Comments on Your Inner Pool Shark, Part I: The Mental Game
Brian M. Mon 27 Mar 06 4:03 PM
This fully explains the game of pool, and how it is really unlike billiards. A more purposeful and profound study of the game, I have yet to find.
Thanks Brian, always nice to hear from a student of the game who is not put off by all the talk of smoking, drinking, and brawling. The smoking part is pretty much impossible these days with all the new laws about indoor cigarettes, and I'll have to admit, to my shame, that I'm glad. I never did like smoking, but I always loved the way the smoke hovered so beautifully, twisting slowly in the light over the green felt. Maybe somebody could invent an appropriate hologram.
I suppose pool is unlike billiards, in that I don't think I've ever seen a coin-operated billiards table in a bar. Although surely many of the same mental rules apply. I've personally seen old hands at billiards applying contempt pointedly at each other in the wee hours at Master Billiards in Queens. It is a gorgeous sight, especially when they're illegally smoking indoors, not that I approve of the smell. But enough of that, it's a subject for further study in the future...
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