Some people are nits, but they go through life pretending they are not. When they are confronted with this fact it makes them angry.:angry:
i feel everyone has the right to simply say no, or no thank you. Some people just don't gamble and that is just life.
Times have changed and the way some look at the game has really changed. One poster talks of playing $5 sets. Well i am old school and to me, that is a total waste of time. Again, JMO. If one is looking for a profit as most have done, or did do, $20 sets are a total waste of time. The counter ends up with the money and it will cost one money in the long run.
The nits are the ones who talk the talk but won't walk the walk. They claim to play well when everything is in their favor and then they are stepping out there when betting $100. To them it is all about staying in their comfort zone. When someone of equal skiil comes along and challenges them they start the dog and pony show claiming that they work for a living and don't need this or that and even think most can't see past it all.
For many pool is purely recreational and little more. For me, it never has been and playing for very little or just air bores me all to hell. But, to each his own.
In my mind everyone going into the pool rooms should have their eyes wide open. in my day there was always someone watching and ready to take you off. When it happened I almost always felt it was my own fault. Nobody has ever forced me to play, but I did and it often backfired. When done though usually we both got what we were looking for.
Today if you walk into a pool room and ask someone to play $10-20 9 ball, You get the look like you just fell off a Turnip truck. They try and steer you over to some guy who beats up on the league players and talk about how he gambles really big and you automatically know it is BS because if he did, he wouldn't be at the league thing.
Now I am not bashing the league players at all. I'm just saying that people play the game for different reasons and different intensions. The game and the pool room has changed so much over the past 20-25 years. In the old days when asked to play,, the next question was how much. If he just nodded his head no, it usually meant he was too short or busted. Enough said and nobody wasted anymore time on the matter. if he said yes the next thought was, wondering how much he was holding. Why risk 100 for 40-50? That happened a lot.
Ah, hell, it is just far different now than back then!