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Giveaway Signs of Beginner / Recreational Players
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A few more:
Closed fist bridge.
Saying, "you keep missing lucky" when you play a safe. (As if I just happened to miss the pocket by two diamonds after making four straight balls center-pocket.)
Thinking the 1 ball has to be at the head of a rack of 8 ball.
Come over to gently and condescendingly tell you that the 8 ball has to be racked in the middle, when you are racking for 14.1 or 1p.
Let you know that you have a really bad break, after an appropriate break for one of those two same games.
(Those last three might be more from people who straddle the line of beginner and intermediate.)
Closed fist bridge.
Saying, "you keep missing lucky" when you play a safe. (As if I just happened to miss the pocket by two diamonds after making four straight balls center-pocket.)
Thinking the 1 ball has to be at the head of a rack of 8 ball.
Come over to gently and condescendingly tell you that the 8 ball has to be racked in the middle, when you are racking for 14.1 or 1p.
Let you know that you have a really bad break, after an appropriate break for one of those two same games.
(Those last three might be more from people who straddle the line of beginner and intermediate.)
You mean like Efren?
Years ago I played in a Cali tournament Efren played in.....Efren's cue had electrical tape as the wrap....and his shaft had more craters in it than the moon.
Guess nobody taught him not to do that.
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If I ever change careers and become a serial killer, those players would be #2 on my target list. Right behind people who change lanes without signaling.
You mean like C.J.?
Players that spin the 8 ball in the rack.
Inspecting the house cues for weight. Then rolling it on the table for straightness. All while failing to observe the show dog cue they are inspecting has the worst tip situation you could imagine.
Reminds me of the time the guy had taken my sneaky cue off the table. He had a death grip on it and wasn't going to give it back and was sure it was a bar cue that he was claiming. Since both of his hands were on the shaft, I just reached down with one hand and started unscrewing the butt. Kind of amusing as he tightened his grip as I started. His expression when the cue came apart was priceless.
Guilty of these sins as long as I played off the wall. Turn them in the rack to check weight if I couldn't see it then the de rigour roll on the table to check straightness. I had already found the best tips in the place. Just a given that the stick would be crooked. That is why the tip and bridging area were in decent shape, the stick wasn't used. When I rolled it and the tip hopped up and down an inch I would declare, "Good enough for me!" Of course it was, just a matter of indexing the cue.
I don't think I have seen Bustamonte miss a behind the back shot in his career and he was famous for them. I learned how and was pretty fair myself, fifty pounds ago.
I had a friend that would try to play with the bridge, and manage to sell that he didn't know better in bars. No powder or chalk block, a friend would rub Master blue chalk on his bridge hand!
We were all beginners some time. I try to gently help them if they are open to it. The beginners trying to appear expert are the entertaining ones. Traveling I have ran into whole establishments that used the cue butt or hand span rule.
I am very grateful that people got tired of twirling sticks, especially drunken cowboys!
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Plusses I has a huge advantage if he wanted to escalate.
Just sayin. Kind of like Jui Jitsu.That would be the 'Blu-lag'.
Saw a kid the other day doin it. I stopped that shit quik.
Kind of funny how sometimes Peacocks want to impress with their appearance. I have bagged a few.