Your first feeling of pride/accomplishment relating to pool.

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The accomplishment thread gave me this idea, name a few of your personal pool related accomplishments.

Mine are:

Remembering the time I played position to get onto another ball for the first time and it worked.

Break and Running my first rack of 9 ball

Break and Running my first rack of 8 ball

Going 14 wins and 1 loss one session on league back when I was a SL 4, the one loss was only by one ball (APA 9 ball rules).

Winning my first pool tourney (some small local poolhall tourney, think there was only 8 people in it).

Competing in a tourney (and winning) where the entry fee went to help the family of a person who was stabbed to death that used to shoot in a local APA league.
 
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I can recall my first break and run, my first tournament win, the first time I beat a true pro player....but the most satisfying came while I was sitting in the stands at the US Open when I got a phone call. It was one of my students calling from the pool room back home to tell me he just got his first break and run in league. Now THAT felt really good...both because he did it, and because he wanted to share the experience with me.
Steve
 
I started playing pool when I was 12 at the YMCA (pool rooms were illegal in Texas until shortly after "The Hustler" was released), just snooker and 14.1. The man that taught me how to play was a tough old bird and rode me without mercy. My first feeling of accomplishment was when I started beating him regularly. I rushed out and bought a KMart cue (hey, it was 1962 - not many options back then) and, voila, I was a pool hustler! Pretty good feeling the first time things start falling into place in this most difficult game.
 
My first time

No question about this one - the first time I ran out a rack in 14.1 and successfully transitioned into the next rack, posting a 23 (my all-time high at the time) on the tightest table in the poolroom. Seriously great feeling - suddenly seeing the vistas of what could be....
 
One of mine was

The first time I ran a table of Bank 8 ball. Now that felt good because I had been working on my banks real hard.
 
First time beating the "best player in the house."

First time beating the "best player in the county."

First time being called the "best player in the county."
 
My first 8-ball break and run was on the hill in a playoff match during my second APA season, when I was still a SL3. I started playing pool seriously when I started playing in the APA, so I had only been playing for a few months, and to be truthful the break and run was a little bit of a fluke, including accidental break-out shots, and an ugly back-cut bank shot on the 8 because I missed position so bad.

But still, as a relatively new player and an SL3, I was on top of the world for having won a playoff match against a sand-bagging 5 on a break and run.

-Andrew
 
First tournament win

When I played in the first tournament I ever entered. I was going to school at Marquette University, I made it to the finals. It was eightball and I lost the coin toss. My opponent broke and did not make a ball. I negotiated a tough out and he never got a chance to shoot. I was totally jazzed that I was able to run the rack for the win!!!
 
Best comeback

Playing in a regional tournament in Milwaukee. I had to play a guy I never beat before, somehow he always got out. I was down 8 to 1 in a race to nine. I finally caught a gear and won the next eight games. He just shook his head that I finally was able to beat him after about three years of losses to this same guy. Sadly I did not win the tournament, but I finally overcame my nemesis!!!
 
Well mine kinda have levels,

Like my first break n run, having back to back break n runs

my first break n run in a money tournament, which ended up happening on the hill lol :)

Winning my first money tournament, it was a 4$ C/D tournament

My First Break n Run on a 9ft

First APA Break N Run 9ball

First APA Break N Run 8ball

And First APA 8ball snap, which happend 3 weeks ago during playoffs to make it Hill Hill, which i ended up loosing :( and costed the team the match.

dave
 
let's see, this is a good one...
-my first break and run patch from apa.... only 2 sessions ago Not up to 2 in a row yet...
-beating an sl6 in playoffs opening match in 7 innings 4 to zip <i'm a 5 right now>, 1 game was 4 innings-he tried safeing me twice, then he walked away mumbling how he 'just got spanked like a 3 year old throwing a tantrum on a saturday afternoon!"
-going to APA best of Best for the first time and placing in the money and walking away with my entree and a hundred bucks <gave back a bunch of it to the bar before i went home though <G>>
-going to a singles apa regional entree 'mini tourney' and winning <only 10 of us> and I beat this loud obnoxious-'oh you can't beat me' kinda player who had the whole place pissed off at him-he was fighting and arguing with his opponent every match... i think they wanted to give me a standing ovation when i said i'd beat him out of the win!.....
-just got my invite to apa singles regionals finals on march 4th in the mail monday... I may get spanked-but-hell I get a shot at going to Vegas as a single-not a team.. only 126 entrants..

thanks for making me think on all the memories... made my day
 
pooltchr said:
I can recall my first break and run, my first tournament win, the first time I beat a true pro player....but the most satisfying came while I was sitting in the stands at the US Open when I got a phone call. It was one of my students calling from the pool room back home to tell me he just got his first break and run in league. Now THAT felt really good...both because he did it, and because he wanted to share the experience with me.
Steve
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Nice...that would be a good one for me as well.
Kelly
 
I was a 10 year old kid in Guam. My father was in the airforce, we were playing in the recreation center on base. I was playing a GI some 8 ball, he only had the 8 left, and I add 5 or 6 balls left on the table, my shot. Every shot I shot, it seemed like the next one was longer (big table) and harder, but I ran out...maybe my first true out. The GI just hung his head when I won, and my father was sitting in a corner watching grinning ear to ear.

Kelly
 
My First BIG Score.

One Friday night (many years ago) in E. St. Louis at The National Stockyards, three Cowboys came in looking for a $2 game. They were real cowboys with the Rodeo. All the "Smarts" said no to them. The houseman said "Hey Kid" you want to play them some? A lot of things happened but they ended up getting their bonus checks from their boss and blowing it all to me. Then the boss took over and blew a lot more.
Bottom Line - I played them until late Sunday afternoon and won a little over $4K.
The next day I was able to "Pay Off" a 1966 GTO I had just bought.
What a great feeling. This also convinced my Father to endorse my pool playing activities. I KNOW it had a lot to do with my future goals as far as pool was concerned.

TY & GL, OHB
 
-my first break and run in 8 ball

-my first break and run in 9 ball, I had come close a number times for a month leading up to it. So i came to the pool hall and decided i wouldnt leave until I managed the feat. I came in at 6:00 PM and left at 2:00 AM lol. Sort of a forced accomplishment, but it was the first time I had actually practiced by myself for more than 30 min.

- My first transition from one rack to the other in 14.1

-my first 2 pack, 3 pack, 4 pack etc.

-running a rack of 9 ball using only banks- that is still my favorite run out. I was playing a local pro when I accomplished this. After I banked in the 9 I came away from the table with a grin plastered on my face, while he was just shaking his head at me because I was out of position on every shot :D. I lost 11-7 by the way.

-In Snooker, my first 30
-my first one inning win (77).
-my first century (112 i think)
 
Cornerman said:
First time beating the "best player in the house."

First time beating the "best player in the county."

First time being called the "best player in the county."
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How big is the county?? (Sorry...couldn't resist)
 
First time I ran a rack of 9 ball one-handed banking all of the balls. (Seriously)
 
since my dad taught me to some pool basics. I've been waiting a longtime for the day when I can just masscre him on the table. And surely that day passed and it was quite nice. Now its off to a bigger pond.
 
3 out of 5 break and run in 8 ball.

winning a league

winning an 8 ball tournament - big rock bar box.

2nd in an 8 ball tournament with a 39 player field.

first 3 pack in 9 ball.

my current high run of 43 in straight pool.

running 20 or more in straight pool in 4 out of 5 racks.

These accomplishments aren't beans compared to most serious players. But I have a 50 hour a week job and a wife/child that I intend on keeping.
 
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