i ran across a thread that got me thinking about my old days.
1st let me say i am not an A level player ...never have been and never will be. but i became a pretty good bar banger who won more than he lost.
i started playing at the age of 12 when my dad got a table at the house. when i turned 16 and got my drivers liscence i became the designated driver for my dad and my uncles. they went out every weekend bar hopping and i drove. certain bars let me in and let me play on the back tables.
i got pretty good and played for a coke or a dollar or 2 mostly. most guys thought it amusing when a lil kid beat them but every now and then i ran across some that got pretty irate. my dad or uncles and even the owner were always quick to step in and difuse the situation. one owner even got to where he backed me for higher stakes.
it was always just 1 rack at a time. i never played a race and it was always even up.
when i got married i carried on the family tradition of bar hopping every weekend. i would give my wife all my paycheck except for 20.00 on fri afternoons. i would hit the bar and come home with 50.00 hundred or so the next morning. sat night the same thing.
the one thing that stayed constant is that during play every one was allways a gentleman. now sometimes after the match some people did not take kindly to losing and i cannot count the times i was called a hustler. i did occasionally come across the drunk asshat that wanted to fight over who's quarter was up but i never got involved over that shit.
i picked by battles wisely and a quarter just was not worth it. i let him go 1st hoping he won so i could get a bigger slice of his wallet. well i quit playing all together in the late 80's.
fast forward to 2002 when i became single. i started hitting bars and playing again. it was unbelievable the number of asshats i encountered trying to cheat over a 5.00 or 10.00 game.
crazy ass shit like what rules. they say bcapl.. i say ok. they scratch on the break ..i take bih in midle of table.. they say behind the line... i say ain't no behind the line in bcapl. they say i want to play behind the line .. i say yea .. sure you do after you scratched.
trying to be non chalant moving their ball off the rail with their hand while shooting at another ball.
stopping the cue ball with their stick after missing a shot... hoping i did not see it.
plain out sharking
a whole lot more i could rant about.
like i said i never encountered such crap in the old days.
1st let me say i am not an A level player ...never have been and never will be. but i became a pretty good bar banger who won more than he lost.
i started playing at the age of 12 when my dad got a table at the house. when i turned 16 and got my drivers liscence i became the designated driver for my dad and my uncles. they went out every weekend bar hopping and i drove. certain bars let me in and let me play on the back tables.
i got pretty good and played for a coke or a dollar or 2 mostly. most guys thought it amusing when a lil kid beat them but every now and then i ran across some that got pretty irate. my dad or uncles and even the owner were always quick to step in and difuse the situation. one owner even got to where he backed me for higher stakes.
it was always just 1 rack at a time. i never played a race and it was always even up.
when i got married i carried on the family tradition of bar hopping every weekend. i would give my wife all my paycheck except for 20.00 on fri afternoons. i would hit the bar and come home with 50.00 hundred or so the next morning. sat night the same thing.
the one thing that stayed constant is that during play every one was allways a gentleman. now sometimes after the match some people did not take kindly to losing and i cannot count the times i was called a hustler. i did occasionally come across the drunk asshat that wanted to fight over who's quarter was up but i never got involved over that shit.
i picked by battles wisely and a quarter just was not worth it. i let him go 1st hoping he won so i could get a bigger slice of his wallet. well i quit playing all together in the late 80's.
fast forward to 2002 when i became single. i started hitting bars and playing again. it was unbelievable the number of asshats i encountered trying to cheat over a 5.00 or 10.00 game.
crazy ass shit like what rules. they say bcapl.. i say ok. they scratch on the break ..i take bih in midle of table.. they say behind the line... i say ain't no behind the line in bcapl. they say i want to play behind the line .. i say yea .. sure you do after you scratched.
trying to be non chalant moving their ball off the rail with their hand while shooting at another ball.
stopping the cue ball with their stick after missing a shot... hoping i did not see it.
plain out sharking
a whole lot more i could rant about.
like i said i never encountered such crap in the old days.
