Filler’s 3-Rail Kick in the Reyes Cup … Was it the Right Choice?

That's the reason. You very rarely see a jump shot in a situation like this in world class play. Object ball on (or very near) the rail is a dealbreaker for most.

Well, at least when combined with how far the blocking ball was (mid table). If the blocking ball was a diamond closer to the CB, he has much more room the get the CB down and rolling smoothly before it hits the 7.

Check out this 45 ball rack

Back in the early days as we were opening Salt City Billiards in 2017 in a new spot after the old room was lost to fire my buddy Big Mike had a dream. Make a 45 ball rack and see if anyone could break and run 3 racks at once.

We had a blast with it when the pool hall opened. Had a break and run pot for awhile. Some of the better players ran out. Talk about ball clusters.

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What do you change first when the break keeps coming up dry?

For.8 ball I have 3 different breaks that I will use. 2 different 2nd ball breaks and one head ball break. If my main 2nd ball break isn't working I'll try my other 2nd ball break and if that doesn't work then I'll try the.head ball break. If I'm still coming up dry, I go back to my main break and start changing speed to see if that works. It can be hard when all of a sudden the break that was consistently making a ball or two stops working. It does seem to put more pressure on the rest of my game.

What do you change first when the break keeps coming up dry?

couldnthinkof01, just saw yours after I posted — thank you. Taking speed off first is probably where I should have started, I was doing the opposite and swinging harder the drier it got. Watching what is working for the other guy on that same table is smart too, I am usually too stubborn in my own head to copy it. Appreciate it.

What do you change first when the break keeps coming up dry?

Zhero, thanks — game is mostly 8-ball for me in league, some 9-ball on the side. Switching sides with the cut break in 9-ball is something I have never actually tried on purpose, I just kept hammering the same spot hoping it would come back. I will try the second ball break in 8-ball next night out.

maha, appreciate that too. The safe break idea honestly never crossed my mind, I always felt like if I did not make one I had failed the break. To answer your question, no, I am not a run out every time kind of player. I can run a table when it opens up nice, but mostly I am a few balls and play safe kind of player. That is probably why a dry break hurts me even more, I am giving up the table and the momentum.

When you play that safer break, are you still trying to keep the cue ball in the middle, or are you letting it go a bit more?

Thanks to you both, this gives me a couple of real things to try instead of just hitting it harder.

We built a free online 8 ball game with city leaderboards. Honest feedback wanted.

Reading through your post history, almost all (if not all) of your posts are clearly written by AI. Anyone who has even the slightest experience in seeing the type of text produced by LLM's (e.g. ChatGPT or Gemini) will spot exactly what I mean.

Posting AI slop into random threads deteriorates the quality of these forums. I don't know if the contents of the messages in other threads are at least based on reality, but seeing the timing of the posts makes me highly doubt it. A human using AI as a tool for enhancing their text would still spend a reasonable amount of time per post. For example, the original post of this thread was posted 1 minute after another message in another thread, so if we assume that the writing was started after the last post was made, this thread would've been written at a speed of ~340 words per minute, which would be faster than the typing speed world record... And the same pattern appears multiple times across different posts, making 2 semi long posts in different threads with 1-2 minutes between the posts.

I wouldn't care if the advertisement in this thread or the text in your game was made by AI or not, but posting normal conversational messages into other threads acting like a human wrote the messages is very questionable. What is your motive here?


Oikawa, I read your post a couple times before answering. You put real work into checking the timing, so I owe you a straight answer.

My motive is not hidden. I am David Finlay from Hamilton, I co-founded Kings Court with my partner Mary, and I came here for two reasons I said in my first post: to tell this room about the free game we built, and to actually be part of this place as a player. That second part is real for me. I have played in Hamilton halls for years.

On the timing, you are right that it looks fast. I draft a lot of my posts in my notes first, sometimes the night before, then paste them when I get a few minutes. I am not sitting there typing 340 words a minute live, I could never do that. I should have slowed down how I was posting them, because I can see exactly how that reads from your side.

The pool stuff in my posts is my own experience — the Dufferin wraps in our halls here, staying on wood because carbon felt dead to me, the ghost flattering me one night and humbling me the next. That is my game, warts and all.

I am not going to argue with you about how the writing reads to you. If you are willing, tell me one of the pool points I made that you think does not ring true, and I will answer that one straight, in detail. And I will space my posts out properly from here.

Thanks for calling it out in the open instead of just writing me off.

David

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