A Thread for the Non-Pool Gambles

CocoboloCowboy

CocoboloCowboy

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I know there are a lot of members who do not Gamble on their Pool Skill, they play the game for fun, recreation, and the beauty of the game.

I am one who by my definition does not Gamble on Pool. My reasons is very simple, I do not hove money for gamble, also I find when "MONEY" gets over a $1.00/Set, a $.25/Game, or a Cold Drink the money at risk becomes a major distraction
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to my personal best play.

I am curious why the other Non Gambling Member sdon't gamble, I know we have some student living on a tight budgets here, and young people with families & kids who also are living a budgets?

I do love to got to the Casino one in a Blue Moon, and gamble playing a few slots, throw some dice, but that is for the most part luck.

Also I do try and play in a weekly local Pool tournament, but after the entry fee is paid the money is forgot, and and seem to present no distraction to my play.
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Let here from some non Pool Gamblers.
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I'm a married man with two car payments, a motorcycle payment, a mortgage, a wife with student loans and some other bills. I work hard for my money, a full time job and a small family business. I am more interested in keeping the bill collectors off of my back than I am about winning or losing a few bucks playing pool.

Don't get me wrong, a small friendly wager is fun from time to time I just don't need to do it in order to enjoy the game.
 
I have no problem with gambling. I used to gamble at pool but just didn't like all the issues that seem to come up from it. If you win, some players would complain and act like an ass or would want to adjust after every set until they could finally win. Occasionally, players may want a physical altercation. Also, many of the people that I play with I like, and don't really want to take their money or lose mine :) I've just come to enjoy the competition of tournaments. Where I live, I can play a tournament somewhere in town every night of the week and twice on Saturday.
 
I do not hove money for gamble
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Best reason ever to not get in the game...period.

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also I find when "MONEY" gets over a $1.00/Set, a $.25/Game, or a Cold Drink the money at risk becomes a major distraction to my personal best play.
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This comes into play when you consider quote 1. Otherwise,not so much.

I gamble very little (probably kinda lying there,but not meaning too) and I do it with guys I KNOW I play even or better then by a smidge.

I also keep it cheap.

Might lose 20 or 40 over a weekend,might win it back the next ect.

It does offer some "buckle down" incentive fwiw.Not a bad thing imo.
 
I may bet on a set or two a couple of times a year, but in general don't gamble. I would rather save up the money I would risk in a game to buy cues! I also like to have fun, and putting money on the game takes the fun out. I mainly play to have fun and relax, and gambling makes me think and concentrate more than I really want to when I go to a pool hall.

The main effect it has had on my game is related to safety play. Because I am not penalized when I miss, I generally try to run out no matter what, and losing a game if I leave someone out is not a concern. I might actually be better off if I did gamble if I played in a ring game where no safeties are allowed.
 
I don't gamble because nothing good can come from it. I've seen too many arguments get started over people losing money. Just last week these guys were in a ring game here and I was over playing the slot machines. One of the guys came over all pissed off because he lost about 70 bucks. He was sitting there slapping the buttons on the machine and just being real irritable. I hate that in a person. Granted, not everyone is like that but I've yet to meet the person that says "Hey, I just lost a hundred bucks, man I feel great."

Screw that, my livelihood doesn't depend on taking money from people gambling on pool.

And hey, I don't like losing money either.
MULLY
 
dardusm said:
I have no problem with gambling. I used to gamble at pool but just didn't like all the issues that seem to come up from it. If you win, some players would complain and act like an ass or would want to adjust after every set until they could finally win. Occasionally, players may want a physical altercation. Also, many of the people that I play with I like, and don't really want to take their money or lose mine :) I've just come to enjoy the competition of tournaments. Where I live, I can play a tournament somewhere in town every night of the week and twice on Saturday.
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I agree. Gambling can sometimes just make thing silly. You win, and the guy won't quit... And I honestly don't have the time play for 4-6+ hours most days.

The money really doesn't bother me. Intact, if a gamble with someone good, just to play someone good and win.... He can keep it. I got what I wanted out of it.
 
