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When I play I try my best to be a gentleman to my opponent before, during, and after our session. I have been guilty a time or few of getting a little heated due to my play or their rolls in which I am working on taming, but never got too far outta line. However I've been playing a little with an older guy here in town that is respected as one of the better player in our city and area for some relatively cheap pool. I know I can beat the guy. Yet, I haven't done so .
If you play me and walk down to look at the rack everytime to check if the balls are racked well you are wasting steps. I always try to give the best rack I can to others and never try to 'slug' anyone. This guy however would not only waste my steps but also breath telling him to re-rack the balls. I got so fed up with his total disregard to whether I had a breakable rack that I would just do my best to read an area of frozen balls (usully at the most 3) and try to get something out of them. Most of the time I was playing a combo, Cue+1Ball+Stack of mush=Opponents shot. Brutal
Also I try to be respectful of their turn at the table. I don't speak loudly to others. If I even speak with anyone at all its not when they are shooting. I stay seated and out of the way(at times I will move when I see they have tough shapes shooting in my direction before they get around to address the shot). This guy will shoot and never move out of his stance unless I'm bout to shoot from there. He just stands up about a foot from the table till he racks or I safe or miss. Talks to me about his shot while I'm shooting. If I can't see him in my peripheral vision he will get dead down the line of my shot. When I ask him to move he rolls his eyes like he was doing nothing wrong and I should ease up. Unreal
Cheap pool or not I would like for a player to show some ethics. If this was for a bigger set (which I would love to play with a rack your own and players designated chairs) I would be a little more adament on him acting like someone who has some respect and not a 2 bit hustler. But, I do like this game for the simple fact it not a push over game anyway and that he is testing my nerve. Grant it he has gotten the better end of the moving game seeing how I don't pull any. In the long run I will get the better of the game when I tame it down mentally and just play and will probably end up thanking him for my seasoning.
There are a lot of guys that pull moves like these though. I want to beat players when they are playing their best. Not when I acted like a nit, that seems more like a nat, buzzing around thier head trying to take them off their game. Its a part of gambling with some but I just don't get it myself. O well, just a thought.
If you play me and walk down to look at the rack everytime to check if the balls are racked well you are wasting steps. I always try to give the best rack I can to others and never try to 'slug' anyone. This guy however would not only waste my steps but also breath telling him to re-rack the balls. I got so fed up with his total disregard to whether I had a breakable rack that I would just do my best to read an area of frozen balls (usully at the most 3) and try to get something out of them. Most of the time I was playing a combo, Cue+1Ball+Stack of mush=Opponents shot. Brutal
Also I try to be respectful of their turn at the table. I don't speak loudly to others. If I even speak with anyone at all its not when they are shooting. I stay seated and out of the way(at times I will move when I see they have tough shapes shooting in my direction before they get around to address the shot). This guy will shoot and never move out of his stance unless I'm bout to shoot from there. He just stands up about a foot from the table till he racks or I safe or miss. Talks to me about his shot while I'm shooting. If I can't see him in my peripheral vision he will get dead down the line of my shot. When I ask him to move he rolls his eyes like he was doing nothing wrong and I should ease up. Unreal
Cheap pool or not I would like for a player to show some ethics. If this was for a bigger set (which I would love to play with a rack your own and players designated chairs) I would be a little more adament on him acting like someone who has some respect and not a 2 bit hustler. But, I do like this game for the simple fact it not a push over game anyway and that he is testing my nerve. Grant it he has gotten the better end of the moving game seeing how I don't pull any. In the long run I will get the better of the game when I tame it down mentally and just play and will probably end up thanking him for my seasoning.
There are a lot of guys that pull moves like these though. I want to beat players when they are playing their best. Not when I acted like a nit, that seems more like a nat, buzzing around thier head trying to take them off their game. Its a part of gambling with some but I just don't get it myself. O well, just a thought.
