The least Impresive thing ??

Question

To you what marks a wanna-be player before they even shoot a ball

Answer 1

doing the idiosyncrasy, which is like knocking on the table as if it can make the ball slow down faster when you have shot it.

Answer 2

He starts dancing like Tom Cruise in the "Color of Money" when he hears the "Werewolfs of London" on the juke box!!...

Answer 3

Hmmm...I wouldn't know...;)

Answer 4

A wannabe usually Talks too much,Puts on a show, with his clothes, his 4 piece Q, His Que case, powder, and some girl that knows nothing about pool hanging on him.

He usually doesn't have any money, will play for peanuts, and the stick will be sticking on his fingers when he tries to shoot, even though he looks like the Pillsbury dough boy from all the powder he's put on himself. He will misque, a few times trying to break, and look at his stick!!,(like it's the sticks fault) he may even rip the cloth.

Cigarette in his mouth, while shooting, smoke getting in his

eyes, there will be chalk all over the table!, will talk his mucho s**t, but won't back it up. Many times he won't know solids from stripes. or his S, from a whole in the ground!

EDIT-One time we had a guy on a pool team, and we went to play some bar, while he was shooting he stuck the cigarette in his ear, but you know what? he won, this other guy kept looking at him, I culdn't hold myself from laughing!. I wonder if he harmed his ear!!. He shot ok though, that was funny!.

EDIT-HOW COME NO COMMENTS JOHNNY?

Answer 5

Human moves kid...Human moves....  Sorry, I know thats cliche but anyone who has hung out in a pool room all their life and paid attention......  You can tell when they pick up a stick and walk around the table.  I'm not the best at explaining it but if you have been in on some hustles, you know what I'm talking about.  Just the way they move, same as a guy with a h**l of a stroke, you don't even have to see it, just hear it and you know....

Answer 6

Spinning the cue stick around like he's Donatello from TMNT.

Answer 7

This is going to sound really s****., but when I see the guys who come in with their cues with all the skulls and flames, or any kind of beer logos on them, from experience, I usually don't have much to worry about.  Again this is going to sound really elitist, but when I see those skinny punk kids with the wife-beaters and the chains and the pants gathered around their ankles, I'm thinking that I'm going to have some fun.  I love it how they always have a entourage of other little punks with them, repeating how good so-and-so is and how nobody ever beats them, etc.  I agree with the chalking point made earlier.  I'm always amazed at how little some people care about checking to see if their tip is properly chalked, especially on a strange cue.  When I see a person take their first shot in 8-ball after the break without even looking the table over, I'm usually in good shape.  In my opinion, if a person selects their shot and gets down to shoot in less than 10 seconds after the balls have stopped rolling after the break, there's no way they could have plotted out the table.  So those are a few things before they start shooting that tend to tip me off.  Now there's dozen of things that confirm this when they actually begin to play.  Right off the bat, they usually have a 20+ MPH break and the cue ball barely stays on the table.  You can tell by their shot selection that they aren't planning to break up any clusters or problem balls.  Crazy, knock-kneed stances that just look painful usually are a give away.  I'm not saying that there's one "right" way to stand, but you shouldn't look like someone just hit you in the back of the leg with a cue.  Jumping up on every shot, really unecessarily long bridges, playing with way too much speed, rushing every shot, etc.  Good question Johnny.  I hope I didn't come across like a jerk, but this is just what I see.  I'm not saying I'm better than anybody else.  M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.

Answer 8

That's too simple.  

It's someone who doesn't look you "square in the eyes" as he's talking to you.

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Answer 9

their grip technique on both, the shaft & butt......their stroke, the way they look at their object ball...like, do they look from the cue ball to the object ball first? Or do they look from the pocket to the object ball first?..Or the pocket to the obj. ball, then the cue ball?...it's also in their attitude....to me, a smart shark is the quiet type...one who doesn't go flaunting and bragging how he shoots...one who lets them come to him, rather than him go out looking for the bait..you can also tell a wannabe in his stance, posture when he's shooting.....i don't know how 2 explain it...it's just when you come upon one, you'll know automatically :) .......Dre O

Answer 10

Grinding the cue into the chalk as if they were boring a hole then banging the shaft on the table to knock off the excess. Any well vested player will apply his/her chalk as a "Lady" would apply her lip stick, with careful strokes taking care not to cake it up the cue. You can see them addressing it as if it were a painting with well defined lines

Answer 11

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