Bad loser?

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leedschief

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I have seen a number of people smashing their cues during or after losing pool matches. Although i have felt like it at times its something that i know ill never do. The wife thinks Im a bad loser cos when i play bad, she gets a step by step analysis of what i think i was doing wrong(she hates the game btw). Theres a guy who plays in our local league who,if he loses, punishes himself by sleeping in the garden shed for the night:-0
Has anyone got any stories of other strange reactions to losing a game of pool?
 
leedschief said:
I have seen a number of people smashing their cues during or after losing pool matches. Although i have felt like it at times its something that i know ill never do. The wife thinks Im a bad loser cos when i play bad, she gets a step by step analysis of what i think i was doing wrong(she hates the game btw). Theres a guy who plays in our local league who,if he loses, punishes himself by sleeping in the garden shed for the night:-0
Has anyone got any stories of other strange reactions to losing a game of pool?
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There's nothing wrong with you, I write the "play-by-play" in my notebook. Now the guys that smash their cues...I imagine cuemakers love them. I take a loss and figure out what happened. Sometimes, like Sunday, I have to live with the fact the other guy outplayed me and beat me like a redheaded step child. :)
 
Sleeping in a garden shed on a hot summer night is like camping out.
If he really wanted to punish himself, I would suggest sleeping with my ex wife.
One night of that and he'd turn pro.
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
Sleeping in a garden shed on a hot summer night is like camping out.
If he really wanted to punish himself, I would suggest sleeping with my ex wife.
One night of that and he'd turn pro.
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I sleep in my garden shed most nights:o when I play bad I force myself to sleep in the house. With four teenage kids and everything that this
in-tales the shed is not to shabby;).
 
Don't bite the hand that feeds you!

Blue Hog ridr said:
Sleeping in a garden shed on a hot summer night is like camping out.
If he really wanted to punish himself, I would suggest sleeping with my ex wife.
One night of that and he'd turn pro.
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:rotflmao1:
Mean. But funny!



I've seen my fair share of people breaking their cues after losing, one time it was my own (friendly) opponent! But I think the most disturbing thing I have ever seen someone do after losing a "game during a match"... was while I was bar-tending at the pool hall, there was a big tourney going on. This guy whom was a new regular was playing a match close by, so I was watching. It was close to the end of the match and He missed a ball... and then quietly walked over to a corner and bit the everloving sh*t out of his own hand!!! WTF???!!! LMAO! It was all I could do not to burst out laughing! Let's just say, I handled that guy very delicately after that. :yikes:
 
leedschief said:
Theres a guy who plays in our local league who,if he loses, punishes himself by sleeping in the garden shed for the night:-0
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Damn I hate losing, but treating yourself like a bum if you lose is a little extreme. What does he use as a blanket? The NY Times?
 
I am a bad loser

I am a bad loser. I have no interest in learning to be a good loser. The best way to learn to be a good loser is practice and that isn't something I have any interest in practicing! However, I'm not foolish enough to take a loss out on myself or my equipment. I have seen people destroy thousands of dollars worth of equipment when they lose, I have seen them destroy thousands of dollars worth of equipment when they win. Both seem equally unprofessional.

A tradition at benchrest competitions is to hammer worn out or "bad" barrels that don't perform well muzzle first into the ground until they are out of sight. At a major international match I heard a handful of hammers banging away after the competition was over. The events are no longer held there after going on for decades but there must be dozens of barrels driven into the ground there. I can imagine archeologists scratching their heads a thousand years or so from now trying to figure out why all of those barrels were hammered into the ground: A burial ceremony? A sacrifice to the benchrest gods?

When I lose I smile and congratulate the winner and carefully put my equipment away hopefully hiding the rage in my heart. Sometime later, usually on the ride home, I will review my performance considering what I did right and what I did wrong. After that the competition is behind me and I'm only looking ahead again. If equipment genuinely caused a loss then it will be repaired or destroyed. I find it intolerable to lose because of equipment and have given away thousands of dollars of perfectly good equipment when I found better. I don't keep old inferior stuff as a spare, if I break the better equipment I will replace it with the same.

One final thing, I don't advise inflicting the performance review on significant others that hate the game. That might lead to other performance reviews!

