how are ya'll doing in league ?

lorider

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
4 racks in 8 innings is sl5 territory?

I've been a five here for years and might average 2 racks in 8 innings. I said might....probably a game and a half for me.

That's more like 6's here. Sigh

this right here is exactly why you have people complain about handicaps in vegas.

i won 4-1 vs a 4 in 10 innings last night. i had 1 break and run.

i won 4-1 vs a 5 in 12 innings tonight with 3 safes. tonight he broke dry after he won his only rack and i run out.

that is about my average number of innings and i went back down to a 5... 2 years ago. of course i have bad nights and run up a lot more innings but 2 innings a rack is normal for me in 8 ball unless i play a lot of safes which count against your innings.
 

lorider

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
4 racks in 8 innings is sl5 territory?

I've been a five here for years and might average 2 racks in 8 innings. I said might....probably a game and a half for me.

That's more like 6's here. Sigh

also dub you gotta take into account what size table. you play strictly on 9's. we play on 9's every 4-5 weeks and when we do i probably average 3...sometimes 4 innings a rack.
 

justadub

Rattling corners nightly
Silver Member
also dub you gotta take into account what size table. you play strictly on 9's. we play on 9's every 4-5 weeks and when we do i probably average 3...sometimes 4 innings a rack.

I suppose.... I forget that detail.

The few times I've played on 7-footers, I haven't seen a drastic difference, to be honest. Perhaps with regular play in them....
 

Rain-Man

Team Deplorable
Silver Member
Had a very good week. Not perfect, but pretty close to it :smile:


Monday night is my new(er) APA 8-Ball league that I joined 4 weeks ago.

This week we were away at an absolute sh!thole of a place (just as ghetto as where we are from), so we felt right at home and loved it :grin:

I played their best player (a 6), who was their captain and also a division rep for the league. I found out afterwards that he was 12/12 last session, and won the top tier Top Gun award..

The guy wasn't baad, but I have no idea how he went 12-0 last session. His position game consisted of follow and 'draw the cue ball as hard as you can'.

You could tell he could make some shots (mind you it was an 8ft Valley with big Valley corner pockets), but I dont think I saw a single time where he used left or right hand english for a shot. And there were quite a few times where I was sitting there thinking, 'a little bit of left hand will get him perfect to get out', but then he'd look at the shot as confused as all get out, and simply end up blasting it in, or just making the ball without worry about his next shot
Now, we've all been there, and I was as well at one point. But this guy is a 6, and reigning Top Gun!! :scratchhead:

The only thing I can think, is he did a lot of ducking last session. Being the captain, he had to have been protecting his record while calling the match-up's.....I can see that, a guy gets to maybe 3-0 or 4-0, and starts to think about whats good for his record more than maybe the teams (His team finished next to last in the standings as well last session)..

I ended up winning 5-1, so now im 4-0 in matches (played a 5, 6, 6, 6), and 20-5 overall in games.

My step daughter shot awesome as well :thumbup:

She is a SL4, and played another SL4. She blanked the guy 3-0 (BOOOM!!). I actually felt a little bad for the guy, and you could see he was embarrassed..

She has just been getting better and better, and I think the lessons I paid for her when she first started a few years ago with a few traveling Pro's that came into my place, have really helped (Geno Machino, Lee Brett, John Schmidt).. Im very proud of her :)



Tuesday night is TAP 9-ball:

We played on the hardest table in the league. Its a 7ft Diamond, with 760 Simonis, 4 1/8" pockets. If that doesnt make it hard enough to play on, whoever did the table Fu*ked up the facings on the pockets, and they do not accept balls properly at all, especially one notorious corner pocket.

The captain of the team we played is the owner of the bar, and did this table like this on purpose, simply to help keep his teams handicaps down (TAP relies upon misses vs makes very heavily in their handicap formulations). Not only that, the team is a know sandbagging team, big time :angry:

I am the captain of my team, and we do not sandbag. We hate losing, and every player on the team would rather not even come out to play if he/she were asked to sandbag.

I ended up playing a guy who is a TAP 6, but should be a 7 all day long. But he is also a guy who doesnt miss on purpose, he plays to win. I dont mind it as much as long as the guy is playing to win.

I CANT STAND PLAYING A GUY WHO IS OBVIOUSLY MISSING ON PURPOSE TO KEEP HIS H/C DOWN :angry:

We both shot well, and both got bit several time on the one really bad pocket on the table, but I ended up winning 6-4. It was good win for me...

Very satisfying.... :thumbup:
 

Rain-Man

Team Deplorable
Silver Member
Wednesday night I have both TAP 8-Ball, and our local BCBC 8-Ball league. I had to skip TAP this week, because we had the 2nd round of our playoffs in the local league, in which we took 1st place in the regular season (Where the money is. Playoffs are just for trophy's..).

This is a good, big league. 24 teams, well over 200 players, and all within a 10 mile radius of each other.
No team yet has taken 1st in the regular season, AND 1st in the playoffs, in the same session. So we would like to be the first team to do the feat :)

We played a really good team, who has won this league before. Good players and overall a good group of guys and girls.

Our best player had informed us the week prior that he couldnt make it. So we knew we had a tough hill to climb without him..

That left myself and another guy as now our top 2 shooters for the night.

We both LOST in the first two matches.....

So now were as a team, down 2-0, in a race to 3.

Our best player left gutted out a tough win to get it to 2-1.

Just before the 3rd match was over, our best player called me and said he was on his way if we still needed him :thumbup:

Problem was, it was our call for the 4th match. if we call him, they are going to throw off, and save their best shooter on the team for the last match (our guy had already beat on him 5-1 during the regular session).
If we dont call him, they will call their best player who on paper should destroy anybody we have left to shoot..

Well, ya gotta at least get to the 5th match, right? Anything can happen.. Cant lose and not have shot your best player..

So we shot him and he won (played terrible for him, but won anyways...)

So now its 2-2, and the hill hill match. We know who they are calling, and they do. Their best shooter, and one of the best in the league..

We have 3 options left, all leave us in a 3-5 race in games, but not one of our guys left has ever beaten this guy before, ever...

We choose to shoot our captain, and he plays the best I've ever seen him play! Beat the guy 3-1!!

It was probably the best feeling I've ever had for a team win. I felt great for him (And was happy he took me off the hook for losing!!)..

It was an awesome win, and now we are in the semi-finals next week.. :thumbup:
 

justadub

Rattling corners nightly
Silver Member
congrats....:thumbup:

we have 9 ball ltc's this weekend. hope fully i will make it also.

Jus4fun's team plays in our division, and they are tough!

(And great friends too! If you recall my post from a few weeks ago, about the absolute great time we had in our playoff loss, with great matches and great sportsmanship on both sides, we were playing their team.)

Super excited for them.
 

lorider

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
no vegas for me this year.:(

for the 1st time in 3 years i did not go undefeated in ltc's. going from a darn good 5 ...imo :grin-square: to an average 6 right before ltc's is kinda rough.

woulda won every match if i had still been a 5. did not embarrass myself as a 6 so that is a good sign.
 

lorider

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
i found out tonight we are having a masters singles vegas qualifier this sunday.

i had 2 masters players talking to me about it tonight at league and asked me if i was playingin it. told them i did not think so . they asked me why and i said i did not think i had a chance in hell to win it.

they both told me i had been playing real strong lately and i did beat one of them ...a 7/7 in 8 ball tonight by a score of 4-3. he won the lag and made 2 8 on the breaks in a row.

i won the next 3 in a row by playing a shit load of safes. got careless in the 6th rack scratching on my last ball and he ran out. i won the next rack with a few more safes .

it gave me a lil confidence boost and i guess i will play in the qualifier sunday.
 

