The people at the bar watch me watching people play pool; and often come up to me to excuse themselves for how bad they are playing. I tell him/her that watching the physics play out on the table is equally exciting with good players and with poor players. It is !! The physics of almost-elastic balls making contact is interesting in and of itself. It really is !!
This is a partial lie (untruth), I enjoy watching people who can use spin/velocity to maneuver CB around the table too--which the formers cannot and betters can.
On the other hand, there is no real business of an AL7 attempting to take a challenge table away for a bunch of SL2's at best, so I let them have their fun and wait for bigger fish in my little pond. In addition if they allow, I attempt to show them how to make balls and how to think about setting up to make even more balls.
It is my goal to raise the level of play in my bar so that I have more good players to play against--sometimes this works so well I end up with a night with a loosing record--hooray: for my teaching--boo his: on my play that night. Over the last 10 years, this really HAS raised the level of play and I even have a compadre of friends that arrive after the lessers have typically left, just to play me and the 6-ish other players basically on our same level of play!!
As noted about a week ago:: we recently (with 6 months of work) got the average good player to use Ball-in-hand over ball-in-kitchen as the rules set of the upperlings; we still let those having trouble making 2 balls in a row, play BIK rules and the other rules that go with that level of play.
This is a partial lie (untruth), I enjoy watching people who can use spin/velocity to maneuver CB around the table too--which the formers cannot and betters can.
On the other hand, there is no real business of an AL7 attempting to take a challenge table away for a bunch of SL2's at best, so I let them have their fun and wait for bigger fish in my little pond. In addition if they allow, I attempt to show them how to make balls and how to think about setting up to make even more balls.
It is my goal to raise the level of play in my bar so that I have more good players to play against--sometimes this works so well I end up with a night with a loosing record--hooray: for my teaching--boo his: on my play that night. Over the last 10 years, this really HAS raised the level of play and I even have a compadre of friends that arrive after the lessers have typically left, just to play me and the 6-ish other players basically on our same level of play!!
As noted about a week ago:: we recently (with 6 months of work) got the average good player to use Ball-in-hand over ball-in-kitchen as the rules set of the upperlings; we still let those having trouble making 2 balls in a row, play BIK rules and the other rules that go with that level of play.
