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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I loved the stories of Lee Trevino going to a golf course and finding a few guys unloading silly expensive golf clubs. He would play against them with nothing but a single Dr. Pepper bottle.
In an early betting gimmick, he would sucker lesser players by offering to play a hole or two using a quart-size glass Dr Pepper bottle instead of a club. The stunt later led to a lucrative advertising contract with Dr Pepper.
It had to really make a duffer boiling mad to get beat using 10 grand of clubs against a guy with a Dr. Pepper bottle worth 2 cents.
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It shouldn't. When I first took up pool, I'd get upset at losing. My honorary nephew and pool hall junkie straightened me out. Explained that pool was the only thing junkies like him do, other than a job. Other than that, they eat and sleep the game, put 4 or more hours either playing or practicing every day. And those lucky enough to reach a skill level high enough to actually make a living at it? Maybe the top 100 in the country? It's a job...8-10 hours a day. There's no way in hell a recreational banger like me, playing only a handful of hours a week could hang with these guys. (edit) But I harbor no guilt over having an expensive custom cue. I could afford it, I wanted it, so I bought it.
So, Trevino's bottle stunt? The pool world is full of stuff like that...crazy things way beyond "I could beat you using a broomstick". Called proposition bets...only fools fall for them.
But we're getting away from "lucky charms". In my younger years of Scuba diving, I'd see both divers and surfers wearing a shark's tooth necklace. Superstition was you wouldn't drown if wearing one. I thought that such necklaces couldn't have been lucky for the shark that donated the tooth, so didn't buy one.