How do you handle losing?

How do you handle it if you lose/sell out?

  • Go to another table and setup the shot again while it's fresh in your mind.

    Votes: 4 7.0%

  • Remember it and work on it after you have cooled down a little.

    Votes: 9 15.8%

  • Pretend it never happened and just focus on what you did right.

    Votes: 5 8.8%

  • Lash out irrationally at anyone in the general area.

    Votes: 6 10.5%

  • Challenge the winner to play for money to prove you are better.

    Votes: 2 3.5%

  • Go on AZB and start a thread about it. ;-)

    Votes: 2 3.5%

  • Blame the table. "Damn staples on the cloth probably aren't straight."

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • Quit pool forever. (...or until tomorrow)

    Votes: 3 5.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 25 43.9%
  • Total voters
    57
I just got home an hour ago after a little 4 hour session playing banks, 8 ball and 9 ball. I think for myself it depends on whether I beat myself or my opponent beat me or the luck factor. Tonight I played and broke even, was up 3 sets, lost the next 2 hill to hill. The last two sets were brutal, guy lucks a ball in and runs out for the first and in the second set twice he misses and hooks me with 2-3 balls on the table with the second time being hill-hill.

Yes I was and am frustrated but that's the breaks they say. I do believe I had opportunities to win and made mistakes so I lost regardless of the luck factor if I look back through the set. If a guy beats me with skill and plays well I am fine, if I beat myself then I can be frustrated but look at where I failed. The luck factor to me can be the most irritating part but there will be a night where the rolls will go my way too. Gotta love pool. :)

P.S. I usually handle myself really well out of respect for the game and my opponent. It is rare that I have showed my ass but when I do I feel like a real ass about it. Be a man and not a baby is how I think about it.
 
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jeffj2h said:
There are several players in my APA masters league that are SL4-5 in the APA handicapped league. They end up winning about 15-20% of their matches. I'm not sure I could take getting beat week after week like that. Maybe they just love pool and don't want the BS that goes with handicapping. Maybe they want to pick up some pointers. I shake my head at these players, but in the final analysis I respect them for putting themselves out there.
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And, after playing nothing but masters, week after week, when they go back to their handicap league, they will FEAR nobody ;)
 
When I played every day for money I never practiced. If I found I was missing a shot, or type of shot too much. Then I would practice that type shot until I could hardly miss. I never did drills until now that health won't let me play for money. Johnnyt
 
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