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My APA 9-ball story from last night....
Summer session championship match. We're down 22-18 after the first two matches, and the two matches to follow me weren't likely to be in our favor, so I needed to win to give us a decent chance.
I'm matched up against another sl5, a good player who always plays me tough. We're probably close to even over the years, give or take a little, and its always enjoyable to play him. He's tough...
We're moving along in the match, I can't seem to get a good run but am managing to stay close. I get a layout that looks promising, get the one and shape on the two in the side. If I play it naturally I should get decent shape on the three and it looked good from there.
So what did I do? I rattled the two in the side pocket. Who does that? Somehow I did. My jaw dropped. It wasn't a hanger but close to it.
Of course my opponent makes the most of that mistake, and eventually I end up losing 14-6. Ouch.
To their credit, our pair of sl3's remaining gave the sl4's they were matched up against all they could handle, but we end up losing the match. Second place, first losers....sigh.
I needed to win mine to make it happen, and dropped the ball. I'll be seeing that two ball in my mind for a long time, methinks
Summer session championship match. We're down 22-18 after the first two matches, and the two matches to follow me weren't likely to be in our favor, so I needed to win to give us a decent chance.
I'm matched up against another sl5, a good player who always plays me tough. We're probably close to even over the years, give or take a little, and its always enjoyable to play him. He's tough...
We're moving along in the match, I can't seem to get a good run but am managing to stay close. I get a layout that looks promising, get the one and shape on the two in the side. If I play it naturally I should get decent shape on the three and it looked good from there.
So what did I do? I rattled the two in the side pocket. Who does that? Somehow I did. My jaw dropped. It wasn't a hanger but close to it.
Of course my opponent makes the most of that mistake, and eventually I end up losing 14-6. Ouch.
To their credit, our pair of sl3's remaining gave the sl4's they were matched up against all they could handle, but we end up losing the match. Second place, first losers....sigh.
I needed to win mine to make it happen, and dropped the ball. I'll be seeing that two ball in my mind for a long time, methinks
I used to do this but I have gotten better at forgetting things like this. You can't hold onto it or else it will effect your future play.
We have playoffs this weekend for 8 and 9 ball to go to try to qualify for tri cup. We play tonight and then again at 7 in the morning sigh...going to be a looooong weekend potentially lol. Oh well, we will see what happens.
Justadub shake it off brother we all lose.
Here's my favorite jordan quote.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
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Here's my favorite jordan quote.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
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I think he's going to pull through! :thumbup:
This and a recent blogpost by akaTrigger here makes me ask a question...
For the people who play rotation games in leagues but are NOT in APA (and the reason I specify that will become relevant shortly), do you or your teammates go for a lot of combination shots?
I see it frequently in my NAPA league and I think this is one area where the league structure encourages a bad habit. Namely that short races in rotation games means players go for low-percentage combinations more than they should.
I really try to avoid combinations as much as possible. My personal opinion is that unless the second ball is hanging, I'm wasting my inning by going for a combination.
Thoughts?
How I feel when my teammate goes for a combation with ball-in-hand:
How I feel when my opponent does it:
Oh, and the reason I excluded APA (if it isn't obvious) is that in APA 9-ball, there's no real reason to go for low-percentage combinations on the 9.
Actually the MegaBucks league is an individual league, not teams. I agree with you about combinations. Most of the time it's a sucker bet. If you watch the pros even the best miss them. I have to admit I will try a combination as desperation if I'm not even close to winning, such as if my opponent is on the hill and I need 3 or 4 games to win.
As I am also in a straight pool league I do like to look for dead balls in a cluster. Those are much easier combinations to make and one does come up occasionally in 9 or 10 ball.
I made that effing shot at least 20 times!
Then I drank beer, and lost in the 3-6-9 game, miserably, over and over, and didn't care.
(Which is a lie, but I had my beer, dammit!)
Oh, its not that bad....it just felt that way last night
I think tonight I'm gonna drive that frickin two ball into a side pocket about 20 times to exorcise myself.
Onward and upward! And more beer!
