long match-ups.

health or old age forces me to play for a couple of hours

many times in the old days i played for over 24 hours
something about it was fun at the time
waiting for the long run

i don't think i will see those days again
i think those filipinos play that way now

if so that explains why they play the way they do
class acts those guys
 
TheThaiger said:
But how do you stay awake? Surely fatigue makes the game pointless?
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Yes, when fatigue become such a factor, you have to quit for a while. No one is looking to kill themselves or anyone else.

I think I am equating long sessions as opposed to three sets and they are done like this determined anything. I have played for 24 hours or more a lot of times but you can only do it with someone also capable of doing so.

Most anyone can play 8 or 10 hours without any real harm. That can be enough to have a nice war and come away feeling you just played something meaningful.

Players who are known to be able to play long periods and like it, are often very scary. You know what you are getting into when you start. Even if you are winning they are sitting there just a step behind you waiting for you to stumble. You can feel it, having to never play anything but your best or you lose.

I have staked many players that were losing and wanted to quit and would have on their own money. I make them keep playing if I like the game and sure enough they end up winning. On their own they would have quit loser and go away never knowing they could actually win.

I saw Tommy Kennedy win a session where no one but him thought he could win. My wife wanted me to get him out of it so I asked him what he thought.
He sounded so confident and I went and sat down. You could see the other player finally succumb to Tommy's will.

There is always a point in the match where a player will begin to have his doubts. It can happen in an instant, one missed shot or mistake and you see it. He just realized maybe he can't win. After that usually it won't take long, he will give up, he just can't take it anymore.
 
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macguy said:
Yes, when fatigue become such a factor, you have to quit for a while. No one is looking to kill themselves or anyone else.

I think I am equating long sessions as opposed to three sets and they are done like this determined anything. I have played for 24 hours or more a lot of times but you can only do it with someone also capable of doing so.

Most anyone can play 8 or 10 hours without any real harm. That can be enough to have a nice war and come away feeling you just played something meaningful.

Players who are known to be able to play long periods and like it, are often very scary. You know what you are getting into when you start. Even if you are winning they are sitting there just a step behind you waiting for you to stumble. You can feel it, having to never play anything but your best or you lose.

I have staked many players that were losing and wanted to quit and would have on their own money. I make them keep playing if I like the game and sure enough they end up winning. On their own they would have quit loser and go away never knowing they could actually win.

I saw Tommy Kennedy win a session where no one but him thought he could win. My wife wanted me to get him out of it so I asked him what he thought.
He sounded so confident and I went and sat down. You could see the other player finally succumb to Tommy's will.

There is always a point in the match where a player will begin to have his doubts. It can happen in an instant, one missed shot or mistake and you see it. He just realized maybe he can't win. After that usually it won't take long, he will give up, he just can't take it anymore.
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Even in regular tournament play sometimes you see the best players submit to a guy who's got their number that day. Basically if you get all these signals that something is impossible we are all programmed to give in. A survival mechanism to find the path of least resistance. It can happen with just a single shot or exchange with the other player, it just v takes their heart.

This is why you need to push yourself. So you have that higher mental gear to get you through. It's not easy but if it were everybody could do it. I don't play pool for fun. I play it for what it challenges me to do. Every time you match up it starts over....you gotta prove yourself again.
 
ExilePreacher said:
I forgot to mention that there is a long standing unwritten rule of honor that says that the man who is down must surrender. It is NIT behavior to quit on a man who is down. To declare victory while the other man has not quit is tantamount to b!+ch slapping someone and running, but later saying you kicked their @$$.

Unfortunately we see much of this going on today. NITs are the norm.

Lastly, I must admit that with the sad state of pool in the states today, if one does not gamble long hours, when is one to get a meaningful game at all? You are correct Thaiger Ron, very few are doing it these days. In the 30+ years I've played this game I've seen days of pool warriors battling it out for days for thousands turn into NITs coming into the pool room begging for one set to five games for $20 while asking for the seven out and the breaks. I actually watched the Morley Pool videos with envy recently. As much as I'd like to nuke Great Britain just for the hell of it, you guys sure can make a pool player feel good with your stupid Christmas songs. Hell I'd give 10 percent of my winnings to ever once hear the equivalent of "Come on Ronnie" just once in my life!!

I just wish guys like you realized what you have over there. Maybe then you'd revel in it rather than giving us so much grief. Oh well, go fu(k yourself Limey. And yes I'm pretty drunk right now.
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Lol. I haven't been so impressed with a man's precision gibberish and drunken ramblings since a certain Bob Dixon blazed into view. Good work. I fear you're too verbose to be Dicko, however, and haven't once used the phrase 'dog and pony show', as far as i know.

It must be all that ancestral porridge and skirt wearing.

https://youtu.be/Z9_jIa2WADc
 
Either you want to play, want the action or both. If i think i have the best of it, there's little to no chance that im walking away from money. I'll play for hours on end until i just can't focus or care, unless im gambling and then i tend to have whatever focus and care i need. One way I'll walk away, though, is playing an opponent that i can't stand.
 
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