Replies 5 and 12 really answered this post the way i feel, one of the worst things that happened in tour. was a, b, c, d, tour. It's like boxing pay your dues they helped make people bitc** and cu## i shared this thought with 100s of players show some heart! Mr. junior champ take care of what you know I MADE THAT MISTAKE whats in your soul matters!
Why do YOU play in tournaments?
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Entering tournaments that I have no chance of coming in the money has never made sence to me, just ends up being a huge waste of a day/night. I practice, watch matches, read everything I can, and gamble alittle to get better. Tournaments have never really been what I call fun they take too long and are rarely that great of a return on my money. I do enter tournaments once in awhile that my odds of placing aren't that great, it's not like I'm gonna turn around and leave or ask for my money back if some guys I know I can't beat walk in but I don't purposely go looking for them either. All my area has is bar tournaments so that's partly the reason I don't care for them, but I hate 9-ball so that limits my choices for "big league" tournaments anywhere remotely close to home. The places with 9ft tables around here don't even have tournaments but I still play 10times more on the "big" tables then I do the bar boxes. I play with friends and gamble for fun, tournaments are all about the $$ to me. It's like I jokingly tell some of the top dogs in this town when they wanna gamble, I don't make donations.
, the best local weekly tournament offers a chance to play top-flight players.I have not entered any tournaments but am considering it because of the challenge. I probably will be donating but that is all I am doing in league play. All the years of league play has just been donating with nothing back.
I am now thinking that I could do the same in a weekly tournament, there is no comittment and I may get lucky and win a few bucks.
I am now thinking that I could do the same in a weekly tournament, there is no comittment and I may get lucky and win a few bucks.
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because i can, at my age not to many things that i can do but shoot pool and play golf--- dont want to pat my self on the back -- but my parterner and i played in ga state golf tourny in griffin ga this past week end and finished 3rd in championship fright went from next to last on sat to tie for first on sun--- lost in 3 way play off but still brought thropy home for low score on sunday [64] makes a old man fill good --- got to mention my partener name Italion stalion----joe derose--- won long drive contest well over 300 yd [ vetrans of foregon war] in griffen every year if in vets out there from ga sign up come have some fun STICK
because i can, at my age not to many things that i can do but shoot pool and play golf--- dont want to pat my self on the back -- but my parterner and i played in ga state golf tourny in griffin ga this past week end and finished 3rd in championship fright went from next to last on sat to tie for first on sun--- lost in 3 way play off but still brought thropy home for low score on sunday [64] makes a old man fill good --- got to mention my partener name Italion stalion----joe derose--- won long drive contest well over 300 yd [ vetrans of foregon war] in griffen every year if in vets out there from ga sign up come have some fun STICK
It's not donating - think of it as cheap lessons. If you are like everyone else I know who comes over from league play, you will see a vast improvement in your concentration....it is necessary for survival since you are playing no handicap against really good players. Think of 6 and 7 draws as bonus lessons.TheBook said:
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more of what everyone else has said
cheap lessons: you can test out what the better players would do in certain situations. in some ways, any "peer pressure" of a social atmosphere is lessened because no matter what you do, they can get out, so you may as well be as creatively mean as possible. AND you get to try yourself out on their own real, lockup safeties. Finally, you get to feel the adrenaline and pressure of "if i miss, they're not only running out, they're running racks" that you just don't feel in lesser tourneys.
variety: we've got some great players with whom i would never be able to play outside of the open tourneys... gambling with them would be just giving my money away, and any game i tried to make for more even odds wouldn't have the same desperate feeling of near- hopeless gotta-get-a-game pressure.
hope: better players play prettier. their stances, patterns, strokes, rhythms, everything gives you something to aspire to. you get to see how the game could/ should be played, with the dynamic exercise of playing in the same match that you don't ever capture in just watching live or on tv.
cheap lessons: you can test out what the better players would do in certain situations. in some ways, any "peer pressure" of a social atmosphere is lessened because no matter what you do, they can get out, so you may as well be as creatively mean as possible. AND you get to try yourself out on their own real, lockup safeties. Finally, you get to feel the adrenaline and pressure of "if i miss, they're not only running out, they're running racks" that you just don't feel in lesser tourneys.
variety: we've got some great players with whom i would never be able to play outside of the open tourneys... gambling with them would be just giving my money away, and any game i tried to make for more even odds wouldn't have the same desperate feeling of near- hopeless gotta-get-a-game pressure.
hope: better players play prettier. their stances, patterns, strokes, rhythms, everything gives you something to aspire to. you get to see how the game could/ should be played, with the dynamic exercise of playing in the same match that you don't ever capture in just watching live or on tv.
And now, after your great showing this last weekend in the USPPA Pro-Am, the players are now wanting to enter a tournament to get a chance to play against you.
Good Show, can't wait to hear more about your weekend fun.
Good Show, can't wait to hear more about your weekend fun.
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