Hu
 
Sorry, I love the game but I honestly don't care if I win or lose. Why? Because if I won every time I played then there would be no reason to try and move forward. Sure, I'm disappointed in a loss, who isn't? But to let that affect me in some way to damage my equipment or be an ass towards someone, no way. I don't go over the play by play either. And what I mean by that is I don't dwell on the negatives. I'm more like "Damn, I missed that cut shot. Need to work on it." and then let it go. No reason to sit there and stew over it, it's not going to bring it back.
MULLY
 
A few months ago a guy around here got upset when he lost and he gave his opponenet a weggie- I mean a serious one and he's a really big dude. Cops got involved.
 
mullyman said:
Sorry, I love the game but I honestly don't care if I win or lose. Why? Because if I won every time I played then there would be no reason to try and move forward. Sure, I'm disappointed in a loss, who isn't? But to let that affect me in some way to damage my equipment or be an ass towards someone, no way. I don't go over the play by play either. And what I mean by that is I don't dwell on the negatives. I'm more like "Damn, I missed that cut shot. Need to work on it." and then let it go. No reason to sit there and stew over it, it's not going to bring it back.
MULLY
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I am the same way. I love the game and learning new things, but it's not worth all that anger and frustration. I've have heart attacks and playing pool actually relaxes me. If I let it upset me, I'd have to quit playing. That would REALLY mess with me.
 
I recently broke my first cue. And I popped the tip off a second, but to be fair it was already loose. One whack against the floor and off it went.

In my case, and in many cases, breaking is unintentional. We get used to slapping the stick on the rail or floor in frustration. Just one quick one. Then one day a casual slap and the shaft splinters violently. I could hardly believe it. My buddy hocks the cue ball. Once he took out a golf cart with his driver and had to buy and install the replacement panel himself. He's not even a really angry dude.

99% of my sore losing is swearing at myself, I'm totally over trying to hurt the cue. But someone once said "sometimes you gotta throw a piece of chalk". That quote is beautiful and true.
 
"If you are a good loser, you will always be a loser"!!

"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser"!!

Those are a couple quotes that have always stuck with me in pool or any sport I have ever played. I am a terrible loser, but I never break cues over it! I know plenty of guys who do break every cue in the bag. I liked when they would do that though, because I would just sell them another one :)
 
I personally don t understand ppl who re destroying their cues-
but in the 90 s i was in munich with 2 guys. One wanted to play there for money and we entered a big pool-hall with about 50 tables, and one of us found someone to gamble. The opponent made the final mis-shot on an easy 9-ball............and crashed his JR-7 (the one with ivory!!!) on the table.....- then he went back to his place and pulled out the next cue....a limited Schon Cue........ROTFL. ..........too much money is not good for manners we thought^^
 
Week before last a guy in league thows the cue ball against the bed of the table, cue jumps up and breaks a really nice mirror.

Six months ago a guy loses the set for $1,500, takes his perfectly beautiful Schon and breaks the shaft in a million pieces and throws the butt down on the floor and walks off. A guy goes up to him, asks if he can "buy" the butt for $20. Player walks back to the table, picks up the still perfectly good butt, beats up a really heavy duty bar stool with it, and then hands it to the guy and says "now you can have it for $20".:mad: The butt ended up in the trash can.

You see some crazy shiat in pool halls sometimes.:eek:
 
I am an extremely competitve person, and unlike Mully, would love to win every match. There are times that I would like to turn my cue into a javelin because of bad play, however, I would never do that. For multiple reasons, I find that type of behavior deplorable. First, while I love to win, I don't find my personal self value in it, so I see no reason to allow myself to react that way. Second, I believe in trying to present myself with class win or lose. Thirs, losing control of your emotions like that only hurts your game, so it makes more sense to control them, than to let them run wild.
 
I understand that people get angry for playing badly, and I do get angry too at times, but sometimes I wonder if the "playing badly" evaluation is just an illusion that we use as a self-defense mechanism. If you think of it, the "better you" that you should have been doesn't really exist. If you play well while practicing, but choke in competition, it's not fair to say that you didn't play to your level, because your level is whatever you are able to produce in the competition. If you feel like there's a big mismatch with your practice play and competitive play, then you have some mental issues.

If the level of your play varies significantly from match to match, from tournament to tournament, that again is a flaw in your game. There's something that makes it difficult for you to play consistently and that's something you should work on. You shouldn't think that your true level is the play you can produce when you're at your best. Your true level is an average of all your playing levels.

Also, it's likely that you overestimate your abilities anyhow. That's a basic tendency for us humans. We tend to give less weight to our bad days and more credit to better ones. I'd guess that majority of players think they're better players than they really are. I certainly do.
 
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