Hello fellow straight pool lovers,
I was wondering how many players are in the rooms you frequent that have regular, let's say daily runs of 80+ balls in a game to 150?
In the few years I have been playing in pool rooms here in the Philadelphia area I have seen only a few of this caliber. I believe there must be more but so far I have only really seen/heard of a couple guys. Florida Bob (Maidhof), owner of Drexeline billiards here in SE PA, whom I have never played who's high run is over 300 and personally told me he's running 100 daily.
I have so far only encountered one other opponent who can plant you in your chair for an extended period of time...local to Downingtown and resident 14.1 master Andy Toth. Typical games, we play to 150, I get 100 point spot. I have won some of those games, when I play well and get to 50 in 2 or maybe 3 innings. That's about all the chances you get though. We played the other day, two games. I got 25 balls total. His inning counts were: 62, miss, I made 8 or 9 balls, he run's a 92 (88 and out, four more trying to get 100 just for fun, got hooked at 92). End of first game. Second game, he breaks, I miss the long first shot and he runs a 110. I get a turn and run 16 or 17 and miss, he runs 40 and out. Ouch. This is about what you can expect on any given day. The pressure is large playing someone of this caliber although I consider it invaluable training as I am never going to personally practice sitting in a chair for 45 mins in the middle of my 2hr practice sessions and then get up and try and run a couple racks! Plus the learning from watching someone of this experience level run rack after rack after rack. So many little intricacies especially during the end of rack patterns.
How many players in your area are playing at level consistently, really consistently? I know many on this forum are 100+ ball runners but how many people do you play or come across that are a legitimate threat to give you a world class beating like this in every game? Thanks to all for posting here and sharing your love and fascination with this incredible game of straight pool.
I was wondering how many players are in the rooms you frequent that have regular, let's say daily runs of 80+ balls in a game to 150?
In the few years I have been playing in pool rooms here in the Philadelphia area I have seen only a few of this caliber. I believe there must be more but so far I have only really seen/heard of a couple guys. Florida Bob (Maidhof), owner of Drexeline billiards here in SE PA, whom I have never played who's high run is over 300 and personally told me he's running 100 daily.
I have so far only encountered one other opponent who can plant you in your chair for an extended period of time...local to Downingtown and resident 14.1 master Andy Toth. Typical games, we play to 150, I get 100 point spot. I have won some of those games, when I play well and get to 50 in 2 or maybe 3 innings. That's about all the chances you get though. We played the other day, two games. I got 25 balls total. His inning counts were: 62, miss, I made 8 or 9 balls, he run's a 92 (88 and out, four more trying to get 100 just for fun, got hooked at 92). End of first game. Second game, he breaks, I miss the long first shot and he runs a 110. I get a turn and run 16 or 17 and miss, he runs 40 and out. Ouch. This is about what you can expect on any given day. The pressure is large playing someone of this caliber although I consider it invaluable training as I am never going to personally practice sitting in a chair for 45 mins in the middle of my 2hr practice sessions and then get up and try and run a couple racks! Plus the learning from watching someone of this experience level run rack after rack after rack. So many little intricacies especially during the end of rack patterns.
How many players in your area are playing at level consistently, really consistently? I know many on this forum are 100+ ball runners but how many people do you play or come across that are a legitimate threat to give you a world class beating like this in every game? Thanks to all for posting here and sharing your love and fascination with this incredible game of straight pool.
