RdHustler

Took a little road trip today to play a little $10 tournament. Got there at noon stayed till 1:30am. I am really good at going to pool halls, not so much leaving them. I played terribly in the tournament, won one match lost two. I finally warmed up three hours later. Anyway they didn't charge me table time so I played my new friends all night.

Last night was league for my now third place 8 ball team. We were one point behind the two teams tied for first. With the wife out of town I had family babysitting the kids. I had promised to be back by 9:30. I played the second match after we lost the first one 0-3. My match was a 5-2 race I won 5-0 giving the team a 3-3 tie. Then I raced off to get the kids. In the end my team won 7-6 so we are probably at least tied for second.

I had a great weekend played three friends won 13-7, 13-6 and 7-1. I love when I have time to actually go and play people. Family is the best but it's fun to get out and play sometimes too.

It's funny looking at how I feel about this season so far. It's been a fun season and I feel like I have enjoyed it. But according to my record it has been a season of objective failure. I have played six 9 ball matches and lost all six. Tonight it was a 65-46 race I lost 57-46. Over the last six matches I scored 309 points versus my opponents 287 points a difference of 22 points. Sadly to win all six matches I needed to score 390 to their 287 a difference of 103 points. If I break it down into little bites I needed to score a little more than a rack (13.5 points) more than I did per match. Looks like I need to try just a little harder for the rest of the season. Luckily in 8 ball I am doing fine.

I am my teams captain and I feel a little responsible for some of my teams success and most of the failure. Because of this I like to have a plan most of the time. Tonight I had a plan that could have worked out better. It involved me not playing, probably a mistake. We ended up losing 6-8 vs the last place team. We are currently in first place so depending on how second and third did we are either still in first place or at least in the top 3.

My team crushed it tonight. Everything went really well we won the match 12-1. My match was a 5-2 race I won 5-0 giving my team 3 points. I think my opponent feels like I am a better player than I really am and he let it get into his head. I really think 5-2 in this case should be an easy win for the guy I played, but he just couldn't get out of his own way.

I had an awesome lesson today. It was my first official lesson teaching a kid. The best part was when his dad asked him how it was having a two hour lesson and my student replied "That was two hours?". I am so glad he learned something and enjoyed doing it.