Today I went to campus in order to practice my game… When I got there, no one was in: group of girls and Charles shooting randomly at some balls. At first I wasn’t going to play until Charles gave me his table and told me that Ernesto was coming in a few…
Now here this: at Crenshaw lanes, frequenting the pool hall are three top players Ernesto, Tom and Nick (that one is a real asshole, I won’t mentioned him unless needed)… Furthermore Ernesto won the tournament and only play Tom or Nick (or, by some unlucky event, someone in league) but recently he has been accepting to play me at practice. Today was one such case.
I started as usual trying to accommodate my poor skills to his level by setting some basic rules: alternating breaks and so on… The key when playing a player better than you is to play 8-balls it increase the odds, the converse is also true.
I played over 20 rack with Ernesto and only managed to run up to 4 balls on each… in on particular match I almost won but managed to get stuck on the 4-ball in the corner right pocket… was an S… Truth is if I can increase my winning percentage against Ernesto or Tom (as I refuse to play Nick) from 0.0% to 5.0% I will consider myself ready for New Orleans…
Tags: billiards
