1 year ago Jayson Shaw shocked the World.

As a player of 14.1 for over 60 years I think a run of 714 on any table is just awesome.
So many break shots to hope for a decent shot after the break and many,many problems to solve in almost every rack is mind boggling.
My high run is 101 with a lot of 70 and 80 ball runs so I understand the game.
Had I been able to do a lot of attempts back in my prime like Jayson did I may have run 200 but that opportunity never crossed my mind.
Back when i played every day we usually played to 75 points and if a player ran the 75 and out we just racked them up and played again,nobody gave a thought to trying for high runs.

So fast forward to today at 75 years old,playing once a week and old eyes if I get into the 3rd rack it's a minor miracle.
 
dquarasr said:
Er, better make that a double espresso. Isn’t it 16x14 +1 = 224 + 1 = 225?
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That’s exactly what I had! ☕️☕️

Math and me early in the morning isn’t my strong suit. After coffee it gets better.

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AtLarge said:
16 racks plus the next break ball = 225.
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If it was the 223 run I watched, it was actually 223. He had two balls left on the table and tried an uncertain stroke to hold the cue ball for a break shot, but miscued. 223 is accurate.
 
wrldpro said:
One year ago Jayson Shaw playing 14.1 shocked the World by surpassing Willie Mosconi's BCA high run of 526 and ran 714 balls in a row.In just 5 days & 121 attempts. Just 2 months ago Jayson followed it up with a 508. Jayson is on a quest to run 1,000 and is gonna continue until he does it. Congrats to Mr.714 and this could be the year he shocks the World again.
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I'm hugely rooting for Jayson, and hope he succeeds in his quest for 1000. I know it's probably listed somewhere else, but can you give the specs of the table he's trying these runs on?
 
Like others have said, I can't believe a year has passed. It just doesn't seem possible.

1K is a herculean task. Hell, getting past 714 is just as tough. That said, the last three times I have seen him at his pool room, he talks about doing it. With his talent and focus, I won't bet against him.

Selfishly, I hope he does it because the party they through at US1 was epic and needs to be replicated! :cool:
 
sjm said:
It was one hell of a run, but 1,000 won't come easy.
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Nor did the 700, but he's got the determination, unlike the pros there was talk of back few yrs when 626 happened. "Put up the money and you'll see big numbers"
Moneys been put up and paid but not many, or any really since Jayson has showed much effort in the yr since, infact there's rumblings that 700 is too much even being paid
 
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Rocket354 said:
If it was the 223 run I watched, it was actually 223. He had two balls left on the table and tried an uncertain stroke to hold the cue ball for a break shot, but miscued. 223 is accurate.
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He had a 225 on his last day -- 16 racks plus the break ball for the next rack.
 
Rocket354 said:
I'm hugely rooting for Jayson, and hope he succeeds in his quest for 1000. I know it's probably listed somewhere else, but can you give the specs of the table he's trying these runs on?
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Standard gold crown 4 with simonis 760.
 
Given that the first break shot is a given, getting to 1000 means making 71 additional consecutive successful break shots - last ball made, no scratch on the cue ball, and giving a reasonable open shot.

Here are the odds of doing that given a player's single break shot success rate:

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The difficulty of getting to 1000 increases by increasing orders of magnitude as the break success rate goes down. And this is assuming that the player never misses or gets out of line on non-break object ball.

Another way to think about this is to game out how many times you would be expected to make an attempt to hit 1000 - to find that you divide 1 by the probability. So with a 90% success rate on the break shot and 100% make rate on all other balls, you would expect to need 1773 tries to hit the 1000 run mark. That number is 194 tries for 700, which might be in the general ballpark for the number of tries Jayson has made with wrldpro?
 
The way he was using his break ball or not having one at all with these attempts... I don't see him surpassing what he had. You can't just shoot out of everything.
 
skip100 said:
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The difficulty of getting to 1000 increases by increasing orders of magnitude as the break success rate goes down. And this is assuming that the player never misses or gets out of line on non-break object ball.
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In all of the innings that were recorded in Schmidt's attempts, his percentage on break shots was close to his percentage on the first shot after the break.
 
SBC said:
The way he was using his break ball or not having one at all with these attempts... I don't see him surpassing what he had. You can't just shoot out of everything.
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if you mean the record run and all his break shots from the right side rail, he was very consistently getting versions of that high steep angle position. he obviously likes that break shot and doesn't seem bothered with being close to the rail
 
smoochie said:
wow 5 inches pocket for the corner? and 5 & a half for the side pockets? wow is that the size of jayson shaw's? I feel his is even bigger lol.
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Those guidelines are not official yet and Bob Jewett shouldn't be posting them yet. I spoke to Shane Tyree at the BCA and they are gonna review the suggested guidelines again.

The table Jayson made his 714 high run on was 4.9 corners and 5.3 sides with no heater which is completely cheating if anyone has used a heater.
The new table for the Legends of Pocket Billiards the pockets are 4.8 corners and 5.2 sides with no heaters.
 
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