Are you any good at Pool?

[bobb]

Keeping up the pub games theme.

I used to play for The Royal Steamer. I'd say I was the most "Alright I suppose" player. Good fun, but there were some hot shots out there. I even lost to a girl once*

*j/k she beat me easily because she was way better than me.

[mrcharly-YHT]

A bit carp.

A few years back I was on a 5 year part-time course. Most of us on the course had kids and were relishing freedom from family, so once day was done, off it was to the pub for a few pints. Got there early and monopolised pool table. Locals turned up and wanted table. Well, we were there first .  . . but it was their table. We came to a compromise. They would play the pair of us that won the next game. The two women playing me and my new friend won, so they played the locals next - and won. Locals left pub in disgust.

Barman then informed us that the locals were the village team champs and there was a big competitive circuit between villages. We found another pub the next night . . .

[Polar Bear]

I get better after alcohol. 

[mike]

I'm awful.  Kid brother played for money when he was a student, he got chased out of a bar in California when they thought he was trying to scam them.   If I pot more than 2 balls playing him, it counts as a moral victory.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Haven't played for years but used to be just a tiny bit better than crap. Always found it fun though (as long as it's not taken seriously).

[pcolbeck]

I get better after alcohol.

Me too. Sometimes after two pints I was really not bad at all. After three pints I was rubbish again always. That was in the days when quite a few pubs had pool tables and I played once every few weeks. now hardly any do and I play maybe once every two years and I am bad no matter how much alcohol I have or hadn't had

[Ham]

I'm crap, although that's never prevented me from having a go.

[rogerzilla]

Most of my 3 years at university were actually spent playing pool.

[Jaded]

My standard of play is that I find it far easier to pot my balls when there is only one opponent's ball left on the table.

[clarion]

I played a lot when I was crewing, in between calls.  Didn't seem to get better at any point.

But almost certainly worse now. :/

[T42]

Used to be OK within the limits of the physics of collisions that you learn at school, a bit dodgy once spin is involved.

We actually have a medium-sized pool table in the old dining-room downstairs, but once the Inlaw Paw started to have hip trouble we stopped playing. Since then three bookcases and a side table have occupied most of the cue-room, and the table itself serves for parking delicate stuff such as musical instruments or old photos, also as occasional photo studio when we have something to flog on-line.

[ian]

No, I hate all pub sports. (In fact all sports.) Pubs are for drinking in and talking (and back in the day, meeting young ladies and subsequently lamenting their rejection).

[Mr Larrington]

As one with the coordination of a thousand camels, I'm utterly shite.  Miss von Brandenburg, though, was good enough in her youth to make us leave a pub in Newcastle when the Natives began to get agitated about being continually beaten by someone who was:

• a hippy, and
• a FOREIGN, and
• a gurl