I always been a shy person and I feel uncomfortable to go on a pool room and play unknowns people... This shyness precludes me to play more. Am I the only one? How did you beat this situation? When I play with my friends I'm not that shy but unfortunately my friends are not serious with the game.
Too shy to play
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Definately join a Legaue if you can. When I first started playing, I just went by the Pool Room, sat and watched for an hour or so, got talking to a couple of people from one team and was playing for them the next week!
no leagues here.
I don't get your message.
edit: i got it now ( i think). 21, M.... lol
I don't get your message.
edit: i got it now ( i think). 21, M.... lol
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I don't think staying away from people is the issue, C.
I like the league idea if you want to become more social in your pool game. If you just want to find people to play against so you're not always shooting against yourself, find a pool hall (or family billiards room {or even a bowling alley}) that has a pay table, and start practicing on that. Eventually someone will come up with some change to throw down. I've actually made some really good friends just playing for time on a bar box at the local dive bar. Just leave before midnight. Nothing good happens after midnight.
A lot of room owners will steer you to a game you can enjoy if you ask.
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2 suggestions:
1) Read the "Shy but wants to play thread"
http://forums2.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=181190&page=26
2) Talk to counter person wherever you play. Find out the contact info for the league operator(s) that have leagues that play there. Contact the LO and ask to be placed on a team. Then show up and play.
1) Read the "Shy but wants to play thread"
http://forums2.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=181190&page=26
2) Talk to counter person wherever you play. Find out the contact info for the league operator(s) that have leagues that play there. Contact the LO and ask to be placed on a team. Then show up and play.
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things to remember.
Nobody started out playing pool like a pro-- EVERYONE had to learn how to stand, bridge, hit the cueball, make a ball. There is nothing to be embarrassed about.
A poolroom has different people from regular life. But when you've been to enough of them, you will see that these strange people are almost always the same, poolroom to poolroom.
Almost everybody secretly wants to be either a teacher or a hustler. Sometimes both. Missing balls will make both types look at you to decide whether it's worth the trouble of approaching you. Missing a whole lot of balls will make them decide it's not. : )
Everybody in the poolroom wants something- usually money. If you're not giving away any money, people lose interest fast.
As long as you aren't jumping up and looking around the room after every ball you make and miss, people won't pay much attention to you. That jump up- look around stuff is the poolplayer's mating call for getting a game. If you keep aware of your surroundings but not look around like you want something, people will lose interest fast.
There's no better place than a good poolroom.
Rarely is anything what it first seems.
Be there to see, more than you're there to be seen.
Take it slow and easy.
And you have nothing to be shy or embarrassed about.
Nobody started out playing pool like a pro-- EVERYONE had to learn how to stand, bridge, hit the cueball, make a ball. There is nothing to be embarrassed about.
A poolroom has different people from regular life. But when you've been to enough of them, you will see that these strange people are almost always the same, poolroom to poolroom.
Almost everybody secretly wants to be either a teacher or a hustler. Sometimes both. Missing balls will make both types look at you to decide whether it's worth the trouble of approaching you. Missing a whole lot of balls will make them decide it's not. : )
Everybody in the poolroom wants something- usually money. If you're not giving away any money, people lose interest fast.
As long as you aren't jumping up and looking around the room after every ball you make and miss, people won't pay much attention to you. That jump up- look around stuff is the poolplayer's mating call for getting a game. If you keep aware of your surroundings but not look around like you want something, people will lose interest fast.
There's no better place than a good poolroom.
Rarely is anything what it first seems.
Be there to see, more than you're there to be seen.
Take it slow and easy.
And you have nothing to be shy or embarrassed about.
What she said! That is one of the greatest things about the poolroom, IMO. Everybody fits in...race, size, skill level, unimportant.
Slh is in Sicily I believe, so there may not be too many leagues or tournaments available.
This is a good subject and I commend you for starting it. To overcome shyness, it's best to just use a direct approach and just go ahead and ask anybody who looks to be around your skill level to play. Be honest about what game you want to play, and if you want to play for something. You might be nervous, but just do it anyway and keep doing it.
Eventually you will become accustomed to it. I predict you will make many new friends and in a short time you will totally overcome shyness. Generally, pool players are a pretty sociable bunch.
I too am naturally shy, and it took me awhile before I felt comfortable asking people to play.
Chris