Frosty said:

Ahhhhh, truthfully, they’re being taught in both situations. It’s just a different lesson.

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In the lessons I let them shoot.

If I make the money ball on the break, I get one. If I scratch on the break, the ghost gets one. After the break, if I run out, I get two. If I take BIH and run out, I get one.

I never had a lot of money to gamble on. Especially through the 90's. I was lucky to have a few hundred in my pocket. I was in my 20's and it was always a struggle. I gambled small it didnt matter 2 bucks, 5 bucks or races to 7 or 9 for 20. Only times i gambled higher was if i was up and playing on their money. Tournaments were local and most was like 10 buck entries lucky if the payout was 120 or 130 for first. I lived in the hills of Eastern Ky small population of about 10,000. For a couple years i moved to Lexington Ky with a population of probably about 300,000. It was a whole new ballgame. The competition was high and lot of great players. I didnt gamble long when i moved there. I knew i was out of my league. I hadnt been playing but about 4 years and you had guys like Brumback, Gary Spaeth, Bucky Bell, Dave Faver playing. Then up and coming pros coming through. I played at Steepletons. I improved more in those 2 years there than my whole life. I rarely played the tournaments. I always practiced by myself and practiced hard on the 9fts in the back room hours on end 4 or 5 days a week. I wanted to be able to play like these guys.

boogieman said:

I thought about 2 way shots and leaving the CB bad should something miss, that It usually just works that way. Over time it becomes almost subconscious. I get "rolls" more than anybody I know but I spent a few years heavily focused on 2 way shots.

EDIT: It also amazes me that many people do not see caroms/billiards and the like. They think it's luck and I let them continue to believe it. There's tons of things you can do with 2 way shots... put the CB in a particular place and take a 15% 3 rail bank or something, 15% of the time it works, the other times the CB is safe anyway.

It's hard to explain but sometimes you just have a good feeling about a particular shot and it works. Protect the CB and roll the dice.

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I will take the obvious ones. Like banks that leave hooks regardless. I shun those "miss on the pro side" shots. You gotta hit those deliberately bad for them to go lol. Those are simple safeties.

Not that funny but in case you haven't seen this,

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