Fill Rooms Back Up...Gamble

MCP said:
LOL. To tell you the truth it was a great place/neighborhood to grow up.
Tough? Sure --- Keep your nose clean and stay loyal to your friends and a little luck
You make it.
Regards
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In so many neighborhoods in NY back then if someone came on your blocks for any of the wrong reasons they got run out quickly. No need to get the cops involved. Neighborhood women could walk down the streets with no fear. They knew they were protected. Johnnyt
 
Johnnyt said:
In so many neighborhoods in NY back then if someone came on your blocks for any of the wrong reasons they got run out quickly. No need to get the cops involved. Neighborhood women could walk down the streets with no fear. They knew they were protected. Johnnyt
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Amen brother.
Mcp
 
I feel ya sjd. It's perfectly normal to feel a lil sore and tender after the first time. Sometimes there's even crying afterwards. We've all been there.

If you think guys like me ruined pool I won't argue with you. I prolly wrecked bowling and caused the housing crisis too. I'll keep playing 20 hours a week and spare a thought for the guys who stopped enjoying the game after 1999.


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MCP said:
I grew up in Hells Kitchen. Played lots of one pocket time at sq. Billiards located across the street from the Roseland ball room down stairs below an arcade and McGirrs 45th &
8th ave. and a few other rooms in the city but mostly the 2 mentioned.
No shortage of action big or small either in the game or on the sidelines.
It was a different era...
I was a young kid at the time so $5-$10 a game was a lot but it wasn't about the $
It was about the action. You wanted to be in action.
I remember a guy also named John or Johnny always dressed to the 9s tremendous one pocket game. He would come down to the room mid to late afternoon and I would watch his games and the looser of the game would always drop the $ the the winners pocket for him to collect funny how you can remember a small detail like that so many years later.
Regards
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You might be talking about Johnny Ervolino.
 
NYC cue dude said:
You might be talking about Johnny Ervolino.
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Could be. I was a kid and by the time my game got decent/good enough to make a few bucks from time to time I stopped playing.
The guy was amazing one opening and lights out beautiful smooth game effortless.
If was Johnny Ervilino I consider my self really fortunate to have watched him play
for a couple of years. ( Good idea thanks)
MCP
 
CreeDo said:
I feel ya sjd. It's perfectly normal to feel a lil sore and tender after the first time. Sometimes there's even crying afterwards. We've all been there.

If you think guys like me ruined pool I won't argue with you. I prolly wrecked bowling and caused the housing crisis too. I'll keep playing 20 hours a week and spare a thought for the guys who stopped enjoying the game after 1999.


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Good form.
 
CreeDo said:
It's all a matter of perception I guess... The thrill and excitement
of gambling is what you get out of pool. So when gambling in pool dried up,
you see it as the game going on a downward slide.

I just like the game as-is and can't get into gambling. I enjoy it enough that I want to play
every day and 'settle' for playing maybe 3-4 days a week.

So for me there's no downward slide... no loss of excitement.
Pool has only gotten more enjoyable since I started playing.
Pro pool obviously has gone down the crapper but gambling won't fix that.

I know there are lots of people who love the gambling aspect of pool,
and can't have as much fun without it. That's kind of unfortunate, it means
you must rely on others to get any enjoyment out of it.
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The guy wearing a dollar-sign Jesus Piece in his avatar doesn't like gambling? OMGWTFISGOINGON
 
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YubaCushion said:
Betting makes pool so much more fun it should be mandatory.
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Actually, there is a bill up before the house, making it a federal offense to play pool or golf, "WITHOUT" a decent wager !..If it passes, I guess CreeDo's 'funsy pool' days are over ! (he will no doubt take up checkers, or Ping-Pong, to keep his competitive juices flowing) :p

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SJDinPHX said:
Actually, there is a bill up before the house, making it a federal offense to play pool or golf, "WITHOUT" a decent wager !..If it passes, I guess CreeDo's 'funsy pool' days are over ! (he will no doubt take up checkers, or Ping-Pong, to keep his competitive juices flowing) :p

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Even if it's 10 bucks for a race to three. It's not the money it's the betting that makes it exiting. I found out what the SJ in SJD stands for. You are from my home town. Did you play at California Billiards.
 
