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Ken C
After learning the game n becoming really good at it, wat's the next step to take? Is there a professional body that i need to register myself wit?
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first thing is...do you gamble every day playing...playing for fun or just to beat guys for drinks or 5 or 10 bucks a game is not on your way to becoming a pro...you should be able to play at a high level in a gambling game (for more than you make working)for hours and hours and for days on in...also to be a pro level player you have to quit your day job because I was once told 'if you keep a day job youre not playing to be a pro, youre just wishing you were with a safety blanket' this guys name is Jack Leavitt and his name was in a book on how to play pool, he was the guy steering my game years ago...he took me from room to room and also got me into playing smaller 'open' (which included players of all levels) and larger 'B' tournaments which is open to all those except known professionals or A players...the B tournaments I played in guys could run out run out run out play perfect safe, then run out run out run out...these guys had tough games of all kinds, one pocket, straight pool, nine ball, snooker and 3 cushion...most of the good B players had solid games in all those and would always figure out how to match up in one game or another...if you think youre ready to turn pro I suppose you gamble a lot of dough in a lot of different pool games every day...in the old days a good player would have someone steer him and do a tour ...usually of different states going from room to room looking for action...I ran into a young man in a San Jose bowling alley once, it was a long time ago and this young kid had a perfect stroke and a 80 dollar pair of new balance shoes on, unheard of in the 70s and early 80s...a year later I saw him in a pool room in Sacramento (jointed cue, terry stoners place) playing in a professionals tournament and my guy told me 'thats little Buddy (arvalos) he did his tour of the states at 16' he was just about to play Davenport who is well known throughout the states as a A level 9 ball pro...Davenport(dripping with gold and toting two fine women) tried to rattle young buddy by betting him for each game then also for the match...they finally agreed on a price...but the main thing was the tourney...buddy proceeded to play perfect nine ball running out running out and playing perfect safe then running out and running out (after which a disgusted Davenport tossed the dough on the table and walked away)...neither of them got to the finals of that particular tournament but there was action match ups with professional players all that week every night in the room...Ive seen guys who seemed like they didnt miss all night long and would ask Jack 'who is that' and he would say...hes nobody...after playing a few places in Calif, Nev, and Phoenix I realized that I kept my job for a reason...that I wasnt cut out for it, so 15 years of spending 5 hours a day or more in pool rooms playing different games and all I came up with is a 53 ball high run playing straight pool, and tons of pretty good pool room stories( and a nice collection of cues, which ive since traded in for golf clubs) ...but I do admire anyone who can make it playing pool because its not easy, and I have a small idea of what it takes to be good at pool games, and just as important ...the hustle...I believe you can find resources for tournaments and magazines by searching 'billiard news' there you will find tournaments and information...good luck pard, maybe one day Ill pick up a billiard news mag and see you in it...
first thing is...do you gamble every day playing...playing for fun or just to beat guys for drinks or 5 or 10 bucks a game is not on your way to becoming a pro...you should be able to play at a high level in a gambling game (for more than you make working)for hours and hours and for days on in...also to be a pro level player you have to quit your day job because I was once told 'if you keep a day job youre not playing to be a pro, youre just wishing you were with a safety blanket' this guys name is Jack Leavitt and his name was in a book on how to play pool, he was the guy steering my game years ago...he took me from room to room and also got me into playing smaller 'open' (which included players of all levels) and larger 'B' tournaments which is open to all those except known professionals or A players...the B tournaments I played in guys could run out run out run out play perfect safe, then run out run out run out...these guys had tough games of all kinds, one pocket, straight pool, nine ball, snooker and 3 cushion...most of the good B players had solid games in all those and would always figure out how to match up in one game or another...if you think youre ready to turn pro I suppose you gamble a lot of dough in a lot of different pool games every day...in the old days a good player would have someone steer him and do a tour ...usually of different states going from room to room looking for action...I ran into a young man in a San Jose bowling alley once, it was a long time ago and this young kid had a perfect stroke and a 80 dollar pair of new balance shoes on, unheard of in the 70s and early 80s...a year later I saw him in a pool room in Sacramento (jointed cue, terry stoners place) playing in a professionals tournament and my guy told me 'thats little Buddy (arvalos) he did his tour of the states at 16' he was just about to play Davenport who is well known throughout the states as a A level 9 ball pro...Davenport(dripping with gold and toting two fine women) tried to rattle young buddy by betting him for each game then also for the match...they finally agreed on a price...but the main thing was the tourney...buddy proceeded to play perfect nine ball running out running out and playing perfect safe then running out and running out (after which a disgusted Davenport tossed the dough on the table and walked away)...neither of them got to the finals of that particular tournament but there was action match ups with professional players all that week every night in the room...Ive seen guys who seemed like they didnt miss all night long and would ask Jack 'who is that' and he would say...hes nobody...after playing a few places in Calif, Nev, and Phoenix I realized that I kept my job for a reason...that I wasnt cut out for it, so 15 years of spending 5 hours a day or more in pool rooms playing different games and all I came up with is a 53 ball high run playing straight pool, and tons of pretty good pool room stories( and a nice collection of cues, which ive since traded in for golf clubs) ...but I do admire anyone who can make it playing pool because its not easy, and I have a small idea of what it takes to be good at pool games, and just as important ...the hustle...I believe you can find resources for tournaments and magazines by searching 'billiard news' there you will find tournaments and information...good luck pard, maybe one day Ill pick up a billiard news mag and see you in it...