More beer is usually, almost always, the correct answer :thumbup:
you are absolutely correct rj.
i always found a few beers usually makes me play better. if that does not work... a few more will make me not give a shit if i dont play better.:grin:
can i judge a players skill level or what ?
i posted on here about my 1st night in the new double jeapordy league where the opposing captain picked up a new player right before our matches started.
i knew the guy from my bcapl days years ago. i also had played on his team back then on an in house league on the big tables. i had not seen him play in years but knew he was still playing on the in house leagues on the big tables.
the opposing captain and i had a conversation about what to start him as . i immediately said he was a 7 as soon as she told me she picked him up. she said she honestly did not know how he played but all new players start as a 4. i said yea....unless they are a known player and i know him lol.
well we agreed to start him as a 5. i looked up on the website after the results were posted and lo and behold ...what did i see ?
he was raised to a 6 in 8 ball and to an 8 in 9 ball after the 1st week. yea i know people tend to fluctuate for a few weeks when they 1st start but i dont believe this guy will be going down at all .i gave one of my best efforts when i faced him last week and was kind of surprised i did not go up in 9 ball myself even though i lost to him.
oh yea.... i was talking to my napa captain at league last week about this guy and what went down. he said that guy aint no 7. he says i know him and he is just an average player in the in house league. i said that dont mean he aint good..that just means every one above him plays pretty dang good. cant wait to see my napa captain this week and say...yea you are right. he aint no 7 he is an 8 . :grin-square:
i posted on here about my 1st night in the new double jeapordy league where the opposing captain picked up a new player right before our matches started.
i knew the guy from my bcapl days years ago. i also had played on his team back then on an in house league on the big tables. i had not seen him play in years but knew he was still playing on the in house leagues on the big tables.
the opposing captain and i had a conversation about what to start him as . i immediately said he was a 7 as soon as she told me she picked him up. she said she honestly did not know how he played but all new players start as a 4. i said yea....unless they are a known player and i know him lol.
well we agreed to start him as a 5. i looked up on the website after the results were posted and lo and behold ...what did i see ?
he was raised to a 6 in 8 ball and to an 8 in 9 ball after the 1st week. yea i know people tend to fluctuate for a few weeks when they 1st start but i dont believe this guy will be going down at all .i gave one of my best efforts when i faced him last week and was kind of surprised i did not go up in 9 ball myself even though i lost to him.
oh yea.... i was talking to my napa captain at league last week about this guy and what went down. he said that guy aint no 7. he says i know him and he is just an average player in the in house league. i said that dont mean he aint good..that just means every one above him plays pretty dang good. cant wait to see my napa captain this week and say...yea you are right. he aint no 7 he is an 8 . :grin-square:
We are in our 2nd week of 8-Ball in house league. So far I am 10-0 with two break and runs out of 6 breaks. We beat our opponents this week 234-149. We missed our perfect score by 3 games. We won 22 games out of 25.
Last night was NAPA Lagger's Choice. I won the lag and choose 10-ball. We are pretty even and he had to give me a game in 10-ball: 5-4. He won the first game and I won the next four. :thumbup:
After my post about ball-in-hand combinations, I ended up doing it last night.:sorry: My opponent scratched on the break. The 2/10 combo was practically dead, but I couldn't easily pocket the one to get shape on the 2. Luckily, the 9 was hanging in a corner pocket near the 2-10. So 1/9 combo, 1, 2/10 combo.
After my post about ball-in-hand combinations, I ended up doing it last night.:sorry: My opponent scratched on the break. The 2/10 combo was practically dead, but I couldn't easily pocket the one to get shape on the 2. Luckily, the 9 was hanging in a corner pocket near the 2-10. So 1/9 combo, 1, 2/10 combo.
Drove 30 minutes to our 9ball match, only to find out that we no longer have a match and we have a bye week, because the LO added another team (on the 5th week) and they have a match to play. So, to balance out the points for the first four weeks. The new team is awarded 175 catch up points. Which actually automatically put them ahead of a few teams... In typical fashion, our captain and co-captain never bothered to call anyone and let them know. I called my teammate, to tell him what happened. He said he didn't know about it and he was glad I called.
I ended up playing barbox 8-ball with some guy on a friends APA team. After a few beers, I decided to call it quits. I'll probably skip out on the match next week, our handicaps are so jacked up, there is no point in fighting to play.
I ended up playing barbox 8-ball with some guy on a friends APA team. After a few beers, I decided to call it quits. I'll probably skip out on the match next week, our handicaps are so jacked up, there is no point in fighting to play.
I was on an APA team where the captain was so flaky he didn't pay attention to schedule changes himself! I'm so anal about punctuality that I knew the schedule better than he did. Now that I'm a captain, if/when the schedule changes at the last minute, I make sure to let my team know what is going on.
Everything I do is on a schedule. It's a daily routine. I checked online, before the match and it showed we were playing. Then I get there and no dice. What I don't get, is that only two players (myself included) showed up. Unless someone found out and only told a select few, how did everyone else know not to show up?
