The Post-Match Handshake: My Opinion Has, Once Again, Been Solicited …

I think it's important to express good sportsmanship, whether it's with a handshake or a Buddy Christ:

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Or just saying, "Nice game man!"

When I play friends, we don't shake or anything, we just talk smack but that's also an expression of sportsmanship, just not one I would use with strangers. :)
 
The only way the handshake can generate any drama is if a hand is offered and rejected.

I don't get upset if the hand is never offered. Some people are squirrely about germs
or just raised differently.

I don't think I've ever left someone hanging on a handshake, and I can't imagine a scenario
where they really piss me off then sincerely offer a hand later anyway.
 
I always give hand shake before and after the match no matter the outcome.

But what I find more insulting than someone who won't shake your hand after a loss is those who do offer it but don't really "shake your hand" , they just give it to you all lifeless and flaccid.
 
on league night I pay attention to those guys taking a leak and oleave the men's room without washing their hands......no handshake for that guy! :outtahere:
 
Pre-match, I just wave coyly from across the table ... it tends to put them off their game.
 
I always shake hands before and after matches win or lose. One thing I hate is a limp handshake and most importantly a fist bump. Everyone loses. I lose I firmly shake my opponents hand and wish him well in the next match. I win I firmly shake my opponent's hand and wish him well in his next match.
 
I never have refused a handshake or fist bump (if I wasn't initiating it first), but one time I wish I had...just before a match in a 1-pocket tournament my opponent had told me he was sick, just before we shook hands he sneezed a juicy one in his hand and still held it out to shake - yuk. After shaking his hand I excused myself to wash my hands well before starting the match.

By the way, try never to say good luck, because I don't wish them luck, but I do say have good match or play good/well (I never know which is correct) and I really mean it. The fist bump is reserved for people I know well and see/play all the time, otherwise it's hand shakes.

Dave
 
Some folks seem to see themselves as regal and the shaking of hands as a breach of etiquette. If you are Earl Strickland and have 5 US open and 3 world tiltles this adds a back story to his manic boorish behaviour.

If you are a living mediocrity you should get in the habit of glad handing all and sundry. In pool rooms all across the world folks line up and lose ( mucho dinero ) to Efren not just because of his resume but because in my opinion he has mastered the art of winning and losing gracefully.

According to William Jefferson Clinton if one cannot kill or jail his or her opponents then the rest is simply politics.
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
I know that yer just teasing but in reality, every ball on the table has been touched by someone whos finger has gone thru the paper while wiping their butt.

Shake their hand in earnest and go scrub your paws down.

Then go have your cue re wrapped cause you no doubt have someone elses poop on your wrap. Think about that every time you take a shot.
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I dont know why but that made me laugh my ass off! I just about spit coffee all over the place...
 
The only time I've left someone hanging is a guy who tried to cheat during a game with me during a tourney. He double hit the cue ball and knew it but was going to keep shooting if I didn't stop him. I was already watching him close because he just gotten into it with guy he played previously. He was in a wheelchair and rolled towards the table as a the guy he was playing was shooting the 9 in a hill, hill match.

I'm not all that crazy about the hand shake though. I see too many guys walk away from the urinal straight out the door.
 
THE Reason

I posted earlier in this thread That I prefer NOT to shake hands.

Here is my reasoning why:

Some years ago at work I had to make a lav. trip. While staring at the wall in front of a urinal, I noticed someone in a toilet stall. He was having quite a time of it in there. He flushed, hitched his britches, and stormed out of the stall right past the 3 sinks in the lavatory. I finished my business and came out a minute later to see this guy eating his lunch at his desk. :yikes:
From that day forward, my attitude changed about shaking someones hand !! :(

So,..... if (for some reason), I gotta shake someones hand ; I'm cleaning it as soon as I can, (I don't care if its Kate Upton,or the Pope!).

Next time you go to shake someones hand,..... just think they cudda had it down their pants a moment ago.
 
Dunnn51 said:
While staring at the wall in front of a urinal, I noticed someone in a toilet stall. He was having quite a time of it in there.
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That's just TMI right after my breakfast!!! :thumbup:

And FWIW...I would take a job being Kate Upton's butt-wiping boy...if the job ever came available :wink:!!! IOW, I'd shake her hand no matter the circumstances.

Shoot 'em well, my friend!!!

Maniac
 
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