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    2021 AZ Billiards Straight Pool Challenge!

    Ran 112 about twenty minutes ago in an attempt to run 200+, missed a very makable, dare say easy break shot. It's past midnight here, I'm feeling tired, old, back pain is bothering me, and feeling sad as it's now a certainty that I'll have to disassemble and give away my Brunswick and call it a...
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    I have some theories I'd like to test on 20-30 ball runners

    Great exercise that reminds me a bit of my slightly less demanding "backwards" drill that I do with students, and of which I posted a video a few years back: https://youtu.be/CSWkz7eWrMI Love your contributions – glad to see you're keeping the torch burning! Greetings from Switzerland, David...
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    major slump

    What I do when that happens is to concentrate on a single aspect of my game and nothing else, such as a slow backswing, or staying down after every shot until nothing moves (i.e. every ball on the table has come to a rest), or keeping my head still (seemingly the same thing, although not in...
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    These are some tips for those who struggle to put together runs

    Thanks Danny, no worries, I don't think Mikko was referring to what you said, but to my claim to be no more than a "mediocre at best shotmaker" - we know each other in person, as a matter of fact, we do so because he refereed one (perhaps several - there's one in particular I remember) of my...
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    These are some tips for those who struggle to put together runs

    Just ran 85 again today, the usual problem. Cue ball got kicked upstream, left with a long if makable shot, with the object ball barely five inches from a corner pocket, only with my eyes, I really can't tell a difference aiming one way or another. Seriously, I'd swear that 99% of all players...
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    Getting kicked

    Now this sounds intriguing! The humidity here this time of year is such that one would really have to clean the cue ball every rack… :( Greetings from Switzerland, David. _________________ „J'ai gâché vingt ans de mes plus belles années au billard. Si c'était à refaire, je recommencerais.“ –...
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    Getting kicked

    LOL! I know at least one pool player in our neck of the woods everyone knows is guaranteed to get sharked if one puts the 13 in the apex of an 8-Ball break, or on the foot spot on a Straight Pool spot shot etc., and who'll tell everyone about it, too! ;) Greetings from Switzerland, David...
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    These are some tips for those who struggle to put together runs

    Even though it's been a while, you've seen me shoot, welcome to judge from memory! I certainly don't have much confidence in that department. :rolleyes: There's a reason most of my runs end at 14 x […] + 1 in that I keep missing the occasional tough shot I'm left with after an otherwise...
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    Getting kicked

    One way or another, every run is going to end. We Straight Pool players, in particular the better one gets, tend to forget details about our runs and obsess over the one we remember, how the run ended. I'm not convinced the "how" matters. How we played before it ended, how we felt about it and...
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    Getting kicked

    I'm with Bob on this one. I've occasionally "overturned" (as we say in German - the result is a thinner than expected or, done that twice or so in my life, thinner than seemed physically possible or practicable on a backwards cut) a ball with outside English presumably because there was chalk on...
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    2017 AZ Billiards Straight Pool Challenge!

    Thanks for the encouragement! It's weird sometimes, feeling like quitting altogether, that my eyes and game are completely gone, and then, just when I'm tired and ready to wrap things up for the day, the last break shot I set up I'm running three digits again. :rolleyes: Greetings from...
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    2017 AZ Billiards Straight Pool Challenge!

    153 153 in practice this afternoon. Missed a very makable (though not easy as should be) key ball when (again…) the mobile phone rang. Now going to make it a rule to turn it off once I'm into three digits. Having said that, there were a couple of shots earlier that I thought I'd missed but...
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    2017 AZ Billiards Straight Pool Challenge!

    Already congratulated on your latest three-digit run elsewhere, happy for you! Keep up the great playing! :thumbup: Greetings from Switzerland, David. _________________ „J'ai gâché vingt ans de mes plus belles années au billard. Si c'était à refaire, je recommencerais.“ – Roger Conti
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    2017 AZ Billiards Straight Pool Challenge!

    Congratulations on beating your record! On a side note, I use a coin to get counting off my mind, and in tournament play, keep saying to myself I need to get on another break shot (= one after the other, always the same attitude) until I get to the last one, at which point I'll check how many...
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    These are some tips for those who struggle to put together runs

    My own Straight Pool game is pretty much built around the fact that I'm a mediocre (at best) shotmaker (or at least, that I firmly believe so), with the result that I won't take anything lightly, and try to keep things as simple as I can at all times. I do feel my position play is reasonable...
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