Any serious pool players on prime???
Any pool players????
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I used to for a good 5 yrs. Wouldnt do anything else all day long. Too bad I went to school and started a real life. It was fun though but wish I never stopped. I love it still, but would need a big spot from just anyone these days if I got into a game :redface:
You can have the "8"!!! :biggrin: Just kidding!!!
Did you hang out at Hard Times???
Did you hang out at Hard Times???
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I've been playing pool for over twenty years. One day a guy wearing a leather jacket with a nine-ball rack stitched on the back comes in. We struck up a conversation, and ten games later, he handed me my ass eight times. :redface: His first name was Earl, but I can't remember his last name (Stricker, Strickland, ?) and I think he is from Ohio. Several weeks later I am channel surfing and came across a nine-ball tournament in Las Vegas on ESPN. Guess who one of the contenders was. 
I have restored a Brunswick three-piece 1" thick slate pool table that was manufactured in 1912. I bought it at a garage sale for $100. It took two years to restore, complete with Mother-of-Pearl sights, leather pockets, joints smoothed with bee's wax and covered with Simonis felt.
I have restored a Brunswick three-piece 1" thick slate pool table that was manufactured in 1912. I bought it at a garage sale for $100. It took two years to restore, complete with Mother-of-Pearl sights, leather pockets, joints smoothed with bee's wax and covered with Simonis felt.
Yellow Rose said:His first name was Earl, but I can't remember his last name (Stricker, Strickland, ?) and I think he is from Ohio. Several weeks later I am channel surfing and came across a nine-ball tournament in Las Vegas on ESPN. Guess who one of the contenders was.
LOL... Yeah, Earl Strickland is one of the best in the world. It'd be an honor to have him annihilate me in nine-ball.
But I'd rather play Jennifer Chen...
Yeah, she'd bust me up, too.
I've played pool althroughout my high school and college years and I still keep my cue in the back of my car, just in case. :biggrin:
Back in college, my friends and I used to enter straight pool tournaments using house cues just to get a kick out of the face expressions when one of us wins a tournament. I've shot pool with Jeanette Lee (aka the black widow) and my friends (who knows her fairly well) got her hooked on 3 ball bumper pool. This was years back before she moved out to the midwest somewhere with her husband. She seriously kicks ass.
Back in college, my friends and I used to enter straight pool tournaments using house cues just to get a kick out of the face expressions when one of us wins a tournament. I've shot pool with Jeanette Lee (aka the black widow) and my friends (who knows her fairly well) got her hooked on 3 ball bumper pool. This was years back before she moved out to the midwest somewhere with her husband. She seriously kicks ass.
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Does snooker count?!? :biggrin:
In a moment of geek-confessions... I actually was drawn to pool alot growing up (alot my older cus's are into it), I watched a Disney video that showed how Algebra/Geometry/Trigonometry all could be used while playing pool!
In a moment of geek-confessions... I actually was drawn to pool alot growing up (alot my older cus's are into it), I watched a Disney video that showed how Algebra/Geometry/Trigonometry all could be used while playing pool!
I'm an avid player, when I'm not working or watching/attending football games or golfing. I have a table so I can play whenever.
Have been on pool league for many years. Doesn't mean I'm good though. :wink:
Have been on pool league for many years. Doesn't mean I'm good though. :wink:
I gambled all through my college years. Traveled all over and played some great matches... Probably some of my fondest memories.... Really carefree days with not a care in the world.
i played 9ball for 10 years. got to vegas in a apa league by sand bagging.
my fav nowadays is 1 pocket. i shoot with a paul mottey.
my fav nowadays is 1 pocket. i shoot with a paul mottey.
In college I used to go to a pool hall that had 6 circa 1860 Brunswick tables. Supposedly they were documented in the local newspaper ot have been played on by Jesse James. The pool hall went out of business and sold all the tables for $100 each. One of my buddies managed to buy 3 of them. Y-Rosey, you have the table. :wink:Yellow Rose said:
I shoot with a John Robinson....
I love to play pool and have played (gambled) with a lot of the top players. Usually with a pretty big spot. I have an extensive collection of pool cues, including Samboti's, Gina cues, Joss West's, Shicks, Glbert's, Tascarella's, Tad's, etc...
