This past Friday, seeking something to do after work besides my usual nap, I took my cue to work then went to The Bank Shot afterwards.

Since I've been shooting a little better for the past few days I thought it would be interesting to see how I matched up against an actual opponent.

I ended up playing against a guy that's pretty much a one-pocket specialist - a guy that's a lot better at that game than I am. Of course anyone reading a pool 'blog is likely to be a much better one-pocket player than I am.

Despite that I was able to win maybe 75% of the games we played. The guy just wouldn't take me seriously as an opponent no matter how many times I ran out on him or (more often) played an insightful safety.

Just to keep my head from swelling up too much, after our ten or so games of one-pocket we played some banks. Now this guy should probably never win any banks games against me, just like I should never win any one-pocket games against him.

What happened though was that he won all three Banks games.

Also, and I think I've mentioned this before, I have this really annoying habit of playing like God for the first couple minutes of any given session. Friday I walked into The Bank Shot, threw some balls on the table, and proceeded to miss maybe three of the next thirty banks I shot at.

Of course as soon as I noticed this phenomenon it went away.