Or i can take him to the animal shelter and get him a puppy.
He can call him anything he wants.....
Chuck
How many hours do you think you've spent actually at the table playing pool?
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Or i can take him to the animal shelter and get him a puppy.
He can call him anything he wants.....
Chuck
Banks
Banned
You forget... you got the 5 and the racks and were making 2 balls almost every time.
As for the banks... lol, I have played enough hours since I was 13 to know you can beat me to death in banks. Want to email me the rules?
Banks
Banned
The rules are on 1p.org somewhere. I'm a little slower on my phone.
I'll be taking sign-ups for matches for the next regional.
137000/24= 5708 days
5708/365= 15.636 years
2014-1995=19 BULLSHIT!
Kids, don't do drugs, mmmmmmkay?
5708/365= 15.636 years
2014-1995=19 BULLSHIT!
Kids, don't do drugs, mmmmmmkay?
The original post said 37000 not 137000. Lay off the Coke Walter.
But it would equal out to about 37 1/2 hours a week for those 19 years. So yes its still BS. But hey, falsely inflated numbers can be problematic when faced with reality. Just ask all the C and B players on the forum who have ran 100 balls, and the early 20s players who have beaten Mike Sigels high run. Etc etc etc.
Chuck ~ prefers ginger ale
its actually not BS 37,000 hours is the minimum amount ive invested, anyone who has known me long enough can bare witness, I litterally played pool an average of 300 days out of 365 each year, and on an average day at the pool hall i play 6.5 hours/day. Of course there has been days where i played as little as only 4 hours and as much as 16 hours straight but most days its just 6-7 hours at a time. I did this for the last 19 years and remain doing this still.
Don't worry Rhea. Hopefully soon the both of us can get away from being bangers. The first step is admitting it. With 100,000 more hours we might just get our time in the spotlight.
Plays bad pool too.....
If I include time spent on forums and watching youtube videos, about 20,000 hours 
I dunno...I take it to say 37000 + 'almost 3x that much in pool rooms and pubs'.
So, perhaps 100k hrs is wht it claims, still not buying it any more tha wilt chamberlains claim he poked a gal every 10 minutes for 10 yr straight.
Lol.... I missed the "spent almost 3 times as many hours in pool rooms and pub" line. Completes the BS nicely.
I personally spent 16 years working on a russian space satellite orbiting Neptune, while my wife.... Morgan Fairchild was waiting patiently for me to return from outer space at our summer home that later became the Playboy Mansion. Yeah.... Thats the ticket.......
Chuck
The first 55 years of my life, I'm sure I spent less than 500 hours playing pool with the vast majority of that playing, not practicing. It's probably well less than that. The past 2 1/2 years, I've probably spent 1500 to 2000 hours with 75% of that practicing.
It makes my head hurt just to think about it.
I guess this blows a big hole in the "10,000 hours to become an expert" theory. Damn! I'm only like 8000 shy of 10,000...and now they tell me those 2,000 were wasted!
I was thinking just the same thing...
My goal is to play around 1000 hours/year. But life gets in the way, I recon I will manage just around 700 hours this year.
I would have loved to play twice that.
I don`t think there is a direct correlation between time played and skill level.
You need efficient table time, wich means working on your flaws, difficult shots etc.
Sometimes if I have a week I don`t get to play as much pool as I wan`t. I try to watch alot of pool on youtube, I learn so much from watching other players, studiyng Shane`s break or looking at players like Mika, Earl, Thorsten and Corey. These guys have a "perfect" game and seeing how they solve problems has been an ephiphany more than once.
Well if you have put in that much time & you're still at a skill level that you purport to be I think it suffice to say perhaps while you desire to be a road player, you're natural ability falls about a mile short.
Just because Im bored.......
"I began playing pool at the age of 19 at a place called Ride the Rail in St Louis, MO in 1995. The first couple years I just shot 8 ball on a valley cougar maybe once a month for an hour or so. In 1997 I finally decided I wanted to try the 9 foot table. That is when I learned that many of the players there actually gamble at pool and it intrigued me even more. Most people offered me enormous spots to get me to play with them. By 1998 I was fired from my job and began playing pool every day.
One day I was at a place called Afton Billiards and was playing a guy named Jim the Painter, He made a bet with me that he would put up $200 if I could beat him in a race to 9 while spotting me the wild 7 vs if I lost I had to sign up for the U.S. Army. He had a recruiter there watching the match. I lost and I signed up as I promised. I only stuck it out for 3 years but when I got out I came back to St Louis and began playing pool again regularly.
He started doing donuts in the parking lot with the van. After that I quit pool for a few years. In 2004 I began my own buisiness which I ran successfully for 3 years. Eventually when the market was saturated in 2007 I began going to the poolroom again. There was a whole new batch of patrons at the poolroom I was used to going to. I met Coty who was the only B- player at the poolroom in 2007 everyone else except for Ron who worked there was a C or C+.
From this thread http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=4488067&postcount=1
So by your own admission, theres about 7-8 years where you played no where near how much you are claiming now.
Heres a tip, dont lie. It just makes you look bad when you get caught.
Ive played pool for over 35 years and to hit 37000 hours, I would have had to average almost 3 hours a day, every day for that 35 years. I can assure you, that I have not.
Chuck
