You can shoot without a glove. You can’t shoot without a cue.
It is a shark move for sure, but any ass who does it can still play.
Is removing your glove a shark move?
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It is a shark move for sure, but any ass who does it can still play.
boy, some of you wouldn't last a minute in the pool rooms i used to go to. people sat all around you when playing and talked and made comments and side bets.
put their cigs on the rail and even left them when your turn sometimes. chalk was never put any way but where it landed.
holding the rack when he were about to get out wasn't considered anything but in a hurry to lose another game.
rarely did you sit down when he was shooting you stood close by.
and no one lost their money because it bothered them. people in pool rooms had to have a thick skin.
put their cigs on the rail and even left them when your turn sometimes. chalk was never put any way but where it landed.
holding the rack when he were about to get out wasn't considered anything but in a hurry to lose another game.
rarely did you sit down when he was shooting you stood close by.
and no one lost their money because it bothered them. people in pool rooms had to have a thick skin.
Yup.. if I have to stand I stand away . If you go down on the shot and I’m right in your vision I look away and don’t move.
hell yeah . The old men playing straight pool used to stand in your vision and do little things like move the cue from hand to the other while you were down on your shot. Lol
Flakeandrun
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Breathing is a shark move. Loss of rack.
That brings a fond memory of playing on the lone pool table in a dance place on Friday night. At 10 a game! The place was so packed that it was difficult to walk around the table. To execute a shot My method was to get on the line of the shot and spread my arms and gently back up until I had room for a stance. Then shoot quick before the pocket collapsed.
Muahaa..hahaa.. Thanks for this OP!
More OP moves please.
More OP moves please.
Yeah, I'd rather have the glove thing.
Magictrat007
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Where I shoot at Music is playing, people are walking around everywhere. The counter is on one side of the tables so if u need anything u have to walk by while people are shooting. No one stops or considers someone may be shooting a shot for 5K. And the players don’t complain. Everyone just plays. I remember feeling awkward when I first started going there about walking by when someone was shooting a money game. Everyone there was like if you need to go to the counter for any reason just go it doesn’t matter. So if all the commotion and movement doesn’t bother these guys someone taking off a glove or unscrewing a cue shouldn’t bother u. Is it unsportsmanlike and classless? Yes. But should it affect u at the table ?? No.
What sharks is the unexpected. I've seen serious games with two or three people leaning on the table. That's what everyone did there. If I get up from the audience and lean on your table to see the shot better, I imagine it will bother you.
There are "virtual" sharks. Concede some easy nine balls -- and then when one is slightly tougher, get up as if you are going to concede and sit back down.
In McGoorty, Danny tells of the virtual shark an old Alfredo de Oro did to Cochran:
And here is some more standard sharking from Alfredo:
SeniorTom
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I was just going to post a similar comment, absolutely accurate assessment, it's the sudden change that gets people riled. I like watching the PBA bowling on TV, and some tournaments the crowd verbally interacts loudly like a constant drone that doesn't bother the Bowlers at all, but if it went from no sound to that sound in an instant while he is going to throw his ball he would have a fit and probably be very angry !
The Old Jaybird
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ban gloves. while you're at it, ban specialty cues too. one cue, whatever you have the skill to do with it is good.
Speaking of gloves, why don't they have a fighting class with those sparring slap mitts?
Most of the time people that do this kind of thing simply can't control their emotions, and are poor losers.
It's only a shark if you LET IT be a shark. I do sometimes fall victim to it (my own fault!) but it only reminds me that I need to learn to handle pressure better.
It's a lot easier if you expect and accept that some players do that kind of thing, and learn to let it fuel you.
It's only a shark if you LET IT be a shark. I do sometimes fall victim to it (my own fault!) but it only reminds me that I need to learn to handle pressure better.
It's a lot easier if you expect and accept that some players do that kind of thing, and learn to let it fuel you.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
When my friends are sparring amongst ourselves for practice we will often do some "sharking." It's actually part of the practice session. If you practice getting sharked and fading it, it actually helps a lot when it happens in actual competition or action. Some pool players are the unsavory type, and some do it unintentionally. They get to stewing about a miss, the thought of getting beat, or whatever their emotions and reactions to adrenaline are... and sometimes shark without even knowing it. If I see an opponent sharking, I acknowledge it and mentally categorize it as they are squirming from being uncomfortable about the whipping I'm giving them. Water off a duck's back, then, and only then do I take my shot.
IMHO that's the key to fading sharking, acknowledge it, then categorize it, fade it, then address the shot at hand. Some sharking needs addressed. Sometimes it needs addressed because the simple act of addressing it will put them on further tilt. They started it, so if I can use it to my advantage to put a little seed in their brain so be it.
A lot of this game is played in the space above the table. It probably shouldn't be this way but people are gonna people.
Well Yogi said, "Half the game is 90 percent mental."
SeniorTom
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A player should always aim at being respectful towards an opponent and show class for them. Some people value winning over good sportsmanship, but the players that impressed me the most are the ones who respect their opponent, and stand or sit off to the side out of the way, and keep quiet. Billiards has got sort of a roughneck reputation because a lot of play is in bars where drinking occurs. It just hurts the sport when people lower themselves to sharking and actions that are similar.
All that is true and if we lived in perfect world no one would have to fade the low-lifes that can't win without sharking. Fact is in the REAL world there are a lot of cretins who will stoop to anything in order to win.
if someone is sharking you just shark them back then it is equal, and you dont have to get all in a frizzle over something trivial.
if you cant handle someone moving in a chair or messing with a glove or even talking some then take up tiddly winks and give up pool.
if you cant handle someone moving in a chair or messing with a glove or even talking some then take up tiddly winks and give up pool.
If you gotta go through contortions to justify a hypothetical, perhaps there's a better answer. Be an Ambassador to the game. Making excuses for borish behavior is ........? UN Somethin' 
I am for honesty but I play poker too.
Just gotta play within the rules. Unsportsmanlike is addressed in rules. Most leave to referee discretion with loss of match available. I have seen it result in bared or ineligible for any BCA event.
I am for honesty but I play poker too.
Just gotta play within the rules. Unsportsmanlike is addressed in rules. Most leave to referee discretion with loss of match available. I have seen it result in bared or ineligible for any BCA event.