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Has a great time shooting pool with my good ol' friend Dora. Haven't seen her in years since graduating from UC Irvine when we were on the UCI Billiard Team.

She introduced me to some great people: Randy, Shaen Honda, Steve Honda, and a few more. Great nice atmosphere. We stayed for several hours just rolling through games without keeping score. It was fun! The Diamond tables had decent speed, not too fast. The rails played pretty true and the pockets were tight! The pockets...

FS/T: Lucasi XIV, Meucci 97-12, McDermott D23, Meucci Jimmy Rempe 3 Red Dot Shaft
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=157129

Wasn't in the right frame of mind since I was thinking about something else. As a direct result, my mental game just wasn't there during my first two matches.

1st Match, opponent broke dry and left me a nice table layout with one problem ball due to clustering around the 8-ball. No big deal. Choose stripes and ran 6 balls with decent position on my last object ball with a tough cut shot with inside english to stall the cueball off the side rail for position on the 8-ball. Missed...

Decided to enter a 9-ball tournament, probably wasn't really the best idea since I still wasn't feeling up to par, but I went anyways because I had friends that were going to be there and went mostly for the experience and to hang with friends.

1st match, guy wasn't very nice. Kept ordering me around. Told me not to rack for him, said he'll rack his own. I just couldn't get the focus and frame of mind that I normally shot in. Kept miscuing, not sure why... The tip was shaped fine,...

Honestly, I felt really tired that day. I guess a better description would be that I felt extremely exhausted. I would have to say that I shot the best that I could given the level of energy and focus that I could put into it. Personal issues aside...

Recap on the night, we were 1 player short on our team that evening so we each had to shoot an extra match and one person would have to shot two extra matches. I probably seriously looked like crap because I was slouched over and...