I'm back in the saddle again

So after a long hiatus I'm back to blogging and hopefully, playing more pool. I haven't actually practiced in at least 2 weeks and have only played pool at my New Years Eve party. That's not enough!! I played league tonight and lost. I didn't miss very many shots but my speed was off so I was hooking myself and could never get out. I HATE giving myself excuses to lose so not practicing isn't an excuse, I got outplayed by someone I should beat 7 out of 10 times and I have got to get better. On my Tuesday night league I've got a very good record even after my loss tonight, I'm like 8-3 now. But I've noticed that lately I haven't been playing very well and it can be difficult to notice when you're still winning. One of the upsides to playing well and people knowing who you are and how you shoot is they have more pressure on them to get out because they know that if they don't then they are not going to get back to the table. The downside to the same situation is it's easy to think you're playing good because you're winning when that's actually not the case, I'm not playing as well as I can and I need to stop paying attention to if I win or lose and start playing good fucking pool. The captian of the team I'm on said "Don't worry, you can't win them all." Obviously I can't win every match, but I will never look at it like I can't win them all because that just another excuse for losing. I'm going to need to get my shit together because tomorrow night is the more competitive league and it's more of a grind, playing only one game at a time instead of my Tuesday night's system of play one person a race to 7 games. I will most likely not be home in time tomorrow night to blog because we play our match on one table so I will hopefully update on Thursday.