Hello fellow pool junkies! I broke the rule by posting before I introduced myself.. (shame on me) but I have been a long time lurker, enjoying reading interesting discussions and clicking valuable links the past couple of years, so thanks for that. Anyways, I now want to actively join the AZB online community and share my thoughts and appreciation once in a while. So here I am, over 10 years into the game and ADDICTED! I'm making as many hours on the table as possible and playing competitive as well. Started off with 8 and 9 ball, probably like most of us, but grew a liking for 10 ball and especially straight pool. However, since about a year 1 pocket has become my #1 choice of game to play. I just love the depth, the strategy, the patience and the skill that is required to play this game. Most people find it boring, but you can wake me up for a 1p game any time of day. It's the best game to challenge myself and to test my abilities. But enough about me, I'm excited to join you all, because I think pool is an amazing game that deserves much more credit than it gets at the moment. It's a game/sport with a relatively bad reputation and organization, but with so much potential (we can learn a lot from Asia). From the moment I started playing it has become one of my goals in life: to help grow the popularity game, even if it is just on a local level, and to make people enthousiastic about pool. Because what a great game it is!