What age did you start playing?

Graduated from the pool room in 1974 at age 18 so I guess I was around 13. Played with a group of excellent snooker players usually 6-8 in the game. The cost was a 10 cents a stick and when the game was finished the owner (Wade in Albany, Mo) would almost run around the bar set up the table for the next game. His wife would have hot beef sandwich and fresh baked pies ready for lunch everyday and no alcohol served here. It is a shame that theese pool rooms have vanished in small rual towns.
 
Bumper pool, Q-ball, and pool. I started playing a lot around ten I believe. I know it was many, many moons ago:). Johnnyt
 
I was 4 years old the first time I played pool all day. Just the cueball cause that is enough at four...plus it takes money to get the other balls out of a bar box.
 
I was 16. I just had got my liscense and screwed up by taking a small drink of booze and got pulled over... Lost my liscense for 2yrs.
The only place i could go for recreation was a short walk to the poolroom....To this day i have won over 100 local tourneys...
My only regret was to play with the pros and see how that would have went...=(
 
I started playing seriously at the age of 15. I played since I was around 8 but I was just a ball banger then. My parents owned a bar with 2 bar boxes in them. So I got to play alot during the days when I was a youngster. Around 15 I stumbled into an arcade and A kid I went to high school with bragged he was the best player for his age around. He beat me out of a 10 buck playing for 1 dollar a game. I came back in a few weeks and took the title of best for my age. After that Ive never looked back and played and practiced since.
 
bigshooter said:
I was about 11, my dad bought a 4 x 8 table and put it in our living room,
at about age 14 we moved it into my bedroom upstairs, I had a nice Brunswick table 5 feet from my bed, is it any wonder I got addicted to the game.
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about 10, when a neighbor got a table. Within a year I had my own table and have never been without a personal table for over 50 years.
 
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Our family was fortunate enough to have a Brunswick (6 leg) "Kling" Table in the Parlor and I was allowed to begin playing at age 7, in 1949
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Man, if I only owned that same table today what a happy man I'd be .
 

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Started playing at 10 at a buddies house every few weeks....bought my first table at 16....wish I still had that bad boy....as well as the old house cues and playing cue I bought with it....
 
poolplayer2093 said:
i was 21 when i started
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Well thank god, ... I thought I was gonna set the record at 18. I always felt like I'm way behind the curve on this. I see people who are or will be as good as me after 4 years (instead of 12), and those people are all under the drinking age. You just soak this stuff in better when you start younger.

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CreeDo said:
Well thank god, ... I thought I was gonna set the record at 18. I always felt like I'm way behind the curve on this. I see people who are or will be as good as me after 4 years (instead of 12), and those people are all under the drinking age. You just soak this stuff in better when you start younger.

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It's about the only thing I will win starting at this age...
 
I started playing in grade school. My dad would take me with him to the YMCA on Tuesday nights where he played volleyball and I would goof around on the trampoline and in the gym. Afterward we'd hit the pool and then go into the billiard room for a while before going home.

Around junior high, a pool hall opened up in my neighborhood and I immediately gave up the slot cars and started hanging out there.

There have been periods in my life though that I did not play any pool at all. This time I'm back for good.:cool:
 
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when I was 12, Dad bought a 6 foot table and I played around on it some.

I did not start going out to play and take it seriously until I was 14.
 
The very first time I picked up a stick, I was probably about 7. I still remember it. The game always fascinated me.

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I didnt start playing seriously until I was about 21 years old. That means ive been playing pool for about 9 years now. I get about 20 hours a week of pool time in. Thats not as much as I would like, but sometimes life gets in the way :-)

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This is me now. I still dont know how to play this damn game ;-)
 
Started in 1962 at the age of 5 when my dad bought a plywood bed 8 foot table at the Montgomery Wards tent sale for $25. Been in love with the game ever since but didn't take it seriously until about 8 years or so ago. Finally mature enough to appreciate the nuances of each game that's played on the green cloth.

Brian in VA
 
I was going to the YMCA when I was 6 years old. They had a bumper pool table there that was beat up. But even back then keeping the table was a huge deal. On the other side of the Y (the mens side) were three 5 x 10 tables and if you were quiet they might let you watch for a while. I was hooked at a very early age. When the Hustler came out in 62 I was 8 years old and begged my Dad to take me. He didn't but my Grandfather did. He also set up a 3 x 6 table that played like crap but I didn't know or care that it did.

I remember going to the library and getting every book on pool that i could find. Not much but I did find out that Irving Crane lived in my city, Rochester, NY. After that I convinced my father to trade our seldom used ping pong table for a 7' pool table. Another piece of crap. But again I didn't care. Pool will always be my first love. Just don't tell my wife.

Paul
 
Last October. Which means I was 18 when I started. Still am 18 now.

I suck at the game, but it's fun for me.
 
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