Give-aways of pool wanna-bees

[Caromsoft]

Actually... It was my clever way of putting my foot into my own mouth! I didnt know that people play that way. I usually just play in bars/Pool halls, and dont get to see pro action that often.

It's all good Sometimes it's hard to pick up someones tone in a post! Actually that match was the first time I had seen pros play by that rule, maybe because it is so rare to see pros play 8 ball. I play a weekly game at a friend's house and his only "house rule" he likes to play by is taking what you make on the break. Doing that does make 8 ball more challenging to play in my opinion.

 

[Shortside K]

have you looked in a mirror?

What traits, habbits, things people do that you see when they walk in to a pool hall and try to fit in with the regulars or try to show they are cool and "with it" in the billiard world?

I remember back when Color of Money came out, for a year people would play "Warewolves of London" at least 6 times an hour.

People that make fun of recreational or beginner players....

 

[JohnPT]

ouch! I have to confess I am a wannabee. i use tan chalk at home and I shoot behind the back too.

if you wear a glove there's a 99% chance you must be a wannabee.

Sign of a wannabee: Making fun of a tool that a LOT of people use, just because YOU don't use it.

This can be applied to - Jump sticks, tip tappers, tip shapers, hand towel, and YES... Billiard gloves. (I am looking at you, JohnPT.. Some people have sweaty hands and DON'T like getting hand chalk on themselves....)

I have seen a good majority of pro billiard (3-cushion) players wear a glove from time to time.. Does that mean they are bangers?

Didn't think so.

I wore a glove until just a few months ago. I'll take the six and the breaks, gentlemen..... Especially since I am Short Bus "C player" Russ..

Russ

What are you trying to say Russ? You're not calling me a wannabee are you?

 

[JoeyA]

hahaha.. Gloves are "gay" man.. For example just look at Michael Jackson with his glove days. hehe.. Sorry just playin around but when I see someone wearin a glove playin pool I find it pretty funny.. and it does look goofy..

I hope its the least bit humid in Fort Walton weekend after next and I hope that I'm there and playing you with my Michael Jackson sequined glove. I want to hear you begging me if I have one you can borrow. I will bring a recorder so I can share it with AZ.

JoeyA (doesn't know if he is going or not)

 

[TheBook]

dont forget my favorite...

cue ball is locked up on the rail and the get the butt of the cue out and allow that distance to move the cue ball off the rail!!!!

That was the way we played at the Boys Club years ago. It was called cheeks. The other was spots. If a ball was in your way you could spot it and remove it and then put it back on that spot when you finished your shot. It got to be pretty funny after a while when the incoming player would say cheeks and spots and the outgoing would try to say no cheeks or spots to negate it. You could only say it if needed and after all of the balls stopped rolling. Games lasted a long time and there was no one around to teach or show us anything. I guess you could say that we were learning to be ball bangers.

 

[Scott Lee]

Jallan...Even better, I've seen guys get a rack of balls, and put them on the snooker table (American 5x10, so it doesn't APPEAR a lot different)...rack 'em up, break, and spend the next 30 minutes trying to figure out WHY they can't make a ball! They don't even seem to notice that the pockets are smaller, with rounded corners...until someone points it out. LOL

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

Guys go to bar and get rack. Walk to 12foot snooker table with the ladies in tow and. Decide that playing on the biggest nicest table in the house drunk is a brilliant idea. Dump the rack on the table from about 18 inches in the air. Grab the snooker rack, and this is where it gets really fun, and proceeds to rack the pool balls. Head guy gets about 12 balls in the rack before he realized they won't fit. Takes all the balls out and tries again. Still no dice. Buddies begin to giggle which upsets him greatly. Most of the regulars in the hall are also watching. Eventually, after the bartender has had a good show, he goes over and lets them know they can't play pool on that table. I love it when that happens....

 

[Scott Lee]

Josh...Since you are always woofin' about action, John Schmidt would like to play you some...with his "gay" glove on! I'll even post 2-1 that he wipes the table with your sorry butt! LOL There are easily another dozen or so pro players, who wear a glove that would also like to kick your ass...for the cash.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

hahaha.. Gloves are "gay" man.. For example just look at Michael Jackson with his glove days. hehe.. Sorry just playin around but when I see someone wearin a glove playin pool I find it pretty funny.. and it does look goofy..

 

[Russ Chewning]

People that make fun of recreational or beginner players....

Agree. I found that my game took a huge jump once I learned a little bit of humility.

Why?

Because it made me aware that anyone can be beat, by almost anyone else, depending on circumstances..

Russ

 

[Icon of Sin]

The glove. Players that own a glove but are shooting with a house cue.

 

[ShootingArts]

pink or mauve

Joey,

Needless to say, I have seen what a glove can do down here in the swamps a few times. I do think you should find a pink or mauve one for out of town trips though and find someone to sew you up a matching polyester leisure suit. That would have to be money in the bank!

