BCAPL SW Regional Championships

I’m flying to Scottsdale, Arizona tonight for the BCAPL Southwest Regional Championships.  Since I don’t play in the BCA league, I had to purchase a BCA Player Membership and will be entering the tournament in the Advanced/Masters category.  Out of the hundreds of players expected to show up for the tournament, only fifteen of us fall within this group.  I did a little research on the other fourteen players and get the feeling I’ve got a very tough row to hoe.  Some of them placed high in the US Bar Box Championship Open 8-Ball, and some have finished in the money at various other open events.  Oh well, enough whining, I just need to suck it up and play my game.

Wish me luck!

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Maybe I’m Just Lazy

I haven’t been practicing much lately.  Every night for the past week or so I’ve dreamed about playing pool.  Each dream follows a similar plot line…I’m playing a match against an obviously inferior opponent but I just can’t seem to close out the match.  On every shot I take I lose cue ball control and end up leaving myself with either a two rail bank or a three ball combination.  Egads!

I guess my subconscious mind is starting to get concerned about my lack of practice.  Each year I enter this malaise period right before the U.S. Amateurs in which I know it’s time to ramp up my preparations, but for some reason I just can’t follow through.  Sigh. 

I’ve got five short weeks before the U.S. Amateur Preliminary tournament, so I know it’s crunch time.  Maybe I just need a change of pace.  I think I’ll start entering some 8 ball, 9 ball, and 10 ball tournaments that I normally don’t compete in just to get myself out of my current comfortable schedule.  Maybe I’ll travel to some out of town tourneys also, just to get a change of scenery.  Let’s see if either of these changes gets me out of my current funk and gets my motivation back up.