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What beginner pool tip do you wish you learned sooner?

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straightline said:
This might be too general for what's going on with your progress, but on the one hand you have a genre that requires extreme competence and on the other hand, you want to attain that competence while having fun.

The choking you cite is probably self induced conflict. The match gets "real" so you apply rational (and unfamiliar) concerns to an incomplete skill set. Maybe it's the one ball or you can't seem to stay in line. Simply put, you're in over your head.
Back to the drawing board.

You may be lacking in patience. You want to hotrod your talent. That's still a tedious process. Skills have to be commensurate with ambition.
Back to the drawing board.

See a pattern?

Mastering pool isn't about who you beat. It's about mastering pool. The lessers will fall by their own folly.
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I think there is a subconcious issue going on where I'm too focused on my record (against both stronger and weaker players), and it's getting to my head once I get on hill.
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What beginner pool tip do you wish you learned sooner?

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Justaneng said:
I can attest APA SL-4 to APA SL-6 in 4 years is absolutely doable (I did it in 2 years as a 45 year old, however that occurred when I got my own table and my wife at the time decided to start screwing her boss, pure coincidence I’m sure).

Translating to Fargo this is a 100 point jump from about a 375 to 475, or you need to become about twice as good as you are now.

I do see in APA land where there’s a bit of a natural cap at SL-5 if you stay focused only on shot making and don’t start getting into fundamentals, stronger pattern play, etc..
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I am learning more and more about strategy (and have been adding more unusual shots to my bag) but find my number one flaw (aside from rushing shots) to be having an awkward stance that is likely hurting my alignment.

So I also look into stroke tweaks a lot, but getting everything to mesh together is difficult.
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Johnny Archer finally pays off Oscar Dominguez

Chili Palmer
Bob Jewett said:
Here is a thread at the time of the match:

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Thanks, I did a quick search of the YouTube video of these two talking it out and found it was $6500 so, $6500 over 5 years at 6%:

Simple interest: $1950
Compounded Annually: $2,198.47
Compounded Monthly: $2,267.53
Compounded Weekly: $2,272.57
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What beginner pool tip do you wish you learned sooner?

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Bob Jewett said:
I would also disagree with anyone who said that beginners shouldn't play matches, but I haven't noticed anyone saying that.

Do you also work on your game solo?
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Table time is on the expensive side where I live, so I tend to get most of my practice in after league night. I mostly just work on long, straight in shots and try to get a feel for better mechanics.
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2026 WPBA SOARING EAGLE MASTERS

Chili Palmer
Anyone else watching this? I try to watch as many matches as I can but I'm fairly busy this weekend so will probably rely on the bracket.

Here's a link to the bracket: https://digitalpool.com/tournaments/2026-wpba-soaring-eagle-masters/bracket

I haven't been able to watch that many matches today but looking at the bracket (I only posted about players I know of, probably should've just posted them all):

Kristina Tkach is 2-0, Kennedy Meyman is 1-1, Sofia Mast is 2-0 (beat Lonnie Fox-Raymond 8-1 last match), Kristina Zlateva is 2-0, Monica Webb is 1-1 (lost to Olivia Cheng), Brianna Miller is 2-0, Savannah Easton is 1-1 (lost 8-4 to Rachel Lang - Rachel and Brianna play tomorrow at 5 MDT, that could be a good match), Pia Filler is 2-0, Jordan Helfery is 1-1 (Pia got her 8-3), Carolina Pao is 2-2, Ashley Benoit is 1-1 (Carolina Pao got her 8-4), Emily Duddy is 1-1 (Kelly Fisher controlled the match and got her 8-0), Kelly Fisher is 2-0, Margaret Fefilova-Styer is 2-0, Janet Atwell is 1-1 (Veronique Menard (one of my favorite female Canadians to watch) got her 8-1, Veronique is 2-2, Brittany Bryant is 1-1 (Loree Jon got her on a hill-hill for 8-7).

I did not look through round one so I'm missing about half the players (64 players).

They have one live stream with commentary and one "bonus" table without commentary. Link to their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WPBAbilliards
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What beginner pool tip do you wish you learned sooner?

sudocrushms
j2pac said:
Some good advice that was given to me here in this forum, as it relates to the 8 Ball. When shooting the 8, pretend that you still have another ball on the table. Try to play shape on that imaginary ball. It will/should help keep you focused as you continue through the 8.
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I generally do something similar: if I don't have a pure stop shot on the game ball, I'll look for the spot on the rail I want the cue ball to hit.

One more point for beginners: Find a friendly player that's better than you, but is helpful. I see loads of decent players that are just out for people's money, but love being the guy that will help me players. Cheers to Dr. Dave for being the epitome of the friendly coach.
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Johnny Archer finally pays off Oscar Dominguez

Chili Palmer
j2pac said:
If Oscar and Johnny are good, that's all that really matters.
The end.
👍
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maha said:
he is probably long past sponsors. the big loser was oscar who got money reduced by inflation.
basically partial payment.
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Personally, I'm inline with j2pac on this; however, as a former accountant I can't argue with your logic.

I believe the debt was $5K and it's been about 10 years, based on those numbers:

Simple interest would be $3K
Compounded annually it would be $3,954.24
Compounded monthly it would be $4,096.98
Compounded weekly (I.E. the Vig, which is how it should be done in this world) would be $4,107.44

So yeah, in the end Oscar came out on the losing end, but again, both parties are happy and frankly, nobody in their right mind ever thought he would get another dime so, well...bygones.
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