I don't gamble because I think it takes away from the game. Some people are gamblers and play pool because it is a way to gamble, other people just don't see any point in gambling. The only gambling I do is low-stakes poker (no hold 'em type games either) and that is just because that is the only way to keep score. I just don't see the point of gambling when there is another way to keep score. If I win I feel guilty, if I lose I'm pissed off, doesn't make sense to me to be in either of those situations.
Personally, I think one of the reasons pool is hurting is that a great number of pool players played for the love of gamble, not the love of pool. Now that with the proliferation of casinos they can find easier ways to gamble, they've gravitated towards them.

BTW, I think most successful gamblers don't gamble. They make sure in the long run they arrange games in which they're likely to win.
 
The Other Side

I have always gambled on Pool. From a teenager for $1 a game up to
$3,500 a set. I play tournaments and I gamble, I do not play for free.

Gambling, especially large, has taught me a lot about life and myself, as well as just playing. I learned a lot about myself when I made that long hard cut on the 9 ball hill-to-hill for a my first $1,000 set.

Gambling breds self-assurance into a person if you are smart about it. Of course, there are many who aren't smart about it.

For you non-gamblers, "Fortune favors the brave".
 
Those that hate to lose so much like to win just as much: for every high there is a low. Your button banger- prob as likely to 'buy the bar a round' when he wins.

I don't like losing money either. Playing for money has made me play better, for sure.

What kind of pool forum is this anyway? Have we forgotten one of our 1564561 Commandments: Money won is twice as sweet as money earned:wink: ?

mullyman said:
I don't gamble because nothing good can come from it. I've seen too many arguments get started over people losing money. Just last week these guys were in a ring game here and I was over playing the slot machines. One of the guys came over all pissed off because he lost about 70 bucks. He was sitting there slapping the buttons on the machine and just being real irritable. I hate that in a person. Granted, not everyone is like that but I've yet to meet the person that says "Hey, I just lost a hundred bucks, man I feel great."

Screw that, my livelihood doesn't depend on taking money from people gambling on pool.

And hey, I don't like losing money either.
MULLY
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Black-Balled said:
... Money won is twice as sweet as money earned...
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Disagreed with that line from the first time I heard it in TCOM. Maybe it is my Yankee work ethic showing through. Maybe it is also why, despite my ancestors being in the "land of oppourtunity" for near 400 years, I'm still broke. lol.
 
Snapshot9 said:
For you non-gamblers, "Fortune favors the brave".
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Been to war, seen combat, lived to tell about it.

Beat cancer - not once - but twice.

I put my life on the line and patrolled the streets as a cop every night for 5+ years...

I don't think I have a problem with bravery.

About 25 years ago, I looked around the pool hall I played at and I saw 10-15 examples of what I did not want to become in life. I've known lots of people that gambled their entire life and they had nothing to show for it except mounting debts and broken relationships. I've seen many of the best gamblers live from wager to wager, from bet to bet, eventually they all died broke. Every last one of them.

This leads me to believe that there is no pot of gold at the end of that rainbow. Your experience may be different than mine, but I have never met a pool player that found the pot of gold - and if they did - they pissed it up a rope or lost it all afterwards. It's a cycle.

Most of the successful and financially well off people that I know (in and out of pool) are successful because they have worked their asses off.

Myself, I stopped gambling many years ago. It caused me nothing but problems - win or lose - I was always chasing a bigger pay day - and it was addictive and destructive in my life. I stopped and I could care less what anybody has to say about it. My life is better because of it.

I have nothing against those who do gamble - with the exception of those that insinuate that their must be a lack of testicular fortitude in those that don't - without knowing the entire story. Each case is different and we each make decisions in our lives based on our experiences.

In my experience, gambling destroyed several relationships in my life - and no amount of money will ever heal those wounds. Some of those people passed on prior to me stopping. The best I can do today is set a better example for my children - that is more important than what any pool player might think about me.
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
I know there are a lot of members who do not Gamble on their Pool Skill, they play the game for fun, recreation, and the beauty of the game.

