What Is Your Pool-Related Superstition ?

If I'm playing well I hate to break to take a piss. I will continue playing until I'm ready to burst a bladder. I just feel, irrationally, I know, that the changes in me physically as well as mentally of emptying my bladder will somehow alter my level of play. :shrug:
 
I have a few of them. I never sit down, if I'm sitting, my says I'm losing.
I always call tails. I always keep my coin face up, so it can breathe, otherwise my match is dead, and I lose, it also needs to see the table and diamonds.:thumbup:
 
I'm not sure if it's a superstition exactly, but I can't have anything in my pockets while playing.

If I do and I miss a shot I instantly blame the stuff in my pocket and remove it.

I like the way you think, everything must go except for my wallet. :thumbup::thumbup:

Like this thread,
Jake
 
Well I'm definitely going to start keeping about 8 pieces of chalk on the table, all upside down, turning coins over, etc.
 
Spotting a superstition

On this same topic, if you notice that you're playing someone that has a superstition, like if they have to have 3 cubes of chalk on the table or if they begin to panic if you rack the 13 on top will you intentionally do something like take the chalk with you when you leave the table. I knew a guy that hated it when you you touched the felt. If he was being a particular jerk on a given day, when ever I left the table I made sure that I leaned forward on the table with both hands flat on the playing surface. He also hated it if I used a different color of chalk than what he was using. Normally I'd give in, except for my lucky socks most of that other stuff didn't matter much to me but there are times when your opponent acts like a jerk (except me, of course...) and deserves to be treated accordingly. It's kinda like spotting a tell in a poker game.
 
I played someone once who needed to set up a little shrine of very small stuffed animals and various nicknacks before the lag. It was a careful, serious arrangement. They were all at a height where they could supervise the table, too, and I did feel like flipping them all off a few times- just because they were there.

Used to have some lucky argyle socks, but they eventually failed me.

Not quite superstitions, but I do have some preferences:

--I like a certain shape/ depth of chalk.
--I like at least two chalks at the table (I hate when the opponent wants to chalk while you shoot, and you have to keep asking them for it).
--I prefer not to be the white bead on the wire.

If I have to wait for another person on an adjacent table to take a shot before I can take mine, I used to feel superstitious about their performance. If they made the shot, I'd know that mine would go, too. Now, though, if they miss their shot, I just keep it as a reminder and a conviction that I must focus better than they did and make sure mine goes.

Last superstition: no purses on the floor. That's bad luck- it means you don't care about money and it will flow away from you. However, under the pool table is super secret safety ground and it doesn't count.
 
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I never finish a practice session on a miss. If need be, I'll setup a short straight in shot to finish. :cool:

I didn't think I had any supersitions about pool but if yours is one, it's mine too.:grin:
 
This has the makings of a great thread Kickin Chicken. :thumbup::thumbup:

Where did the shiny coins thing come from?
 
Last night I was bearing down on a shot and a gal with short shorts walked right in front of me and I missed and easy shot. Guess that will go in my superstitions folder. "Never look at a girl with short-shorts on when you are playing pool." :cool:
 
This has the makings of a great thread Kickin Chicken. :thumbup::thumbup:

Where did the shiny coins thing come from?

Hey JoeyA,
Kickin Chicken, always have good threads! How are you doing today?
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
When warming up before a tournament, I don't break but instead just throw all the balls out well spread on the table and just get into the rhythm of running balls. But, I never pocket the 9 (or 10) ball if I get the shape I intended. I will shoot the bad shape 9's and 10's but NEVER the good shape ones. When asked, I always jokingly reply that it is my belief that any given player is only allowed a certain number of pocketed game balls per day, and "I don't want to use mine all up." No, I don't believe it, but it's my habit more than my superstition.

dave
 
Thats pretty close to my thinking too Dave.
I don't have any real superstitions beside a couple of bad obsessive compulsive habits when playing.

I don't like to go into any games cold but sometimes work has me running late so I have enuff time to buy a beer and screw the cue together before my team mates start for the night.

I like to have one or two warm up games. If I start getting too many good shots, I won't have another warm up as I don't want to waste all my good ones on a warmer upper. I like to save a couple for my opponents.
 
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