When you talk to non-pool people
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So true!! I played throughout college and won a bunch of weekly little bar tournaments and won some gambling too, but sure as hell wasn't "paying my way" through school with what little cash I could win wielding a pool cue. I did what most good 19 to 21 year olds did with their money....spent it on women and booze and gambling other pool players.
If anything, playing pool (along with playing guitar in a hardrock band) had very negative effects on my college days -- staying out all night, sleeping through classes, opting out of homework, etc... On days when I happened to make it to class I'd find myself thinking about pool, drawing pictures of pool balls, reliving runouts from the night before, or reliving the missed shot that cost me the only 2 or 3 hundred dollars I had until next payday. That's the true reality of what it's like when you're "paying" your way through college shooting pool.
The 1989 quake in this area (Loma Prieta) washed some kids out of the pool at their team practice at the club where I swam. No reports of injuries.
As for
-- that was pretty much the comment a young co-worker had and he was delighted when I showed up with her signed photo inscribed to him.
There's a reason Fats and Jeanette are two of the most recognized names in pool. They work(ed) at being recognized.
I am sitting in a fast food place with 2 elderly ladies in the next booth.
One says "I am ready to play but I want to know I will get paid".
I was all ears:grin:
On a side note; no mention of anyone saying anthing like , outrunning the Brazillians, and recieving a strange look from a nonplayer
One says "I am ready to play but I want to know I will get paid".
I was all ears:grin:
On a side note; no mention of anyone saying anthing like , outrunning the Brazillians, and recieving a strange look from a nonplayer
I think those people went to a semester of college and took one class. This line and "I have not played much lately" as you start a match are probably the top 2 lies you hear in a pool hall LOL Every player I met that "used to be good" could not make a proper bridge and had a bad stance. You never forget those even if you don't play for 20 years.
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I hear you, but you have to consider that attending any TS event is an expensive proposition for a spectator. The rooms are not cheap and neither is the food. Yes, admission is free for the event but there isn't much else to do there if you're not into casinos. There isn't much around that area either. That is a lot of money and time to invest to watch pool, especially when most people are enjoying streams these days. After the daily matches are over you have to leave the arena. No after-hours gambling, no players matching up, so now you have to find non-pool-related entertainment elsewhere.
That said, you are absolutely right about it being a wonderful, comfortable venue.
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I paid my way through college
I paid my way through college playing pool, all two and a half weeks of it!
I did hate when I started looking too old to attend college. The bars and pubs around LSU had easy pickings for small change and the prettiest girls around! Funny thing about the way I looked, I was still in my early twenties.
Hu
I paid my way through college playing pool, all two and a half weeks of it!
I did hate when I started looking too old to attend college. The bars and pubs around LSU had easy pickings for small change and the prettiest girls around! Funny thing about the way I looked, I was still in my early twenties.
Hu
On the other end of the spectrum, I was in the Philippines a few years ago and was taking a cab into Manila from the airport. I am chatting to the cab driver and including where I’m from etc and he asks me what I’m going to do while I am here and I mention that I would like to see some good pool. He says “you play pool?” “You’re from Canada - Alex Pagulayan, Johnny Morra, Jason Klatt !”
Most league players in Canada couldn’t name three Canadian pros. Maybe not even one Canadian pro. Yet random cabbie in Manila knows them. That’s what happens when pool is actually mainstream.
Maybe a guy who plays on a table with pockets almost 7 inches wide should have their own
sub forum also....
If you ever lose track of your opponent...check the pockets...he may’ve fallen in.
Oh, cab rides hehe, I was in New Orleans for business when Windows 2000 came out at a Microsoft conference. Of course had to look up a place to play in, and gave the cab driver the address. He said "that is a good place, pretty girls there", I was like "cool he knows pool halls". We arrive and it's a strip club now LOL
I told him, thanks, but that is not was I was looking for. Luckily he knew an actual pool hall and took me there, then hung out for a few hours at the bar playing some video poker thing or something and drove me back to the hotel when I got done playing.