Billiards: for Love or Money? (ePub)

I am the author, Bobby Yates. I wrote this book basically about you. I'll tell you a bit about myself, but the book is about you because I want you to be able to find your game, and that is what everyone tries to do, find their own game, style, and success. As far as I am concerned, as the writer, I have been a student of the game, all my life, actually. Well, let's say it seems that way.

Ever since I was five or six years old, I remember my dad playing snooker, coming home and bragging about winning and such. I didn't understand but learned eventually when I was finally able to see a pool table and what the game was and how it was played. I was so excited, like children with toy cars or trucks, but pool was different; it was amazing to me. Anything with a ball in my life was fascinating. I grew up loving the game of pool. Any game I played, it had to be for something. Nobody would play just to play, even if it was for marbles against marbles. I would go buy a sack of marbles, and we would draw a circle and we'd play. I lost a lot of them until I got good enough at it. It seemed like everyone wanted something out of it. In the place where I grew up, it seemed like everyone wanted to gamble. Pool was the same way. But once you play for something, you aren't interested then in doing it for nothing and you don't try when you play.

All my life it was this way. I never played for nothing, although I loved the game. The name of this book is For Love or Money. I've tried my whole life not to be dependent on playing for the love of it, not just the money. Playing for nothing, I had nothing to gain except knocking the balls in, and that was all I had to look forward to.

Everyone needs something to do it for, whether it is for the love of the game or for money. I wanted to quit everything to play for money, and I almost did. I would go on the road and hustle pool games.

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