Rich Reheard said:
Wow Larry. I sure am glad I have only played this game "9 ball" for 10 years. I'm gonna quit now. I,m also going to quit straight pool, one pocket. Hell if I can,t beat your dog I might as well hang it up. I mean Damn just listening to you talk I can,t believe anybody would play this game I,m just wondering who is better wonder dog or fast larry. I personally dont care because I don't play 9 ball at a professional level I play at my level. ( BUT I'LL BET THE BANK, TEXAS EXPRESS RULES, ME AGAINST WONDERDOG, RACE TO 7) and a double hit even with a NOSE is a foul !
You said
Well I'm not an artist ( I guess I'm just a loser ) because I like 9 ball. You are absolutely killing the game you proclaim to love. Is this the message you trying to send out. Do you brainwash all you students to hate 9 ball.
What a sad world when your dog pocketing a ball is more exciting to watch then Efren, Sigel, Rempe, Daulton, Duell and countless others , every other player even the ones at my local bar playing for a beer.
For me it is not but then ,I'm just a " loser " who likes 9 ball
Look, there is no way I can kill a game you guys already killed off. Yes the dog is better than me, he runs racks, rarely misses. As far as you playing the dog, forget that, he is virtually unbeatable. Nobody's beat him in 9 years, plus he don't need your money. Kid, go home, you can't be da dog.
Look, the disrespect for my sport was tossed at me, so some dis respect got tossed back. We should learn to respect any and all cue sport games. There is a bigger world out there beyond 9 ball. Yes I teach 9 ball, I will be filming a DVD on how to play it like a pro next month. I have ran 9 racks in a row and played it well in the past.
I just think going out and trying to make a living playing 9 ball today is tough because there is no real tour, no real sponsors, no money in it. Students come to me and say can you make me a 9 ball pro and I go yes, buy why would you want to do that, you can make more money working at the corner 7-11 store. Still I have several in training. They will go out, hit the wall, learn the lesson the hard way and get the day job eventually. I don't have a day job, I have made my living for the last decade just shooting trick shots only. I don't gamble and I do not play 9 ball. I play 8 ball or cribbage or Fast one ball now when I do play pool. Most of my time is spent teaching or practicing or perfoming tricks in exhibitions. We live in two different worlds. Do two different things.
It's a great game for amateurs to play with, and 9 ball is a good game to gamble on. As a championship game it is stupid. The only way to play 9 ball now is to have a day job to support it, or gamble on the road to support it or sell drugs on the side. I said some get lucky and do make it, most do not. For every one person you mention who is doing well, I could list a thousand who is strarving to death.
Don't shoot the messenger, I did not do this to pool, I just report on those who did do this to you. Be angry with them, not me. I just get sick of a bunch of starving broke 9 ballers constantly running down my new sport and what I do to make a living. I use a cue like you, I pot balls like you, so why trash that? What we are doing is working, what the 9 ballers are doing is losing, those are just the facts mam, just the facts. 9 ball today is a game for losers, I'll stand by that statement. Get a real tour, get some real money up where the top 50 can all make a nice living and then I'll reverse that statement.
Don't lose track of the thread, the guy was making fun of Artistic, how silly it was and why would you want to do it. The answer was money. If 9 ball is not working any more, then other games need to come in to replace it. I have long said that. I am very pro player and I am wanting to see the top 10 all make a million a year like has been going on in snooker in England for years. It breaks my heart to see the sport I love die in front of me and the players go no where. It's a tradegy. If we ridicule new sports coming in like Artistic and prevent them from growing, we then condemn our selves to stay where we are now which is on our ass down and out, that is where the game is today sir. Like I said before, don't shoot the messenger.
