Fatboy
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It's very small $$, but I will share it, I've been in Germany the past 2 months and 1P is kinda scarce here in Europe, I seem to find games but when i'm not around they say they never play. It just dont seem to stick for some reason, lack of action i suppose and interest.
So I go up to Amsterdam for a few days to play pool and go look at tulips. I go to the pool room and meet a friend who sets me up there real good, its a good room for sure , tables had 4 7/8" pockets a bit big but it was so wet, man i mean wet-i was glad the pockets were that size. you could piss on the table and it wouldn't be any wetter than it was.
So i play a a few hours there and was comfortable, the house pro guy, he isnt as strong as the Euro-tour players, but still a solid player asked me to play, i said tomorrow. Next morning I get a call he is waiting for me, wow, this is a stick up. i figure. I get to the pool room and ask if he wants to play one pocket. I look up and there is his picture on the wall in a nice frame, cool graphics and all the bells and whistles, right next to the front table. He wants to play on the front table-forget that.
I ask "Do you want to play one Pocket", he says "sure, i know the rules". Whats that mean? its either a move or he only knows the rules. i figured. So we lag for the break and i win, I tossed off that rack-he would only bet 10 euro/game. Wow the taxi cost me 11 to get there. 2nd game he is clueless on how to break, I toss off the next 2 games. I'm down 30 euro.
I could tell I could win so i didnt care about the score i wanted to get the bet raised, then I hung a couple balls, bad rolls etc i'm stuck 90 euro. wow, I asked to bet 50/game. only if we play 8,9 ball which i have no chance to win. I still wasnt worried because i still could tell I could win the game even being down 9 games, 4 or 5 were bad rolls etc. he wouldnt raise the bet.
I figured out the cushions, and the banks opened wide up. I beat him 5 in a row 8/0, 8/2, 8/3, 8/0, 8/1 or something close to that, he didnt get more than 3 balls a game, and 2 games he didnt get any. he paid me we were paying every 2 games(most of the time). he pulled up on me. I lost 40 euro. he didnt leave the pool room, he was a bust-out that needed to lock up the $$, mistake i made was tossing the first games. What I did like is i knew i was ok even down 9 games. He could give me the 6 playing 9ball i figure, maybe the 7 if i was instroke. what scared him off was the 2 rail banks he didnt see he left on and straight backs, he couldnt hide from me. i like banking on wet tables for some reason.
that was my small action this trip, it was cool playing 1P against a stronger player and having the best of it, he did run a couple 8 and outs on me.
So I go up to Amsterdam for a few days to play pool and go look at tulips. I go to the pool room and meet a friend who sets me up there real good, its a good room for sure , tables had 4 7/8" pockets a bit big but it was so wet, man i mean wet-i was glad the pockets were that size. you could piss on the table and it wouldn't be any wetter than it was.
So i play a a few hours there and was comfortable, the house pro guy, he isnt as strong as the Euro-tour players, but still a solid player asked me to play, i said tomorrow. Next morning I get a call he is waiting for me, wow, this is a stick up. i figure. I get to the pool room and ask if he wants to play one pocket. I look up and there is his picture on the wall in a nice frame, cool graphics and all the bells and whistles, right next to the front table. He wants to play on the front table-forget that.
I ask "Do you want to play one Pocket", he says "sure, i know the rules". Whats that mean? its either a move or he only knows the rules. i figured. So we lag for the break and i win, I tossed off that rack-he would only bet 10 euro/game. Wow the taxi cost me 11 to get there. 2nd game he is clueless on how to break, I toss off the next 2 games. I'm down 30 euro.
I could tell I could win so i didnt care about the score i wanted to get the bet raised, then I hung a couple balls, bad rolls etc i'm stuck 90 euro. wow, I asked to bet 50/game. only if we play 8,9 ball which i have no chance to win. I still wasnt worried because i still could tell I could win the game even being down 9 games, 4 or 5 were bad rolls etc. he wouldnt raise the bet.
I figured out the cushions, and the banks opened wide up. I beat him 5 in a row 8/0, 8/2, 8/3, 8/0, 8/1 or something close to that, he didnt get more than 3 balls a game, and 2 games he didnt get any. he paid me we were paying every 2 games(most of the time). he pulled up on me. I lost 40 euro. he didnt leave the pool room, he was a bust-out that needed to lock up the $$, mistake i made was tossing the first games. What I did like is i knew i was ok even down 9 games. He could give me the 6 playing 9ball i figure, maybe the 7 if i was instroke. what scared him off was the 2 rail banks he didnt see he left on and straight backs, he couldnt hide from me. i like banking on wet tables for some reason.
that was my small action this trip, it was cool playing 1P against a stronger player and having the best of it, he did run a couple 8 and outs on me.
