With matchs being played with the best of 33 frames there's always going to be a level of skill / pressure at play but the eliminate of luck with the balls comes into the game as well.
It can be a place of extremes too, thats for sure... Anyhow when I was 14, me and another guy fell down an ice waterfall we were climbing on an outdoor pursuits thing on Mt Ruapehu. It was my fault too. Luckily we were ok and continued climbing to the top.
Oh, found an old pic of my 848evo and tried posting, just says it's to large. Tbh I was sitting on the bike, so the pic is probably classed as porn