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🔊 Listen to this This checklist tell you if you have a pool addiction. If you discover this is a personal problem – good for you!!

🔊 Listen to more of this Here’s a list (add more as needed):

• The number of friends who don’t play pool can be counted on one hand.
• You monthly budget includes table time, league match fees, and tournament entry fees.
• You know who played on the last five Mosconi Open teams, but can’t identify the five largest continents of the planet.
• When planning family vacations, they just happen to coincide with a major tournament in the area.
• Your bridge hand is permanently stained with chalk.
• You can describe every detail about your cue, but have to think to remember the make and color of your car.
• You leave early from work to play pool at least three times a week.
• You have spent more money on your cues than your car is worth.
• Your wife stops asking, “Where are you going?” as you leave the house.
• On holidays celebrated at home, you’re in the pool hall an hour after dinner.
• You know more people at the pool room than at the family reunion.
• Your pool hall knows your home and cell phone.
• Your computer at work has an online pool game available at the click of a mouse.
• Your browser at work has a couple of tabs tuned to billiard forums.
• The five major events of your life in order of importance are:
  • Your first break and run.
  • The first tournament you took first place.
  • The worst session of pool ever
  • When you finally beat the best player in the pool hall
  • Your wedding