Have you noticed that those who howl the loudest about morality crimes support violence the most?
Q. While some support locking up non violent "sinners" in overpopulated jails, they are usually the ones who screech for war the loudest. Ironic huh?
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I have noticed a lot of them on this list:
Edison Misla Aldarondo, Republican legislator from Puerto Rico, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for molestation of his daughter and her friend for eight-year period starting when they were 9. Full Article
Randal David Ankeney, Republican activist from Colorado, arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child with force. He faces 6 charges related to getting a 13-year-old girl stoned on pot and then having sex with her. Source Also accused of sexually assaulting another girl. Denver ABC Article
Dick Armey (R-Texas), former professor, has been accused by The Dallas Observer of sexually harassing female students.
Jim Bakker, televangelist with Pat Robertson at Robertson's Christian Broadcasting network. Committed adultery with Jessica Hahn [1] and then used charitable donations to pay her hush money[2]. Fellow televangelists say he's gay. [3][4]Indicted on 23 federal charges of fraud, tax evasion, and racketeering [5].
Merrill Robert Barter, Republican County Commissioner from Maine, pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. Booth Bay Register Article
Bob Barr, Republican Congressman from Georgia. Sponsored the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, saying "The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit." Was married three times. Paid for his second wife's abortion. Failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives and while married to his third and present wife was photographed licking whipped cream off of strippers at his inaugural party.
Merrill Robert Barter, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. Booth Bay Register Article
Robert Bauman, Republican congressman and anti-gay activist from Maryland, was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. Source: Washington Blade
Parker J. Bena, Republican activist and Bush Elector from Virginia, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography (including children as young as 3 years old) on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. Conservative Babylon
William Bennett, Drug Czar under George H. W. Bush, compulsive gambler who has had to wire as much as $1.4 million to cover gambling losses in a 2 month period. NY Press Article | Washington Monthly Article
Louis Beres, chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon. 3 of his family members accuse him of molesting them when they were pre-teens. Editor and Publisher article
Howard L. Brooks, Republican legislative aide and advisor to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography. Sacramento Bee article
John Bolton: George W. Bush's latest Ambassador to United Nations. Corroborated allegations that Mr. Boltonâs first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department. Raw Story Article
Mike Bowers Former State Attorney General of Georgia, prosecuted the famous "Bowers vs. Hardwick" case, based on Georgia anti-sodomy laws. Admitted to a 10-year adulterous affair Slate article
Andrew Buhr, Republican politician, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy. Source
Jeffrey Buley (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/36931.htm), New York Republican Party's top lawyer, and senior political adviser to Gov. Pataki (R), arrested for assaulting his wife in a drunken rage. They have two young children.
Ted Bundy campaigned for the Republican Party. Infamous serial rapist who murdered 16 women. Source: BBC
Jim Bunn Congressman of Oregon: With his success due in great part to support from the Christian Coalition, Bunn won his congressional seat, then immediately ditched his wife (and mother of his five children), married a staffer, and put his new wife on the state payroll for the unheard-of salary of $97,500. Conservative Babylon
John Allen Burt, Republican anti-abortion activist from Pensacola, Florida, convicted of sexually molesting a 15 year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran. Source: Pensacola News Journal
Dan Burton, Republican Congressman from Indiana who, while married, fathered a child by another woman. Salon.com Article
George W. Bush, Republican president, accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who was later suicided. Accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999.
Neil Bush, brother or G. W. Bush, in a March 2003 divorce deposition, admitted repeatedly having sex with strange women who just showed up at his room while on an Asian business trip. (Overshadowing the sex scandal; the business scandal--see link.) Washington Post article.
John Butler, Republican activist, was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Ken Calvert, Congressman (R-Ca), champion of the Christian Coalition and its "family values." Sued as an alimony deadbeat by his ex-wife. Said "We can't forgive what occurred between the President and Lewinsky." In 1993 he was caught by police receiving oral sex from a prostitute and attempted to flee the scene.
Charles Canady, Congressman (R-Florida), Judiciary Committee member. Lied to his constituents about his adulterous affair with Sharon Becker, which caused her divorce.