I found out, by going to the match and looking at the paperwork.
hey fellas .....thought i would bump this from page 4.
well a few posts ago i said i thought about cutting back the number of league nights. guess what ? i added another night.
i agreed to start a bye fill team for fri night scotch doubles 9 ball with my g/f , a friend of mine , and his g/f.
the last couple of posts above mention scheduling mix ups. kinda had one ourselves. we were supposed to play just 9 ball doubles at one particular venue i really dont like but ...hey its playing pool.
fri after noon about 5;30 i get a txt from my lo. he says he made a mistake and put us down for scotch doubles double jeapordy at another venue.....my fav place ...high pockets. :thumbup:
come to find out he was delivering the package to hi pockets and run into my triend thats playing on my new team. they got to talking and discovered the mix up.
great mix up by my lo. we play more free poll by playing double jeapordy and play at me and my friends fav place.:thumbup:
we won 8 ball and lost 9 ball. i am proud of myself by not getting upset with my g/f's lousy shooting playing partners. she was kinda nervous cause she knows i take the game serious. i just laughed most things off and she loosened up and we had a great time.
i got napa laggers choice this afternoon.
well a few posts ago i said i thought about cutting back the number of league nights. guess what ? i added another night.
i agreed to start a bye fill team for fri night scotch doubles 9 ball with my g/f , a friend of mine , and his g/f.
the last couple of posts above mention scheduling mix ups. kinda had one ourselves. we were supposed to play just 9 ball doubles at one particular venue i really dont like but ...hey its playing pool.
fri after noon about 5;30 i get a txt from my lo. he says he made a mistake and put us down for scotch doubles double jeapordy at another venue.....my fav place ...high pockets. :thumbup:
come to find out he was delivering the package to hi pockets and run into my triend thats playing on my new team. they got to talking and discovered the mix up.
great mix up by my lo. we play more free poll by playing double jeapordy and play at me and my friends fav place.:thumbup:
we won 8 ball and lost 9 ball. i am proud of myself by not getting upset with my g/f's lousy shooting playing partners.
she was kinda nervous cause she knows i take the game serious. i just laughed most things off and she loosened up and we had a great time.i got napa laggers choice this afternoon.
Wow... got dropped back to page 9!
This week, my team was going to have to take two forfeits (out of 3 matches) because people (myself included) were traveling. The opposing team, however, is more interested in playing than just getting points so we played one match on our regular night, then played the other two last night.
I won the lag and let my opponent choose the game. He choose 8-ball; I needed 5, he needed 4. He handed me the first two games by scratching when I had one ball left. The third game was some good back-and-forth. I got on the 8 first, but missed a tough kick. I left him a bank that he missed, and I made the 8. 3-0. Fourth game, I broke dry, he pocketed a couple balls and scratched. I ran out. 4-0.
I used the second-ball break shot because I have been breaking dry when going straight at the head-ball and I almost always pocket a couple balls when going at the second ball. That the 8 may drop is nice but I really just want to avoid dry breaks.
So the 5th rack, I break but had the cue ball hop a little: it bounced off the long rail then the foot rail before landing back on the table, hitting a ball that hit the 8 straight into the corner pocket.
5-0, rackless with an 8 on the break. The whole team won this week which really helped in the standings.
This week, my team was going to have to take two forfeits (out of 3 matches) because people (myself included) were traveling. The opposing team, however, is more interested in playing than just getting points so we played one match on our regular night, then played the other two last night.
I won the lag and let my opponent choose the game. He choose 8-ball; I needed 5, he needed 4. He handed me the first two games by scratching when I had one ball left. The third game was some good back-and-forth. I got on the 8 first, but missed a tough kick. I left him a bank that he missed, and I made the 8. 3-0. Fourth game, I broke dry, he pocketed a couple balls and scratched. I ran out. 4-0.
I used the second-ball break shot because I have been breaking dry when going straight at the head-ball and I almost always pocket a couple balls when going at the second ball. That the 8 may drop is nice but I really just want to avoid dry breaks.
So the 5th rack, I break but had the cue ball hop a little: it bounced off the long rail then the foot rail before landing back on the table, hitting a ball that hit the 8 straight into the corner pocket.
5-0, rackless with an 8 on the break. The whole team won this week which really helped in the standings.
My last week in any league is next week, after that I'm taking my son to Snookers for their Wed tournament instead of league and that's it for my pool for the week. I'll probably not even play in the tournament half the time, after work, then driving home 30-45 minutes, then to the pool hall 45 minutes, I'm too tired to play.
The TAP team I am in finished first place for the season and we won our first playoff match, the finals are next week. If we win I guess we get the trip to the nationals in PA. Although I was on first place teams several times, I never actually won the end trip. We're playign the finals in our home room with 9 footers that play well so should be a good final for us.
The TAP team I am in finished first place for the season and we won our first playoff match, the finals are next week. If we win I guess we get the trip to the nationals in PA. Although I was on first place teams several times, I never actually won the end trip. We're playign the finals in our home room with 9 footers that play well so should be a good final for us.