three poor shots in a row. they should both stick to 9 ball.

the 3 rail shot had a kiss in it and he didnt know it and to keep the cue ball out of the path. wasn't bad luck just a bad shot.

watched a few of their shots and it is clear to me they are not highest level thinkers at one pocket and weak on their speed control on skin the ball safes.

they are straight shooters though for sure.

Mensabum said:

Glad I never made it that far west.

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Trip story, not mine. Two guys were on the road and stopped in a pool hall. One talked to the counterman while the other hung his elbows on the rail and watched the room.

After a few minutes the one watching the room grabbed the other one's arm. "Let's get the hell out of here before somebody thinks we are pool players!" The game was one pocket, unusual at the time, and in that few minutes he had seen three break and runs on three different tables.

Hu

DeeDeeCues said:

Well, in a month you can look forward to the old people corn maze one another twenty times.

But it's comedy good and nobody ever ties of seeing it.
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To be honest, it's probably that we're just old and have forgotten...

sad day for pool when bar boxes take over the game.

yea but remember he is very different than most people in what he does.

Been awhile since I have talked about the hippy. Late sixties, early seventies, never saw a time when he wasn't stoned, major stoned. He somehow had an attractive wife and two children. I think a wife that was a friend of mine and his wife were friends, we ran with the same crowd pretty often.

I have long forgotten his name. Didn't know it well at the time. I remember he was from New York. Blond and skinny enough to slide through a keyhole! The main reason I remember him is that he could cut a pool ball. He could cut like a god! When I needed to beat him I would toss in some easy banks and he couldn't beat me. However, I had decided I would be a major beast on the table myself if I could hang with him cutting along with my other play. The games were cheap, beer, that ungodly Boone's Farm wine, or a few dollars, but they were fiercely fought! After awhile entire pool rooms would shut down to watch us play.

The hippie didn't have a nerve in his body and would try any cut shot, making most of them. We started drawing big enough crowds it struck me we should be getting something out of it ourselves, appearance fees. Never did but we held a crowd in a place many a night. Big table or small, he could cut balls end to end as often as not. He would try any cut.

We played for a year or two then one day without any warning to his wife he went back to New York. Might have forgotten he had a family. All I remember about him is that he was about six-six and under a hundred pounds. Over fifty years later I have never seen anyone live or on video that cut better. I never decided if he cut so well because of vision or feel. Five or ten years later his wife was a customer of mine, had moved on to the straight life. Neither of us acknowledged we knew the other.

A strange bit of life that lasted a year or two. Never saw him again after he went back to New York, or maybe I did. There was a guy from New York that looked like him on a crew I worked on years later.

Four of them came down from New York to Baton Rouge LA. Got there at night, rented a house, the cheapest in the newspaper. Went to work before daylight the next day. Got home to find they had rented in the ghetto, the roughest part of the ghetto! They were all pot heads so rolled joints to take to work every morning. Had to burn a few too I suspect. One morning he forgot the bag of pot on the kitchen table. No curtains so it was gone that evening. He grabbed a crack barrel shotgun and walked up and down the block for about an hour waving it around and demanding his pot back. Nobody messed with the crazy white boys from New York after that!

Might have been the same guy I played pool with, might not have been. Different compartments of my life years apart.

Hu

iusedtoberich said:

That "absolute-pool" page is off their rocker. Over-exaggerate everything. Looking for hits. IDK who is behind them... if someone in the USA or maybe the Philippines?

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They're Filipino clickbait peddlers. This type of shit is what they always publish. They were having a field day last year during the whole Kaci wax-gate thing.

dquarasr said:

Great responses and thanks to all!

Followup #2: Tried the Mighty X again just now (didn't record it). Got to 35 in a row. Wife started talking to me while I was down on shot #36. I stayed on the shot, see if I could tune out the distraction. Yeah, no. Should have stood up and waited until she was done with her topic. (No, not blaming her. Blaming me for not handling the distraction properly.)

That's a different kind of distraction than what we usually encounter in competition. At the hall, there might be other kinds of distractions like movement, loud music, players shooting on the adjacent table, but unless you're among a bunch of a-holes or someone trying to shark you, no one is talking directly to you.

Anyway, 35 in a row is a new PB. I'll try again soon. I hope to get to 100.

It's also weird: after I was done with the streak, I shot a few more just to reacclimate myself. Then I tried to get draw on the shot. The only thing different from a stop shot, to shoot a draw shot *should* be the tip position, just a bit lower and maybe a slightly longer stroke to increase the shot speed. Yeah, no. I had all kinds of things in my head, even when I shortened my stroke length back to what I was using with the stop shot, just lower on the CB. Still either made the ball and got no draw (or even a little follow), or I miscued, or most often, I missed the shot. That in itself is an interesting lesson learned. The discipline needed to execute a draw shot, ostensibly not that different from a a stop shot, is probably even more critical. Or maybe I was making it tougher in my head, and I didn't need any different discipline. Same can be said for any shot that is not the straight-in Mighty X stop shot. Now that I think of it, no, the discipline for a more difficult shot really shouldn't be any different from a really easy shot. Perhaps that's the lesson.

Learning, learning, learning. Learning about the game, learning about myself.

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There are no such things as easy shots, and no such things as hard shots, it's just the next shot, you don't think, turning on the bathroom light will be hard this time do you? No, you've done it thousands of times, the difference is you don't allow your conscious brain to interfere with thoughts like make sure you use enough pressure, don't let your finger slip, ect., in fact you don't think about it all, your conscious brain allows your subconscious brain to do what it knows how to do, that's why I say do all your thinking standing up, once you get down to shoot only concentrate on stroking the cueball in a straight line.

Thank you sir

Dshug13 said:

is number 1 or 2 available?

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see, this is better. Thread's only 7 and 1/2 months old.

easy-e said:

I read his whole post on Facebook. Didn’t seem like severe criticism to me. I know he doesn’t like it and he’s not stoked about it, but these press releases need to stop making it seem like a bigger deal than it is.

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Yes.

I don't think sensationalism on stuff like this helps anyone.

Lou Figueroa
except MR ;-)

I didn’t see the dates
Sorry new here.
But thank you

Dshug13 said:

Is either one of these still available?

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9 year old thread, or almost 9.

Billy has every right to be upset with THE TIMING of the conversation. Right before a match is pretty unnecessary and downright cruel imo. But as others have said "rules is rules" and Matchroom makes them. This is what you signed up for even if you didn't read the fine print, it was there.