New 14.1 personal best! (bittersweet)

I agree with all of your thoughts on playing the smartest and safest way in a match. I actually don't like playing straight pool matches, just going for high runs. Real straight pool takes more patience than I possess, which is also why I don't like to play one pocket.:)
 
keith when you get your table and see how fast it is. you will see that opening the rack is the way to go. and not worrying about a couple balls past the side pockets.
 
Approaching the finish line on my pool hall! Electrician installed my pool table light and did a great job today. Will order carpet tomorrow and schedule my pool table delivery as the carpet people get here! Yeah boy!
 

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Watch old Grady Matthews straight pool videos and learn about correct patterns. Don't even try to get a high run unless you feel focused. When you miss it is often due to lack of focus.

I broke 100 five times at home over about 4 months of trying. High run 168. Blew the opening shot in rack 13. Diamonized Anniversary with 4 5/8 pockets.
 
SBC said:
Watch old Grady Matthews straight pool videos and learn about correct patterns. Don't even try to get a high run unless you feel focused. When you miss it is often due to lack of focus.

I broke 100 five times at home over about 4 months of trying. High run 168. Blew the opening shot in rack 13. Diamonized Anniversary with 4 5/8 pockets.
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Very impressive!
 
SBC said:
This was a good 10 years ago....when I was playing and on the improve.

Now I still play good, but with no real reason to be in stroke ... my game is mush.
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As good of a player as I was my high run was 106 just after my 17th birthday and jersey Reds wife Dotti was watching! I didn't know she was counting when i quit! She asked why i quit at 106? So after that day i would never run over 65-70 balls so nobody would see 100 ball runs! Hustlers didn't want other players to see their game and that was the same with me. I knew i could go 150 and out but didn't want to show it all the time just like the other pros in Houston. I got in the habit of practicing 14-1 almost every practice and usually on my first shot i would run 4-5 racks and work on something else! I could run a 100 balls every day but i would stop purposely. After I won Johnston City in 1970 I knew I was a monster and hit a gear that very few could deal with! If a 14-1 tourney arrived that psid enough money I would have practiced 14- 1 a couple weeks or more and had a punchers chance to win it no matter who was in the tourney! But 100 ball runs are impressive on any table! You did Well!
 
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