pool and your significant other

Jimbojim

Jimbojim

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I thought it would be great to know if your sweetheart plays pool too and a what level. If he/she doesn't, do they complain when you go out to play pool too often? Did you lie to play pool?

Let's hear the stories.
 
she plays pool, in a recreational way, left handed, that's why i'm having a hard time teaching her. I lie a lot just to play pool, unfortunately.

let's hear your story, Jimbojim.
 
She plays rarely and doesn't have a good stroke but she likes the game. She is very supportive and encourages me to practice and she even watch or accompany me(sometimes on occasion) during tourneys for good vibes. I never lied to play pool but one night I really wanted to go play in that weekly tournament as I knew some of my good friends would be there but she had that sweet voice on the phone 'I sing in this concert this tuesday, would you mind to come and see it? I went to her concert and I enjoyed it very much but I was thinking about pool sometimes and I would find myself having my left hand resting on my leg in a bridge position because of all these pool thoughts hahahaha.
 
Jimbojim said:
I thought it would be great to know if your sweetheart plays pool too and a what level. If he/she doesn't, do they complain when you go out to play pool too often? Did you lie to play pool?

Let's hear the stories.
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1) She doesn't play. I am trying to get her interested.

2) Yes. I play pool I dont drink or flirt with women (contrary to popular belief).

3) No. I tell her and deal with the consequences later.
 
She plays, and absolutly REFUSES to accept any advice i have on the topic what so ever. Worst part is she isn't bad and would actually have a nice shot if she'd just LISTEN, but for all the guys on here i think it's understood that this will never happen :( oh well at least it feeds my ego a little everytime i win :)
 
One of the first times I ever hung out with my ex was at the pool hall. However as soon as we started dating she hated the game and especially the pool hall. So, I used to have to "go home early to get some sleep for my long work day the next day", so I guess...

1. No
2. Yes
3. Yes

Edit: I wanted to point out that I said "EX"...
 
my wife and i have been together 14 years and she really has no interest unless we're at home but you can't teach her, she's stubborn, she's the one that finds all the tournaments for me, and every year on our anniversary she buys me a new cue, usually just a Lucassi or Mezz or some other cue from the only local dealer we have here. my gameroom is detached from the house, so when i go out to practice she keeps the kids busy until i'm done, so i guess it doesn't bother her or she would have said something years ago.
 
My g/f does not play competatively, but likes to play after the events. She encourages me to play in Leagues and Tournaments.
Recently i was going to take a Season off from Leagues and Tournaments, and she stopped me and told me to at least play in 1 League, and a Tournament here and there.
Wrong thing to suggest...i am now in 2 Leagues and planning on participating in all of the Tiger Planet Pool Tour, as well as other Events in the area.
I thought she would be upset, but is okay with it - especially since she gets mini-vacations out of the Tournament weekends as long as there are Mall in the area.
 
My wife and I shoot together on an APA 8-ball league on Monday night. She is a SL3 and I'm a SL5. We shoot at home a lot since we got our table last June. I beat her like a junkyard dog and she don't like it one little bit (she gets even with me on bowling night every Wednesday though:o ). She used to get mad and bow-up on me whenever I tried to tell her how to shoot a particular shot, then one day after I beat her about 10 or 11 straight games I told her that maybe she had ought to listen to some of the advice I try to give her and stop being so bullheaded. Now she lets me walk her through games to show her how to set up for her next two or three shots and she has become a better player and plays me a decent game from time to time. She hasn't run a rack out yet, but she has come close to it on several occasions. She don't get mad when I thump her now but she does roll her eyes a lot when I make two or three bank shots in a row. I'm glad she shoots with me and it wouldn't be near as much fun if she didn't.

Maniac
P.S. I forgot to add (and this is important) that one night in December at our local bar's Friday night tournament, she beat three men in consecutive best-of-three matches (two SL4's and a SL5) to take first place in the tournament (I got beat in the first round). I was so proud of her!!!
 
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I started to play "competitively" because of her. No, not her insistance, but because she had something to do on Thurs. nights that didn't include me (women's Bible study). While shooting a bit at a local bar, I was asked if I'd like to play (for the visiting team since they were one short). That was last session (fall), and I'm playing this session too. Since league is on her Bible study night...no big deal. I rarely play other than league night (except at home), so I guess I don't have a lot of the issues some of the folks on here have :) Oh, and I certainly wouldn't lie about playing...

I have a feeling that most of the guys/gals on this forum play A BUNCH more than I do. But, I get where you're coming from as far as trying to play as much as possible....I play well over 100 rounds of golf a year....I do mean WELL OVER :) We've been married for over 10 years, and somehow I get away with that though!! NICE! :)
 
My wife thinks pool and pool players are terribly uncool. Especially when they break and "they stick their leg up in the air like a girl!"
She knows absolutely nothing about the game and has only seen me play twice. Both times, were tournaments in which I won. AND..............both times, instead of getting any form of a congrats, all she could say was "yeah, but you had nothing but easy shots all night long.":mad:
dave
 
It's tough to lie when you're walking out of the house with a cue case on your shoulder....:cool: Which is almost every night for me.
Doesn't matter though, she barely tollerates me anyway, I'm better off when I'm not home...
She's the reason I started playing pool in the first place.

McCue Banger McCue
 
Mine has an inner battle going on. She knows very well that pool is a huge part of my life, a passion. She also enjoys pool, but enjoys me more so she doesn't want me out playing all night more than once or twice a week... even if she's with me. She complains when I say I'm going out to shoot pool and it's not the 1 night a week I play league :P
All-in-all she has a good grasp on the game and can make some weird-angle cut shots from across the table, but she ALSO won't listen when I offer advice... I have to wait until she says "ok time out..." before I can open my mouth and hope for her to listen to me.
 
She used to hate me playing pool. I would get calls on my cell @ 3 in the morning wondering where I was and when I would be home. I got her involved in an APA league a few years ago, and I think she enjoys it more than I do.
 
The girlfriend does not play pool but neither did I when we met 15 years ago, we met in a bar playing Darts. She said there was something about my butt, when I was on the line throwing darts, and she liked what she saw. She has her interests and I have mine and neither the 2 shall meet, Ha Ha. She never gives me crap for playing pool and I don't give her crap when she does her thing. It works out very well.
 
my wife dont play and cant play and i would say she is unteachable

i once said aim a bit to the left so she moved her tip to the left of theCB :D

i should have been more specific i suppose

she does watch and is intrested she even let me play in a tourney on honeymoon in hawaii. i was there till 1am and she just watched and chatted to the owner all the other players were very impressed but i think she just wanted to see how much i would win :)
 
My husband plays pool (that's how we met) and he is better than I am. He knows I want to practice for my tournaments, so he doesn't complain when I go to the pool room. He used to practice with me, but for the last few years he hasn't gone as much - mostly because our new home is further from the pool room (but luckily for me it's on my way home from work). :)

Melinda
 
My wife doesn't play pool or threaten to. She goes to bed early, so she doesn't mind that I'm out carousing, but she doesn't like me breathing in metric tons of second-hand smoke and coming home smelling like an ashtray.
 
If I catch any flak (which I really don't), I just say, "whateva, whateva!! I do what I want!!"
 
My wife doesnt like me playing pool. We have come to the agreement that I can play once per week (leagues). If I'm lucky I can sneak in a tournament once or twice a month. I do go to the big state tourney every year also. I have two young boys at home, so it would be selfish of me to go out more then I do. I suppose in about 15 years when they are grown and out of the house I will be able to play as much as I want, but by then I wont be able to play worth a crap. :rolleyes:
 
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