If I had 25 cents every time I heard.....

orangecrush

orangecrush

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Ok so I'm waiting for some friends to let me jump in and play hotseat. And there is a guy that asked if I wanted to play some. I said sure. So we start to play and I can tell that he really isn't that good. So while we were playing he tells me the famous line. " Ya I use to play real good." And in a laughing giggle kinda, he tells me it that pool paid for his college.

Now I know looks doesn't really have anything to do with if you have been to college or not. But this guy didn't seem to bright. And really didn't look like the college type. Anyway, I just kinda laughed along and said " oh ya" like I was impressed.

Now I've been around pool long enough and have seen enough players to know this guy didn't make enough gambling in pool to pay for college. Unless he found lots of goooses, but I doubt that either.


So how many times have you heard that line or something like that from guys that you know can't even spell pool, much less play it?

Walker
 
you hear that a lot, but I always balk because their next move is running out the set right after upping the bet!...then quoting Shakespeare:)

Gerry
 
ive heard it

and ive said it. but i really did play alot better 15 years ago when i was on the air force and played every single day. im an apa 6 now, but i only play about twice a month. so back in the day i was prob a 7. by no means was i a pro, but i was better than i am now.
take care,
joey
 
Actually, I've said it....gave some commentary in a post today around having dollars in college.....drunk people just loved to give money away :D

As far as the, "I used to be real good at ______ (add any comment here), but I don't have time to play, or a blew out my knee, or I ran out of viagra"......LOL, yeah....I hear that all the time.....and I rarely believe it....only from the rare few I truly trust, or if all their friends are the ones doing the talking....
 
I hear ya

Well I ran into a guy sort of like that in my 8 ball bar league. He was probably in his late 50's and had a huge cowboy hat. I think the dip in his mouth was big enough to have filled his hat with it.

Anyway, he was the captain of the team we were going to play, and he looked at me, and told me that we were going to start the season off with a loss! I am used to trash talking, but dang! This guy didn't even know any of my players, and hadn't watched us play.

So I turn around and tell him not to count on it! He then says well his Monday team beat so and so 22 to 5! I told him if they did win they wouldn't win by more than 3!

So the whole night he was on a hot streak, but I was determined to kick his butt. So every time I had to play him he wound up with 5 balls on the table or more every time!

Only one other guy on my team was killing him. He was the only player on the team that could shoot. But these guys couldn't keep up with us. I put a hell of a team together. I was runner up for the championship last year, and I plan to win it this year with my killer team.

So at the end of the night he is boasting how bad he played that night, and that he is actually better than he showed us!

I finally got sick of it and called B/S. I told him that if he was really that good he would have brought his A game, cause most players play their best when the compitetion is stiff.

Then he talks about how bad he hates BCA rules and we should be calling everything, etc, etc.

So I look at him and tell him that he is an old straight 8 player, and that if he was any good he probably would like BCA rules better cause it takes away some of the chicken S#$% defense that you see in regular bar rules.

I told him that when he gets his A game together to come see my team again. Even me the weakest player on the team can beat him on a bad day!

I hear that stuff all the time though. I just try to blow it off and let my game do the talking most the time. However there are some that just get on your nerves and you have to speak up!
 
well yeah . . .

I hate saying that but I do feel silly playing a fraction of the speed I once played. For many years I played pool. Racing cars, chasing women, work, sleep, these all came behind pool. When I kept up with the hours, besides working or running my own business forty to sixty hours a week, I shot pool sixty or eighty hours a week!! This went on the vast majority of the time for ten years. I also had a young body, great eyes, and didn't fear anyone on a field of green. No surprise that I played better than I do when the eyes are bad and I am playing about one-fiftieth of the time I once did.

Oh, I didn't play my way through college, I was pretty busy those three weeks but the kids around Louisiana State donated pretty generously to my cause from the time I was in high school until my running buddies were out of college. Best to talk to the girls, drink beer, and watch who is doing the winning and just take him down instead of having to round up all of the loose change yourself. Had it not been for the girls and the beer I wouldn't have went. The pool was boring.

Hu
 
I love how everybody and their grandmother used to be some kind of champ 10 yrs ago. Too bad I wasn't playing pool back then because apparently everybody was a world beater. I would love to see that. And then of course there's always the name dropping. "I played so and so for 2 grand," "I was up 1500 on what's his name." These same guys must have found the greatest action in the world because they all only play for at least 500 a game. And they never play sets, everything is by the game. Too bad I don't have 1500 to call them out on these $500 games. To top it off, whenever I do get one of these ex-pros to gamble for something a little less than $500, they have to absolutely play their game of choice. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't a world champ be able to play all the games and not just no-safety bar rules last pocket 8-ball. As a gambler, I'll play whatever game you can pull out of your ass, especially against a banger. I might ask for a little weight if you pick a game I know I can't play but turn it down altogether? NEVER!!

I entertain their fantasies though. I don't like to disrespect a fish. And after they tell me all their stories, I tell them that I played the last game better than any game I've played.

I always make it a point to bum a smoke off these old guys. They win thousands and thousands at a time and yet they smoke gold coasts.
 
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Yeah-That one is heard quite a bit but nothing is heard more than



" I dont play anymore"

usually with the following dialog-

"Waddya mean, you were in that game/tournament last week and the week before"

" Yeah but you know what i mean, I dont really play play anymore, i just fool around...."
 
