I'm gonna a take a guess here - I think the OP was just trying to say a 400 ball run and 5 bucks will get you a cup of Starbucks coffee but not necessarily trying to diminish John's incredible feat. If this is correct then I agree with the OP, if he's not saying that then I completely disagree. I personally don't really care for st right pool - neither playing it nor watching it but I do respect it and certainly respect anyone who plays it at an elite level.
400 is definitely most impressive! Add in a US Open and that should tell you everything you need to know about John. But even more so than his accomplishments on the table, I really like him as I've always found John to be one of the nicest and most down to earth pros anywhere. As brought up in the recent " Mosconi " thread about someone breaking the record, well if there were to be a competition or prize for doing so I'd out my money on John doing it first . This is really sad but my high run is 29 lolol! Of course I don't play the game and I'd really like to believe I can do at least a little better than that but nine the less 400 just seems like a different world to me and I imagine most people as well. Kind of interesting , when I first started taking pool serious way back in my early teens I actually liked straight pool and played it often as my game of choice. ( that's when I got my 29!!!! Lololol). Anyhow, I have countless 14's but that dan break ball always got me. It was aways one of two things - either I didn't plan well enough to leave me a good break shot OR ( and this was most common ) I'd have a decent one but always felt the need to hit it at warp speed to obliterate the rack lol, often resulting in a miss.
The last game of 14.1 I played was right before leaving for SBE '14. I stopped in Big Daddys to try to get in stroke a little and this was right after I snapped someone and the room owner off playing onehole. There was only one other guy in there as it was early. He would not gamble, AND he only wanted to play straights. Normally for either of these two reasons I would have declined but I said what the hell, haven't played straight pool in 20 years so why not. The guy seemed decent enough. I have no real way of knowing but I'm confident I would crush him playing one hole - even 9 ball but 14.1 was this guy's game and he left himself good break shots and that was the difference. As stayed earlier , I had plenty of 10'space - 14's but no real runs. He beat me 150- 110 ish with a high run of 30 something I think. It was actually kind of fun. Maybe I'll play another game of it sometime before the next 20 years...... maybe .
400 is definitely most impressive! Add in a US Open and that should tell you everything you need to know about John. But even more so than his accomplishments on the table, I really like him as I've always found John to be one of the nicest and most down to earth pros anywhere. As brought up in the recent " Mosconi " thread about someone breaking the record, well if there were to be a competition or prize for doing so I'd out my money on John doing it first . This is really sad but my high run is 29 lolol! Of course I don't play the game and I'd really like to believe I can do at least a little better than that but nine the less 400 just seems like a different world to me and I imagine most people as well. Kind of interesting , when I first started taking pool serious way back in my early teens I actually liked straight pool and played it often as my game of choice. ( that's when I got my 29!!!! Lololol). Anyhow, I have countless 14's but that dan break ball always got me. It was aways one of two things - either I didn't plan well enough to leave me a good break shot OR ( and this was most common ) I'd have a decent one but always felt the need to hit it at warp speed to obliterate the rack lol, often resulting in a miss.
The last game of 14.1 I played was right before leaving for SBE '14. I stopped in Big Daddys to try to get in stroke a little and this was right after I snapped someone and the room owner off playing onehole. There was only one other guy in there as it was early. He would not gamble, AND he only wanted to play straights. Normally for either of these two reasons I would have declined but I said what the hell, haven't played straight pool in 20 years so why not. The guy seemed decent enough. I have no real way of knowing but I'm confident I would crush him playing one hole - even 9 ball but 14.1 was this guy's game and he left himself good break shots and that was the difference. As stayed earlier , I had plenty of 10'space - 14's but no real runs. He beat me 150- 110 ish with a high run of 30 something I think. It was actually kind of fun. Maybe I'll play another game of it sometime before the next 20 years...... maybe .
