DeeDeeCues
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I know I spelled Farve wrong. One of my closest friends in HS was a favre, spelled the same.
1990 US Open Sigel & Varner - 5 Inch Pockets
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I know I spelled Farve wrong. One of my closest friends in HS was a favre, spelled the same.
RidgeRaider
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Pool hall by me (Romines) has a crapload of gold crowns with 5 gallon bucket pockets we call em.
It's where I go to feel good about myself if I am in a slump. You can hit the long rail halfway up and still pocket a cut shot in the corner. You can do crazy caroms with confidence in 9ball. It's not impossible to miss, but it's damn sure hard if you're trying to pocket balls.
He was great enough to never have to take a hard shot- I wish that I could do that - don't we all?
RidgeRaider
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That's the beauty of pool in general.
I've seen the best pros have the worst games on the best equipment, but somebody still won.
so say how many packages of 3 or 5 nine ball runs you make on the buckets.
i ask because so many say pool is too easy of pockets bigger than say 4.5 or even 4.25 and need to be small.
and no one says how many racks they run on the easy pockets.
i used to bet very good players and still will even money they dont run nine balls out after the break.
As I said on page one of this thread........
It looks like there was a rule that if you scratched on the break the 1B was spotted right in front of the 9B. Both Mike and Nick played safe off of this during the match. Watch a little of the match, you will see what I mean.
They did one year have the high run challenge on the 10' tables. I think it might have been around 2014. I believe the high run was about 115 by a French player. Bob would remember for sure. The other years on 9' tables it was usually well into the 200's.
Stuart Pettman. I might have called his attempts.
He was on the pro snooker tour for a couple of years. Small table for him.
Wow, you must be a really good pool player!!! If you are calling GC III pockets "5 gallon buckets" what are you calling Valley 7' table pockets?
What is your fargorate?
8intheside
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German junior player Felix Vogel competed and did very well in this year’s US open. Are you telling me the great players of yesteryear couldn’t get out on today’s pro tournament conditions?
I imagine anyone winning stuff was no stranger to itty bitty pockets. There is probably a relative deluge of ready and able now. This might up the requirements into the fail zone for the old champs.
RidgeRaider
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Boy, your name is apropos.
I can't have a joke with my buddies who shoot at our pool hall? I gotta worry about being gatekeeped on a billiard forum by some tool worried about my fargo rating?
Here's how this situation goes, I tell you my fargo, and no matter what I say it is, you'll call it low. And if it happens to be above your threshold of approval, you'll just say I'm lying.
So, here it is for you. It's 6getbent.
Seriously though, if calling large pockets large infuriates you this bad, see a doctor, your blood pressure has to be higher than giraffe balls.
You got me, Romines has large pockets.
The wing ball was going every time, so the TD moved the spot up higher. (has nothing to do with a scratch on the break. This was before Texas Express rules, so on a scratch on break, any balls made were spotted, and if the 1 was above the headstring, it was spotted, BIH in the kitchen )
C'mon, man!