drivermaker said:
You say you're really a good player and great at the shots you listed, but what you WOULD be is a road player's or better players dream come true. Most who play this game have an over inflated view of the strength of their game. In other posts you say that you have quite a bit of trouble with long straight in shots, hitting too hard, and unexplained weird caroms with the CB. That's not a sign of a "good" player.
Do you know what a good player is? It's someone that can run rack after rack and just dominate anyone of lesser skills, as well as equal skills. It's someone that makes you think that a prank was pulled on you by painting your seat with crazy glue because your ass never comes up off of it to shoot. And when you do, you're just trying to get yourself out of jail and not foul. It's also YOU having the ability to do just what I said.
I'm not quite sure you know how "bad" you really are, but it sounds like you have a lonnnnng way to go. This may be blunt, OK it IS blunt, but sometimes that slap in the face might end up doing you more good than someone agreeing with you. BTW...you're real good in 3-ball combinations? Do you know how often a "good" player has that actually come up or would be willing to chance it unless it was lined up like a laser beam? Keep practicing and working at it...that's all I can say.
i didn't want to word it that way.......but.........DM just about said it all.........
i'd like to put what i said out there again..........
obviously you're not playing very strong players if you're wowing people.......good players aren't easily wowed by cut shots........
and you probably don't gamble much..........seems to me that people who don't gamble have this huge illusion that they are good players..............go out and put up your rent money next week and you'll either do one of three things afterwards:
1: the most typical.........you'll swear off gambling totally and go back to that illusion that you play good. when someone asks you to play some cheap, you'll stick your chest out and say "i don't play for money, but i'll play for fun with you" then after they kick your ass you'll say "well it was just for fun, i didn't take it seriously" and you'll be a C or D player well into your 80's but telling all the young players about "when i used to be able to play"
2: second most common......you'll flat out quit playing pool.......you'll get your ass handed to you so bad that you don't even want to see a pool cue. and again when you're 80 and someone that you know mentions pool you'll talk about "how i hustled pool to pay for college"
3: least common.........you'll do what i did, and what alot of other people have.......you'll realize you can't play this game for shit........decide that you're going to change that and you'll be at a pool hall more than you're at work or home. when you're at home its to sleep, when you're at work you're just passing time till the pool hall opens and looking at the forum all day. when you're at the pool room you'll be doing drills for six hours or so a day, its gets boring as hell, so for the first few weeks you'll just play around, then you'll go to a tourney and get your ass handed to you........after that you'll realize that the boring practice is worth it and eventually it will be fun. you'll develop a huge hatred for missing shots or position.......(especially the straight in ones, and you'll learn that a 3 ball combo isn't worth shit....besides how often does a 3 ball combo come up???) you'll find a good teacher/s and always be broke cause you play so much. your gf will hate you for being at the pool hall more than her and even get jeolous when you introduce your road partner (happened to me just the other day when i told her i'd be travelling with someone to most tourneys)
you won't have time for shit else but pool, NOTHING, you will barely be able to breath fresh air cause you're so used to smoke filled pool rooms...............and NO ONE gets to be a "good player" without playing that much, and i'm sure you haven't done that....................so is being a good player really worth it to you?????
you'll probably dismiss the last two posts because you fall into category number one.........but hey you can always TELL people that you can make a 3 ball combo any day..........
good luck and if you don't quit pool next week let us know how it goes.....
VAP