[FASTLARRY]

What age did you begin to play pool at?


There is always once ass hole that will shoot off his mouth and run something like this down. This kind of prick is jealous he can’t run 3 fookin balls to save his soul and probably can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.

Would he say the same thing if you saw a 2 year old playing a violin?
What About Tiger Woods on the Bob Hope show at 2 making putts?
He went on to make 100 million a year.

The kid has a natural talent and he is obviously having fun. Some will see of course bad in this, I see none, at this point. I think it’s all quite cute and harmless, it only become evil, when the mom pushes the little girl gymnast, the skater, or any sport where the kid gives up a normal childhood to slave to become a star, like Willie Hoppe did for his dad, and like schutte did to his kid, and dozens more are doing the same thing putting kids in home schooling so they can practice 9 ball 8 hours a day slaving like Walter Lindgrum did for his Dad.
They grow up to be great players, but like Hoppe, or Minnesota Fats, they are virtually illiterate and intellectually morons and very boring stupid people to be around. Because they don't know nothing but 9 ball, they do nothing else, they never travel on vacation and see the world, all they see is the back room of a pool hall all their life.

I grew up with a little table just like what you see, playing at 2 years old, later we got a bigger one to match my height, then a bumper pool table. I used to sell little tables like that for little kids.

Those skills actually put me through college, and I made over a million dollars off those tables, and today, it provides me a 6 figure income, and it all turned out good, because I never slaved all day long at the same game. I had other interests, a family, a home, a garden, tennis, golf, flying planes.

It’s the poor person who spends his entire life salving in a smoke filled pool room, like Fast Eddy in the movie, and does nothing else, wastes his life, and turns his life into something, perverted, sick and twisted.



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[headmuses]

I started playing pool at around the age of eleven. My Uncle used to take me to the pool hall and we would play for hours. He was a nine ball player but also loved to play snooker. I learned on the six by twelve tables, playing snooker, skittles and golf. He passed on a couple of years ago, and my Aunt gave me his jump/break cue which has a premier spot in my Instroke case. God rest his soul, he taught me the finer things about pool, never to shark, be a gentleman at the table and ask for no quarter nor give any.

Headmuses

[CocoboloCowboy]

About 1954, when I was not on Social Security YET. Start at the BOYS CLUB, not the PC boy & Girls Club. It was in Miami Florida.

[FASTLARRY]

CocoboloCowboy, on May 31 2009, 05:25 PM, said:

About 1954, when I was not on Social Security YET. Start at the BOYS CLUB, not the PC boy & Girls Club. It was in Miami Florida.

Few know what skittles is, perhaps you can describe it, its mostly a European game, very popular in Italy.

[MitchAlsup]

I started playing in 8th grade on a bar box in the local slot car racing joint. In 10th grade my dad (and 3 of his buddies) bought up the tables of a pool hall going out of business (8 ft Saunter Wilhelm (sp)). Through high school I played 2.5-3 hours a day. In college I played at the Frat House for 3 hours a day. Then I did not play for another 35 years (excepting a game or two per year). Which brings up to 2 years ago when I moved to an area of town where the local bar had a pool table.

The rest is history, some might say downhill, but history nonetheless.

[headmuses]

FASTLARRY, on Jun 1 2009, 01:50 AM, said:

Few know what skittles is, perhaps you can describe it, its mostly a European game, very popular in Italy.

We played it on a full sized snooker table. On the Five Spot (middle of the table where the blue is spoted) you place a red colored skittle (Resembles a miniature bowling pin) and around the red one there are also four white skittles placed in a square around the red skittle, leaving enough room to allow a ball to just pass through. The white pins are placed in line with both the two side pockets, plus in line with the brown and pink spots. You use a red ball as the object ball with one white ball and one yellow ball as your cue balls. One is your cue ball say the white one, and the Yellow ball is your opponents cue ball.

How you score points is to shoot your cue ball off your opponents yellow cue ball and and cause the yellow to knock over the pins without your cue ball contacting the pins. You can also use the red ball to carrom the yellow ball to knock over pins as well. You shoot in rotation, one player after another, meaning you dont continue shooting if you have scored a point. You do not score points if you do not hit your opponents cue ball first. You also do not score points if your cue ball knocks over a pin.

Fouls are penalties such as moving a ball with your hand, knocking over a pin with your own cue ball without hitting your opponents cue ball, jumping is not allowed, causing a ball to go off the table, not hitting your opponents cue ball with your cue ball....sorry its been a long time since I played, I am sure there are other fouls but I dont remember them all. I remember most fouls were points given to your opponent, plus they went to the table with ball in hand.


Two (2) points awarded for a white pin, four (4) points for the center red pin, plus you can score eight (8) points for knocking over the red pin without knocking a white one down on the shot. We usually played to fifty points, and lagged to see who went first.

That is pretty much a basic description of the game of Skittles as far as I can remember, I do know it was a great way to learn how to control your cue ball, learn carrom angles and control your speed of the cue ball.

[IROCK]

I started playing around ten years old. The little town I lived in did not have a pool room. Dad and I would drive about thirty miles and drop Mom and sis off at my Aunts house for several hours and we would go to the pool hall. My big brother use to go with us but once he got his own car, he was usually out doing his own thing. Dad would give me $2 to play on then usually I would be back for more. The pool room had two snooker tables and four regular 8 foot tables. Those tables were always level, big John the owner and a good player, made sure of that. Snooker was 20 cents a game and eight ball was 15 cents a game, the loser paid for the game after each game was over. There was always a young guy running the pool room for big John, he would always come around and take the money and rack the balls. Nine ball, you always played five games and at the end of every fifth game everyone playing payed 25 cents a piece. If I had the money from the gambling, that crossed those tables through all the years I was growing up, I would be a rich man. We had some really good shooters in several towns around the area, and they would travel to the pool room of the other town with backers in hand and play all night. You always knew when a match was going down. Probably the best player in the area was a friend of mine named Ray. I guess at the time we were in our early twenties. Ray was unbelievable. He was thin and looked kind of wimpy, but man he was a terror on a pool table. One day Ray just put up his cue and quit playing, then he started going to church regularly moved away and became a preacher. I think he found something even more important than pool.

[Demondrew]

I started when I was about six. We used to take vacations to relatives homes. My Uncle owned a bar and lived above it. My cousin and I were allowed to stuff the pockets with a bar towel and play before the bar opened in the morning. It seemed each time we went back to my Uncle's they had changed the rules of the game. I loved the game but only got a chance to play once or twice a year. When I was thirteen Mom and Dad bought a Sears 7 footer, wood bed and gaping maw pockets. It had some severe rolls in it so I learned to shoot all my shots with pace (read HARD). I had a friend that wanted a table for his kids and he asked about mine in the basement. I put a new piece of high pressure fiberboard in it as a bed and some used cloth from another friend. I sold the table to him for for $10.00.
I picked up a used Valley barbox. It was never the same. Twenty five years later I took up straight pool. The 9 foot tables still seem big.

[CocoboloCowboy]

Here is one to blow you all away, how about a 96 y/o that asks for help to improve is game.

[huebler]

My dad took me to a bar with a couple of tables when I was about 7 and I knew I liked it right away. Didn't play much until we got a table when I was 12, and from 12 to 16 I played 4-8 hours per day every day. I was pretty good at 16 and then got a car, a job, and a girl friend and my playing time went down considerably all through college. After college I played and won often in a bar league in the B class and then mostly stopped playing for 20 years. Got my own table a year ago, and now I am back to playing every day. Thinking about jumping in to the local APA league.