You probably won't understand this but a real pool room is the most honest place you could be. As described in that post, it's the same way in life like it or not. Their is a hierarchy at work, at the gym, at the racetrack ( cars ), even amongst your own friends not to mention the kind of gir, you get to date. Our whole society is built on hierarchy If you are at the bottom of that chain sorry but your luck.
LOL. Why do you sharps always assume that the lives of flats like me are dull, not rewarding, and that we are, in the inimitable vocabulary of the illiterate, nits. While the reality is that we have good jobs great lives, terrific relationships, nice retirements, and will die peacefully in our beds.
I know people like me live unbearably boring lives to the sharps. We do not get hit, we don't hit people. we do not get robbed, we do not rob people. We do not spend our time figuring angles to play to get money from someone, We do our jobs - usually quite well and we have the resources and wherewithal to live stable, prosperous lives..
If someone's self esteem is all wrapped up in how well they play a game and what their pecking order is in some dive of a pool hall, well all I can say is that is sad. And pool will never prosper on the backs of folks with that outlook.
Personally I would rather just practice, and be successful at my chosen profession (one that paid actual money - enough so that I'm now comfortably retired - something very few sharps end up being able to say) than to have players quake when I enter a pool room in fear of my game because I am the BIG DOG. Now THAT would be a crazy value system.
But hey you are at the top of the pool hall hierarchy, so good for you. Me? I'd just rather live a good life, enjoy the game for the joy of the game, and sleep good at night.