I've been playing for 57 yrs. I started when I was 1. Chewed a cigar the whole time too. lol
What is the longest someone has played pool?
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I've been playing for 57 yrs. I started when I was 1. Chewed a cigar the whole time too. lol
Damn! Well, thanks. As to how long without a bathroom break, it's my firm belief that males over 50 should be allowed more breaks during tournament matches.
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My partner, who doesn't come online, had played for charity, to raise money at the age of 19 in 1977. He played a 36 hour session as the article details.
Around the same time Mark opened George's Billiard Supply, named in tribute to George Balabushka to help pay for his college education.
JV
Around the same time Mark opened George's Billiard Supply, named in tribute to George Balabushka to help pay for his college education.
JV
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Board roads shouldn't end at a bar!
The board road the land rig I was working on came out to the highway right by a bar with a pool table. We were just going in the ground and were jointing up a new section of pipe every seven minutes. Biggest land rig in the world, the lead tongs I was swinging weighed six hundred pounds. Even hanging from a cable that is a lot of weight to swing around.
Worked twelve, shot pool for twelve, worked twelve, shot another few hours, decided I was getting pretty ripe and a shower, nap, and change of clothes might be a good idea! This was on the natch.
I had a friend that played for three days straight. By the third day he was a zombie, just going through the motions. He had went from about shortstop to pure banger, couldn't make a ball in the ocean. He had swapped dancing partners a handful of times during that three days and eventually gave back almost all he had won. Would have went broke had I not drug him out of the place.
My personal record, maybe twenty-four hours on the natch.
Hu
The board road the land rig I was working on came out to the highway right by a bar with a pool table. We were just going in the ground and were jointing up a new section of pipe every seven minutes. Biggest land rig in the world, the lead tongs I was swinging weighed six hundred pounds. Even hanging from a cable that is a lot of weight to swing around.
Worked twelve, shot pool for twelve, worked twelve, shot another few hours, decided I was getting pretty ripe and a shower, nap, and change of clothes might be a good idea! This was on the natch.
I had a friend that played for three days straight. By the third day he was a zombie, just going through the motions. He had went from about shortstop to pure banger, couldn't make a ball in the ocean. He had swapped dancing partners a handful of times during that three days and eventually gave back almost all he had won. Would have went broke had I not drug him out of the place.
My personal record, maybe twenty-four hours on the natch.
Hu
Pretty sure that's what has stopped a lot of people from playing for days.
I worked in a pool room as a kid and throughout my teens. If we had big money games, we closed at our night closing time and then locked the doors and continued.
If I, or the room owner, was playing someone we didn't charge extra for the table time.
If we were not playing and stayed open for two other players the price went way up. The owner usually had money on one of the players when this happened.
I might be in the running for longest time on the natural.........
...twice half way through the fourth day....but it was for serious dough....
....Adrenalin was my drug...both sessions started out $100 a game....
...but the price kept going up....and both times I went through 4 or 5 players...
...never had one guy stick it out with me.
But I know of quite a few guys played longer...but chemical warfare was involved.
...twice half way through the fourth day....but it was for serious dough....
....Adrenalin was my drug...both sessions started out $100 a game....
...but the price kept going up....and both times I went through 4 or 5 players...
...never had one guy stick it out with me.
But I know of quite a few guys played longer...but chemical warfare was involved.
Unfortunately, the owners of our local hall weren't that accommodating.
Yikes!
You have to have a bunch of stories you ain't telling! Cough up a few, please, purty please??
You could have killed people trying to hang with you like Artie did, and I mean that seriously. I have been up three days on the natch working and driving a truck. About three days in I start seeing things like houses in the middle of the interstate! Saw a cow herd there too, that was a bit more challenging. Were the cows real or not? Heck with it, I'm rolling eighty miles an hour in a cabover, if they are real I'm gonna tenderize a lot of beef! They weren't real but I wasn't positive until I drove in amongst them.
I hear of chem players that could keep it together but the chem players I dealt with lost the balance sooner or later. Thought they were playing like gods when they couldn't make a ball in the ocean. Since the bet had been increasing it didn't take me long to catch up and double up.
Hu
You have to have a bunch of stories you ain't telling! Cough up a few, please, purty please??
You could have killed people trying to hang with you like Artie did, and I mean that seriously. I have been up three days on the natch working and driving a truck. About three days in I start seeing things like houses in the middle of the interstate! Saw a cow herd there too, that was a bit more challenging. Were the cows real or not? Heck with it, I'm rolling eighty miles an hour in a cabover, if they are real I'm gonna tenderize a lot of beef! They weren't real but I wasn't positive until I drove in amongst them.
I hear of chem players that could keep it together but the chem players I dealt with lost the balance sooner or later. Thought they were playing like gods when they couldn't make a ball in the ocean. Since the bet had been increasing it didn't take me long to catch up and double up.
Hu
I’ve never found out if I could out-last a chemical player...they tended to run out of $$$.
...I’m a ball runner and pretty good at opening shots, but with a guy getting outside help
I would start out on the grind...put him in places he didn’t know existed...the chemicals
rarely make them a better thinker...just physically more fearless.
I tend to gamble with the philosophy that fear is my friend...it’s what keeps us from stepping
off cliffs and protecting ourselves on the battle field....works at gambling also.
I liked gambling with bluffers, the kind of guy that whistles as they pass a dark alley...
..I want to look down that alley without bullshitting myself.
I used to tell my friends that seeking confidence is for suckers...if you do the right things,
confidence will ARRIVE....and that’s the real thing.
I couldn’t always live up to what I’m talking about...but in trying...I had some fair results.
aiming high
Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil because I am the meanest in the valley! I told myself that true or not. Inner courage translates to your best effort. The fearful or timid put chains on themselves. We both know you just have to wade in amongst them and see what happens. I didn't win them all, but I certainly took my shots at things.
Hu
Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil because I am the meanest in the valley! I told myself that true or not. Inner courage translates to your best effort. The fearful or timid put chains on themselves. We both know you just have to wade in amongst them and see what happens. I didn't win them all, but I certainly took my shots at things.
Hu