Pool and me....(vent)

gpeezy

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Pool has been one of those things for me, and for so many others, an addiction. I've been playing for a good while now. I put a lot of effort into playing for quite a while and tuned my game to where it is respectable for my area. I've always had things come up that has taken me from the game. Whether it be friends, weather(summer), funds, time, whatever, I always go back to playing. I quit drinking around October which made me jump up a ball or two which was no surprise. I was playing more and more. Getting later and later for work. Getting fat from late night meals. Getting less action. I decided to take some time of from play and get back in the gym. I didn't want to try and workout and play my first week back do to soreness. When I get ready to come back I have a friend call me and hear people had been saying I dumped somebody and thats the reason I hadn't been out playing. How strong is that? I of course didn't do this but at the same time it made me mad. This type of thing, 'trash talk', happens in all walks of life and happens a lot in pool especially. I had just gotten sick of it. I'm fed up so I sell my cues. I got lucky and sold them to a guy that builds cues in the area Brian King and he gave me top dollar for his stuff. That was that. I hadn't been playin for around 2 months and decided to drop by and say hello and play in the weekly tournament. I have to say I still love to play. I've said "I'm a fan of pool, not pool players". I don't want to get back in my old swing. Pool will run you ragged if you let it. I am the type that lets it. I'm in a period in my life where I'm kinda clueless as where I'm headed anyway (26). I just wonder if anyone has had similar experiences and how they handled them.
 
gpeezy said:
Lost on purpose.
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I thought that's what it meant but I usually hear "dumped too somebody" and that din't make much sense why would you dump to someone on purpose and then quit playing?
 
Once a pool player, always a pool player:D . Pool and trash talking go hand and hand and you have to take it as a grain of salt. Everywhere you go people will trash talk or make up stories. If you didn't dump, then YOU know you didn't dump and it shouldn't affect your mentality (although I understand how it could, I wouldn't want anyone thinking I was dishonest). Play because you love the game, screw what everyone else says!
 
hilla_hilla said:
Play because you love the game, screw what everyone else says!
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Exactly

It sounds like you need to move around a bit if you can't get away from that kind of crap. If you live for pool and have no committments come to VA Beach :p
 
George, I think it may have been your dependence on pool that caused this problem rather than the game, the room, or anything else. I have been in the same boat (except the playing well part). A few years ago every evening I was at a bar to gamble or play in a pool tournament. Yes, even as bad as I play, I can win in a bar. Soon, the action began drying up and the players began to realize they couldn't win. I layed off and allowed women and travel to divert my attention. I certainly very much enjoy pool, but I now don't feel as though I need it everyday.

I am the same age as you George and now have too much on my plate to play that much as it is: wife, career, house payment, kids, and the like. If you enjoy playing, then do. I enjoy gambling at least as much as you I think, but I can't get action in the local bars and I need to much weight to play a good player (at least you don't have that problem). I thought right around DCC that my game was improving and I wanted to concentrate and actually step up. I started playing the ghost (if you want to know how badly I'm doing PM me) and logging my results. I realize, I have no hope to play well, but I still enjoy playing. Even if I can't get the weight I need. If I want to gamble now, it's pretty much like Fatboy says, "F#$king flip for it."

BTW, if you see Buck up that way I'm still up $100 from Poppa's and would like to play him some anytime he wants the same way.
 
hilla_hilla said:
... and you have to take it as a grain of salt.
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[ ] as a grain of salt
[x] with a grain of salt

OP, forget what everyone else says/thinks.
 
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