Billiards

[BushMogulMaster]

Anyone else play regularly? 8 ball, 9 ball, straight pool, anything.

I play 5-10 games a day. Trying to get good at the game. Straight pool (14.1 continuous) is by far my favorite game. Anyone else?

 

[Greg]

Played a lot (mostly 8 ball) in college and after college a few times a week. Still enjoy it when out in a bar which hardly ever happens these days. :lol:

 

[WJenness]

I enjoy hitting the bar and playing a bit of 8 or 9 ball with friends.

It's not something I do to be good at, it's something I do to have fun with friends.

We refer to one of our friends as "The Master of White Trash Games" If you can play it in a bar, Pat's good at it:

Pool
Darts
Picking up sketchy women...

the list goes on.

-w

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I don't really think of Pool as a white trash game..I'm a decent pool player..at the place my parents rented at Lake Anna Virginia there was a pool table in the rec room and I played alot of pool. Most of the bars near me don't have a pool table..

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Well, there's a difference between bar pool, and the respectable game of pocket billiards. If the only time you play pool is when you're s#itfaced at a bar, and you rely on sheer luck and hard hits, then I suppose you could call it a white-trash game.

If, on the other hand, you take enough pride in your game to get to know the official rules, learn to play what I call the "art of the game" (position play, english, etc.), and play the game for the sake of the sport, then it's definitely not a white trash game. Quite the contrary, in fact.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Hell when i was a HS kid ( 1957-61) played EVERYDAY after school .

All the Basketball players had to wait till 5 pm for Hoops practice to get the gym, so we all used to go to a then "unsavory" POOL HALL -- OMG back then it was considered to be edgy

It was smoke filled, dimly lit and used to have a WARNING system when the police were going to raid it bcuz travling hustlers were often in town for high stakes pool .-- Think the movie the HUSTLER or Cincinnati Kid. We saw lots of that kind of action

We all played "rotation" for for a quarter a ball and usually did OK

 

[hardline]

pool tables are kinda rare in nyc. i got to slate a few time a year to play and drink.

 

[bigbog]

...back in mid_60s to 72' I think...

Friend of my grandad had table(up in small town in Maine)..... Used to play from mid 60s till 72'...usually on Sundays, just for a while. Straight and 8-Ball. Had a real talent for knockin' the ol' #8 ball in before it's time..on the banked shots...;-)

 

[billiardsboy]

Good Billiards Book

Straight Pool is good for your game, yeah! It's good for mine.

I have been enjoying Picture Yourself Shooting Pool, this book contains a variety of educational and self-assessment pool games I had not seen before .

 

[Philpug]

I used to play a fair amount when we had a bar.

 

[bvibert]

I've never played regularly and I suck because of it. The last time I played, a few weeks ago, I had more fun checking out my wife's cleavage while she was shooting than I did playing pool. Perhaps if I payed more attention to the game I would have made some shots and had some fun...

I can see the appeal to the game, but I just don't have the time/patience at this point to get into it.

 

[drjeff]

I've played on and off alot over the years, but never regularly. Over the summer, I took possession of that tabel that was in my parents house before they finally did the "empty nest" downsizing of the house routine Now I just need to get around to having the local Brunswick dealer come to my house and set up all the pieces that are currently covered up in my basement

 

[Jeff Isabelle]

Rattler

Pool, Straight pool, Billiards, Nine ball, Century I've played them all during the rain storm of 97 we couldn't go skiing anywhere up here in Gatineau region. As I lived close to the Ottawa city core. Which did not experience a power failure though thousands of power lines and trees had been destroyed. I resurrected my pool playing capabilities down the street at a local pool hall - restaurant McLarens (plug if you pass through Ottawa) Good Pool Good food just avoid the hockey play off season (the place is fill of large screen tv's). Otherwise its a full sports bar pool hall with many regulation size 8-9 ball tables and lots of good people.

Skiing is 35 minutes away to Mont Cascades or 90 minutes away if you hit the Laurentians to Tremblant etc... During the 97 ICE Storm I started playing again. I used to play 7 hours a day during and after school so every thing work all stopped in 97 for nearly 2 weeks so I played pool instead.

The old hall was near my HS and I played with my dad fairly often. I usually give everyone the benefit of knowing that I played often as a kid. I've run into to many sore loosers over the years. I'm waiting for 3 custom made ebony cues to arrive for this season which started about a week ago. Looking to play only organized tourney's, No fast eddie stuff, unfortunately I need my thumbs! To hang on to my poles

All the best!

 

[MR. evil]

I used to play ALOT, as a kid my brother and I got a very nice table as a Xmas present. Our friends next door and across the street also had pool tables. We were all pretty good. That table is still at my parents house not being used. I think the only time it sees any action is during holidays and birthday parties held at my parents. Randi and I have a decent sized empty room in our house and I am working on trying to get that table from my parents place.

 

[Greg]

Pool, Straight pool, Billiards, Nine ball, Century I've played them all during the rain storm of 97 we couldn't go skiing anywhere up here in Gatineau region. As I lived close to the Ottawa city core. Which did not experience a power failure though thousands of power lines and trees had been destroyed. I resurrected my pool playing capabilities down the street at a local pool hall - restaurant McLarens (plug if you pass through Ottawa) Good Pool Good food just avoid the hockey play off season (the place is fill of large screen tv's). Otherwise its a full sports bar pool hall with many regulation size 8-9 ball tables and lots of good people.

Skiing is 35 minutes away to Mont Cascades or 90 minutes away if you hit the Laurentians to Tremblant etc... During the 97 ICE Storm I started playing again. I used to play 7 hours a day during and after school so every thing work all stopped in 97 for nearly 2 weeks so I played pool instead.

The old hall was near my HS and I played with my dad fairly often. I usually give everyone the benefit of knowing that I played often as a kid. I've run into to many sore loosers over the years. I'm waiting for 3 custom made ebony cues to arrive for this season which started about a week ago. Looking to play only organized tourney's, No fast eddie stuff, unfortunately I need my thumbs! To hang on to my poles

All the best!

What on earth is up with the "Rattler" subject on every post? :???: