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Did they alter the rules on those shots? I'm an old timer. I may have even been at that tournament. I attended a lot of those Roosevelt Hotel tournaments. Back in those days, no one would call a foul on those as long as you shot down with a quick stroke and both the object ball and cue ball...

Interesting that he brought up Hopkins. The first time I saw peak Hopkins play he was playing 9 ball in Queens NY at the Golden Cue. He missed one shot in over an hour of play. He was insanely good that night. I was a teenager at the time and tried to mimic his stroke a little because I...

I have to wonder how much of that is the more accurate cues, more accurate cloth, lower nap cloth and simply getting used to playing on tighter pockets. I certainly don't know. With some of the high deflection cues and rugs they used to play with years ago even the slightest accidental...

good one

My issue with tighter pockets and tougher tables is not that elite tournament level players want to play on them. They know the better players have an advantage with tighter pockets and on tougher tables. So of course the very best players will tend to want tigher pockets so there are fewer...

Fran is my cousin Anyone can make balls on any table, but at the margin you are going to miss more on a tighter table and may even tighten up mentally on some of the tougher shots. We don't need buckets, but we don't need begginers getting so frustrated they don't get enough plaseure out of...

I think switching to 4" pockets was idiotic for the game in general. I can see the very best players wanting to play with 4" pockets in tournaments because imo that subtly increases the pobability that the better player will win and the best players want every possible advantage. However for...

I think there are equiment explanations for some of that (definitely speed of cloth, quality of cue and more consistent racking), but setting that aside what ARE those stats? Going way back I used to occasionally hear of someone running a 10 pack with all that old equipment. Do we see that...

I just found this thread and started reading it. Maybe I missed something that was already discussed, but instead of asking "would the peak Archer of the 90s be able to hang wih the best players of today" and then talking about reasons players of today are better (more accurate cues, faster...

Best of luck. That was my goal also. I topped out at 93 (and a few 80s), but I was playing well enough at the time I am certain 100 was around the corner. Then life interfered with my pool playing and I stopped playing for close to 30 years (I'm 66 now). I just started playing again, but I...

Thanks, IMO that's clearly the superior approach of the two, but I personally might put a little weight on winning a set. I've known players that seemed to play just well enough to lose (choke?) and others that seemed to find a way to win more often than you would think when it was close. So...

As to the problem posed by the original poster, the answer is to have mostly capped Fargo tournaments. Years ago, some local tournaments in Queens NY used to exclude A players even though they were also handicapped. It would be something like that. You could use any range you want, but it...

I have a question about how Fargo ratings are calculated. Does the Fargo rating just look at who won/lost and their Fargo ratings or does it also look at the score. For example, let's say two 500 players played each other 3 sets and one of the players won all 3 sets 10-9 (30-27). IMO, that...

Nice run

I ran another 48 today. I had a good beakshot to get to the next rack but missed it. I think my stroke broke down a little and I ovecut it. Just getting to that next break shot was a positive. If I made that shot I was really off to the races. I was playing really well. This was the...

I saw Crane and Lassiter play 14.1 at the Roosevelt Hotel. I can't remember the exact years, but it was either late 70s or very early 80s. Both were past their peak, but at least I could say I saw them play. They played well even then, but not still up to same level at Sigel, Varner, Mizerak...

John Schmidt has repeatedly said that one of the things important to running a huge number of balls is not wasting much energy concentrating hard on every shot. He said Shaw's ability to shoot so accurately off a single practice stroke is an advantage that he didn't think other great players of...

I think most of us agree that winning championships is a different animal than just running balls. Just ask the people that saw prime Eufemia. There are safety battles. You have to deal with nerves. Certain styles may be better for high runs but not work quite as well in a series of matches to...

I have some random thoughts about his 14.1 game from last night and the last time he tried this. I saw Sigel, Varner, Mizerak, Martin, Rempe, Hopkins, Nagy, Murphy and West at their absolute 14.1 peaks. I saw Mosconi while still playing very well in his 60s, Lassiter a bit after his peak and...

Thanks. I saw 832 last night when I was watching, but someone posted that it was 836 this morning. I thought I missed something.