Alcohol was yesterday with top players not just pros, now days it is coke, meth, pain killers, crack.
Good Players Never Drink?
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Just confirming....
Earl Heisler, a local New Orleans, revered one pocket player back in the day told me that in the 40' & 50's alcohol was the medicine of choice for players.
JoeyA
Earl Heisler, a local New Orleans, revered one pocket player back in the day told me that in the 40' & 50's alcohol was the medicine of choice for players.
JoeyA
Earl sure knew what he was talking about...Ratio was about 20 to 1 in the 60's ! (for the lushes) :grin:....... However, if I remember right Joey, Earl himself rarely if ever imbibed !..I played him several times.
Dick
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Yeah, seriously! Back in the day (waaay back) I used to hang out at this joint in San Diego: http://www.yelp.com/biz/society-billiards-and-cafe-pacific-beach#query:billiards hall
They actually had GOOD food and a nice selection of non-alcoholic drinks, even an espresso machine. Also, a front patio with bay windows that allowed in healthy, Vitamin-D filled light. And to top it off, you might find an attractive young lady bringing you your hand-tossed pizza. No warty trolls or gnomes. And you were just a few blocks from the beach. So catch some waves, brah, before your 9-ball match. :thumbup:
…. drinking a beer an hour and alternating it with a Coke or coffee every other hour is stone cold cheating. I finished second in my bracket at Mr. Cues in Atlanta this weekend. My high finish was partly due to the synergistic effects of the alcohol, caffeine and adrenaline.
So alcohol and caffeine are Pool's version of performance enchancing drugs?!
Yes, I believe so.
I don't know a lot of league players, but the ones I do absolutely drink while doing tournaments. I get nervous when playing other good players and a few beers throughout the night absolutely help me calm down and focus on the game, a lot of people say you only think you play better after beers because it affects your brain poorly...well last time I went to the bar I didn't hold the table 12 games in a row until 6 pints down against some guys who weren't drinking and did much better against me before I got into my 3-6 pint game, of course this was over the course of many hours of playing. if you wanna drink, but drink slowly and you wont be distracted by thinking about how good a beer sounds
Earl sure knew what he was talking about...Ratio was about 20 to 1 in the 60's ! (for the lushes) :grin:....... However, if I remember right Joey, Earl himself rarely if ever imbibed !..I played him several times.
Dick
Gee, I had no idea you were THAT old.
JoeyA
Drinking
Back when I did drink alcohol 20 years ago, I had a 3 drink limit if I was playing Pool that night. Being good, and winning were more important to me at the time than drinking.
Now, if I was going drinking and dancing that night, I abstained from playing Pool.
Back when I did drink alcohol 20 years ago, I had a 3 drink limit if I was playing Pool that night. Being good, and winning were more important to me at the time than drinking.
Now, if I was going drinking and dancing that night, I abstained from playing Pool.
While impressive... I don't imagine he'll be doing that for long.
Cool, and then some guy by the name of Randal would do your toe nails in between games.
But, you live in San Fran so you probably already know where to find that.
Look, pool, beer and chicken wings all go together. Do you figure that if you abstain from
having a few guilty pleasures while playing pool, that you will instantly turn Pro or something.
If having 4 or 6 beer while playing league pool is going to make a difference in your game, you should quit drinking and also quit playing pool.
Cause basically you will be a light weight in both areas.
Since joining a league the temptation to drink while playing has never been stronger. I have finally decided not to drink during league games. You never see the pros drink while playing. And I rarely see the better league players drink. So clearly, if you want to be at your best you should be a teetotaler.
Has anyone else had to battle this problem?
I am a casual drinker and do love my beer. Which makes abstaining even harder.
Then again, I never drink while at the gym or swimming either.
I wish we could associate pool playing with things that were healthy rather then always putting it side by side with alcohol and chain-smoking and sunless, dank, depressing cave-like dwellings filled with loathsome worms, gruesome gnomes and hideous witches. (Excuse the decorative lingo
Like wouldn't it be so cool to have a pool parlor that served power shakes and smoothies and high quality cappucinos? And the sun shined through and pretty damsels in white dresses with flowers in their blonde hair brought you organic free-range turkey or vegetarian burgers, instead of atrocious greasy junk that barely passed for food?
Sorry, I guess I went off on a longtime fantasy.
Official Leagues = no drugs, no alcohol, without an exception.
Almost everyone is crying that pool is *not accepted*.
If someone wants to play pool including drinking alcohol, smoking, or whatever.....-- he should play in a hobby league or whatever.
If you play in official leagues, everyone knows what s waiting for him/her.
Easy -and in my opinoin also no discussion worth.
well, I gotta tell ya, drinking impairs judgement.
don't ask me how I know, I don't feel like talking about it.
I usually read all the replies if I have something to say. Not this time.
I suppose a couple people would have said I just have one or two, it calms down the nerves. And that is fine I think, until the day comes when they can't play without one or two.
side note, a couple other thing you might want to reconsider before indulging.
Driving, of course, not even one is ok. ever, that is just my rule. I break it sometimes
but I shouldn't. The legal limit is so low you gotta be careful. Not to mention you could crash your car and....
posting on a forum. Don't do it. bad idea.
remember alcohol imapairs judgement.
steven
don't ask me how I know, I don't feel like talking about it.
I usually read all the replies if I have something to say. Not this time.
I suppose a couple people would have said I just have one or two, it calms down the nerves. And that is fine I think, until the day comes when they can't play without one or two.
side note, a couple other thing you might want to reconsider before indulging.
Driving, of course, not even one is ok. ever, that is just my rule. I break it sometimes
but I shouldn't. The legal limit is so low you gotta be careful. Not to mention you could crash your car and....
posting on a forum. Don't do it. bad idea.
remember alcohol imapairs judgement.
steven
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