Hu

I hope its the least bit humid in Fort Walton weekend after next and I hope that I'm there and playing you with my Michael Jackson sequined glove. I want to hear you begging me if I have one you can borrow. I will bring a recorder so I can share it with AZ.

JoeyA (doesn't know if he is going or not)

 

[JoeyA]

Gingerbread Man's Buttons

Joey,

Needless to say, I have seen what a glove can do down here in the swamps a few times. I do think you should find a pink or mauve one for out of town trips though and find someone to sew you up a matching polyester leisure suit. That would have to be money in the bank!

Hu

An outfit like that would probably show up real well on www.theactionreport.com althought the colors would clash with THE GINGERBREAD MAN'S buttons.
JoeyA

 

[despotic931]

Guys go to bar and get rack. Walk to 12foot snooker table with the ladies in tow and. Decide that playing on the biggest nicest table in the house drunk is a brilliant idea. Dump the rack on the table from about 18 inches in the air. Grab the snooker rack, and this is where it gets really fun, and proceeds to rack the pool balls. Head guy gets about 12 balls in the rack before he realized they won't fit. Takes all the balls out and tries again. Still no dice. Buddies begin to giggle which upsets him greatly. Most of the regulars in the hall are also watching. Eventually, after the bartender has had a good show, he goes over and lets them know they can't play pool on that table. I love it when that happens....

Yes! I love it!

So far the things that annoy me the most that have been listed, are people scoop jumping (especially when they are showing off) and people that leave the tables covered in hand chalk... The scoop jumping thing just makes me want to strangle them for some unknown reason, and the chalk on the table is just disrespectful...

 

[Bigkahuna]

Dead Giveaway

Shooting from behind the back has got to top the list for me.

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Shooting from behind the back has got to top the list for me.

I know a gentleman who does that as he don't like using a rake.
He is a very strong 8 or 9 rated player..

 

[ajohnson13]

Shooting from behind the back has got to top the list for me.

I once ran into a fella that wanted to play for a couple bucks. He shot every shot behind the back...no joke. I asked him if he was screwing around with me, but he seemed dead serious. I let him be after a few games.

I also met someone recently that i had pegged as a solid player. Every time he had to shoot when the cueball was frozen or close to the rail, he shot one handed. I asked why, and he said that his bridge hand got in the way and forced him to jack up his cue...

 

[ShootingArts]

I agree!!!

Shooting from behind the back has got to top the list for me.

Those Filipinos are all just a bunch of wannabes!!

I favored shooting behind my back to shooting left handed . . . . fifty pounds ago!

Hu

 

[GoTulane]

Hey Joey - got a better one

An outfit like that would probably show up real well on www.theactionreport.com althought the colors would clash with THE GINGERBREAD MAN'S buttons.
JoeyA

Well, there was a player who played league pre-Katrina (Chester?)that wore an Oven Mit as a glove. Yes, you heard me right, an OVEN MIT!!!! He was actually a skill level 6, like that means anything, but just funny to see him play, let alone beat somebody. Heard he is back in town, and plays with something else just as unusual. I need to know what is more unusual than an OVEN MIT.

BTW, have you seen or spoken with Spike recently, how's he doing?

Michael

 

[Flipmode]

Shooting from behind the back has got to top the list for me.

Doesn't Bustamante shoot pretty often behind the back? ...he is a wannabe though...compared to Reyes.

 

[cuetechasaurus]

They take the balls to the table in the plastic holder, and then tip it over real fast and have all 15 balls hit the table bed

-BANG-

I used to kick people out of my pool hall for that crap.

That happens all the time at my work. Then they give you this puzzled look when you ask them not to do that.

 

[Nine Ball]

Josh...Since you are always woofin' about action, John Schmidt would like to play you some...with his "gay" glove on! I'll even post 2-1 that he wipes the table with your sorry butt! LOL There are easily another dozen or so pro players, who wear a glove that would also like to kick your ass...for the cash.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

Am I not allowed to have an opinion? Well, My opinion is "the glove" looks very gay. That's my opinion and I'm sorry if it offended you. As far as woofing at everyone.. I only asked to play Jay or Fatboy, and Jay actually woofed at me.. When I said I would play he didn't want to. I have not asked anyone else to play.. So if wanting to play TWO people is woofing at EVERYONE then I guess I'm guilty. John knows me and if he wanted to play he would of asked in person to play. Not have you talk for him. But since you want to try and be his game maker, I'll take the 7, 8, wild and the breaks if you wanna back John Schmidt.. He's a world champion and I'm nobody. So that spot shouldn't be out of the question. Hell your some kind of instructor right? I'll just play you some. Now you make the 3rd person I have asked to play. There I go woofing at EVERYONE again. hah. Now back John giving me that weight, Play me some even, or well you know.. Stuff it and leave me and my OPINION about the glove alone. Check back over the thread. I'm not the only one who thinks the glove is funny. Why single me out and attack.....