I am one who by my definition does not Gamble on Pool. My reasons is very simple, I do not hove money for gamble, also I find when "MONEY" gets over a $1.00/Set, a $.25/Game, or a Cold Drink the money at risk becomes a major distraction
angeryonfire.gif
to my personal best play.

I am curious why the other Non Gambling Member sdon't gamble, I know we have some student living on a tight budgets here, and young people with families & kids who also are living a budgets?

I do love to got to the Casino one in a Blue Moon, and gamble playing a few slots, throw some dice, but that is for the most part luck.

Also I do try and play in a weekly local Pool tournament, but after the entry fee is paid the money is forgot, and and seem to present no distraction to my play.
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I rarely ever gamble anymore, but I am by no means against it.

My reasons have more to do with a lifestyle choice. To stay ahead of the game, managing the ebbs & flows of it all and actually making a profit, I must be in action constantly.

Locally, those days of coming home at 7 or 8am - to the wife just on her way to work, and waking up at 5pm - when the wife it just coming back - was personally a very unhealthy time for me, but also not they way to go if anyone wants to stay in a marriage/relationship.

And as far as travel goes, I defer to the above statements as well.

I have been itching like a flea bitten dog lately to get into some action though ;) . If I do anymore, it'd have to be some appointment type of game with ample lead in practice/sparring/preperation time.

IMO, there is nothing better for your game then posting up your dough - gambling or tournaments. :thumbup:

As a side note, I rarely do any casino gambling. If anything, I'll bet small to milk free drinks and for entertainment. Usually sitting at a table BS'ng with some friends ala Sands Reno.
 
Black-Balled said:
Those that hate to lose so much like to win just as much: for every high there is a low. Your button banger- prob as likely to 'buy the bar a round' when he wins.

I don't like losing money either. Playing for money has made me play better, for sure.

What kind of pool forum is this anyway? Have we forgotten one of our 1564561 Commandments: Money won is twice as sweet as money earned:wink: ?
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when you lose your money in a casino (slots), you can't beat yourself up for dogging it. you were just unlucky, with no personal skill involved it makes taking getting beat easier.
 
I don't gamble because i like the game too much.
Gambling in pool created the bad image that pool have suffering from for so many years, the same image that people come in here and wine about and wonder why pool is not in the Olympics but at the same time would play $100 a game without blinking....

You want money? get a job!! play pool for the sport and for the game!
 
Blackjack said:
Been to war, seen combat, lived to tell about it.

Beat cancer - not once - but twice.

I put my life on the line and patrolled the streets as a cop every night for 5+ years...

I don't think I have a problem with bravery.

About 25 years ago, I looked around the pool hall I played at and I saw 10-15 examples of what I did not want to become in life. I've known lots of people that gambled their entire life and they had nothing to show for it except mounting debts and broken relationships. I've seen many of the best gamblers live from wager to wager, from bet to bet, eventually they all died broke. Every last one of them.

This leads me to believe that there is no pot of gold at the end of that rainbow. Your experience may be different than mine, but I have never met a pool player that found the pot of gold - and if they did - they pissed it up a rope or lost it all afterwards. It's a cycle.

Most of the successful and financially well off people that I know (in and out of pool) are successful because they have worked their asses off.

Myself, I stopped gambling many years ago. It caused me nothing but problems - win or lose - I was always chasing a bigger pay day - and it was addictive and destructive in my life. I stopped and I could care less what anybody has to say about it. My life is better because of it.

I have nothing against those who do gamble - with the exception of those that insinuate that their must be a lack of testicular fortitude in those that don't - without knowing the entire story. Each case is different and we each make decisions in our lives based on our experiences.

In my experience, gambling destroyed several relationships in my life - and no amount of money will ever heal those wounds. Some of those people passed on prior to me stopping. The best I can do today is set a better example for my children - that is more important than what any pool player might think about me.
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Tap, tap, tap.................

It all comes down to........pool is a GAME......games are for enjoyment. We all play it the way we play it because we enjoy it that way (hopefully).

td
 
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