how much do you need to play
- Thread starter gpeezy
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It's not so much about how much you play, but how you make use of your time. Even if you only play 15 hours a week, an above average player can see improvement if he takes every shot seriously and focuses on his weak spots.
Edit: just found an article here at azb that might help. http://www.azbilliards.com/nickprinsloo/makingsure.cfm
Edit: just found an article here at azb that might help. http://www.azbilliards.com/nickprinsloo/makingsure.cfm
Exactly 42 hours a week. No more. No less.
I am a casual player with no aspirations of being the best but if I play more then twice a week my game goes downhill. I can't stand to practice, it's boring. At 10 to 15 hours a week my game does improve slowly, even taking 2 weeks off my game suffers very little. It's the same with golf, if I go to the range before I play I will have a terrible round. Both pool and golf are hobbies and I treat them as such.
Everyone is different.
Everyone is different.
practice
Pool is kind of like swimming or riding a bike. One you learn it you never forget. I only play 9 ball or 8 ball-for cash. The older you get the more you learn position play and strategy. I hate to practice. When I get a game going I am in focus and it dont matter if I havent played for weeks, it all comes back. Ill never be the best but I can always find a game when Im in the mood.
Pool is kind of like swimming or riding a bike. One you learn it you never forget. I only play 9 ball or 8 ball-for cash. The older you get the more you learn position play and strategy. I hate to practice. When I get a game going I am in focus and it dont matter if I havent played for weeks, it all comes back. Ill never be the best but I can always find a game when Im in the mood.
I am at the pool hall dam near every day lol. I play about 3 to 10 hours a week. I still tend to win my share of pool tounaments to. if I play way to much I get board and start being lazy and picking up bad habbits. So I think about 10 hours a week is good for me.
What should you expect for the 3 hours or so a week that I get to put in?
You would think that would earn you a little weight playing those guys that puy in 20+ hours a week. Unfortunately, that is rarely the case.
Hey George,
I hit a little lick the other night and put a few a few extra shells in the gun to play you boys with. A local guy that plays pretty good had a co-worker with him at the room the other night and we started out playing 5 for 50 him getting the last 2. We split the first 2 sets then played one for 100 which I won. The co-worker was carrying pretty good and offered for me to play him one more for 500. He was trying to high roll me a little because he didn't know me and thought I wouldn't call him on it. He about sh*t when I posted because then he had to post to save face. He got up 2-0 but I ended up getting him 5-3. It was the first time I have ever raced to 5 for that much especially giving weight on a bar box. At least I covered most of what you guys might win if you get right on the game.
See you in a week.
You would think that would earn you a little weight playing those guys that puy in 20+ hours a week. Unfortunately, that is rarely the case.
Hey George,
I hit a little lick the other night and put a few a few extra shells in the gun to play you boys with. A local guy that plays pretty good had a co-worker with him at the room the other night and we started out playing 5 for 50 him getting the last 2. We split the first 2 sets then played one for 100 which I won. The co-worker was carrying pretty good and offered for me to play him one more for 500. He was trying to high roll me a little because he didn't know me and thought I wouldn't call him on it. He about sh*t when I posted because then he had to post to save face. He got up 2-0 but I ended up getting him 5-3. It was the first time I have ever raced to 5 for that much especially giving weight on a bar box. At least I covered most of what you guys might win if you get right on the game.
See you in a week.
way to go Ktown!
I love it when a guy barks at a player only to have his bluff called lol
I think for me its not the amount of time, I put in, its what I do with that time. I try not to practice for over a hour, cuz I get bored fast. I'll generally play the ghost a few times going to 5 on a 9ft.
But I do play my fair share of tournaments, Anything from 8ball call your pocket, to 9ball on 9ft tables. I feel that is where i gain my experience is when I play in tournaments.
I'd say on the average I only practice maybe 3 to 5 hrs a week.
I love it when a guy barks at a player only to have his bluff called lol
I think for me its not the amount of time, I put in, its what I do with that time. I try not to practice for over a hour, cuz I get bored fast. I'll generally play the ghost a few times going to 5 on a 9ft.
But I do play my fair share of tournaments, Anything from 8ball call your pocket, to 9ball on 9ft tables. I feel that is where i gain my experience is when I play in tournaments.
I'd say on the average I only practice maybe 3 to 5 hrs a week.
to stay in stroke maybe 5 hrs a week. To improve I usually play about 5 hrs a day at the minumum for atleast 5 days a week. When I get in practice mode or I get beat I usually up it to 35 to 40 plus hours a week. I have heard many theories on this. I believe a BCA instructor on this forum stated that playing only 2 hrs a day is needed to reach pro status. Although, Keith Mcready once said that 5 hrs a day is what is needed. I really dont know
once every other day. otherwise the need starts to bug me. my skin itches and i get tense and can't relax. i gotta go to the pool hall sometimes. you ever see that movie conspiracy theory. it's like when mel gibson had to buy an issue of the catcher in the rye. i don't always go to try to improve i go to keep my sanity
Jude Rosenstock said:
Stop being such a joker. You know everyone is different and that what you should have said is between 41 and 43 hours.
I have found that it isn't how much you play, rather the skill level of your opponents that make the difference in your game ... I let my buddies talk me into joining the local 8-Ball League (bar pool) and every Weds. night our team plays a different group of "schlepps" who wouldn't know "cue ball control" from "bladder control" ... They don't come to play Pool, but to drink themselves into a stuper while slamming every ball as hard as possible and hoping one of their balls will make it to the designated hole ... Invariably, they miss and leave you frozen behind one of their balls and you NEVER get a decent roll ... If, and when, you get to the table and run the rack, they claim you are an Unconscious, Lucky S.O.B. ... Five more weeks of this learning experience and I am through with Bar Pool ...
