The Legendary Pearl to Take On 14.1 Attempts

Straightpool_99 said:
And the run ended. This is painful to me. Earl is an AMAZING player, but he's doing everything backwards. If you're new to straight pool watch the racks with the 5 steps in mind and you'll see why it is so difficult when you don't do them right. I think he'll work it out eventually, at least I hope so.
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Another technique to use while you are working on the 5 steps is to keep the shots as short as possible. Mosconi said that he improved on Greenleaf's patterns by keeping the cue ball closer to the object ball. Don't leave the cue ball three diamonds back when you can have it 18 inches away. Earl does occasionally show that kind of close work but it's not a feature of his play.
 
Straightpool_99 said:
And the run ended. This is painful to me. Earl is an AMAZING player, but he's doing everything backwards. If you're new to straight pool watch the racks with the 5 steps in mind and you'll see why it is so difficult when you don't do them right. I think he'll work it out eventually, at least I hope so.
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Are you watching live? Just from the time stamps I know he didn't run 84 in 15 minutes.
 
98 and breaking.

His key ball is frequently on the rail on the opposite side of the table as the break ball, and he draws the CB off the rail perfectly to get on the break.
 
Key ball in the middle of the table again, though he's still going strong and doesn't look like he's going to miss any time soon.
 
I see they're keeping the balls nice and clean by changing out the whole set. Except for the cue ball and break ball.
 
I have no idea how he's pulling this style off? I'm liable to learn something here, maybe. This last rack was more like it, with a proper key ball for a change. There may be hope for a big run, yet.
 
He seems to like leaving his final keyball in the dead center of the table. I've never seen anyone do that on purpose before. He's done it several times in this run allready. He may have figured out that this is advantageous somehow. I have to say: It's at least very original. Sometimes Earl figures things out that nobody else has thought about.
 
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Straightpool_99 said:
He seems to like leaving his final keyball in the dead center of the table. I've never seen anyone do that on purpose before.
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I think the strategy is that no matter where the cue ball is on that shot, you can get to break shot position in no more than three cushions. ;) Actually he is playing a lot of key balls in the rack area and comes two cushions out of the corner and around his break ball for position.
 
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