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New 14.1 personal best! (bittersweet)

easy-e
jay helfert said:
Easy, my lifetime high run is 72 so I'm a bit jealous. No one gambled at 14.1 back in my day (except the Northeast guys) and I was a money player, pretty much all 9-Ball and One Pocket.

I did practice 14.1 when I could. I knew it would help my cue ball game. I'd often practice for a few hours and I got to where I could make regular runs in the 40's. 50 was a good one for me and for years my high run was 63. The 72 came later in a money game and I shocked myself.

So good for you dude!
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Thanks Jay! I love practicing 14.1 because it forces me to focus! I don't get that as much playing 9 ball or 10 ball.
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New 14.1 personal best! (bittersweet)

T
Nice job Easy E, you will hit a 100 with your tenacity and drive. I only play 1 pocket and only on the weekends gambling. Someone asked me to play straight pool one night when I couldn’t find a 1 pocket game. I ran 56 out of the gate on a standard gold crown. I thought this is a lot easier than I thought it would be. From that point we played another three hours and I never got past 10. LOL, not so easy after all.

Good luck buddy and thanks for sharing.

-don
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GCIV Update

jay helfert
DrCue'sProtege said:
FYI here,
Remember how I always complained about how I rarely ever got a decent spread after the 9B break on my GCIV? And how that sort of prompted me to go and purchase the new Diamond Professional?

For the first time in a few months I went downstairs and broke some racks of 9B on the Gold Crown IV today. After 17 break shots with not one chance of running out due to impossible spreads I just gave up. Just quit. Shut the lights out and came back upstairs.

Suddenly that Gold Crown VII is starting to seem more appealing.

r/DCP
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Bad news. It ain't the table!
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New 14.1 personal best! (bittersweet)

jay helfert
easy-e said:
I've been playing a bit of straight pool lately trying to join the century club (100 ball run if you didn't know). My past high run was 84 balls. I got too steep on the break ball for rack 7 and rattled it.

Yesterday I started rolling along and found myself at 56 with a pretty nice break ball. I cleared the next rack and got long and tough on the break ball but a nice angle so all I had to do was make the ball. I drilled it and got a nice spread! Finished that rack to tie my record at 84 and had a near perfect break ball. The nerves were there but I was ready! I probably hit the shot too hard, made the ball and the cue ball went way up table and ended about an inch off the top rail. I surveyed the rack desperate to find a dead ball. I saw one I liked, but the pocket it was heading towards was a bit blocked. I had maybe 3/4 of the pocket to work with. I opted for a different shot. Makeable, but long and near straight. It offered guaranteed position on a few balls if I made it. Of course, I hung it in the pocket and my run was over. I put the cue ball back where it was and fired at the dead ball. Straight in the pocket and exploded the rest of the balls. :cautious: I still like the choice I made.

Getting so close to 100 again was both awesome and frustrating. The game is so much harder than it appears on the surface. I'm playing on a Diamond with standard pockets and a wood rack. I'd love to try it on the table Jayson set his record on with generous pockets and template racking. Back to the grind!
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Easy, my lifetime high run is 72 so I'm a bit jealous. No one gambled at 14.1 back in my day (except the Northeast guys) and I was a money player, pretty much all 9-Ball and One Pocket.

I did practice 14.1 when I could. I knew it would help my cue ball game. I'd often practice for a few hours and I got to where I could make regular runs in the 40's. 50 was a good one for me and for years my high run was 63. The 72 came later in a money game and I shocked myself.

So good for you dude!
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New 14.1 personal best! (bittersweet)

Bavafongoul
My high run was 39 balls on a 5x10 table but it was a sweet run. I made a 3 rail kick shot to a corner pocket object ball for #26 and that left with me great shape. I remember shot #40 because it was a side pocket easy hangar but I cut it too thin and the damn object ball hit a side pocket point and bounced away. You’d think I’d fare better on a 9’ table but I never did. My high run there was 38 balls…….Go figure. I could run racks but never was able to finish rack #3.
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I think of the break as a skill set, so why have rules, and so many rules, restricting the break?

Flakeandrun
King T said:
All the Pro tournaments cured the wing ball issue by going to 4 1/4'' pockets..., yes the wing ball still goes, but few players are making multiple balls and even fewer are running out, there are very few big packages.
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I like 9 on the spot from the side (as they play in Tangzhen China Open) on 4" pockets. WNT format is also fine when you are playing players who have put the time in to consistently hit the rack hard. The issues arise in smaller tournaments, or low-stakes match ups, where people mince the break because they haven't got the foggiest how to hit it. I get so many people discussing the break with me at my local.

I would happily take a game in both formats. Breaking can be considered a skill in both (unlike one on the spot, as mentioned above).
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