For those who are puzzled by the requirements of 47/1 (18.1 in the US): the player has to hit both the other balls with his cue ball, but if both the object balls are in one of the marked regions, he must drive one of the balls out of the region or the point doesn't count. As with all of the "small" carom games, you want to keep the balls together to make scoring easier, but that's pointless unless the balls are near a line so they can be in different areas. When they are in different areas the referee -- there is always a ref for matches -- will say "à cheval" (ah-shuh-vahl) which literally means on horseback or straddling the line. If they are within a region, the ref will say "dedans" (duh-dahn, more or less) meaning "within" so one must be driven out.I'm gonna say this guy
Running over 100 in the hardest of the technical Carom games
Frederic Caudron, has multiple world and European titles in ALL the Carom disciplines
The Carom games vary more in what needs to be done than the different pool games I believe from seeing and playing them all
https://youtu.be/Fs316tCnTNc
I like Mike, mainly because he always seemed to win.
The 150 and out against Jim Rempe on You Tube is pretty amazing
There's just no way around it.
It depends. Does the Church of Scientology allow that?
You just misread my quote. Nick put the six packs and 5 packs on Efren. :grin:
JoeyA
People think of him as just ( though all-time-great, to be sure ) a 9ball / 10ball player. Not many people know Earl's high run in 14.1 is 408 balls.
408. Earl. Let that sink in for a bit.
I'm gonna say this guy
Running over 100 I. The hardest of the technical Carom games
Frederic caudron, has multiple world and European titles in ALL the Carom diciplines
The Carom games vary more in what needs to be done than the different pool games I believe from seeing and playing them all
https://youtu.be/Fs316tCnTNc
In a conversation with Buddy Hall this week he had this to say:
"Wimpy Lassiter was the best 9 ball player I ever saw. However, Eddie Taylor & Luther Lassiter both said I was the best 9 ball player they had ever seen."
JoeyA
Sigel was the best I ever saw period. First sighting at the Roosevelt in NYC for 14.1 in 92. Watched every match he played, memorizing. His 9 ball game was lethal, he could beat top pros with his B game. He never had a monster break but he just needed to make one ball and he could get out from anywhere. Like Buddy Hall said, No one shoots straighter than Mike Sigel. Great cue ball but it was his recovery prowess that was jaw dropping. Don't know why he retired so young. He had just beat everyone at Valley Forge in 9 ball when he called it quits.......Nick Varner comes to mind, as does Mike Sigel. Everyone has an opinion, and here's mine. Mike Sigel was the best ever, period.
I forgot to mention one player who never seems to come up in these discussions..........Allen Hopkins. Won major tournaments in EVERY discipline - Straight Pool, 9 and 8 Ball, One Pocket, etc. Hall, Rempe, Varner and Sigel were not only great players but SMART players. But Hopkins may have been the smartest -did he every make a bad decision at the table?
Allen let Earl Heisler trick him into playing a big set of one pocket. After the money was posted, ole man Pete, opened the doors to the boiling room where the fresh seafood had been waiting to boil. The handicap of 9-7 was already firmed up as was the bet. Allen never calculated the humidity factor which was then off the charts and lost that day.:grin:
JoeyA
despite playing condition variances, lost to "humidity" is a good one, lol
I wonder if Allen actually believes this