OT: The 9-ball comeback

One time, I knew a dude who tried to do a dive into a pool off of a diving board and lost his front tooth.

Not what I was expecting, but I'm curious how you lose a tooth diving into a swimming pool. I did a belly flop off the 3 meter board once, but all I suffered was a little embarrassment and a great deal of pain.

But I play in the union a lot.

One time I almost won a March madness pool. And when I was younger, me and my buddies would go to the casino Windsor riverboat and pool our money.

pee in the pool.

there---I finally confessed, and I feel better for it.

I lit a cigarette as my cousin was racking the balls, and sank the 8 before i had finished it. One of the best games I've ever had, then the next say i went out and couldn't make a damn shot.

but when I was in high school me and a bunch of friends would always hang out at a local pool hall while skipping school because a friends family owned it. Through doing that we all got pretty good at pool. It wasn't something I ever played until then but it didn't take long before I could hang with the other guys.

There was one of my friends though, that was head and shoulders above the rest of us. All the times he played over the couple of years we hung out there and he might have lost 10 times. 

Anyway, he switched to nine ball because there was a national tournament coming through our province and he wanted to play. He ended up winning that tournament and after a few more ended up turning professional and is still competing today.

My pool highlight was one weekend we had a tournament and the championship was a 4 out of 7 and I made the championship and beat this guy 4 games to 3. He said that one day was more lasses than he had the previous 6 months. Anyway, that was the highlight of my pool playing career. 

i played pool once at a place, and was squaring up a shot. Little did I know that a young hot, chick with short shorts was lining up a shot at the table behind me at the same time. you can guess where the back end of my pool stick went on my backswing.

Sincerely,

EVERY MOVIE SCENE IN A POOL ROOM, EVER

On the third or fourth date with my current girlfriend (picture 5-2, 100 lbs blonde), suggested we go to the local pool hall for a game, saying she plays "every once in awhile." I think it will be fun and on the first game I have a chance to win it with a fairly easy shot on the 8 ball. She still had four balls on the table so I decided to play nice and miss to keep the game going. Well I didn't get another turn. She hustled me, and said, "Yeah I come here two-three times a week." I guess that's her definition of every once in awhile. The next game I got one turn before she won. It took me three months to finally beat her. I found out real quick I was dating the best pool player in town.

I was a regular in the Union pool hall back in day. I knew almost all the people working there so I got to play for free. I tied for 5th or so in the campus tourney one year. I played in APA leagues for a while, but haven't so much as touched a cue in a couple years now. Just kinda lost the bug.

Best story is at a bar, some random dude bet me $100 for a game, he had the table so I had seen him play (and he wasn't very good) and he hadn't seen me play yet. I ended up running the table on him while his friends were laughing their asses off. I ended up just having him buy me a beer because I felt bad. I'm Asian, so he really should've known better. :)

Edit: Best story 1B: On my birthday one year I managed to hold the table at the bar from 9 to closing, drunk off my ass during most of it. I was playing some pretty good competition too including two guys from my APA team that usually kicked my ass. Just one of those nights where the pockets look like buckets

It's my 1st year doing so, I'm rated a 3 (players are rated anywhere from a 1-9 with 9 being the most skilled) I've beaten some 4's and 5's and believe me when I say, there is a big step up from a 3 to a 4 or 5.

I plan on becoming a 4 or 5, I think I have the game for it once I get better at not blasting the ball, finesse is where it's at. League APA play is way different than hanging at the bar and playing. You have ball in hand which is picking up the cue ball and handing it to your opponent when scratching or not making contact with your ball and they can put the cue ball anywhere they want.

Last weekend was our 1st round match in the playoffs, only 5 out of 16 teams made it, 1st place team gets a bye into the city championships, we won and are two match wins from an all paid expense trip to Vegas for the Nationals. If we make it, I'm wearing an M t-shirt while I play, wish me luck!