Helen Chenoweth, Congresswoman (R-Id.). Admitted to a six-year adulterous affair with a married associate. In 1995, Chenoweth had denied the affair when asked about it by The Spokane Spokesman-Review, but now she claims a pardon from a higher authority: "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it," she revealed.
Keola Childs, Republican County Councilman from Hawaii, pleaded guilty to sexual assault in the first degree for molesting a male child.Honolulu Star-Bulletin Article
I have noticed a lot of them on this list:
Edison Misla Aldarondo, Republican legislator from Puerto Rico, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for molestation of his daughter and her friend for eight-year period starting when they were 9. Full Article
Randal David Ankeney, Republican activist from Colorado, arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child with force. He faces 6 charges related to getting a 13-year-old girl stoned on pot and then having sex with her. Source Also accused of sexually assaulting another girl. Denver ABC Article
Dick Armey (R-Texas), former professor, has been accused by The Dallas Observer of sexually harassing female students.
Jim Bakker, televangelist with Pat Robertson at Robertson's Christian Broadcasting network. Committed adultery with Jessica Hahn [1] and then used charitable donations to pay her hush money[2]. Fellow televangelists say he's gay. [3][4]Indicted on 23 federal charges of fraud, tax evasion, and racketeering [5].
Merrill Robert Barter, Republican County Commissioner from Maine, pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. Booth Bay Register Article
Bob Barr, Republican Congressman from Georgia. Sponsored the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, saying "The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit." Was married three times. Paid for his second wife's abortion. Failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives and while married to his third and present wife was photographed licking whipped cream off of strippers at his inaugural party.
Merrill Robert Barter, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. Booth Bay Register Article
Robert Bauman, Republican congressman and anti-gay activist from Maryland, was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. Source: Washington Blade
Parker J. Bena, Republican activist and Bush Elector from Virginia, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography (including children as young as 3 years old) on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. Conservative Babylon
William Bennett, Drug Czar under George H. W. Bush, compulsive gambler who has had to wire as much as $1.4 million to cover gambling losses in a 2 month period. NY Press Article | Washington Monthly Article
Louis Beres, chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon. 3 of his family members accuse him of molesting them when they were pre-teens. Editor and Publisher article
Howard L. Brooks, Republican legislative aide and advisor to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography. Sacramento Bee article
John Bolton: George W. Bush's latest Ambassador to United Nations. Corroborated allegations that Mr. Boltonâs first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department. Raw Story Article
Mike Bowers Former State Attorney General of Georgia, prosecuted the famous "Bowers vs. Hardwick" case, based on Georgia anti-sodomy laws. Admitted to a 10-year adulterous affair Slate article
Andrew Buhr, Republican politician, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy. Source
Jeffrey Buley (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/36931.htm), New York Republican Party's top lawyer, and senior political adviser to Gov. Pataki (R), arrested for assaulting his wife in a drunken rage. They have two young children.
Ted Bundy campaigned for the Republican Party. Infamous serial rapist who murdered 16 women. Source: BBC
Jim Bunn Congressman of Oregon: With his success due in great part to support from the Christian Coalition, Bunn won his congressional seat, then immediately ditched his wife (and mother of his five children), married a staffer, and put his new wife on the state payroll for the unheard-of salary of $97,500. Conservative Babylon
John Allen Burt, Republican anti-abortion activist from Pensacola, Florida, convicted of sexually molesting a 15 year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran. Source: Pensacola News Journal
Dan Burton, Republican Congressman from Indiana who, while married, fathered a child by another woman. Salon.com Article
George W. Bush, Republican president, accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who was later suicided. Accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999.
Neil Bush, brother or G. W. Bush, in a March 2003 divorce deposition, admitted repeatedly having sex with strange women who just showed up at his room while on an Asian business trip. (Overshadowing the sex scandal; the business scandal--see link.) Washington Post article.
John Butler, Republican activist, was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Ken Calvert, Congressman (R-Ca), champion of the Christian Coalition and its "family values." Sued as an alimony deadbeat by his ex-wife. Said "We can't forgive what occurred between the President and Lewinsky." In 1993 he was caught by police receiving oral sex from a prostitute and attempted to flee the scene.
Charles Canady, Congressman (R-Florida), Judiciary Committee member. Lied to his constituents about his adulterous affair with Sharon Becker, which caused her divorce.
Helen Chenoweth, Congresswoman (R-Id.). Admitted to a six-year adulterous affair with a married associate. In 1995, Chenoweth had denied the affair when asked about it by The Spokane Spokesman-Review, but now she claims a pardon from a higher authority: "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it," she revealed.
Keola Childs, Republican County Councilman from Hawaii, pleaded guilty to sexual assault in the first degree for molesting a male child.Honolulu Star-Bulletin Article
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