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I love to gamble as much as the next guy. However, I also enjoying playing for fun or pride. I want to win just as badly either way, because I'm a competitive person that hates to lose.

Anyone who MUST gamble to enjoy playing pool is very sad individual.
 
BeiberLvr said:
I love to gamble as much as the next guy. However, I also enjoying playing for fun or pride. I want to win just as badly either way, because I'm a competitive person that hates to lose.

Anyone who MUST gamble to enjoy playing pool is very sad individual.
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Plenty of people love their 8-4 job, but none would do it for nothing. I always loved pool, but I also treated it as a job. I'm far from a sad individual. Pool has been very good to me over a many year span. I turned the money I made gambling on pool into...let us just say I won't die broke. Far from it. Johnnyt
 
Johnnyt said:
Plenty of people love their 8-4 job, but none would do it for nothing. I always loved pool, but I also treated it as a job. I'm far from a sad individual. Pool has been very good to me over a many year span. I turned the money I made gambling on pool into...let us just say I won't die broke. Far from it. Johnnyt
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Gambling on pool to earn a living and gambling on pool because it's the only way you can enjoy the game are two entirely different things.

My post was directed at the latter.
 
BeiberLvr said:
Gambling on pool to earn a living and gambling on pool because it's the only way you can enjoy the game are two entirely different things.

My post was directed at the latter.
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Good posting- Appreciate this opinion :-)
have a smooth stroke.

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Johnnyt said:
Plenty of people love their 8-4 job, but none would do it for nothing. I always loved pool, but I also treated it as a job. I'm far from a sad individual. Pool has been very good to me over a many year span. I turned the money I made gambling on pool into...let us just say I won't die broke. Far from it. Johnnyt
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I have a 50 hour a week job to earn money for my family.

I don't play pool to gamble, so that I can lose the money that I just spent 50 hours working for.

Nothing against it, if that's what folks wanna do, but to insist that one HAS to gamble in order to play pool, or to enjoy it, or whatever...that's wrong.

Being broke isn't "funsy". Yeah, I'm a nit, right?
 
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justadub said:
I have a 50 hour a week job to earn money for my family.

I don't play pool to gamble, so that I can lose the money that I just spent 50 hours working for.

Nothing against it, if that's what folks wanna do, but to insist that one HAS to gamble in order to play pool, or to enjoy it, or whatever...that's wrong.

Being broke isn't "funsy". Yeah, I'm a nit, right?
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No your not a nit for not gambling. I never said EVERYONE should or has to gamble on pool to enjoy it. I said that there was a lot more people gambling on pool then there is today. I have a lot of friends that don't gamble on pool...I just don't play them. :D. Johnnyt
 
I guess I would be considered to belong to the funsy group as well. If I have to make a wager on a pool game to enjoy it that would take the fun out of it. If I'm with good company and they want to play a set to determine who buys lunch then I'll do that. I just enjoy spending time with good folks and we have to eat anyway.

If people were forced to gamble to get into a pool hall then a lot of people wouldn't even go. Most people can't even afford it because of the economy right now. I can string together a few racks of 9 ball here and there, but I just choose not to gamble away my families hard earned money. If you want to play me some and have a good lunch on me then that's my kind of gambling.

I'm just rambling. I hope I made sense.
 
Allen Brown said:
I guess I would be considered to belong to the funsy group as well. If I have to make a wager on a pool game to enjoy it that would take the fun out of it. If I'm with good company and they want to play a set to determine who buys lunch then I'll do that. I just enjoy spending time with good folks and we have to eat anyway.

If people were forced to gamble to get into a pool hall then a lot of people wouldn't even go. Most people can't even afford it because of the economy right now. I can string together a few racks of 9 ball here and there, but I just choose not to gamble away my families hard earned money. If you want to play me some and have a good lunch on me then that's my kind of gambling.

I'm just rambling. I hope I made sense.
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Yes you did and I get it. Nothing wrong with not gambling on pool or just play for a nice meal. Johnnyt
 
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