Whats your high run in any game?

You're exactly right. I have run 5 racks twice in 20 years. I definitely don't do that on a regular basis. I don't even consider myself a shortstop, just a dedicated player. Some nights I can't seem to run 3 or 4 balls and other nights I can run a rack every few games or so. I think this is typical for players like me that have a full time job, at least it is for me!

When I retire, soon I hope, I think my game is going to go up because I love to practice and am a perfectionist. I intend to play all the tournaments I can when I retire. My hero is Mike Lebron who became a pro, and a good one, after he retired.


onepocketchump said:
The thing is you asked for personal bests. My good friend and world class pool player, Ilona Bernhardt, used to tell me that people generally think they are as good as their best day. I suspect that there are tens of thousands of us at just below shortstop level who have had the five rack moments when we played over our heads.

If I could run five racks consistently then my personal best would be something like eight racks of nine ball. I ran five racks twice in my life, once I lost and once I won. Since then I have blown more easy runouts than a two year old.

John
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Rick. I recently took early retirement and my phone hasnt stopped ringing. People keep calling me back to work with offers I cant refuse. This has happened to several of my friends. Once they find out you dont need them, they want you. Go figure. I just wanted to hang out and play billiards during the day with the other retired guys and one pocket with the players at nite.
As for Mike LeBron. You know he is a former US Open Champion. What kind of work did he do before?
 
I know that I'm going to do some work after I retire, but unlike now, pool will be the priority and work will be secondary, I hope!

Mike Lebron played pool when he was young and was pretty good from what I understand but needed to work to raise his family. I believe he worked in the steel industry. I don't think he won any really big tournaments until after he retired (I could be wrong).




yobagua said:
Rick. I recently took early retirement and my phone hasnt stopped ringing. People keep calling me back to work with offers I cant refuse. This has happened to several of my friends. Once they find out you dont need them, they want you. Go figure. I just wanted to hang out and play billiards during the day with the other retired guys and one pocket with the players at nite.
As for Mike LeBron. You know he is a former US Open Champion. What kind of work did he do before?
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Way to go...

I believe "all" of the previous entries, except Morgan Fairchilds' husband! . I have been on the road and off the road for 30 + years and have seen MANY great "run outs" and many not-so-great run outs! Ball in hand on the 4 ball and watched two GREAT 9 ball players "NOT" get out for 5 innings!!!
I watched Ed Kelly spot a road player 11 to 7 one hole and run 11 and out .. 4 in a row, Then hit the same guy with a 6 pack of 9 ball right after. Johnny Ervolino did not come into the pool room for 8 months and walked in, borrowed a cue and ran 86 then 60 back to back and didn't see him in the room again for 3 months...he seemed to do it any old time he wanted. Just look what he has been doing in NY recently...300+ / twice?
Watching many of the old "STARDUST" tourneys, I saw so many of the backroom matches with super great play...many matches were with "unknown" players playing the champs. Remember, the champs and good players all came from around the country!
Some of those listed so far..... may be the next Great Ones!!
 
9-ball, 9 or 10 racks
8-ball, 7 racks
10-ball, 6 racks
one pocket - 14 and out
straight pool - about 80
snooker - 147

of them all, the one pocket and the snooker runs were my favorites
 
Straight pool-101
9 ball-5 racks
8 ball- maybe 3 not sure
wing shots-18
rotation-I know I've run racks from the 1 to 15 many times-not not multiples in a row. just break and run out here and there.
 
KLM said:
Man, talk about a Resurrection! ;)
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I like to find stuff that I haven't already forgotten. :o

My high run is still 3 in 8, 3 in 9, somewhere around 30 in 14.1, I think, and I'm pretty sure I've had an 8-out in 1p, though I hardly ever play it since I'm usually on barboxes. May have a high run of 8 shots in short rack banks on a diamond box, but really have no idea.

As long as there's a shot I shouldn't make somewhere in my run, I'm out. Otherwise, I'm bound to screw something up.
 
measureman said:
Straight pool-101
9 ball-5 racks
8 ball- maybe 3 not sure
wing shots-18
rotation-I know I've run racks from the 1 to 15 many times-not not multiples in a row. just break and run out here and there.
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101.. man, it may be a few years before I get there, but I'll be damned if triple-digits are going to elude me forever. What little I play, I've been getting better at the break shot and have learned a little more on how to play the CB on those.

Each time I see you post, though, I can't help but feel bad for the poor man in your avatar that you're trying to beat up for his water. :(
 
I have never made a ball on the break and had a shot more than 4 or 5 times in a row in 20 years. 3 racks 8 ball 3 racks of 9.
 
