highsea
06-17-2003, 02:45 AM
From the Wally in Cincy thread:
<blockquote><font class="small">Quote amgine:</font><hr> I have played pool for 11 years, and have over 30, 000 hours on the practice tables. I have refereed at the provincial level, and been asked to ref at the national level. I have competed in well over 1000 tournaments in pool, and have won 272 at this point. I have owned and operated my own room, and have been the house pro in a major city. Personally I have set up leagues, and directed over 150 events. I have had many students, and have taught for the past 5 years. My passion for the game and its well being is second to none, and has been such for 11 years. Thanks very much for your interest.
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I was just sitting here reviewing the vast accomplishments of the amazing yet somewhat mysterious amgine.
Now, I'm not the the shiniest penny in the pile, but it seems like I should be able to figure out who this mysterious person is. Let's see.
In 11 years playing pool, he has competed in well over 1000 tournaments. That works out to an average of 1.75 tournaments per week for the 11 years. I will just guess that he didn't play in that many his first year, so lets call it 2 per week for the past 10 years. Of those, he has won 272, or a little over 25%. I am going to assume that you can't win 1 out of every 4 tournaments you enter without getting a few second and third places also. I don't know what the actual percentages would be, but I am going to be conservative and assume that the 2nd and 3rds at least equal the wins. After all, we can't just start at the top. So I think it is safe to say that amgine has placed in the top 3 in at least half, and possibly 2/3 of all the tournaments he has ever entered.
Now that's dam* impressive.
In addition to this, he has directed over 150 events. If you exclude his first year of playing pool, when he was just learning the game, that works out to 15 events per year, or roughly one every 3 weeks for the past 10 years.
Not too shabby....
Now, we don't know how many tournaments or league nights he referreed in, but we know that he personally set up leagues, and was a house pro in a major city, so lets just say a couple nights per week for that. Call it a few hundred total. After all, he was asked to referree on the national level. Again, pretty impressive....
He has been teaching pool for 5 years. Let's say a couple days per week, a couple hours per day.
He ran his own pool room. Now, I have never run my own pool room, but I have run my own business. If my days were shorter that 12 hours, I considered myself lucky.
He was able to accomplish all of these things, while averaging 7 1/2 hours per day on the practice table, 365 days a year, for 11 years.
Now, I have figured out who amgine is, and I know everyone wants me to reveal his true identity, but I'm not going to do that.
But, Scott, let me know when you guys are going to play your match. I want to give you some kryptonite to put in your pool case. /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif
-CM
<blockquote><font class="small">Quote amgine:</font><hr> I have played pool for 11 years, and have over 30, 000 hours on the practice tables. I have refereed at the provincial level, and been asked to ref at the national level. I have competed in well over 1000 tournaments in pool, and have won 272 at this point. I have owned and operated my own room, and have been the house pro in a major city. Personally I have set up leagues, and directed over 150 events. I have had many students, and have taught for the past 5 years. My passion for the game and its well being is second to none, and has been such for 11 years. Thanks very much for your interest.
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I was just sitting here reviewing the vast accomplishments of the amazing yet somewhat mysterious amgine.
Now, I'm not the the shiniest penny in the pile, but it seems like I should be able to figure out who this mysterious person is. Let's see.
In 11 years playing pool, he has competed in well over 1000 tournaments. That works out to an average of 1.75 tournaments per week for the 11 years. I will just guess that he didn't play in that many his first year, so lets call it 2 per week for the past 10 years. Of those, he has won 272, or a little over 25%. I am going to assume that you can't win 1 out of every 4 tournaments you enter without getting a few second and third places also. I don't know what the actual percentages would be, but I am going to be conservative and assume that the 2nd and 3rds at least equal the wins. After all, we can't just start at the top. So I think it is safe to say that amgine has placed in the top 3 in at least half, and possibly 2/3 of all the tournaments he has ever entered.
Now that's dam* impressive.
In addition to this, he has directed over 150 events. If you exclude his first year of playing pool, when he was just learning the game, that works out to 15 events per year, or roughly one every 3 weeks for the past 10 years.
Not too shabby....
Now, we don't know how many tournaments or league nights he referreed in, but we know that he personally set up leagues, and was a house pro in a major city, so lets just say a couple nights per week for that. Call it a few hundred total. After all, he was asked to referree on the national level. Again, pretty impressive....
He has been teaching pool for 5 years. Let's say a couple days per week, a couple hours per day.
He ran his own pool room. Now, I have never run my own pool room, but I have run my own business. If my days were shorter that 12 hours, I considered myself lucky.
He was able to accomplish all of these things, while averaging 7 1/2 hours per day on the practice table, 365 days a year, for 11 years.
Now, I have figured out who amgine is, and I know everyone wants me to reveal his true identity, but I'm not going to do that.
But, Scott, let me know when you guys are going to play your match. I want to give you some kryptonite to put in your pool case. /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ccboard/images/graemlins/grin.gif
-CM