If you listen very carefully, you will discover that pool tables say things, and all you have to do is listen! They tell you things about the people standing around them and this can be used for your purposes. They also tell other people about your agenda, and just depending on what this is, it could be used to advantage.
You have to open your eyes too, because a pool table can show you things. The way players posture tells you a lot about the human condition; its value, integrity, shyness or arrogance, and this posturing shows you how to interpret and intercept this human condition. The pool hustler, in order to be successful needs to have the instinct to interpret this posturing and intrinsically know what is weak, strong, right or wrong.
If you regard a pool table as more than and inanimate piece of furniture, you will learn a good deal from it. Playing this game can measure the hustler in you and in order to win, you have to engage in play with the mind of a hustler.
Observation of others is the way in which the pool table hustler becomes articulate. This critical self awareness and awareness of others through their activity and speech, means that you are an observer, rather than a participant, much like a yogi.
Even the way players lean over them or against them tells you something. You may be able to get a reading from this regarding what puts them off their game. If they stand with their feet together or apart tells you about their balance and their experience of playing pool. This subtle interaction with the table (or other piece of nearby furniture) tells you how their physical balance is and balance is integral to playing good pool.
In this game, everyone is a liar, no matter what anyone says to you, but the pool table (although a piece of furniture) doesn't lie. It exposes them, and observers can see if they are thieving whores or blatant fools. Competition and gaming tables, brings out the thieving whore or blatant fool in all of us, including me.
The options provided by the shape of the table, it being rectangular is interesting, particularly regarding controlling the game. For example it is definitely not polite to stand behind a person taking a shot, but is not bad manners to stand next to them. It is also not bad manners to stand in front of them and this can be done most politely, but it can also be very intimidating.
The secret to not having the table disclose you as a hustler is not to 'languish' around it. Standing next to people or in front of them in an intimidating yet polite manner! Not languishing (look the word up in a dictionary) is the pool players 'poker face', in other words. If you languish successfully around the table, other players won't be able to learn anything about you.
Communicating well with the pool table makes you a successful pool player. This is not about art and life being imitations of each other, it is about the fact that both art and life are artificial, and pool tables can teach you some valuable lessons.
If you want the easiest method for telling if the table is good or not, then look at the price tag. Higher-priced tables generally cost more to make, due to the increased quality of the materials and manufacturing. When you buy a high-priced pool table from a well-known manufacture, you generally get a pool table of the highest quality on the market.
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