Jimmy M. said:
Hey Rude Dog. I recently ran my first 100 playing straight pool (119, to be exact). I wish more people played it because I'd like to learn to play the game better.
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I almost don't want to bring this up because it seems to always result in an argument over which game in pool is the best. I think all the games have their own quality. But it is interesting to read so many posts from people who have run 5 to 8 racks of nine ball but their high run in straight pool is only 40. That makes no sense. Not until one realizes that straight pool is more of a knowledge game than a shooting game, although it requires both of course.

My point is, when people talk about the top nine ball players in the world, even if there appears to be a consensus for a brief time, in the end the game of nine ball cannot ever produce a definite champion the way straight pool does. That's because the really good players can all run 9 balls (which might help explain why they play so much 10 ball now). I'm not saying there is no such thing as the best nine ball player in the world - only that it can always be challenged. But the game of straight pool has always seemed to produce a more definitive champion, sometimes the same person year after year. Now some may say it was a different time. They may have other theories or thoughts about this. I am not saying straight pool is a better game, only that so many people posting high runs in nine ball should be posting higher runs in straight pool. That means they don't play the game as much, which is of course their choice. Anyway, it amazed me at first when I saw all those posts from people running 7 racks of nine ball and only 40 in straight pool. But I think I know why.

Perhaps straight pool is boring to most. It's especially boring to those who can't play it well enough and wind up sitting for long periods of time watching their opponents dominate the table. Yeah, it's easy - you don't have to play the balls in order - but it's just as easy for the guy you're playing, which means it isn't easy at all. Maybe the best billiard game has not yet even been invented. Who knows? I ran 6 racks of nine ball once, 81 in straight pool, and multiple 50s and 60s. I had some kind of mental roadblock that would go up any time I'd see myself on the way to 100, especially the more I became aware of it.

TJ
 
Banks said:
101.. man, it may be a few years before I get there, but I'll be damned if triple-digits are going to elude me forever. What little I play, I've been getting better at the break shot and have learned a little more on how to play the CB on those.

Each time I see you post, though, I can't help but feel bad for the poor man in your avatar that you're trying to beat up for his water. :(
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Funny thing about that 101 run. I remember exactly how it ended and where the last 2 balls were. the shot i missed was the 14th ball of the rack. Had i made it and got position on the break ball -who knows.
And that poor man in my avatar was Ron Lyle a top heavyweight boxer from the '70s.
Probably a top 5 guy in his day and for sure a top 10 guy.He passed away a while ago.
 
Tommy Joe said:
I almost don't want to bring this up because it seems to always result in an argument over which game in pool is the best. I think all the games have their own quality. But it is interesting to read so many posts from people who have run 5 to 8 racks of nine ball but their high run in straight pool is only 40. That makes no sense. Not until one realizes that straight pool is more of a knowledge game than a shooting game, although it requires both of course.
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I'm not a good player, of any game, and the fact that I only get out a few times a year certainly doesn't help, but coming from a mostly snooker background, I thought straight pool would be relatively easy to take on. Wrong. I enjoy it, but am not running any big numbers. My high run in snooker is 77 (again, nothing impressive), and I struggle to get past 30 in 14.1. I've never kept track of racks in pool games, but straight pool is really intriguing, so I will keep at it.
 
12 playing one pocket, hard to believe someone who pockets balls as poorly as I do got perfect shape that many times in a row.:angry:
Disclaimer: Just so no one thinks I am smoking crack now , that 12 is probably also my high run at straight pool.
Playing straight pool is less fun than bowling in my opinion, and I hate bowling.
 
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This thread is so old Eric was actually civil to me. But interestingly he started out his AZB life by calling everyone liars. How funny.
 
High Run of 236 in the finals of (1963) 7th Naval District Straight Pool
Championship, played on 5 x 10 Brunswicks.
I practiced countless hours each day and usually did not stop until I
ran at least 100 straight.
I've never come close to that 236 number since that day.
Just another "one hit wonder" I guess.
 
5 Racks in 8 Ball
4 Rack in 9 Ball
4 Racks 10 Ball
63 balls in 14:1
74 break in Snooker on a 5 x 10
6 points in 3 Cushion
 
4 pack in 9 is highest on a gc3. plenty of 2-3s. ran 33 in straight pool on a gc3. and on a valley bar box with buckets i ran 13 in 8 ball, i cant even explain how i did that...
 
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