I think it was 10-5 in the end

, but yeah, that’s exactly why this discussion is interesting for me, and it’s an impossible question to answer; can you gauge someone’s Fargo from watching them hit balls?
There’s obviously a whole bunch of skills that are less likely to be exhibited while playing the ghost; kicking, banking, safeties, jumps, mental fortitude, etc. And then there’s the grind of actually playing enough competitive matches to establish a robust Fargo (Robustness! I’ve been reading about Fargo

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I played snooker but had never really played US pool, and not 9 ball or 10 ball, and unfortunately only discovered 14.1 around the start of 2020. I think in that video I start talking about how I started playing pool around the 30 minute mark. I don’t really have a practice regimen as such. I just try to maintain confidence in my cue action with table time. Occasionally my cue action gets a bit sloppy, and I can feel something that needs tweaking, so I’ll line up a bunch of balls across the middle of the table and play long stuns into the corners, just to diagnose and fix any little hiccups. There’s a few shots that come up often in rotation that don’t appear in 8 ball, and certainly in snooker, so I’ll sometimes spend 15 minutes practicing one of those when it occurs to me.
It’s amazing how even after 10 years of not playing snooker, I’ll still play a more difficult positional shot to get on a ball in a side pocket rather than play a simple stop shot to play a ball in the corner, when on a US pool table it should often times be the complete opposite.
Hahaha, right, it did occur to me that while I was complaining about my break, a lot of balls were falling in pockets. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, as I suspect a lot of pool players are. With my 10 ball break, I’m being critical of what I intended as compared to what actually happened. I think I only hit the balls full two or three times, and I’m not sure I ever had enough top on the cueball to actually park it in the middle of the table. It was usually flying around off two or three cushions
Yeah, there’s a lot of carom (3 cushion and 4 ball) clubs everywhere in Korea. 3 cushion gets a lot of TV time, with channels dedicated to it. On Youtube you can usually find the pro leagues being streamed live.