Cole Dickson's practice session routine
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Cole played one pocket as good as anyone in the world. Period! Yet he spotted Harry minimum. World record straight pool player spotted 10-6 or maybe more?) Straight pool champion got busted by Harry with uh I can't remember but around 6 or 7 thousand. He had to go to western union to reload. Cole swoop in and took down 25. The "Rumor " was it was an orchestra team effort. Can't be sure. 
It was an awesome performance. I did however miss the 10-5 or six spotted portion. Nah it wasn't a set up.......(was it?) 
Oh yeah a pool 2 page monthly news paper spoke of a race to 4 one pocket event. Cole and Cecil Tugwell played 7 games of one pocket in 35 minutes. The breaker won each game in their second inning . Go Figure
Vince Frain gave Me my favorite compliment after a break and run. He said , "I didn't know you played that good." He was lead odds maker. Stealth was taught by Cole.
It was an awesome performance. I did however miss the 10-5 or six spotted portion. Nah it wasn't a set up.......(was it?) Oh yeah a pool 2 page monthly news paper spoke of a race to 4 one pocket event. Cole and Cecil Tugwell played 7 games of one pocket in 35 minutes. The breaker won each game in their second inning .
Go Figure Vince Frain gave Me my favorite compliment after a break and run. He said , "I didn't know you played that good." He was lead odds maker.
Stealth was taught by Cole.I like 14.1 cause it teaches you the importance of speed control and being on the correct side of the ball but any practice session is better than nothing IF you practice on your problem areas.
I used to play a lot of nine ball ghost and had a white board, you can use anything, on the wall. It had a rough pool table drawn on it with pocket and diamond locations. I used three colored markers .. black, red and blue. If I had a problem with position on a certain shot I would make 3 circles on white board with CB, OB and target ball, 3 circles with a dot in center of one for CB. The next problem would have a different color. I would do this for 3 problem areas I needed to work on.
My next practice session would be working on these problem areas till I felt confident with each scenario, erase the board and go back to nine ball ghost. I had other practice routines that were important but always marked down what I needed to work on
I used to play a lot of nine ball ghost and had a white board, you can use anything, on the wall. It had a rough pool table drawn on it with pocket and diamond locations. I used three colored markers .. black, red and blue. If I had a problem with position on a certain shot I would make 3 circles on white board with CB, OB and target ball, 3 circles with a dot in center of one for CB. The next problem would have a different color. I would do this for 3 problem areas I needed to work on.
My next practice session would be working on these problem areas till I felt confident with each scenario, erase the board and go back to nine ball ghost. I had other practice routines that were important but always marked down what I needed to work on
Lost to Billy Palmer
576 or so balls in rotation? I'll wait for the video. Cool story, though.
Wide open table and no information as to the table itself. I don't think it has to be much harder, maybe not any harder, than a 147 on a championship snooker table.
I mention winning over 160 racks of eight ball in a row when a scratch on the break or the eight ball would have been a loss. Sounds farfetched but out of the 25-30 guys I played there were only maybe a half dozen that could runout playing eightball. People moved in and out of the rotation but my main concern was that there were over a hundred challenges on that table at times, sometimes around 125. If I lost control of the table I would never be allowed back on it. I played strategy to stay on the table. Equally important, there was a strange moon in the sky that night. The situation was never right to repeat. I went back about a month later, about a dozen challenges on the table. I got on the table, won three games and everyone pulled their money down. Four or five months later I went back again. Put a challenge on the table and the eight or ten people on the table quit, I never even broke.
I did the impossible a handful of times driving a circle track car. Strange things happen.
Hu
You should write a book.
I have been told that many a time by those that were serious. I have gotten ten or fifteen thousand words into a book a few times, it ain't easy!
I can write a pretty solid story off the top of my head so in theory I could write a book of stories. To write a cohesive book I need to put together an outline, tweak it, then flesh it out.
I have known people who have written books, including my mom. It is a lot easier when someone else is doing it. Then there is the question, do I want to write it in Hu's english or proper english? Naturally I favor my own, warts and all. I'm old enough that even if I followed conventions, many of the conventions have changed since I went to school.
There is an old saying, something to the effect that everyone has a book in them and in most cases that is the best place for it to stay!
Hu
Ok, 14-1 all weekend it is!
Does sound out there without context. Did he do many ahead sessions? And throwing this in, what are the big differences between that and "by the game" encounters - frozen or not?
most times you played and paid by the game so most you could get stuck for was one game if you were smart.
stupid gamblers played sets. and in sets it was too easy for someone to lose one or two and quit as a set is a final thing. game by game never has an ending until someone gives up or runs out of money. and most gamblers wont quit till broke.
and you are a much bigger favorite to break someone playing game by game rather than a set.
unless i knew the guy well. i always made them show at least a certain amount before we played at the stakes we agreed to.
stupid gamblers played sets. and in sets it was too easy for someone to lose one or two and quit as a set is a final thing. game by game never has an ending until someone gives up or runs out of money. and most gamblers wont quit till broke.
and you are a much bigger favorite to break someone playing game by game rather than a set.
unless i knew the guy well. i always made them show at least a certain amount before we played at the stakes we agreed to.
So the actual question, would Cole have had reason to practice ahead style pool? Would long strings at the 6ball ghost improve your 9 ball?
Ther is no "good" Six Ball break! Only a sucker takes the break in Six ball. The non breaker has a huge advantage.
Not in your case my friend.
I'm gonna go ice the pulled muscle I got in my arm for patting myself on the back for what I now know to be a well documented piddlin' 193.
I went into this game knowing I could never play tournaments nor be famous and was ok with that.
Perhaps aging brings with it the insecurities of youth, one's desire to defend their accomplishments, however small they may be in the larger scope of things.
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The fish stories are getting pretty good on here. I should write a book.
Back in Jersey as a kid in the early '60's I would give lesser players the break in 6 ball.
Most of them had not figured out that breaking in a ball was almost impossible.
I recall making a corner ball on four cushions fairly often but never did any stats. Runouts were rare so the break was nearly irrelevant.
My favorite story told by Cole was how they took down a casino baccarat game 2 nights in a row. The third night the game was shut down.