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Originally Posted by llDayo
You could try to convince your team to switch to the pool hall if it's convenient enough for everyone.
This is not my team's bar, it is where the entire league plays every week. Six teams in the league, this place has eight tables, the entire league convenes here every Tuesday.
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Learn to play with a glove, seriously.... It completely eliminates the complication you just described.
Or, I could just avoid playing in rooms where the temperature soars to 90 degrees. If I'm exaggerating, it's not by much. A few years ago, I lost a LOT of weight (200 lbs), and one of the unexpected side effects is that I'm freezing, all the time. It's like I took off a 200-lb blanket. It's 73 degrees outside right now, about the same in my living room, and as I type this, I'm wearing thick sweat pants and a comically thick hoodie. I'm never hot, since I've lost that weight, I'm always the coolest guy in the room, my gf is constantly amazed at how cold my hands feel.
So keep that context in mind when I tell you: this was probably the hottest room I've ever been in, in my life. The only thing I can compare it to was when I worked in the tiny sportsbook at the old Imperial Palace in the late 1990's, and 100's of people tried to crowd in to cash their tickets at the conclusion of a Super Bowl. We had 100's of prop bets to grade, and the antiquated Gaming regulations mandated we use computers from the 1970's, it took us literally hours to feed the information into the computer (the computer would grade all the bets on a prop bet when you entered the result, and would freeze up for a minute or more while it did this, you had to wait before you could input the result of the next prop bet). When you're grading 100's of bets, and each one takes a minute or more, it's going to be a while before you can pay these out.
So folks would wait 30 mins in line, finally get to the window, and hand their ticket to the clerk. The clerk would stick the ticket into the machine. The machine would spit it back out, and display the message, "Results Not In Yet". The clerk would tell the patron to come back later.
Well, people don't like it when they come to get money, and get a story instead. Especially when they stood in a mosh pit for 30 mins to find this unexpected and very unpleasant result. They are naturally indignant.
I'm not leaving without MY MONEY. What are you trying to pull? They might step out of line, but they're not leaving the room.
It got HOT in there. Folks were literally fainting. Fights broke out. Angry people give off even more heat than regular people. Remember that "run on the bank" scene from It's A Wonderful Life? Now imagine that place was filled wall-to-wall, shoulder-to-shoulder, and no one left for a few hours (folks who got paid were immediately replaced by new arrivals, the lines didn't stop for hours--remember, we take bets on this game ALL YEAR).
Folks hitting the floor. That was the hottest room I've ever been in.
Until this week. I tried to play pool in a room that was hotter than that. My gf met up with me a couple hours after I got out of there, and was shocked to feel the heat coming off the top of my head, and no trace of "cold" in my usually-icy hands.
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Also, before your match starts get a paper towel from the bathroom, lightly wet it with cold water and just keep it nearby. Use it on your forehead and neck from time to time. It seriously helps during the hottest days!
Dude, I was literally fishing ice cubes out of my drink, and rubbing my bald head, face, and neck with them. This was not your run of the mill "it's warm in here".
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the only loss was due to him completely screwing up a defense that caused his ball to go into a pocket, then making a bad decision on a side pocket shot only to have the cue ball go off the corner of the pocket, back over to the other side of the table and left him an easy 8. So much for leaving him dirty with three ducks on my last shot
Exactly what I tried to describe above, about my opponent's final shot.
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But, I had one beautiful defense that is probably one of my top five shots ever
Yeah, the shots I'm most proud of are safeties, not pocketed balls. They require creativity, and more precise execution. Nice job!