I just lost $11.50 playing pool, and I really enjoyed it.
Was hanging around a local bar waiting for a friend and started making conversation with a guy and his date.
He made a quality shot. Like super quality. Like, the “I shouldn’t be showing this shot for guys who are watching me” shot. So I said, “Nice shot man.”
He said, “Well, we’re playing for $3000.”
I responded, “W0w, I need to get in on that action.”
A little later, my coin-table was taken over by some frat boys whom I had hopes of beating senselessly, but the guy I talked to earlier was like, “Hey, wanna play? $20?”
I got him down to $10 – because that’s all the cash I had on me, but I was just fooling around. I lost initially,and paid up, but had some fun. It’s easy to recognize someone who can really play, even if they’re really trying to hide it. So I asked him what pool hall he hung out in. He played it off, but then he realized I wasn’t a real target, so he told me that he had a table at his house.
I lost, we played for fun then went to $.50 a game. Just for fun. We had some kicks giving each other some crap, but we were laughing and having fun. It was nice to have some real competition. His date was ready to go, but we ended up trying to bank the 8 on the last game….so he was a good guy.
Need to be doing that more often. With less losing. 🙂
