Ever get better at pool and lose a friend?

Da Poet said:
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It happens a lot with young players who start out playing each other at the PR. One excels and stays in the pool world, the other cant seem to advance and fades into the real world.

Unfortunately in the end, the winner loses.
 
I still play every fri and sat night with my friends at the local bars, we usually play partners to even it out a little as I always have to take the drunkest guy as my partner, and the tables in this town are like golf greens you have to be able to read the many breaks, which is usually another equalizer.
 
yes, both ways, i got better and all of a sudden a friend decides to hate me, make a million and see how many friends you lose or phony friends show up,

also I have had friends who started when I did and they were to good to talk to me.


all of the above is a bullshit way to be, man i never changed my opinion of anyone because something like how much $$ a friend makes or how good he plays get in the way of how I feel about them, JEALOUS PEOPLE ARE WEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Fatboy said:
yes, both ways, i got better and all of a sudden a friend decides to hate me, make a million and see how many friends you lose or phony friends show up,

also I have had friends who started when I did and they were to good to talk to me.


all of the above is a bullshit way to be, man i never changed my opinion of anyone because something like how much $$ a friend makes or how good he plays get in the way of how I feel about them, JEALOUS PEOPLE ARE WEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I feel like a cyber fan or something I like your posts FB
 
Not really. I mean there are friends that I don't shoot pool with anymore because they can't keep up, but I'm still friends with them. We just don't shoot pool together.
MULLY
 
honestly no

Da Poet said:
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I have always maintained two speeds, banging balls with friends that don't really play and girls I date, and the taking care of business speed. Friends knew that they weren't getting my best game but on the other hand I was not making them look silly and we enjoyed each other's company and drank beer. I could be happily banging away with friends, have a stranger challenge the table, run out to take control of the table, hammer the stranger, and go back to banging with my friends. It was considered par for the course.

I knew I was going to get double teamed playing my friends in ring games and I sometimes quietly gave them huge spots playing head to head, banks and combinations against them playing plain eight ball for example. The running buddies from those days that aren't dead are still friends when we meet and several of them I see often. Pool shouldn't cost friends.

Hu
 
StevenPWaldon said:
Um.... I lost friends at pool, but never get any better. Does that count?
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Nah, cause you'll probably make a ton more, since you're a likeable guy!
Everything is replaceable, except a good woman.
 
none of my friends really want to play me, and then I have my APA friends who will play me....and still dont win, but they dont mind because they atleast understand the game a little.
 
I haven't lost any friends because of pool or the speed of play between us. Some of my old pool playing friends no longer play simply because they lost interest as the got older, but they are still friends and we do other things together. I have one friend that I play with now and although I'm no great player myself, I am much better than he is. We still play for fun. He probably racks 2/3rd to 3/4th the time, but we still have fun. Besides, my other friends whom I'm better at pool simply wait till they get to the golf course where they kick my butt.
 
I remember this well. See, I started getting better, so I convinced my friends they should come with me to the pool room and bet on me.

They never talked to me again. :eek:
 
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