One pocket is so slow that the hourglass using Egyptians, banned it due to a sand shortage.
One Pocket is so slow....
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One Pocket is so slow that...
...i once stepped into a time machine and entered "end of match" into the destination. The machine started shaking with "self-doubt" and denied my request and determined that this request was "unreasonable".
...while I was waiting for my opponent to shoot, a patron tried to pry the cue from my hand because he thought I was a "pool rack" mannequin.
...the wooded rack being used, actually "aged" to a prettier/darker tone than from when the match first started.
...i once stepped into a time machine and entered "end of match" into the destination. The machine started shaking with "self-doubt" and denied my request and determined that this request was "unreasonable".
...while I was waiting for my opponent to shoot, a patron tried to pry the cue from my hand because he thought I was a "pool rack" mannequin.
...the wooded rack being used, actually "aged" to a prettier/darker tone than from when the match first started.
...while I was waiting for my opponent to shoot, a patron tried to pry the cue from my hand because he thought I was a "pool rack" mannequin.
This made me laugh out loud.
It may be slow, but it is not unexciting. I once showed a lady friend the Accu-Stats video of Ronnie Allen playing JR Gay. She watched patiently through about six innings as they each ducked. Then JR left the edge of a ball and Ronnie rapped a bank in, broke the rack, and ran eight and out. My friend said to me simply, “Oh, now I get it!” She still says that one-pocket is the only pool game where she understands immediately what the player is trying to do.
Two or three years ago I was in the “practise room” at the DCC and was watching two top players practise their one-pocket with one another. Each one would put the other in jail, and then the other one would escape somehow and put the first player in a cell, and then the first player would somehow find a way out of that. This went on for about five minutes with half masses and everything else you could imagine. The man sitting next to me, whom I didn’t know, turned to me and said, “And there are people who don’t think that one-pocket is unexciting.” I said, “Yeah, they’re the same people who think that championship chess tournaments are boring.” He was delighted. It turned out that he was not only a big pool fan but also a master chess player!
Two or three years ago I was in the “practise room” at the DCC and was watching two top players practise their one-pocket with one another. Each one would put the other in jail, and then the other one would escape somehow and put the first player in a cell, and then the first player would somehow find a way out of that. This went on for about five minutes with half masses and everything else you could imagine. The man sitting next to me, whom I didn’t know, turned to me and said, “And there are people who don’t think that one-pocket is unexciting.” I said, “Yeah, they’re the same people who think that championship chess tournaments are boring.” He was delighted. It turned out that he was not only a big pool fan but also a master chess player!
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I like this one.........did you make it om alright?
One Pocket is so slow that when a guy put a quarter on the table as we were starting a game tonight, we all started laughing out loud.
Talk about slow, its trying to teach nine ball players how to play 1P.---Smitty
One pocket is so slow, that you gauge the progress of the game by watching the AZB user Apocalypse2013 change/update his screenname between each shot.