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Originally Posted by pwd72s
The art of pool hustling is more about choosing the right matchup than being the best shooter. Problem is, after a good hustler/player becomes too well known, his only option is to enter the tournament trail. My honorary nephew (son of a deceased buddy who was like a brother) is in that boat...he's one of the top five big fish in the small pool pond of Oregon. Everybody knows him, few want to play him for the cash.
If he matched up with any of the top 100 in the world? He'd get his brains beaten in.
Is your dad still with you? If so, ask him if he'd like to go to a pool hall in your area on father's day. He'd probably love it. I'm talking a real pool hall, not a seedy dive with a few coin-op tables. Alas, in this age of video games, real pool halls are a vanishing bit of Americana.
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As much as I would love to spend any time with dad he died several years ago at age 82. Most every pool hall I have been into sold beer, and had smokers stinking up the place.