I sucked in college....but I still made money gambling. Not enough to pay for college, but enough for groceries and beer most weeks.

Between dice, cards and pool it wasn't all that hard to make couple hundred a week. Remember most college kids have some money, most of them drink to excess, and most of them (at least the ones in bars) like to gamble.

We used to play a 5 dollar on the 9 ring game about 8 or 9 way every fri, sat, and sunday. With it getting spotted up. Wasn't hard to make some money in that game if you could make four or five balls and you were following the right person.
 
I think in most cases that it's not that the players skills have diminished so much as the quality of there opponents get better.
 
orangecrush said:
Ok so I'm waiting for some friends to let me jump in and play hotseat. And there is a guy that asked if I wanted to play some. I said sure. So we start to play and I can tell that he really isn't that good. So while we were playing he tells me the famous line. " Ya I use to play real good." And in a laughing giggle kinda, he tells me it that pool paid for his college.

Now I know looks doesn't really have anything to do with if you have been to college or not. But this guy didn't seem to bright. And really didn't look like the college type. Anyway, I just kinda laughed along and said " oh ya" like I was impressed.

Now I've been around pool long enough and have seen enough players to know this guy didn't make enough gambling in pool to pay for college. Unless he found lots of goooses, but I doubt that either.


So how many times have you heard that line or something like that from guys that you know can't even spell pool, much less play it?

Walker[/QUOTE

I know that guy!!!! Was he a round 5ft 9in, weigh around 475lb's, could you kind see right through him!!

Well, it may have been the ghost of Fat's, he is kinda like Elvis, you never know where he will show up!!!!:D
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Many years ago we were on a road trip and in California.
Our car was haveing problems and couldn't be repaired until the next day. We were stuck at the motel and later in the evening I got antsy.
I ventured over to this little bar by the motel and began to drink. I then drank a little more.
There was a pool table and there was a crowd but, I was more intrested in the young lady sitting beside me.
There was a healthy looking guy with rather long hair playing and seemingly entertaining the crowd and evertime he broke it made,"that sound".
Well I struck out with the young lady and ventured back to the table and watched quietly. Finally someone mentioned something about gambling and I took that as my cue and spoke right up and rather loudly. The long haired fella told me he used to play pretty good and pretty soon we were at it.
After losing a couple for $20 I pushed to get the bet raised and it worked. I lost an couple for $40, pushed again and it worked perfectly. This happened about 3 more times and all of a sudden, I'm stuck pretty good, drunk, and dogging my brains out.
$1200 later, I am really taking the heat and mad, mostly at me.
About a month later we are at the nine ball event in Vegas and they are calling table assignments. About that time4 they called Billy Incardona to table 3. That is when I spotted my sucker from the bar and I thought, I wonder why he is reporting to table #3?
As it turned out, he still played pretty good.
I saw Bill a couple of weeks ago in Dallas and we had a good laugh over it. He said he still has the $1200.
 
orangecrush said:
Ok so I'm waiting for some friends to let me jump in and play hotseat. And there is a guy that asked if I wanted to play some. I said sure. So we start to play and I can tell that he really isn't that good. So while we were playing he tells me the famous line. " Ya I use to play real good." And in a laughing giggle kinda, he tells me it that pool paid for his college.

Now I know looks doesn't really have anything to do with if you have been to college or not. But this guy didn't seem to bright. And really didn't look like the college type. Anyway, I just kinda laughed along and said " oh ya" like I was impressed.

Now I've been around pool long enough and have seen enough players to know this guy didn't make enough gambling in pool to pay for college. Unless he found lots of goooses, but I doubt that either.


So how many times have you heard that line or something like that from guys that you know can't even spell pool, much less play it?

Walker
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My recommendation if someone says that to you, Jump on him quick! He is probably a weak player.
 
Oh I have heard it in any sport or hobby you can thing of.

Now to make a cliche' I played softball for several yrs, doing leagues a couple times a week along with tournaments almost everyweekend. And I could play with the best of them. But it was always funny to hear some guy in his late 30's with a beer gut saying " oh yea in my prime I could hit the ball, and do this n that"

It always made me laugh cuz, I would come back with something about my dad who played on the same league and tournament team, who was at the time, late 40's and into early 50's and was in just as good of physical condition i was. And he would run everyday and ride his mountain bike 10miles back n forth to work. And my Dad could STILL play damn good softball, and played 3rd base too.

So I always liked to blow said wanna be's story outa the water.

And yes, I've heard it in billiards too, and when I bowled too.
 
Gerry said:
you hear that a lot, but I always balk because their next move is running out the set right after upping the bet!...then quoting Shakespeare:)

Gerry
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then they make a killer 1 rail kiss/bank & start saying "i never seen that"
 
PoolBum said:
I skipped a lot of classes in college to play pool. Does that count?
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Hey me too!!! No longer in school but still playing pool...Guess I showed them.:p :p
 
I hear that a lot also. They tell me that because of their eye sight and having to wear glasses and not being as young, blah blah... I look at them thru my glasses and say it hasn't affected my game. In fact I play better now than I did. I am older and never wore glasses before but don't need any excuses. If I lose than I guess you are a better player and I need to practice more.
 
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