What gives you grey hair more, pool, wife or kids?

hang-the-9

hang-the-9

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I guess husbands for the ladies :)

Sometimes pool is so frustrating, it makes some break 1,000 dollar cues, get in fights, throw tantrums, it has no reason or fairness at times.

I am running out an 8 ball rack after a miss, the guy has ONE ball on the table, I have an easy combo with my last two balls that I lined up perfect for and his ball is right next to my two about 6 inches from the corner. I shoot with follow so I don't get hooked behind him, make the ball. So the second ball hits my cueball which is slowly rolling forward, and heads for a perfectly easy shot for me, but it just keeps rolling a bit, hangs at the lip and falls in.

My cueball is now directly behind his last ball, which is the only ball on the table aside from the 8 ball. The 8 ball is just about directly in the center of the table, the hardest place to hit it with a kick. The cueball is an inch from his, too close for me to jump.

WTF!! Out of over 40 sq feet of area, the cueball happens to stop behind the 5 or so inches that can possibly hook me, after making a nice combo to boot, and the 8 ball just HAS to be in the center of the table to make a kick hard. Grey Hair.

The other interesting thing about the game is that I spent a few weeks dogging my brains out in tournaments, played in two and won ONE game in two tournaments. This week I won the local one I usually play in with two game losses the whole night in like 5 sets. Again WTF!! Logically you should either play bad till you are better or play good. Not play good, play bad, play really bad, play great, play good, play OK week by week.

Funny game we have.
 
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hang-the-9 said:
I guess husbands for the ladies :)

Sometimes pool is so frustrating, it makes some break 1,000 dollar cues, get in fights, throw tantrums, it has no reason or fairness at times.
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You should try golf.

Earl once said pool is more difficult than golf—b.s.!
[Although I do give props to Earl for being such a good golfer in the midst of his pool career]

This remark (as usual for him) was self-serving; he's a professional pool player, what else is he going to say?

Go ahead... Try playing golf. The learning curve (and maintenance efforts) is very high when compared to pool.

I bet most beginners can make a ball in pool in the first few minutes, but most can't hit a ball 90 yards in the first week.
 
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boogeyman said:
You should try golf.
Earl once said pool is more difficult than golf—b.s.!

This remark (as usual) was self-serving; he's a professional pool player, what else is he going to say.

Try playing golf. The learning curve (and maintenance) is very high when compared to pool.
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Yeah, I think that was during a TAR podcast. In fact, the example he gave was that he had won his club championship or something like that so pool must be more difficult. Of course, that's probably similar to saying that if you can win an in-house 8 ball tournament then certainly pool must be easier.

However, random statements with little justification are part of Earl's charm I think.
 
None of the above...(well maybe the wifey a bit).

Booze...definitely booze and more booze...did I mention booze?!
 
Wife. No doubt. Pool always brings me pleasure. When I lose a match I always blame myself and when I win I always blame myself. That's pool brother.
 
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