If you have visted Bobo's Vegas Vacation, you probably already know that I am an avid pool player. 8-ball is really the only game I play. If you ask me, 9-ball is too cheesy of a game, and you have to be a pool god (a status I haven't achieved as of yet) to get anywhere with snooker.

I've been playing pool since I was tall enough to reach the table. When I entered my first tournament, I came in second only to my father, who taught me the game. All in all, pool has been very good to me over the years.

For a few years, I've been playing in leagues. For the first two years, our team, The Bar Room Bandits, won the St. Thomas Pool League's Billiard Congress Of America sanctioned pool league. Both times, it won us an all expense paid trip to Las Vegas to play in the North American 8-Ball Championships.

The first year, well, nerves got the best of us that year. We only won one match. However, the second year, we went down with a better frame of mind, and it certainly helped.

What didn't help was some of the worst refereeing I've ever encountered in all my days of playing pool. During a very crucial match, one of the refs made a bad call which cost us a match. He even admitted it the next day.

So, we had to settle with 129th place out of 518. Still not too shabby. We took home $200 for our efforts, plus a renewed vengance to place better next year.

The next year, the Bar Room Bandits split up, leaving some of the original members, but seeing myself, Dan, and Adrian for their own new team--The Rail City Rebels. Joining forces with Adrian's brother Frank Peters, Stevie "Vegas" Broadhead, Bill "Billiard News" Bradley, and Andrew Schiestel. This team once again proved too strong for it's competitors in the London BCA Pool league, and took top honours, winning us a trip down to Las Vegas for the third year in a row.

We faced (as always) some very strong competition, and a lot of close calls, but found ourselves packing up our cues one round earlier than we did lthe previous year. But, that didn't stop us from making it down the next year. Sending Andrew off as a free agent, a leaner and meaner Rail City Rebels tried their hardest to take the top spot again but couldn't do it under the pressure.

This year, the Rail City Rebels are playing without me as I'm currently living in New Zealand trying to get accustomed to their weird rules.  So we'll just have to see how they make out without me.