you and your opponent to sit at and he lights up a cig. Takes on puff and then leaves it sitting in the ashtray right next to you going in your face while he takes his turn at the table. If he was sitting there and the smoke was going in his face he would surely move it?
One match I had a spectator was sitting on the bench that me and my opponent were sitting on. He was smoking. My opponent was smoking and the player on the next table was smoking. It was like a comedy skit from Saturday Night Live. My only option here was to tell everyone to stop smoking or go stand at the other end of the table. I stood up the whole match. Had no choice.
The problem is my health overall has really taken a hit. The reason I can play in it at all is I just got used to feeling sick all the time from the smoke. I just got used to playing when feeling like crap all the time.
Like at Legends. My last opponent and my games had diminished terribly in our last match that started at 2:45AM. Got done at about 3:15AM. We both shot so bad it was rediculous.
I asked the guy running the charts when was the latest time possible to get there in the morning and his answer was you need to be here for the calcutta at noon. I told him I didn't care about no calcutta. I needed the sleep.
I got to the room and had trouble breathing even with my machine I use for sleep apnea. My chest just hurts and feels like I have a chest cold with a little tickle way down deep when the air goes in and out. Couldn't actually fall asleep until about 4:30.
I get to the poolroom at 12:30 and they are just getting the womens calcutta under way. I'm thinking how stupid is this for me to be there. This is going to take an hour. Then even more stupid is the second mens calcutta takes another hour.
Why did the guy tell me I had to be there at 12:00. I guess he wants all the players he can there to bid. For me this is real stupid again. i need my sleep. I'm not interested in the calcutta. With the smoke and being diabetic 8 hours of sleep is a must. 9 prefered.
Needless to say I just hung out not knowing how long things were going to take.
Then when they called the matches I was one of the 4 matches that didn't get to play right away. So I really didn't play until about 4:00.
I tried to hit some balls before my match and knew the outcome before it happened. I couldn't beat anyone. I might have just packed up my cue and went back to the room.
If a person can get some sleep your body can undo a little damage that is done by the smoke. In my case I also need to get enough sleep to undo the damage that diabetes does to your body everyday. For any diabetic you have to get enough sleep or you have trouble even functioning the next day. Everyones body repairs itself when they sleep and goes through a cleaning process.
I really don't know what the motive was for the guy running the charts to tell me that I had to be there that early but that ensured my tournament end for sure. I had no chance. Maybe it was to get one more maybe bidder there for the womens or mens second calcutta. I really don't know. But for me it was really bad and wrong information.
I will absolutely not waste a nickel on myself though, in any calcutta from now on. it's a waste of money for me. I could get plenty of sleep and still be all messed up just from the smoke.
I think I'm the only diabetic that is stupid enough to try and play in the smoke week after week. Who knows I might be getting a disguised death wish the way my body and health react to it.
Today the wheezing is better in my chest but the headache is still there. My right ear are ringing. That means ear infection and draining for the next few days.
I have some lessons lined up but I'm going to call and cancel them unless we can go where there is no smoke. I don't feel able to be in the smoke for even a few short hours.
Some day people in the USA are going to look back and say:
Do you believe that they used allow smoking at these pool tournament. Some times so bad you couldn't tell who was on the other side of the room.
Like right now it's hard to believe that they used to let people smoke in a restuarant. If you go to Mississippi. You can still enjoy your diner next to a person smoking a cig if your right next to the smoking area.
In a Waffle house that's only 25 feet long it's really ignorant. Smoking section and non smoking section. Your almost always right next to them.
Someday Mississippi will get it right.
And someday these states that still allow the smoking in the poolhalls will get it right also.
But in the meantime, what a tragedy for the poolplayers. It can be almost unbearable at times with so many people in such a small place.
I talk to the players and they all hate it.
If everyone hates it so much, incluing most of the smokers, why does it continue?
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