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Why did you start playing pool in the first place-and do you still think that way?

Answer 1

Johnny, not sure if I understand the 2nd part of the question...but I am just competitive and just want to perfect the game and just watching someone that is acknowledged as the best and then wanting to beat him on a regular basis.....guess I still think the same....I still am trying to beat our "Johnny"...actual name....I can beat him now but still trying to get up to Bill or Eric's level(best 2 in CC, TX)....

Answer 2

started when I was 12 used to go with DAD to the pool hall and he usually won I was doing OK by the time I was 13 or 14 but got really into calf roping followed that until age 42 and got sick had to quit work and roping started playing pool regular in leagues at 48 really love the game and people I meet

Answer 3

I was 29 years old when started playing. I was new in town and on a job where everybody went to the gin mill to drink and play pool after work. I was invited to go and started playing.

I wasn't very athletic as a kid (I was always the last one picked for a team when we were playing baseball or football) but when I started playing pool I found myself very comfortable at the table and it didn't matter what was going on around me or the game.

Twenty two years later it hasn't changed much. I enjoy the game as much as I ever did and can't say enough about the great friendships that have developed through the years as a result of playing.

Answer 4

We had a table in the basement when I was a kid. I guess I started playing because it was there, and it was something my dad liked so of course I wanted to do it too. I didn't really start taking it seriously until I was 21 and started playing in bars with a friend and we started entering bar tournaments. I still mostly play out of bars, but now I win more than I lose instead of breaking even or losing.

Answer 5

My father was a player and I thought he was 10ft tall and bullet proof. He would walk in and everyone said hello and eventually all the players had come by the table to shoot the breeze, steer a game, ask for weight...whatever. I wanted to be just like him.

As  it turned out I had some talent, liked the money and to show off. But the people who played for serious money were I favorites. Wonderful guy and gals that would take every cent you owned but would do anything for you. It was like a club with limited membership.

While I still play for cash it has kinda changed out there I never used to fear having my cues stolen while I was in the john.

Do I still think that way? Every now and then I'll go to a tournament and it seems all the old crowd is there, bets are fast, stories to catch up on start, and I am happy as a clam...just doesn't happen often enough.

Luck

K

Answer 6

My brother joined the APA about 6 years ago and after his first session, him and I and a bunch of our friends decided to put our own team together to have fun and hang out.  We weren't very good but we were learning and having a blast.  I guess it's kind of bittersweet, that original team has broken up into several teams with none of them able to have more than 3 "original" teammates(we've all gotten too good to be able to play together under APA handicapping).

A little over a year ago my brother and I bought the bar we play out of, so now I not only play to have a good time but I play for business, I am currently on 7 APA teams and my brother is on 6 (only 1 together).  It's fun to compete against each other now and we have a good time developing new players and creating new teams, our bar has 17 teams this session and we are real proud of that.

So to answer your question, I don't neccessarily think the same as I did when I started to play, my love of the game has evolved and grown to a point where it realistically defines who I am, a businessman who shoots a c---load of pool.

P.S. since we bought the bar we sent the first team to Vegas that has come out of that bar in over ten years

Answer 7

turned 18. friend was in love with strippers so we went to the local 18 and over. they had a table, i hate giving women my money that i ain't ... well back to the story started playing and learning the game.  went to college and learned i had managed to learn something none of the locals had.  how to ignore half naked women while playing pool. one of the girls in the town was well endowed and loved to show off, she would hang over table when u played here where u got great view.  i learn with naked women all around whats a lil cleavage. only guy i ever saw beat her was me everyone else played there worse, though the hustlers didn't bother with her.  today i still play for the relaxation and the fun it brings.  sadly don't get to play as often as i would like.