Kaiser Bob

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
I had a good night at league on monday, played a former teammate in 9 ball, he was a SL5 most of the time he was on our team but went down to a 4 late last year, I thought for sure I'd get crushed as I'm probably the worst SL5 in the division but I ended up winning 38-21, last rack I needed 9 and got my first break and run ever so that was nice. Also squeaked out a 2-1 win in 8ball, going into that one I expected a cakewalk and ended up having to run 6 and out on the last match to win.
 

justadub

Rattling corners nightly
Silver Member
Gonna hang up my cues.... (Not really)

Last night I managed to beat the guy who most everyone considers to be the best around here.... 8-ball, 5-3 race. I won 3-3.

No cheap 8-ball scratches or 8-on-the-breaks. I just stayed alive and got lucky.

To be fair, we could have played that race 20 more times and I probly wouldn't win again. I know he's not terribly invested in a little APA match. I got some fortuitous leaves where he had to kick at stuff instead of running out.

Going into the match my goal was to win one game so he wouldn't get all three points. He won the lag, then broke and ran out. Sigh. Then he broke dry, and I ran 6 balls, just missing the one before the 8. He hung one and I got out. At that point, I had already "won" in my mind, so why not see if I could get another game and a point for getting to the hill..... We traded games back an forth, and I said to myself "if I get lucky I may just win this". Damned if I didn't :p

I'm not gonna go crowing about how I "beat" him. But I did win, and I am pretty pumped about that.

Put up my cues, I'm done! :) nahhhh
 

krupa

The Dream Operator
Silver Member
I really did hang up my cues... for the summer anyway. :)

My NAPA team ended up in 3rd place for the session. I had a tough match that I was NOT in control of at all. The games I won were because my opponent scratched when I only had a couple balls left.

Our NAPA LO is doing a summer singles session but it's not on a set night. Every week you have to coordinate with your opponent to meet up and play. I did that last session and it just got really annoying to deal with.

Also, I have no interest this summer in spending time practicing in my basement or spending sunny summer evenings in bars.

Have a good summer!
 

drhanson

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
4 racks in 8 innings is s/l 5 territory. That one match will not make him go up unless he is on the bubble.

Speaking of innings. A few weeks ago I ran 38 points in 6 innings playing 9 ball. My lo told me at masters Sunday that 38 in 6 innings was s/l 7 territory. What do you guys think ?

Btw ....i was raised to a 6 :grin-square:

I think in 8-ball 2 innings avg is squarely in the 6 category. How many games to get to your 38 points? I think the system looks at games / innings. You were probably less than a 1.5 inning average per game which I suspect is s/l 7 range.
 

drhanson

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
Our newly minted 3 (was a 2 earlier this session) got a 9-ball break and run on a 7' Diamond Coin-Op. I don't think I've seen a 3 get a BNR before, anybody else?
 

stevekur1

The "COMMISH"
Silver Member
Currently in 1st place after 6 weeks of play at Bayshore Billiards 14.1 League

league runs 13 weeks before playoffs begin.


-Steve
 

DAVE_M

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
So far:

L / 8-12
W/ 12-8
L / 6-14
L / 8-12

I've been playing terribly and each match was the only time that I have played/practiced in the last month. I'm playing poorly, because I haven't had free time to practice.
 

Spimp13

O8 Specialist
Silver Member
So far:

L / 8-12
W/ 12-8
L / 6-14
L / 8-12

I've been playing terribly and each match was the only time that I have played/practiced in the last month. I'm playing poorly, because I haven't had free time to practice.

Quit sucking :grin:
 

DAVE_M

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
Quit sucking :grin:

I've been on AzB too much, looking at your new avatar :eek:

Seriously, I have been playing like doody poop. I think I've broke and ran four racks in the past four matches. I ran a whopping 5 and out last night, once. #roadtoglory
 

Spimp13

O8 Specialist
Silver Member
I've been on AzB too much, looking at your new avatar :eek:

Seriously, I have been playing like doody poop. I think I've broke and ran four racks in the past four matches. I ran a whopping 5 and out last night, once. #roadtoglory

lol...9 ball APA can get very screwy at times especially for being a higher handicap. Trying to get to 65 before a person gets to like 31 who has the ability to occasionally runout or hooks me when they miss can be brutal if I am not making a ball on my break to at least control the beginning of a game to an extent.
 
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