Our Pool Subculture-----Deceptive To Us and the Outside World

I'm not a "pool player"....I'm just hitting some balls and trying to get some practice in befre APA...but I'll shoot you for a drink or something just to make it interesting.

Annnddd....that's how it starts.
 
Old threads like this one are good to read through. A lot of interesting discussion. I agree that there is something a little different about a pool player when he walks through the front doors, a switch that gets flipped, as the OP mused.

The true mark of a player is that all of the praise and admiration they garner inside the pool hall is lost at the entrance. You'd never know who he was in the daylight.
 
What I like is that the outside world disappears when you walk through the doors. No one REALLY cares what you do for a living or who you are....they only care about what you can and can't do on the table and how much you want to bet.

The biggest loudmouth gambler can be a super quiet guy in the reports department at the gravitational influence department at Nasa and it doesn't matter.
 
JB Cases said:
What I like is that the outside world disappears when you walk through the doors. No one REALLY cares what you do for a living or who you are....they only care about what you can and can't do on the table and how much you want to bet.

The biggest loudmouth gambler can be a super quiet guy in the reports department at the gravitational influence department at Nasa and it doesn't matter.
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That is one of the things I find really cool about pool- doesn't matter who you are in the outside world.
 
Wow another old thread revitalized! Good one though!

DaveK said:
Not all of "us". I'd like to think there are others like myself who do not gamble yet love and play the game. As such, I have no need for a "different personna" in the pool hall.

Dave
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Are there really people that live way up there?? ;) Jk -- I am in this same catagory really.

stljohnny said:
I'm with you Dave. I've played for (small) money - but it's been straight up. I wouldn't have a problem playing for money more often, or with more people, if I didn't have to try and figure out if the guy's playing an angle.

You play your best, I'll play mine - and whoever wins, wins. No tricks necessary.
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Agreed! I will play a little for small stakes; it's really not about winning or even losing the little $; more about good competition for me! :thumbup:
 
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